I challenged my family not to say WHAT! when reading that headline. So far, everyone’s failed (including myself).

That is pretty evil.

Without signing attestation (both developer and code) there will be no way to find out who was responsible and stop the propagation. This will happen again.

Edit: there have been attempts like https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers, but that hasn’t fixed the problem.

Wonder if this is going to turn into people cutting out catalytic converters, or stripping out copper wiring.

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On a previous thread, someone pointed to https://sonoff.tech/en-us/products/sonoff-dongle-max-zigbee-thread-poe-dongle-dongle-m

Looks like it might support both.

The power company AI will generate the regulatory reports. The regulatory commission’s AI will summarize and score them for faster turnaround. Only 30% chance of hallucination making it through each cycle.

After a few iterations, they will get fully approved to deploy the giant hamster wheel with Bluetooth, powered by Nuclear-flavored RedBull.

Humans shopping online allows the seller to offer discounts, upsell services, create serendipity (“How about a lip gloss 50% to go with those shoes?”), and build brand loyalty. Or if you’re a techie, how about 50% off an SD-card with the purchase of a gadget?

This is why retailers create these expensive e-commerce websites instead of just dumping their wares into E-Bay or Amazon. They also do things like web heatmaps and other types of analytics to optimize the UI/UX.

Having an AI agent do the shopping means they lose all that. It’s any wonder they’re going to fight AI shopping agents. Be prepared for a lot more complex captchas when roaming around the web.

Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.

This, in a folding, commuter e-bike.

Privacy, shmivacy.

Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?

Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.

Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.

I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.

On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you’re 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it’s a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I’m not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.

Come to think of it, that’s actually a good thing. Carry on.

That’s pretty decent range, and having solar panels trickle charge all day means for a lot of people it’s basically at zero fuel cost. That right there is the big selling point.

If they figure out how to lop off a foot or two from the back without destroying aerodynamics and solar charging, it would look and park more like a normal vehicle.

Gullwing doors are fun, but a bigger person might have trouble fitting through that gap.

FWIW, Toyota experimented with a three-wheel, two-seater a while back, but range was nothing like this: https://theautofuture.com/2014/07/12/toyotas-three-wheeled-road-ev/

The browser is one of the few places users interact with the internet. To train models, you need data and here you are getting a firehose of data including destinations, clicks, messages, everything. You can’t really get that from a browser extension because it’s not always running for every window and tab.

The only stream missing are user interactions via apps. They already offer SDKs for embedding inside apps, but they need to sweeten the deal to encourage adoption. That will come through offering ad embedding services or revenue-sharing with devs.

If they truly wanted to get every interaction, they could offer discount ‘smart’ WiFi routers, and either cut deals with telcos or create MVNOs to have visibility into those data streams as well.

It’s not Man-In-The-Middle if you invite them in. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just tell them to Let Off Some Steam.

AWS salespeople, meeting customers today.

There are so many bad UI decisions in iOS 26.1. Phone dialer and camera are practically unusable. Just gratuitous changes with so many hidden options.

At least, for some of them they let you switch back to ‘classic’ mode. But it’s like they brought back all the bad ideas from the skeumorphic days.

I did set up a local LLM on a pretty beefy machine and Whisper to do local voice assistance, but it kept falling apart. The only one that worked reasonably was tying it to a commercial API. This was more than a year ago, so things might have improved.

But if they want to sell these things as an Alexa/Google Home alternative, they’ll have a hell of a story if they built a one-stop hub that ran an on-device model and did everything locally. There are a lot of smaller models now and companies like MediaTek make decent edge-processors with beefy NPUs.

I’m still a big fan of their approach. Sad to see them drop the yellow, but I hope it means they’ll come out with something better.

Bought a bunch for a client project. Pretty decent form-factor, but they really need to have hardware that can do on-device AI inference. There are lots of reasonably priced choices out there.

Their whole “private” voice assistant story falls apart when they have to send everything to the cloud, including third-party services.