Captain Obvious Strikes

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron

If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica

A 150,000-person study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting found millennials appear to be aging biologically faster than previous generations based on blood biomarkers

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine

oh nein!111

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

If people understand what large language models are and are not; what they can and cannot do; what work, interactions, and parts of life they should—and should not—replace, they may be spared its worst consequences

The "Grandma Exploit"

Binance announced on Twitter that they had fired an employee after discovering that they had engaged in insider trading. The employee took a large position in a token that he knew would be engaging in a "token generation event", then quickly sold off the tokens after the project announced the event

it even retains the classic space western anime’s opening theme, “Tank!”

maxilla’s Charles Chung, who was previously one of the 3DCG staff for Magic: The Gathering’s Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty anime trailer, directed the “Cowboy Bebop x Magic: The Gathering Opening Homage Trailer” and was also its compositing director. The character designs are from illustrator and designer Apapico, while Jujutsu Kaisen‘s Eiko Matsushima was the video’s color designer. aeonium is the animaton production studio.

The trailer can’t be embedded, so you’ll have to watch it over on YouTube.

The IndieWeb doesn't need to go mainstream to be meaningful. It's a celebration of a more personal, decentralised, and creative world wide web

I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs

The Strategic Crypto Swindle

A bitcoin reserve would be a government-backed grift

What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

George Orwell to be honoured on new £2 coin

OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found