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PCMag: “Apple changes iOS all the time, and you can expect some major Siri upgrades later this year. However, new additions don’t change the aspects of iOS that have always been annoying, such as clutter, frustrating notification behaviors, and more. The good news is that you don’t have to suffer and can fix many of …
ZDNET: “I open Google Maps almost every day to get from point A to point B, find a restaurant, or check traffic before even leaving the house. But that approach barely scratches the surface of what the service can do. After writing about Google Maps for nearly 15 years, I’ve learned firsthand that it’s packed with …
The Atlantic [no paywall]: “…AI music generators can simulate human performances with surprising fidelity, but first they have to be trained on enormous quantities of those human performances. The actual recordings that go into any model are a closely guarded secret—AI companies have claimed they are proprietary—but the number of songs is almost certainly huge, …
minid.net – Diego Lafuente’s personal blog: “Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever. It never does. I saw information move from floppy disks to BBSs, from BBSs to the Web, from the Web to Flash, from Flash back to open standards, from websites to mobile apps, and now from search …
The Parnas Perspective: “A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track processing of a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records about why the Trump administration decided not to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in July, despite earlier promises of transparency. The request, brought by Democracy Forward, seeks internal communications that could reveal whether …
USAFacts: “35% of American households are using AI to find information. 14% of people trust that information. New Census Bureau data shows that 57% of Americans have used AI tools to search, brainstorm, complete work or school tasks, and more. Forty-two percent of respondents reported a productivity boost, though the responses also show concern with …
Follow up to Data Centers Exposed – The New York Times – The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers [unlocked article]. “Yes, the cloud has a sound, and some who live closest to data centers that emit the noise have reached their wit’s end trying to block it out. …
Kottke: “For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka. In some cases, pages that were cut apart centuries ago have been digitally joined so we can see the full pages again, as Leonardo drew and wrote them. From the press …
WSJ no paywall [click the down arrow in the lower right hand corner of the page]: “A senior Trump administration official read out President Trump’s memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and wind down the war with Iran in exchange for financial incentives for Tehran that will begin immediately. Another official, speaking …
“Some of you saw a thing I built earlier this year called Epstein Exposed. It was an attempt to make the Epstein files actually searchable instead of 2 million scanned pages nobody could use….I went looking for the next pile of public records nobody had bothered to make searchable. I found it on a drive, …
Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint that WeLib hosts tens of millions …
Slashdot/TechCrunch: “TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government’s abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was “never about an AI jailbreak” threat. Instead, it was driven more by “personality differences” between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not …