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Words on platform architecture, product design, tech business and cultural history.
Words on platform architecture, product design, tech business and cultural history.
‘Meta has hired Alan Dye, Apple's longtime head of user interface design, a spokesperson for Apple confirmed […] Dye, who will join Meta as chief design officer on December 31, started at Apple in 2006 and has led its human interface design team since 2015.’
Well deserved?
Well deserved?
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
‘Meta has hired Alan Dye, Apple's longtime head of user interface design, a spokesperson for Apple confirmed […] Dye, who will join Meta as chief design officer on December 31, started at Apple in 2006 and has led its human interface design team since 2015.’
Well deserved?
Well deserved?
Exodus 23:13
“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.”
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“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.”
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December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Exodus 23:13
“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.”
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“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.”
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By what year does Jony Ive stop going to his office at OpenAI?
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
By what year does Jony Ive stop going to his office at OpenAI?
Heads should roll at Cupertino?
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December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Heads should roll at Cupertino?
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Giannandrea > Papermaster, Scaramucci
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Giannandrea > Papermaster, Scaramucci
AI giveth and AI taketh away.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
AI giveth and AI taketh away.
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“UI is pre-AI.”
AI eats Users.
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AI eats Users.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“UI is pre-AI.”
AI eats Users.
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AI eats Users.
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“the sheen has really worn off…I think that real music fans have discovered there are better ways to...share their music taste than relying on this big company [Spotify]”
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
As controversies pile up, is Spotify losing the streaming wars? | CBC News
The popular listening platform Spotify has dominated the streaming industry for years. But there have been recent calls to boycott the platform over controversies surrounding issues like artist compen...
www.cbc.ca
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“the sheen has really worn off…I think that real music fans have discovered there are better ways to...share their music taste than relying on this big company [Spotify]”
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
OpenAI CEO on his Jony Ive designed anti-iPhone personal surveillance product: “You trust it over time, and it does have just this incredible contextual awareness of your whole life.”
Would you trust Sam Altman with your deeply personal data accumulated endlessly?
fortune.com/2025/11/25/s...
Would you trust Sam Altman with your deeply personal data accumulated endlessly?
fortune.com/2025/11/25/s...
Sam Altman says OpenAI’s first device is iPhone-level revolutionary but brings ‘peace and calm’ instead of ‘unsettling’ flashing lights and notifications | Fortune
Altman said the AI-first hardware will be released in less than two years.
fortune.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
OpenAI CEO on his Jony Ive designed anti-iPhone personal surveillance product: “You trust it over time, and it does have just this incredible contextual awareness of your whole life.”
Would you trust Sam Altman with your deeply personal data accumulated endlessly?
fortune.com/2025/11/25/s...
Would you trust Sam Altman with your deeply personal data accumulated endlessly?
fortune.com/2025/11/25/s...
a) Over regulation?
b) Incumbent privileges?
c) Regulatory capture?
d) Commonsense?
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b) Incumbent privileges?
c) Regulatory capture?
d) Commonsense?
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November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
a) Over regulation?
b) Incumbent privileges?
c) Regulatory capture?
d) Commonsense?
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b) Incumbent privileges?
c) Regulatory capture?
d) Commonsense?
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Incompetence-as-a-service?
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Or how are these people not jail?
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Or how are these people not jail?
Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs
Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Incompetence-as-a-service?
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Or how are these people not jail?
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Or how are these people not jail?
Years served as CEO
Steve Ballmer: 14
Tim Cook: 14
(Coincidence? I think not.)
Steve Ballmer: 14
Tim Cook: 14
(Coincidence? I think not.)
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Years served as CEO
Steve Ballmer: 14
Tim Cook: 14
(Coincidence? I think not.)
Steve Ballmer: 14
Tim Cook: 14
(Coincidence? I think not.)
“The Nets? Picking the Nets is like telling New Yorkers you prefer frozen pizza.”
Keep it civilized, people, Brooklyn is family!
Keep it civilized, people, Brooklyn is family!
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“The Nets? Picking the Nets is like telling New Yorkers you prefer frozen pizza.”
Keep it civilized, people, Brooklyn is family!
Keep it civilized, people, Brooklyn is family!
Were you born early enough to experience web browsers having two separate text fields on top in the Address Bar area – one for URLs and the other for search keywords?
