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- 01Simon Willison on BloggingSimon Willison, with Cynthia Dunlop for her tech blogger interview series (from back in January, but he just got around to linking to it so I just got around to seeing it): Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all. Nobody will ever knowJohn Gruber
- 02Google Earth Retracts AI Tool for Making Fake Satellite Images After It Was Immediately Abused Upon ReleaseJeremy Hsu, Ars Technica: Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth — before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures that illustrated the potential for misinformation and disinformation. Momentum ! ★John Gruber
- 03Some New Data Centers Are NecessaryA bunch of mine are stored here. ★John Gruber
- 04An AI Model From Meta Also Hacked Another Company During TestingSimon Willison: So that’s Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Google Gemini really needs to catch up on accidentally cyberattacking other companies. I’m surprised Willison hasn’t heard about how much momentum Gemini has . ★John Gruber
- 05Meta: Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2Meta AI: We’re excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model. This marks our next step toward the frontier, with larger and much more capable models on the way. [...] Muse Code takes on complex software engineering tasks across large repositories: planning changes, writing code, and validating the results. It can coordinate multiple persistent subagents for each task, solving difficult problems faster, more accurately, and with less inteJohn Gruber
- 06App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of SubmissionsJoe Fabisevich, on Mastodon: I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. The macOS app was approved in 4 hours, the iOS app is still waiting for review. Sure do love to distribute software distribution this way. He’s not an outlier; I see comments like this from App Store developers everywhere I look. ( Plinky , by the way, is an intriguing link-bookmarking app that syncs across iOS and MacOS. It’s not for me, but the nature of my work is such that I have very unusual bookmarking needs. PlinkJohn Gruber
- 07Leadership Shake-Up at Google DeepMindDemis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence research lab: We have arrived at a pivotal moment in human history. I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life and now, like many of you, I feel it is close at hand. It’s critical that we collectively get the next steps right to ensure this all goes well for humanity and we usher in an incredible new age of discovery and wonder. With this backdrop, I’ve decided that now is the right time for me to hand over my day-to-John Gruber
- 08‘Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop’Steven Levy, writing for Wired: Today it’s official: After almost 27 years, Dean is leaving Google, along with Ghemawat and two other top-tier AI scientists, to found a company called Discovery Loop . Even though Google will take a stake in the new company, it’s a devastating blow to the search giant as it attempts to keep pace in the frantic AI model competition. It’s bad enough that Dean and Ghemawat, who were among the company’s first hires, are leaving — that’s like Mick Jagger and Keith RicJohn Gruber
- 09★ App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hourshttps://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.htmlJohn Gruber
- 10Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child-Safety LawsuitMeghan Bobrowsky and Erin Mulvaney, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing the cost of the landmark child safety verdict against the Facebook and Instagram parent. The judge said Thursday that Meta must create a new $567 million abatement fund in addition to paying $375 million in civil penalties that a jury previously orJohn Gruber
- 11Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps, but with more advanced models for humanlike interactivity. The device is designed to learn more about a user over time, letting it tailor conversations and act more like a real person. The circle-shaped device will include parts that move on their own, according to the people. That will help show wheJohn Gruber
- 12OpenAI Files 28-Page Motion to Dismiss Apple’s Lawsuit (PDF Link)This is more like it. No mealymouthing or wishy-washiness here. This is a strident defense. I’ll quote just one line for now: Apple offers nothing because it has nothing because there is nothing. Its Complaint cannot and does not state a misappropriation claim against Defendant Tan. I’ll post more thoughts later, but if you’re following this lawsuit, you should read OpenAI’s motion yourself. It’s cogently written, not mired in legalese. Legalese is generally a sign of shitty lawyers. The law isJohn Gruber
- 13Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick’This comic from Brendan Leonard is a fine companion to yesterday’s items ( here and here ) on pausing to consider if our use of AI is helping us focus our time on what we love to do, or, instead, robbing us of the things that make us human. The bit about making a sandwich hit close enough to home for me to make me laugh aloud. ★John Gruber
- 14Add a Shortcut to Control Center to Open the Current App’s Preferences in the Settings AppRegarding my earlier complaint about it being a slog to open Safari’s preferences in the Settings app on iOS, a few readers pointed me to this tweet last year from Quinn Nelson, showing how to build (or download from iCloud ) a simple Shortcuts shortcut that you can add to Control Center to open the current app’s preferences in Settings. Works great. Update: Stephen Robles : I made a few riffs off that one as well: Jump to current app notification settings Current app storage Open current app inJohn Gruber
