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Microsoft announced Project Solara at Build today. They’ve got a couple prototypes, including a clever badge-style device, and thoughts on UI:

We are also investing in just-in-time UI: the ability for an agent experience to adapt across devices and modalities without requiring developers to redesign everything for every new form factor. Today, that means semi-structured approaches like adaptive cards and known content types. Over time, it moves toward more dynamic and generative interfaces.

I enjoyed this blog post by Om Malik about how AI models will become invisible plumbing. Nice history lesson with fiber-optic cables too: A single strand of glass can carry only so much data at one wavelength – think of it as one lane of a highway. Wavelength Division Multi...

Have you ever really looked at your Photos, man? There’s much depth there—just keep looking. I’m not stoned; I’m just thinking about Apple’s two ways of demonstrating depth in Photos to simulate adding a sense of layers or dimensionality to images you took with one or more cameras on your iPhone.…

Following a report from Bloomberg on Uber, TechCrunch has a post about companies putting a cap on AI spending:

AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend.

I’m sure this is happening all over. That’s why I commented in my post yesterday that Anthropic’s revenue is not stable. It’s hard to cancel a subscription you value. It’s much easier to cut back on tokens.

Longtime tech writer and columnist and Friend of the Site Andy Ihnatko, who I have known since I started in this business (he was a columnist at MacUser!),…

The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time, including Inaccessible Island Rail, Macaroni Penguin, Morepork, Chocolate Boobook, Dickcissel, Carunculated Caracara, and Resplendent Quetzal.

Vibe coding has made it easier than ever to build applications. Getting those applications into enterprise production is still the

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Yeah, I’m  rans, bu  mos  people can’     ell. Maybe  hey can  ell I’m nonbinary, bu  mos  days  hey jus misgender me “hey ma’am” (  hough I’m no ). I was born  his way, I always knew I was a bo...

Emily Lin Zhang makes a real statement in the title of her new 30-minute documentary, “The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum“—that it’s unsolved! I’d argue strongly that her dogged research has largely filled in the missing pieces of the story of where the run of seemingly Latin text used by designers to act as placeholder (or “Greeked”) text in mock-ups since the late 1960s came from.…

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference on Tuesday to note that the hard part of enterprise AI is no

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Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

I’m working on a new tool whose tagline is the title of this post: Make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development. Called Bram (“Bram runs agents mindfully”), the tool runs as a Tauri desktop app with three panes: a terminal where you use Claude Code and/or Codex, an agent pane that … Continue reading How to make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development

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A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

Anthropic laid down some sobering words on Tuesday. “A successful attack on their codebase could be catastrophic. For most partners,

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The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic. “There’s a phenomenon called the rhyme-as-reason effect that says people are more likely to believe something is true if it rhymes.”

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O’Farrell’s 2020 novel ‘Hamnet’ was adapted into an award-winning film last year. She co-wrote the screenplay. It’s about the grief Shakespeare and his wife Agnes struggle with after their son, Hamnet, dies of the plague, and how that grief leads him to write the play Hamlet....

JS Crossword. “This crossword uses some lesser-known and cursed JS features, so I’d recommend it for people already somewhat familiar with JavaScript.” Diabolical.

The best thing about long-lived incumbent technologies like JSON and XML is that nobody really has to think about them much any more. Except for, I do occasionally, because while I’m not the inventor of either, my name’s on the front of both official specifications. Hey, it’s JSON’s 25th birthday, what a run! And what ever happened to XML? Let’s shake off the dust and have a look