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Were you born early enough to experience web browsers having two separate text fields on top in the Address Bar area – one for URLs and the other for search keywords?
‘Curiosity Stream is peddling more content to hyperscalers and AI developers than it is to streaming viewers. The company’s library includes 2 million hours of content, but “the overwhelming majority of that is for AI licensing”’
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.
arstechnica.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
‘Curiosity Stream is peddling more content to hyperscalers and AI developers than it is to streaming viewers. The company’s library includes 2 million hours of content, but “the overwhelming majority of that is for AI licensing”’
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Remember smart TVs with cameras ushering a new age of entertainment and commerce?
www.theverge.com/column/81987...
www.theverge.com/column/81987...
Where have all the TV cameras gone?
Cameras were supposed to make smart TVs more fun.
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Remember smart TVs with cameras ushering a new age of entertainment and commerce?
www.theverge.com/column/81987...
www.theverge.com/column/81987...
Will (domestic) robots have their own room?
Will they be counted in the census?
Will their personality be innately fixed or easily owner adjustable?
Will they be de-commissionable without a permit?
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Will they be counted in the census?
Will their personality be innately fixed or easily owner adjustable?
Will they be de-commissionable without a permit?
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November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Will (domestic) robots have their own room?
Will they be counted in the census?
Will their personality be innately fixed or easily owner adjustable?
Will they be de-commissionable without a permit?
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Will they be counted in the census?
Will their personality be innately fixed or easily owner adjustable?
Will they be de-commissionable without a permit?
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“[Alphabet, the] Google parent company is on track to finish with a market capitalization ahead of Microsoft’s for the first time since 2018”
(Hey Copilot, should heads be rolling at Redmond, for Satya Teflon Nadella?)
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(Hey Copilot, should heads be rolling at Redmond, for Satya Teflon Nadella?)
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November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“[Alphabet, the] Google parent company is on track to finish with a market capitalization ahead of Microsoft’s for the first time since 2018”
(Hey Copilot, should heads be rolling at Redmond, for Satya Teflon Nadella?)
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(Hey Copilot, should heads be rolling at Redmond, for Satya Teflon Nadella?)
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And you may find yourself where "A traveler in Portland, Ore. got a meat cleaver past TSA and onto an aircraft last week."
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
And you may find yourself where "A traveler in Portland, Ore. got a meat cleaver past TSA and onto an aircraft last week."
How did we get here?
How did we get here?
Microsoft has fallen so far behind in AI.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Microsoft has fallen so far behind in AI.
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Rolling heads clog exits at Cupertino.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Rolling heads clog exits at Cupertino.
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Imagine you are a 65 years old Turing Award winner and one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence.
You’re asked to report to a 28 year-old MIT dropout with a total business experience of 9 years.
(What’s the optics of this corporate exercise?)
You’re asked to report to a 28 year-old MIT dropout with a total business experience of 9 years.
(What’s the optics of this corporate exercise?)
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Imagine you are a 65 years old Turing Award winner and one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence.
You’re asked to report to a 28 year-old MIT dropout with a total business experience of 9 years.
(What’s the optics of this corporate exercise?)
You’re asked to report to a 28 year-old MIT dropout with a total business experience of 9 years.
(What’s the optics of this corporate exercise?)
Perplexing I know, but only weeks ago everyone was berating Tim Cook for not buying Perplexity.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Perplexing I know, but only weeks ago everyone was berating Tim Cook for not buying Perplexity.
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Tomorrow will be a week after the introduction of iPhone Pocket, which is apparently already sold out.
Fast cloners like Xiaomi, Samsung & Nothing haven’t yet 'innovated' their own Pockets, with multiple phone pockets per strap, beer can holders, embedded AI chips, fans, etc.
Fast cloners like Xiaomi, Samsung & Nothing haven’t yet 'innovated' their own Pockets, with multiple phone pockets per strap, beer can holders, embedded AI chips, fans, etc.
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Tomorrow will be a week after the introduction of iPhone Pocket, which is apparently already sold out.
Fast cloners like Xiaomi, Samsung & Nothing haven’t yet 'innovated' their own Pockets, with multiple phone pockets per strap, beer can holders, embedded AI chips, fans, etc.
Fast cloners like Xiaomi, Samsung & Nothing haven’t yet 'innovated' their own Pockets, with multiple phone pockets per strap, beer can holders, embedded AI chips, fans, etc.