https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/28/apple-pay-transit-us-citieshttps://www.octopus.com.hk/en/consumer/octopus-cards/products/cross-border/china-t-union.html That’s actually how I read the MacRumors article yesterday: only 12? What happened? Apple holds more than half the US smartphone market (and under 20% in China). Yet after all these...
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/elon-musk-just-made-a-shocking-admission-about-tesla-stock-litigationhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tesla-fsd-hardware-3-vs-4-technical-deep-dive-vikas-pandit-k23nc/ I’m not saying users shouldn’t expect FSD to just work as Elon Musk promised. But it’s unrealistic to expect a 7-year-old computer on wheels to keep up with every...
https://www.makeuseof.com/ultimate-rescue-usb-can-save-any-windows-pc Keep one of these in your drawer, just in case you will ever need to do a full recovery or rescue.
https://codeberg.org/ctietze/metal-toolchain-launchd-automounthttps://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/01/manually-mount-metal-toolchain/ If you are having problems with compiling code with Metal toolchain and can’t fix it by following install instruction in the error message “xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain”, try to manually...
https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-crease-less-foldable-oled-panel-showcased-z-fold-8/ Crease-less foldable OLED panel demoed at CES 2026. Will it be good enough for Apple to use this? Starting at $1599 or more? iOS + iPadOS merged back again?
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/google-gemini-vs-chatgpt-cloudflare-ai-b2881240.htmlhttps://x.com/Similarweb/status/1942838749588775302 Gemini is growing fast. Back to the “Just Google It” days soon. Now waiting for Meta to find a way to make AI relevant or useful in social. Same...
https://finbold.com/over-22-million-cryptocurrencies-were-created-in-2025/https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/number-of-cryptocurrencies-tracked Just crazy. Thanks to AI, no/vibe coding?
I stopped using the Perplexity app on macOS. It lacks many obvious features like downloading assets and deleting Recent searches directly from the list view, etc. Switched over to use...
https://github.com/Anze/KeyCluCask A neat little app to list all the keyboard shortcuts on your Mac. Force yourself to learn these to speed up your own workflow. It’s always much quicker to...
https://www.theverge.com/news/844460/irobot-files-for-bankruptcyhttps://www.theverge.com/news/844474/who-is-picea-robotics-company-owns-irobothttps://www.linkedin.com/company/shenzhen-picea-robotics-co-ltd/about/ Better still, why wait for US to ban these smart home gadgets over privacy or security “concerns”? China should ban the export of these or just double the price.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000-layoffs-because-i-need-less-heads-with-ai.htmlhttps://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/tech-layoffshttps://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2025/the-10-biggest-tech-company-layoffs-of-2025-so-far Tech-sector job cuts this year are tracking similarly to last year: as of July 31, Layoffs.fyi reports about 80,250 employees let go in 2025, versus 152,922 for the entirety...
https://bgr.com/tech/17-insane-veo-3-ai-videos-thatll-stop-you-from-trusting-anything-you-see-online/
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.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.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/binance-ex-ceo-warns-95-of-crypto-investors-wont-survive He is probably right. It’s very hard to beat BTC. It’s kind of like investors can’t easily outperform S&P or DJIA consistently. “90% of Retail investors do not beat...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/infosec_bytes Still very much about open vs closed systems. Who can govern the way we use our tools? Government? Company? Users? AI will be able to help with filtering obvious...
https://www.techspot.com/news/106920-microsoft-cancels-data-center-contracts-ai-enthusiasts-caught.html We have seen it all before. Dotcom, Mobile, VR, Metaverse, Drones, Cloud, SaaS, etc, etc. All had similar patterns. Don’t expect any of them to make money directly. They...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-co-founder-says-60-hour-weeks-needed-to-achieve-agi?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other It’s not just about working 60 hours a week. If Google don’t do anything impressive in the next couple of years, their core business might not be around. AI...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2k1321nedo It’s not just about forming a rival to BYD. It’s about the existence of Japanese auto industry. Many will end up just having a brand value and be sold...
https://developers.google.com/ml-kit Be careful when you allow apps to access your photos or files. Avoid allowing full access. They can scan everything and look for valuable information like keys and passwords....
https://www.ventoy.net/ For Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen, etc. Over 1200 OS images tested. Makes it much easier to make your USB bootdisk. Not for Mac, which you can just use the system built-in internet...
https://decrypt.co/303263/former-sec-chair-gary-gensler-to-go-back-to-school-to-teach-ai Sure, he had the power to slow down crypto adoption at the SEC. But ultimately he failed. When he “lost” to BlackRock and others for the crypto ETFs applications,...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hermes-birkin-bags-pierre-alexis-dumas-60-minutes
https://cointelegraph.com/news/memecoin-frenzy-sees-solana-based-dapps-rake-in-record-feeshttps://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_total_transaction_fees_per_day Not mocking the recent growth of #Solana, becoming a solid #4 by market cap. But transaction fees is a bad single measure of success or even hype.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile/ioshttps://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/16/epic-games-store-launches-ios-eu/ Running an App Store is just part of the wider development ecosystem!
https://fortune.com/2024/08/06/mit-economist-markets-overestimated-ai-driven-productivity-gains/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple-says-its-ai-models-were-trained-on-googles-custom-chips-.html Another reminder that Nvidia is not the only player for AI chips even if they are the best. A little surprised that Apple didn’t have their M2 Ultra farm...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-says-whatsapp-has-100-million-daily-active-users-in-the-u-s/ When many countries can say that their default chat app is Whatsapp, that’s not true in America. Very odd.
https://llama.meta.comhttps://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct Do I need any other excuse to buy a better Mac Studio? 🙂
