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The new version of notification summaries for news apps in iOS 26 solves the problem of introducing errors by being as boring as possible.
Today is the 10th anniversary of Apple forcing that U2 album on everyone’s iTunes, and let it be known that, to this day, my two-year-old loves the HomePod because every time he touches it, it plays U2.
FaceID not recognizing you is the new someone saying you look tired
On the internet, nobody knows you're a pelican riding a bicycle.
MSNBC aired several hours of Nicolle Wallace’s podcast on TV last night, thus completing the media singularity. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Incredible deep dive into one man's three-week delusional spiral caused by ChatGPT. @kashhill.bsky.social and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com analyzed the chats, totaling more than a million words, to explain why this keeps happening and demonstrate that all the major chatbots do it.
"GPT-4o wouldn’t do that." @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com talked to ChatGPT users in parasocial relationships with a specific model about what they did when it suddenly went away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...
This is such a fun idea to put together I spent a few hours at the weekend replicating it on @cloudflare.social
An open source 'Manosphere Report' you can deploy to your own newsroom today with a single command, track any podcast & generate summaries.
Link & demo below ⤵️
The New York Times is using LLMs to transcribe and summarize episodes of more than 80 podcasts that are part of the "manosphere." The resulting email digest lands in journalists' inboxes every morning.
I spoke with @zachseward.com about the tool for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
