8m ago
Meta caps local smart-glasses feature unless users pay $19.99
Meta is limiting Conversation Focus on its AI glasses to three hours a month unless owners buy its Meta One Premium subs...
By June Castellano/section
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16m ago
Jason Snell signs off from Macworld after nearly three decades
The longtime Apple writer ended his More Color column, closing a Macworld run that began in 1997 and continued through n...
By Theo Lindgren
23m ago
Doctorow says Google’s AI answers exploit a web Google helped degrade
Cory Doctorow argues Gemini summaries feel useful because Google’s search and ad businesses made the open web harder to...
By Mara Chen-Doyle
33m ago
Doctorow draws a line between vibe coding and production code
Cory Doctorow argues AI-assisted coding is useful for personal tools but dangerous when bosses turn it into production m...
By Theo Lindgren
36m ago
Nintendo’s Palworld patent case may end with little to show
Legal analyst Florian Mueller says Nintendo’s narrowed Japanese patent case against Pocketpair may produce only a small...
By Theo Lindgren
58m ago
Anthropic’s Electron Claude app draws scrutiny over who built it
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber points to Anthropic engineer Felix Rieseberg’s Electron background as central to Claude’s...
By Theo Lindgren
1h ago
Techdirt archive roundup revisits copyright, games and encryption fights
Leigh Beadon’s July 4 Techdirt history post points back to disputes from 2006, 2011 and 2016 over copyright, speech and...
By Theo Lindgren
1h ago
Doctorow says vibe coding can teach computing if users can inspect the stack
Cory Doctorow argues that LLM-generated code is useful when it leads users from quick fixes toward legible, inspectable...
By June Castellano
1h ago
Day One adds AI chat that turns conversations into journal entries
Daily Chat is now available to Day One Gold users on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and the web, with voice input, memor...
By Theo Lindgren
1h ago
Cory Doctorow spotlights Jo Walton’s new novel Everybody’s Perfect
Doctorow says Walton’s latest builds a phantom Venice out of parallel worlds, prophecy and Ada Palmer’s Renaissance hist...
By June Castellano
1h ago
Gruber warned Electron was exposing weaker demand for native Mac apps
A 2018 Daring Fireball essay tied Microsoft’s Chromium move to Electron and argued Mac software standards were slipping,...
By June Castellano
1h ago
Ctrl-Alt-Speech episode tracks child social media bans and AI moderation
Ben Whitelaw and Cori Crider use episode 109 to survey platform bans, fines, European policy moves and automation in tru...
By Mara Chen-Doyle