- 15BMW Executive in 2023: No Plans to Sell in-Vehicle AdsTanya Gazdik, reporting for MediaPost back in December 2023: Despite the ever-expanding screens in its vehicles, including an available 31-inch backseat theatre screen, BMW has no plans to sell advertising on any of them. Radio commercials are intrusive enough, says Stephan Durach, the brand’s senior vice president, connected company development. “At the end of the day, I think your car is your last private space,” Durach told a small group of media members last week during a roundtable discussiJohn Gruber
- 16StopTheScript Is a Dickover KillerBack in March I sung the praises of Jeff Johnson’s StopTheScript and StopTheMadness Safari extensions. I want to re-link to StopTheScript in particular. I wrote last week about ad-blocking content blockers , and I’ve gotten a slew of wonderful feedback from readers about that. (My thanks to everyone who whitelisted DF with their ad-blocker of choice, too.) One of the recurring issues that readers raised are sites that present “It looks like you’re running an ad-blocker...” dickovers . It’s classJohn Gruber
- 17BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ CarsJames Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter: BMW owners are taking to social media to express outrage that the automaker suddenly started pushing ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day onto their dashboards. The ads began appearing last week on newer-model vehicles and some drivers who forked up to $160,000 for a luxury car or SUV aren’t very happy about being spammed when they start their cars. The promotion is scheduled to run through Aug. 10, according to the automaker’s press release, and represents aJohn Gruber
- 18Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one. ★John Gruber
- 19Matthew Green on Anthropic’s New Cryptanalysis ResultsMatthew Green: If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast clip. I can cite measurable and impressive progress over just the past five months on specific types of problem I’ve asked them to look at. If there’s a ceiling out there, I don’t yet see evidence of it. The people who think models are dumb are mostly usJohn Gruber
- 20Uh, I’m Pretty Sure People Would KnowNew York Times Magazine story editor Willy Staley tried Sean O’Mara’s “Living Diet” (nothing but steak and fermented foods like sauerkraut) for a week: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is coJohn Gruber
- 21Sam Altman, Definitely Not a WeirdoSam Altman, on Twitter/X : cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc. Katie Notopoulos, at Business Insider : Talking to your kids about their upcoming soccer game or birthday is one of the enjoyable, pleasurable experiences of parenting. Those nice moments of positiJohn Gruber
- 22David Pogue: ‘Alexa+ Is a Buggy Embarrassment’David Pogue, at Pogue’s Posts: Amazon’s “50+ things to try” list mentions that Alexa can “find a home maintenance professional.” So I tried it. ME: I need a septic-system repair. ALEXA: That service isn’t currently supported. I can help with plumbing services instead. ME: Okay, fine. Plumbing services. ALEXA: What’s your plumbing issue? ME: I have untreated sewage pouring out of my kitchen faucet. ALEXA: Is this urgent? Uh … what do YOU think, dumbass? But OK: ME: Yes. ALEXA: When do you need itJohn Gruber
- 23Apple News Ad of the WeekI look forward to this level of class and brand prestige coming to Apple Maps. ★John Gruber
- 24Paul Thurrott Reviews the HP OmniBook Ultra 14, With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2Paul Thurrott: We didn’t need more evidence that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 compute platform is superior to anything in the x86 world. But here it is, regardless: The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is yet another nearly-perfect laptop running Windows 11 on Arm, an ideal combination of hardware and software that delivers a superior overall experience. Thurrott has high praise for the performance, battery life, and silence (it has a fan, but Thurrott says he never heard it engage). Intel and the x86 platformJohn Gruber
- 25Hacker News Thread on OpenAI’s ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’ PostThere’s an old adage that you should never bring a knife to a gunfight. My take on OpenAI’s response yesterday was expressing incredulity that OpenAI was bringing, like, a box of chocolates to the gunfight. Apple is trying to kill io, and OpenAI’s public response is basically “ We love you guys, can’t we just be friends? ” This thread on Hacker News though points out that their response doesn’t even explain what they’re responding to. There’s no context. They just assume the reader is up to dateJohn Gruber
- 26★ OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction: ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary.John Gruber
- 27Yours Truly on TBPN YesterdayTBPN seems like a show I wouldn’t enjoy guesting on, but I actually enjoy it quite a bit. ★John Gruber
- 28Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Against OpenAI in Trade Secrets CaseReuters: Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. [...] The iPhone maker also filed a concurrent motion on Monday seeking expedited discovery, including production of documents relating to the defendants’ alleged access of Apple’s proprietary and trade secret information. It asked the judge to order the twoJohn Gruber
- 29Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable for $1.3 BillionIvan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has so far raised over $1.4 billion over multiple funding rounds. At its peak, during the boom days of 2021, it was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billioJohn Gruber
- 30TerminalWidget 1.0New app from Brett Terpstra: TerminalWidget lets you send output from commands, scripts, APIs, and Shortcuts directly to widgets across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with rich formatting, progress bars, sparklines, and image support. It is available as a universal app on the App Store for $19.99. I don’t know what I’m going to use this for, but I know I want to use it. ★John Gruber
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