LG UltraFine 6K

Malcolm Owen: The LG UltraFine 6K Monitor, model 32U990A, surfaced on Monday as part of the 2025 CES Innovation Awards, as an honoree in imaging. The monitor is described as the first in the world to have a 6K resolution display that also uses Thund…

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

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★ Apple Claims It Will Soon ‘Further Clarify’ Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes

I think it’s correct for Apple to leave this in control of users, not developers. But Apple really does need to make it more clear what is an AI-generated summary and what is a verbatim original notification.

Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Ann Telnaes Quits the Washington Post After Editors Nix Cartoon Mocking Bezos (and His Tech/Media Mogul Cohorts) for Paying Fealty to Trump

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

Jason Snell: ‘Apple Intelligence Summaries Might Get Warning Labels. That’s Not Enough.’

Dude, You’re Getting a Dell Pro Max Premium Plus

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going to Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries

Graham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article clai…

Coding Font Selection Tournament

Jason Snell: Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site Coding Font, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it’s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, …

Jason Snell: ‘Apple Intelligence Summaries Might Get Warning Labels. That’s Not Enough.’

★ Apple Claims It Will Soon ‘Further Clarify’ Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes

I think it’s correct for Apple to leave this in control of users, not developers. But Apple really does need to make it more clear what is an AI-generated summary and what is a verbatim original notification.

Jason Snell: ‘Apple Intelligence Summaries Might Get Warning Labels. That’s Not Enough.’

★ Apple Claims It Will Soon ‘Further Clarify’ Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes

I think it’s correct for Apple to leave this in control of users, not developers. But Apple really does need to make it more clear what is an AI-generated summary and what is a verbatim original notification.

★ Apple Claims It Will Soon ‘Further Clarify’ Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrasing BBC News Summarization Mistakes

I think it’s correct for Apple to leave this in control of users, not developers. But Apple really does need to make it more clear what is an AI-generated summary and what is a verbatim original notification.

iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1

Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 18.2.1 addresses important bugs, and it is recommended for all users.Apple is also testing iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, updates…

Swift Parameterized Testing

Keith Harrison: Swift Testing calls the test function once for each value in the arguments collection. […] If you pass a second argument, Swift Testing generates test cases for all combinations of the two arguments. […] You’re limited to at most two…

Sonuby 1.7.1

Michael Burkhardt: Sonuby is a different kind of weather app, designed for users who often partake in outdoor activities. For example, if you often snowboard, you can have a weather forecast that places snow conditions front and center. Weather need…

25 Years of the Dock and Aqua

James Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes arou…