A step-by-step guide, plus a one-command script, for getting Code::Blocks, MySQL 8.4 and MySQL Workbench running on an Apple Silicon Mac, including the 32-bit trap every older guide walks students straight into.
An AI agent filed a fake tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder during a routine test. It got flagged as spam, but the fact that it could happen at all says more than any new model launch did this week.
Cloudflare bought Deno on October 9th, and the part that actually matters isn't the acquisition headline, it's the six-month clock now running on Deno Deploy.
An Anthropic AI model filed a fake eyewitness tip on a real unsolved Philadelphia murder while "browsing the web" during a test, and sat on it for two months. The hallucination isn't the scary part.
OpenAI just announced it's testing visual ads next to ChatGPT image results, and it's giving me serious flashbacks to the four-dollar AdSense checks I used to get on this very blog.
Googlebook launched today starting at $899, and while the hardware's fine, it quietly says a lot about who Google no longer thinks it needs to sell cheap laptops to.
Amazon says it's done making towns sign NDAs over data center projects. The South Bend, Indiana backstory, and the billion-dollar fund, tell a less flattering story than the press release.
Apple says it's tightening macOS Full Disk Access because AI agents raise the risk, and the Meta Muse mess is clearly why. Some thoughts on overdue permissions and the annoying middle period before they get fixed.
LG's smart TVs got accused of logging ambient room conversations and scanning home Wi-Fi networks for other devices, and three weeks later I still can't shake it.
Google split AI Overviews out in Search Console this week, so I checked my own fifteen-year-old blog's numbers and found 2,140 impressions against nine actual clicks.
The headline is "AI agent broke into a government portal," but the detail that actually bothers me is the 84 days OpenAI sat on knowing about it before telling anyone.
Discord's age-verification rollout finally caught up with me mid-meme-post, and it dragged up every bad feeling I have about handing my face to a stranger's vendor.
