2025-05-18
Wait, there's a Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum coming in 2027?
By Andy Serkis? From actual Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens?
Replacing My Original Setup With Cloudflare Tunnel: Setting It Up
I continue to take care of my Home Assistant. This week, I replaced my original setup with Cloudflare Tunnel.
Netflix is going to make its ad breaks even more annoying with AI-generated garbage
Netflix is hoping you won't notice AI-generated ads interrupting your Squid Game rewatch.
Jack Rix at Top Gear Reviews CarPlay Ultra in the Aston Martin DBX
There’s an accompanying blog post too, but the video (around 18 minutes) is (unsurprisingly, from Top Gear) better. It’s just a great tour of everything from how you set it...
Go 1.22: Bringing Math/rand and Crypto/rand together
This post is about how Go 1.22 brings the two closer together, by using a cryptographic random number source in math/rand (as well as math/rand/v2, as mentioned in our previous...
Gödel, Escher, Bach in the age of LLMs
Published on May 18, 2025 4:22 PM GMTLook, nothing I can say about GEB will be news to anyone reading LessWrong, but I wrote all this up to organize my...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Help, My Prompt is Not Working! (5/18/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 18, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Facebook went public...
What if Apple made a folding phone?
I've been using a new phone for the past month, as shown in the photo above. Hmm, that might not be the best way to show it off, how about...
ChatGPT deceives users that it's cleared its memory when it hasn't
Published on May 18, 2025 3:17 PM GMTWhat happenedThis is a real example from my ChatGPT use. I asked it to clear its memories of me. It makes the memory...
'The vibes have never been worse' Bungie's morale is reportedly in 'free fall' following its art theft fiasco
Devs also claim they have been often ignored by the studio's "good old boy" leadership regarding the overarching design.
Modeling versus Implementation
Published on May 18, 2025 1:38 PM GMTEpistemic status: I feel that naming this axis deconfuses me about agent foundations about as much as writing the rest of this sequence...
Netflix's long-awaited Gears of War movie might actually have a director, and it's the guy who helmed Bullet Train and codirected John Wick
David Leitch is reportedly in negotiations with Netflix.
“Hi Dear” Needs to Die: A Rant for Every Inbox That’s Had Enough
The dreaded **“Hi Dear” is the email equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. In Western culture, this isn’t charming. It’s not professional. It's not even polite. It reeks of spam,...
‘No Better Option’: Canada Has No Choice When it Comes to F-35 Fighter
When asked about Canada’s intentions to go through with the procurement of the US-made F-35, the recently elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is quoted as saying there are “alternatives” to...
F-22 Super Fighter Trump Announced Might Already Be in the Works
The US Air Force is investing over $1 billion to upgrade its F-22 Raptor fleet, ensuring its continued dominance until the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter enters service. The...
Agile’s Quarter-Century Crisis: Why We’re Still Failing 25 Years After the Manifesto
TL; DR: Agile Failure at Corporate Level The data couldn’t be more supportive: Despite 25 years of the Agile Manifesto, countless books, a certification industry, conferences, and armies of consultants,...
The U.S. Navy Built a Fleet of 50 ‘Jeep’ Casablanca-Class Aircraft Carriers for 1 Goal
This article may re-awaken that World War Two historian in you. The Casablanca-class aircraft carrier is not the first warship that comes to mind when examining U.S. naval lore, but...
A-10 Warthog Flying Tank Received an Incredible ‘Second Chance’
The A-10 Was Built to Punch Soviet Armored Formations — but Found a Second Life in Iraq and Afghanistan The post A-10 Warthog Flying Tank Received an Incredible ‘Second Chance’...
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