2026-09-25

Stock UI in MacOS 27 Eschews Clarity

Stock UI in MacOS 27 Eschews Clarity

“Thibault”, in post on Mastodon responding to Brent Simmons’s “stock Mac UI” post that I just linked to: It reminded me of my own explorations with the macOS design language,...

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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in...

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What did AI researchers think at the end of 2024?

What did AI researchers think at the end of 2024?

We recently (finally!) got the results of the 2024 survey out. The paper is here, but it’s pretty long, so I’ll tell you the most interesting bits (according to me).But...

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Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser...

Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser trailer for Madden, starring Nicolas Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. Boom?

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Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress

Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress

"Know that you still own every piece of my soul," wailed a plaintive AI voice. The post Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb...

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The Part of Productivity Most Avoid (and Why It’s Costing You Tomorrow)

What you do after a productive day could determine tomorrow’s performance. Discover why relaxation and true recovery are not the same thing.

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Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust

Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust

An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust

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Ridley Scott's Near-Perfect Noir Thriller Is Officially Free to Watch on YouTube

Ridley Scott's Near-Perfect Noir Thriller Is Officially Free to Watch on YouTube

The director’s spin on The Godfather remains a stone cold classic

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The US Navy Has Nothing Like It: Japan’s Sōryū-class Lithium-Ion Submarines Don’t Need Nuclear Power to Be a Powerhouse (Not Made in USA)

The US Navy Has Nothing Like It: Japan’s Sōryū-class Lithium-Ion Submarines Don’t Need Nuclear Power to Be a Powerhouse (Not Made in USA)

Ten of the 12 Soryu-class boats run four Kawasaki-built Kockums Stirling engines that burn diesel with liquid oxygen, letting them stay submerged for up to two weeks at five to...

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This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)

This 78-year-old grandmother has an insatiable lust for violence (in Fortnite)

The Guinness World Recordholder for oldest female Fortnite streamer says her one goal is "to go in and eliminate folk."

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Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet

Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet

Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted data about the airwaves using something like the Heathkit HK-21...

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8 New TV Shows to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, FX, and Apple TV (September 25-27)

8 New TV Shows to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, FX, and Apple TV (September 25-27)

On this weekend's TV column, we highlight the return of one of the longest-running contemporary TV shows and new releases across streamers.

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Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes

Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes

Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants

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The Navy Retired the ‘Hoover’ S-3 Viking in 2009 and Parked Dozens in the Arizona Boneyard. Critics Have Called It Short-Sighted Ever Since.

The Navy Retired the ‘Hoover’ S-3 Viking in 2009 and Parked Dozens in the Arizona Boneyard. Critics Have Called It Short-Sighted Ever Since.

The Viking's goodbye took years. The fleet retired it in January 2009 in Jacksonville, but the VX-30 Bloodhounds at Point Mugu kept three flying for test work until 2016. That...

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HOT NEWS as Ghosts'n Goblins has arrived as a Commodore Amiga AGA edition via JOTD! [UPDATE]

If you played ' Ghosts'n Goblins ' the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise on systems such as the Amstrad, Amiga, Atari, C64 and ZX Spectrum, or the...

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JOTD's Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja port for the Amiga gets an AGA update tease

An IndieRetroNews reader has recently informed us in our comments feed, that JOTD has shown off a new gameplay video from the eagerly awaited Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja Arcade conversion...

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Brent Simmons on ‘Stock’ Mac UI

Brent Simmons: To recap: the reasons for using stock Mac UI are 1) user familiarity, which we’ve known for a while just isn’t a thing, and 2) hoping to be...

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‘Wobblin’ Goblin’: The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter Was Designed to Allow the US Air Force to ‘Secretly Penetrate Defended Airspace’

‘Wobblin’ Goblin’: The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter Was Designed to Allow the US Air Force to ‘Secretly Penetrate Defended Airspace’

By the early 1970s, layered Soviet air defenses of radars, surface-to-air missiles, and interceptors, along with the losses over North Vietnam, had convinced U.S. planners that speed, altitude, and jamming...

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What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with...

What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with some very astounding numbers. If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the...

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