2025-05-15
The App Store Shows a Warning for EU Apps That Use External Purchases
The app in question, Instacar, is not available in the US App Store, but multiple people in the EU have confirmed this warning on its App Store page is real:...
Even Audiobooks Aren't Safe From AI Slop
Audible, one of the world's largest audiobook platforms, is opening the floodgates to AI slop. On Tuesday, the Amazon-owned service announced its new "integrated AI narration technology" that'll allow selected...
Send the M10 Booker ‘Light Tank’ to Ukraine?
Key Points – Following the US Army’s cancellation of the M10 Booker program, the 80 existing units top be built could potentially be sent to Ukraine. -This move could replenish...
A False Debate? Canada Seems Destined To Fly All 88 F-35 Fighters
Key Points – Canada’s review of its 88-unit F-35 fighter purchase, spurred by political tensions with the US, faces complex realities making a pivot difficult. -Cancelling the deal could incur...
Helldivers 2 has still got it
Get in, we're going back to war.
‘Great Wall in the Sky’: Can China’s J-36 Really Stop US B-21 Bombers?
Key Points – China’s J-36 sixth-generation fighter concept, revealed in December 2024, features an unconventional tri-engine design with an exceptionally large wingspan, leading some analysts to dub it a “flying...
Isaac Asimov and The Impact of AI
Published on May 14, 2025 6:56 PM GMTIntroductionFor over a year now, I have been writing weekly articles with the aim of analysing social, economic and technological trends, with the...
2025-05-14
Astronaut Don Pettit’s Marvelous Photos From Space
The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day mission aboard the ISS. Now, you know I like...
Anonymous vs “ICE Air:” GlobaIX Needs A Security Fix
"Anonymous" leaked deportation flights data to the media.
Continuous CVE Practice Closes Critical Gap Between Vulnerability Alerts and Effective Defense
INE Security: Real-world practice with the latest CVEs is essential for transforming security teams from reactive to proactive defenders. With over 26,000 new CVEs documented in the past year, security...
Apple May Have Listened To Your Private Conversations, Now They’re Paying $95 Million
Here’s how to claim your share of the settlement.Continue reading on Ideas With Wings »
10,000 Drum Machines is a growing collection of web-based drum machines. I...
10,000 Drum Machines is a growing collection of web-based drum machines. I like the Extremely Long-Term Drum Machine (“20 bass drums a millennium”). 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
LLMs: Towards A Universal Standard to Measure AI Consciousness - Sentience
What it feels like to be, or it feels like something to be, can be divided into memory and subjectivity, or into feeling and attention. For example, I think therefore...
Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has gone absolutely bonkers and is flooding X-formerly-Twitter with bizarre posts about "white genocide" in response to completely unrelated tweets. The issue was first flagged...
Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology
In 1987, Wendell Berry wrote an essay called Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer. In it, he outlined his standards for adopting new technology in his work....
Re SMTM: negative feedback on negative feedback
Published on May 14, 2025 7:50 PM GMTSlimeMoldTimeMold (SMTM) recently finished a 14-part series on psychology, “The Mind in the Wheel”, centering on feedback loops (“cybernetics”) as kind of a...
Curate your space
Published on May 14, 2025 7:35 PM GMTI: RoomsI had been travelling for a year and a half before I considered what coming home would look like.Intending to maintain the...
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