Articles by CharlesW
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SwiftUI Rich Text Layout: Inside MarkdownView and RichText (fatbobman.com)

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QuickTime turns 34 Yes, Apple's big bet on 'multimedia' still matters (macworld.com)

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Apple to resist India order to preload state-run app as political outcry builds (reuters.com)

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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)

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How to (and how not to) sell technology (2006) (pastiche.org)

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One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release (modelcontextprotocol.io)

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The Hammer Hack (randsinrepose.com)

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Someone Is Trying to 'Hack' People Through Apple Podcasts (404media.co)

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AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta's Gigantic New Data Center (msn.com)

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OBR calls in cyber expert over botched release of Budget analysis (bbc.com)

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Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore (metropolitanreview.org)

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Tattoo Ink Moves Through Body, Killing Immune Cells, Weakening Vaccine Response (swissinfo.ch)

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OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Bad UX World Cup 2025 (badux.lol)

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Soaping up Liquid Glass: less transparency, more contrast (sixcolors.com)

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Apple's Compliance with EU's DMA Mandate on Apple Watch, 3rd-Party Accessories (daringfireball.net)

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TikTok tests feature that will let users request to 'see less' AI generated slop (pcgamer.com)

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How to use the internet (1995) [video] (youtube.com)

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Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models (danijar.com)

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Outlaws Remaster Review: LucasArts' "Forgotten" FPS Gets the Nightdive Treatment [video] (youtube.com)

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Google cracked Apple's AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones (theverge.com)

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Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force's new naming scheme foretells new era (arstechnica.com)

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How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler [video] (youtube.com)

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I wish we could ignore Gates on the climate crisis. As a billionaire, we can't (theguardian.com)

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Fun-reliable side-channels for cross-container communication (h4x0r.org)

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I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone (2022) [video] (youtube.com)

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Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft (techcrunch.com)

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Apple tightens App Review Guidelines to crack down on copycat apps (9to5mac.com)

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After years of saying no, Tesla reportedly adding Apple CarPlay to its cars (arstechnica.com)

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End of The Line: How Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unravelled (ft.com)

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Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows (swift.org)

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In Praise of dhh (okayfail.com)

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An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping a Billboard Chart (whiskeyriff.com)

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The social contract of open source (snarky.ca)

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I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) [video] (youtube.com)

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Key Takeaways from Australia's Latest AI Copyright Law Reform Announcement (twobirds.com)

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Tahoe's Terrible Icons: macOS 26's new icons are a step backwards (onefoottsunami.com)

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Microsoft AI's first in-house image generator MAI-Image-1 is now available (theverge.com)

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The Man Who Invented AGI (wired.com)

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The Makers of Things (2009) (randsinrepose.com)

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Spotify Sued over "Billions" of Fraudulent Drake Streams (consequence.net)

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AI music is charting weekly as Billboard claims trend is "quickly accelerating" (dexerto.com)

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Meta's new display-less smart glasses are quite good, but the vibes are off (wired.com)

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Sanders: Government should break up OpenAI (thehill.com)

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Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media (bsky.social)

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Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT (groups.google.com)

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Why Everyone Gets the F1 Inerter Wrong [video] (youtube.com)

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Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity (arxiv.org)

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Droppath 6.0: Our Path to Liquid-Glass (droppath.com)

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What's new in Shortcuts for xOS 26 (support.apple.com)

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Granite 4.0 Nano: Just how small can you go? (huggingface.co)

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Testing My First Sodium-Ion Solar Battery (Teardown) [video] (youtube.com)

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VC Vinod Khosla: 10% government stake in public companies to soften blow of AGI (techcrunch.com)

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The Suckerberg: The Future of Intimacy (NSFW Cyberpunk Humor) [video] (youtube.com)

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OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization (techcrunch.com)

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Module.swift: Modularization with SPM made easy and scalable (gsabran.substack.com)

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Post-Training Generative Recommenders with Advantage-Weighted Supervised Tuning (netflixtechblog.com)

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My First Months in Cyberspace (gyford.com)

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Winners of the 2025 IFComp (Interactive Fiction Competition) (ifcomp.org)

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The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge (somnolescent.net)

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Bible Contradictions interactive infographic (philb61.github.io)

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Cyberpunk 2077 ends up in New York's Museum Of Failure (gamingbible.com)

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Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple? (sixcolors.com)

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Claude Code Sandboxing (claude.com)

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[flagged] FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up." (kenklippenstein.com)

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Apple says it may be forced to turn off App Tracking Transparency in Europe (9to5mac.com)

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We let OpenAI's "Agent Mode" surf the web for us–here's what happened (arstechnica.com)

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Boring Is What We Wanted (512pixels.net)

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NAT traversal improvements, pt. 2: Challenges in cloud environments (tailscale.com)

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Book Preview: Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts (andreacontato.com)

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IRA Glass: Every podcast is better at 2.0 speed [video] (youtube.com)

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Hopes new Australian fabric will revitalise domestic clothing manufacturing (abc.net.au)

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2025 Photomicrography Competition (nikonsmallworld.com)

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Deep-Sea Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead and Uses Them for Sex (smithsonianmag.com)

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Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap? (wired.com)

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Amazon outage takes down Venmo, Ring, Reddit and much of the internet (techradar.com)

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The AI water issue is fake (andymasley.substack.com)

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Drinking coffee from a cup made of coffee [video] (youtube.com)

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Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus (elizabethvannostrand.substack.com)

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Anatomy of a Crypto Meltdown (citationneeded.news)

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The State of the AI Industry Is Freaking Me Out (youtube.com)

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YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Doom modders' new engine in protest of GZDoom leadership and use of ChatGPT (rockpapershotgun.com)

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Strengthening NPM: Important changes to authentication and token management (github.blog)

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DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 (arstechnica.com)

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Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines, trans people (theguardian.com)

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Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence (yahoo.com)

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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Silicon Valley Chronicler on the Politics of Musk, Sacks and Zuckerberg (politico.com)

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Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law (arstechnica.com)

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Android users face nearly double the billing errors of iOS (androidpolice.com)

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PWA Browser Scorecards (pwascore.com)

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14 years later, Siri is again the key to Apple's future (macworld.com)

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI (therumpus.net)

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Schools' Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students (cdt.org)

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OpenAI's AMD deal: Welcome to AI's mega-blob era (axios.com)

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WireTap: Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Bus Interposition (wiretap.fail)

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Rivian CEO Doubles Down on Decision to Not Offer Apple CarPlay (macrumors.com)

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How AI is shaking up the study of earthquakes (understandingai.org)

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The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics (hackaday.com)