The Talk Show: ‘Putting a Stink on the Letter X’

Broccoli, the Man — and Vegetable — Behind the Bond Franchise

Yours Truly on The Vergecast, on the Cinematic Future of James Bond Under Amazon’s Stewardship

Apple Pulls Bella Ramsey Ad That Promoted Vaporware Personalized Siri Feature

Simon Willison on the Privacy/Security Risks of Personalized Siri, vis-à-vis Prompt Injection

Apple Pulls Bella Ramsey Ad That Promoted Vaporware Personalized Siri Feature

Simon Willison on the Privacy/Security Risks of Personalized Siri, vis-à-vis Prompt Injection

Simon Willison on the Privacy/Security Risks of Personalized Siri, vis-à-vis Prompt Injection

Apple Pulls Bella Ramsey Ad That Promoted Vaporware Personalized Siri Feature

★ Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features

This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private on-device information.

Reuters on Apple’s Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Delay

★ Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features

This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private on-device information.

Reuters on Apple’s Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Delay

Reuters on Apple’s Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Delay

★ Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features

This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private on-device information.

Reuters on Apple’s Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Delay

★ Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features

Today’s announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private on-device information.

★ Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features

This is a Friday sort of *wah-waaah* sad-trombone news drop, but it’s good that Apple is getting on top of it, and setting expectations accurately.

‘When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works’

★ ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website

From the perspective of a company the size of Disney, it would cost veritable pennies to keep FiveThirtyEight’s website around forever. What a disgrace.

Nate Silver on the Demise of FiveThirtyEight