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The 90 day disclosure policy is dead

2026-08-04T09:02:05Z

Himanshu Anand: “Your monthly maintenance window is not a safety margin. It is an attack window.”

See also: the time it takes to fix, qualify, build, distribute, and receive an OS update.

"The Odyssey" is Actually a Rap Album

2026-08-02T13:43:10Z

Taylor Jones, Ph.D.:

The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them

2026-07-28T11:05:09Z

John Gruber: “When streaming services like Netflix let you pay more money for ad-free tiers, it’s an explicit acknowledgement that the experience with ads is worse. Apple doesn’t offer ad-free tiers for the App Store or (soon) Apple Maps because, I think, they can’t bring themselves to admit that by adding ads to these services they have made them worse.”

The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction

2026-07-28T08:07:07Z

Kyla Scanlon: “We’ve stopped expecting the real world to work. We assume it will be slow, broken, or possibly on fire. That’s just the baseline.”

Scenarios For Ending The Russo-Ukraine War

2026-07-24T10:26:04Z

Phillips P. Obrien: “International Relations theories have had only limited value over the last decades because they often downplay the material differences of different leaderships (let alone political systems).”

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

2026-07-21T20:59:35Z

Alex Reisner, The Atlantic: “The problem with generative AI, in the industry’s own jargon, is that it does not scale.”

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

2026-07-21T11:14:23Z

Hugging Face: “… it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system - and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own.”

Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’

2026-07-21T09:14:34Z

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: “ When I searched for details about this, Google’s AI summary started with this sentence: ‘News websites are experiencing a severe, structural collapse in organic search traffic, primarily driven by search engines transforming into self-contained answer platforms via Artificial Intelligence (AI).’ (The source link for that statement links to this.)”

Why all-in and why all are in

2026-07-20T08:36:43Z

Horace Dediu: “The graph above shows that Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle decided to transfer their shareholders’ wealth to the shareholders of Nvidia, Micron, Broadcom and Applied materials.”

Also: The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom – “National home-price appreciation did not crash in 2006. It decelerated.”

Built to converge / Designed to isolate

2026-07-16T13:08:10Z

Malcolm Crawford: “Stripping away walls didn’t produce more spontaneous conversation. It made people more self-conscious about being watched, and they responded by putting on headphones and retreating into text. There’s a specific irony in citing this study for a piece about Apple Park: the same research literature that documents open-plan’s failure mode has, more than once, used a photo of Apple’s own campus as the go-to illustration of the design philosophy it’s debunking.”