The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is amazing. It allows you to precisely define how an image should look. Written in XML, it uses various mathematical operations to display an image which looks crisp and clear at any size. Here's a trivial example: … Read more ›
Many people claim that AI inference is unprofitable to serve, and thus must be subsidized by an ocean of dumb money from investors who believe that some future AI model will come to dominate the world economy. When that dumb money goes away, so will AI products. According to this view, LLMs are just inherently too expensive (in terms of money, power, and water) to be used in consumer products. In fact, they can only be used today by externalizing the costs: money onto VC funds and now retail ... Read more ›
Apple today raised prices on many of its products, including all Macs and iPads, as well as the Apple TV, HomePod, HomePod mini, and Vision Pro. We shared , which range from $30 for the HomePod mini to up to $1,300 for the Mac Studio. iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods prices have not changed, at least for now. In a statement shared with MacRumors, Apple said it raised prices because of the ongoing memory chip shortage, resulting from companies building out data centers with powerful AI servers... Read more ›
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors. The post appeared first on . Read more ›
Tom is a Principal Open Source Evangelist for AWS. He has been a part of the open source community since 1997, when he skipped his last day of junior high to go to Linux Expo. During college, he worked for a high-availability startup to cover tuition, and when they crashed along with the majority of the IT sector, he dropped out of college and went to work for Red Hat full-time. At Red Hat, he stayed for almost twenty years, in Support, Sales Engineering, Release Engineering, Engineering Mana... Read more ›
Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is malicious. After 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend, Finance revokes both API keys; one vendor's marketing team, cc'd on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing "a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning." ... Read more ›
Speaking of Mark Gurman, in the wake of Tim Cook’s unprecedented interview with the WSJ to warn that Apple is going to raise prices in response to the steep rise in RAM and SSD prices, he tweeted \( XCancel link \): Regarding Apple price hikes, have to imagine these are fairly imminent\. No other reason to flag them now\. I’d also note that Apple back to school sale is very imminent, and it could make sense to tie these together as a buffer\. Either way this is happening soon\. Not a fall thi... Read more ›
The most frustrating aspect of regular expressions is that implementations vary. Features supported in one tool may not be supported at all in another tool, or they may be supported with slightly different syntax. I learned regular expressions in the context Perl, a maximalist regex environment. This led to frustration when features I expect to […] The post first appeared on . Read more ›
objgit is a single-binary git server that stores repositories directly in Tigris — no disk, no git binary, no database. To my shock and horror, it worked. Read more ›
This morning I saw , describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark regions of an image to remove and the model imagines what should fill the space. The released model , but since it described itself as 0.2B I decided to try and get it running using WebGPU in a browser. TL;DR: I got it working, and you can try the demo at The finished tool Here's a video demo of the finished tool: You can open any image in it (non-square images get letterboxed), highlight areas... Read more ›
## Today's links - Jailbreaking isn't theft: It wasn't progress when they did it, it's not piracy when we do it back to them\. - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate\. - Object permanence: Major AI breakthrough; Disney v Pooh tombstone; Vancouver riot kiss; Farage admits Brexit lies; Protecting the web from its founders; Sanders x Hillary; Surveillance pricing v your dollars\. - Upcoming appearances: Philadelphia, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend... Read more ›
A frozen registry is the one place a package can never be patched again. Read more ›
This is a quick post, mostly for my own reference. I've avoided LUTs and 'Log' video footage for years1, mostly because of the extra tiny bit of workflow involved. Like RAW photos, 'Log' footage retains the video sensor's full dynamic range, so you can pull more color and luminance information out of the footage later. But unlike photography, where RAW has been a thing for decades, and many workflows 'just work' without me having to 'grade' every individual photo, in video precious few consum... Read more ›
## Today's links - Good politics: Just make people's lives better\. - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate\. - Object permanence: WWII online; Xbox security blunders; Homeless bloggers; Thermal printer racing game; Robbing a bank to get healthcare in jail; Crumb v Trump; \"The Blues Brothers\"; Bagelheads; Pickpocket training mannequin; Windmill joke; Singularity skepticism; GPU Dieselgate; Peleton bricks treadmills; Juul's junk science\. - Upcoming appearances: Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia... Read more ›
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Current prototypes of the new model, code-named V62, add a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photography, said the people, who... Read more ›
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Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast. Read more ›