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John Gruber: A telephoto is only good for photography, in that sense. The ultra-wide lens is a tool with additional utility beyond capturing photos you want to keep in any artistic or emotional sense. You can always grit your teeth and use digital zoom if you don’t have a telephoto, but you can’t fake going […]

As often, what begins as a simple question or small need spins out a series of digging, experimenting, and ultimately spending more time remixing a featured image (by hand) and writing a blog post that 4 people may read. Ahhh, 2026. That’s another grumbly post. But here it is, I was rather taken by this […]

Claude can understand code no human could. Ever, under any circumstances. Just like a compiler can understand any code we throw at it. Way beyond what code obfuscation tools can do.

Mark Gurman reporting for Bloomberg that Apple’s vice president of Vision Pro and smart glasses is leaving for OpenAI:

Paul Meade, a vice president, is set to leave Apple by next week and will then start at OpenAI’s hardware unit, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Meade will work on OpenAI’s upcoming family of AI-powered devices, said the people, who declined to be named discussing unannounced personnel moves.

Interesting that he’s leaving before the Apple smart glasses announcement. I’ll be a little surprised if we even hear about the glasses this year.

IndieWebCamp Nuremberg is happening this weekend. I’m looking over the notes for the books session.

Recordings of laughter from humans and other great apes suggest that the distinctive rhythm of "ha ha ha" emerged in a common ancestor that lived at least 15 million years ago.

There has been a lot of excitement about the OmFest idea. If you’d like to attend or contribute, please fill out this form as soon as possible so we can gauge the type of venue we need. It’s truly a testament to how Om lived life to see the outpouring of remembrances in comments on … Continue reading Om Links →

In our work we have arrived at the point where we read and study a piece I published in 1997, but was written in 1988 or so. Esp the part about LBBS. It's a really good thing I wrote that because I forgot how it worked, but reading that it all comes back. We're going to go far beyond where Twitter went with reading message structures on the web. I had already done a lot of the work in the 80s.

The other day Matt joked about how old I am, in public, and I am pretty old. But Matt, I was paying attention then as I am now, and connecting the dots. No one else working today, I'd venture, knows what it's like to create and run a modem-based dial-up Twitter-like system o...

The industry has recognized that shipping agent code at scale requires runtime verification, and it is moving that way fast.

The post Greptile, Cursor, and Devin agree that agents should run their code. What they run it against matters. appeared first on The New Stack.

Who’s to blame for the memory crisis that turned Macs and Steam Boxes into unobtanium this week? The memory-makers have a convenient answer.

(Note: This is a special edition of The Torment Nexus, dedicated to my friend Om Malik, who passed away due to congestive heart failure at the age of 59.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

10 Years Post-Brexit (First) | How an Alleged Real Estate Scammer Operated (Starts at :21) | Where the Culture Wars Began (Starts at :41)

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of nearly 400 pirate streaming domain names that offered access to FIFA World Cup matches. This enforcement action, dubbed "Operation Offsides", targets popular brands including "rojadirecta", "koora", and "futbollibre". TorrentFreak tracked down several dozen domain names, which reveal that some of the largest streaming sites were not directly hit.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of nearly 400 pirate streaming domain names that offered access to FIFA World Cup matches. This enforcement action, dubbed "Operation Offsides", targets popular brands including "rojadirecta", "koora", and "futbollibre". TorrentFreak tracked down several dozen domain names, which reveal that some of the largest streaming sites were not directly hit.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

The Wars of Marcus Aurelius and Donald Trump

Some progressive challengers knocked off some progressive incumbents.

It’s not often you can score discounts from the outdoor-coded Canadian company that makes understated and stylish performance clothing.

Everyone is sick of spam calls and creeper sites that show weirdos where you live—but can any service solve it?

1. It’s hot in London so I’ve been seeing a lot of handheld portable fans, usually with a strap so you can hang it round your neck. My faves are the ones with thermoelectric coolers in the middle of the fan: a small plate that is so cold that it is covered with icy condensat...