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What I shared on Twitter, and a bit more…
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/1/5.html You can still create new secure note, but it is not recommended. Apple recommends moving these to Notes in locked mode. But I don’t like this solution. I usually…
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Cool project to play around with. Still haven’t found any good natural voice based computing system. Siri and others are just for small tasks around the house. But to…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dr6neg766o I am sure there are people building these already, browsers fully integrated with LLMs, etc. But allowing OpenAI to just buy up access to 64% of web usage just…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_balance_of_tradehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20zd4k6d36ohttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2089vznzohttps://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade US started having trade deficits since 1970s and grew to become the country with largest trade imbalance by far. US imported $440bn from China; China imported $145bn from America….
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/04/project-liberty-bid-to-buy-tik-tok-protect-user-rights/ It’s very hard to tell who has the upper hand on this. Did TikTok actively seek the extension? Or US avoiding a Gen Z revolt? Sure, 170m users in…
https://www.businessinsider.com/vibe-coding-ai-silicon-valley-andrej-karpathy-2025-2 “Vibe coding is a new approach to programming that leverages AI tools to generate code based on natural language prompts. Instead of manually writing code, users describe what they…
https://www.benzinga.com/25/03/44529187/elon-musk-says-tesla-doesnt-need-lidar-because-people-dont-shoot-lasers-out-of-their-eyes-yet-his-ev-company-quietly-spent-over-2-million-on-the-technology-in-2024-as-china-takes-global-lead Elon Musk having such hate for Lidar is just silly. Might be valid a decade ago when Lidar was overly expensive like any niche technology at the beginning. But…
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/innovation/new-metamask-card-aims-to-fix-cryptos-last-mile-problemhttps://www.erc4337.io/ Using ERC-4337 for Account Abstraction. Enabling credit card payments using self-custody wallets. Cool. When we will start seeing high street banks offering these?
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-check-your-ipads-battery-health You need to go to Settings > Privacy & Security and enable Share iPad Analytics. When you have done that, need to wait for a day or so, before…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with…