After WWDC is always a good time to reflect on priorities. This year’s event for me was about refinements and focus.
On the technical side, I’m hoping to use Apple Foundation Models as a fallback when bigger models can’t be used. But since my Mac app is outside the App Store, I’ll be limited too, apparently without private cloud compute.
Congrats to Apple on a good week. The reaction I heard from folks seemed overwhelmingly positive. Onward! There’s a lot to work on.
Thinking about a point raised by Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel at The Talk Show last night, that regular people may not totally get the privacy of Apple’s private cloud compute. Will they trust it more than giving personal context to ChatGPT? All these years of Apple ads about privacy should help.
Excellent Stratechery update this morning about Fable and more broadly how Anthropic’s “only we can be trusted” messaging also helps their business:
It’s fascinating to observe: me, the rational business analyst, sees a hard-nosed but understandable business decision to cut off would-be competitors; Anthropic employees and advocates, the true believers, see a regrettable but understandable safety decision that ensures that responsible and thoughtful people — themselves, of course — will be the ones guiding our AGI future.
Nieman Lab
• Sophie Culpepper
The Institute for Nonprofit News released its ninth annual INN Index on Tuesday, analyzing data reported from hundreds of its members to understand the state of nonprofit news in 2025. The Index remains one of the most detailed snapshots of the revenue and audience picture across nonprofit newsrooms; this year’s data set primarily draws on...
McSweeney’s
• Nathan Cowley
Defector
• Billy Haisley
It's almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we'll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here.
It's quite possible that the best moment of Brazil's 2026 World Cup happened a month before the tournament even started. The day was May 18, the occasion the announcement of World Cup roster. The tension was high, almost all of it weighing on whether or not Neymar, in what would be his first Brazil appearance in two years, would get called up. When manager Carlo Ancelotti did read his name, the country went wild.
WIRED
• Hugo Lowell
The UFC event on the White House's South Lawn is the president's birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza.
Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lighting
I saw these all over the valley when I was a kid in the ’80s, but never knew the process behind their distinctive look
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• Patrick Redford
Silver Bulletin
• Nate Silver
The race is a toss-up, or maybe still tilts Platner. But should it even be this close?
Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
the live cursor trails are from real people with the browser extension installed, currently 28 people across 19 timezones
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Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
he published several projects it generated, including three games and a detailed interactive isochrone map
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, recaps the NY1 and WNYC debate she co-moderated with Brian Lehrer and Errol Louis with the candidates in New York's 12th congressional district, who are running in this month's primary for the Democratic nomination to replace the retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler.
Photo: Voters cast their ballots at the Community Presbyterian Church on election day in Merrick, New York, on Nov. 4, 2025. (James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Listeners weigh in on the perennial debate, which was reignited recently thanks to Jennifer Lopez's controversial opinion shared in her appearance on Subway Takes.
Photo: Danny Lyon July 1974, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
As trust in science and institutions has eroded, Laura Lindenfeld, PhD, executive director, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and professor of communication at Stony Brook University, explains how improv (and the actor Alan Alda), is helping scientists improve their communication skills with the hope of winning back the skeptics.
Photo: Teacher With Male And Female Drama Students At Performing Arts School In Studio Improvisation Class. Photo by monkeybusinessimages.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
As part of the yearlong series "Wild NYC," Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week, and Clara Holmes, plant ecologist at New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, talk about the challenges facing local wildflowers and native plants and how to preserve them.
=> NYC Native Plants (NYC Parks)
Photo: Narrow-leaved Blue-eyed Grass - native wildflower with grasslike leaves and small blue-violet flowers. Grows in open sandy meadows in low wet spots. Uncommon in NYC and locally rare. {Marielle Anzelone)
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Defector
• Lauren Theisen
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Databricks on Wednesday launched OpenSharing, the successor to its open-source Delta Sharing protocol. This updated protocol adds support for Apache
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