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Victoria Song on Meta Muse’s Cuteness
Victoria Song, in her Optimizer column/newsletter for The Verge: I’ve been aggressively avoiding Muse since it launched a few weeks ago. Sure, some of that is because I was busy testing other devices. But the number-one reason why is that I am horribly vulnerable when faced with extreme cuteness…
Joanna Stern Interviews Mark Zuckerberg
Great interview from Stern, as usual, seemingly conducted on the old set of Three’s Company . She opened by asking if AI is going to wipe out humanity, and I think Zuck whiffed by not simply laughing and saying no. She also directly asked his thoughts on people calling Meta Glasses “pervert…
Meta Connect Keynote 2026
Meta’s annual keynote yesterday was a tight 55-minute live event held on their campus in Menlo Park. I watched the whole thing this morning, before recording tomorrow’s episode of Dithering . (Which you should subscribe to.) It was a good keynote. Consumer products announced: Third-generation Meta…
‘Apple Opens Apple Music Hall, a State-of-the-Art Live Music Venue in London’
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s storied Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhere else. Apple might be the most interesting…
Ed Zitron’s AI Prediction Track Record
Dan Luu serves up some copiously documented claim chowder: After this point, most further predictions that I saw were either non-falsifiable or resolve in the future. Note that I didn’t attempt to catalogue statements that are nonsensical or were simply factually incorrect statements at the time…
Copland D11E4, Emulated in Your Browser
Michael Steil: Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC. Playing around with the GXSlidemaster app, I found a bug. The keyboard…
Changes to App Tracking Transparency in the E.U.
Apple Developer: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the option to use an alternative version of the App…
★ The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally
I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did.
‘Prepare to Ship’ Is a Clever Software Solution That Allows iPhone 18 Pro Max to Ship With a Battery That Would Otherwise Exceed International Shipping Regulations
Apple Support: iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries and regions. To address these requirements…
App Store Scam of the Week: ‘Update My Phone & Apps: Guide’ by Tair Olzhasev
“Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software Update screen. It just takes you to the root…
★ AppZapper 3000
Is it absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary to make an uninstall utility with an exquisitely detailed 3D laser gun as its UI? Fuckin’-A right it is.
Super Intelligence, Indeed
President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence — being spoken…
Meta’s Muse Logomark, Designed by Jessica Hische
Bill McCool, writing at Dieline: This past Wednesday, lettering artist, designer, and author Jessica Hische took to Threads to announce that she had worked alongside Meta’s team to create the icon and logotype for their agentic AI, Muse. Acknowledging that people would be “mad because it’s AI and…
Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read Jason Aten’s Messages Database
Jason Aten, writing for Inc: Then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to…
Why Didn’t Google Build Muse?
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: The number one response I’ve gotten to my thoughts on Meta’s Muse personal assistant agent is some variation of “I will never trust Meta with my data.” But the number two response is arguably more interesting (and related): “Why didn’t Google build this?” The short…
Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Assistant
Todd Bishop, reporting at GeekWire: Amazon says it has cut off Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers, after attempting unsuccessfully to get the Facebook parent company to voluntarily exclude the e-commerce site from the experience. The problem, Amazon…
Meta’s New Muse AI Agent App Overtakes ChatGPT as Top iPhone App
Zac Hall, writing for 9to5 Mac on Friday: Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. Muse by Meta only launched this month , although the app has been around for a couple of weeks. This…
Xcode 27.2 Now Supports a New JSON Project File Format
Apple Developer: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using .xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27. Apple released, on GitHub, a Swift library (and…
Siri AI Class-Action Lawsuit Settlement Website Is Now Live
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the settlement website is now live. Apple will pay an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible customers, who can submit a claim via the settlement…
[Sponsor] Mux: Turn Your Video Into Context
Video isn’t just something to stream; it’s structured data you build with. Mux Robots, hosted AI workflows, turns video into context. Generate chapters, find key moments, translate audio, and more, through one API call, with no model hosting to maintain. Each workflow is evaluated against real…
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