Some critiques about Apple's Liquid Glass look. I just upgraded yesterday, and so far, it seems to work OK. I'm not unhappy with it. I don't like that they put some unasked-for widgets on the desktop, which messed up my icons, but apart from that, I haven't encountered anything horrible. Apple is saying that iOS 26 might slightly shorten battery life, but perhaps in the short term. Hmm.
Here's a list of all the new features of iOS 26 and macOS 26. I don't recall them doing this for any other release. Is it that radical? And here's the ArsTechnica review of macOS 26.
FileVault will no longer let you store the Recovery Key in iCloud. The title of the article is very misleading.
Sleep boosts growth hormone levels and increases muscle and bone. It's one of those asymmetric factors where sleeping more doesn't help you, but sleeping less hurts you.
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China is quietly saving the world from climate change. I think China is turning their countryside into a blight. All those solar panels – yuck! Is that a "solution" to something? For climate change?
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Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM. At this point, I don't know if anyone can be sure how private an LLM is.
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The Japanese landscapes that inspired Studio Ghibli films. Wow, what a delight it would be to visit those locales.
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Brain drain. A top AI scientist leaves for China. This feeds the paranoia that you can never trust any Chinese national. They're all just a likely to flee the U.S. for China, taking research developments with them. Is it worth the security risk? This is the common attitude where the first people to flee just think for themselves, never considering how it might affect those others left behind, being viewed as security risks. Trump will be proven right, and people will scream "racism".
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Trump is going to do away with quarterly corporate earnings reporting and make them semiannual. People think that's too infrequent. Hey, about every four months instead? Ah, no one listens to me.
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Mullvad VPN is going to use the QUIC protocol to hide WireGuard signals in normal encrypted traffic, to help evade detection and filtering.
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Clothes from chicken feathers? An engineer from Hawaii makes it possible. Curious to know how durable it really is. We have a lot of chickens, so it would be great to make use of that resource.
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RFK Jr is going to add some obscure ivermectin-promoting Maui doctor to his vaccine panel. This is why the medical profession complains that RFK Jr is not serious, or that he's a dangerous joke.
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Prov St. Vincent is going to eliminate their neonatal ICU. Little by little, services are being chipped away.
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Now they are teaching robots martial arts. That's not good. Today, they are beatable, but in the future, probably not. Look how fast it gets off the ground!
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