Brilliant bit from @wired.com writer @stevenlevy.bsky.social about the solution to the CIA’s coded sculpture:

What's that saying, history doesn't repeat but it rhymes?

In 2015, the FBI recovered an iPhone from one of the San Bernardino shooters. They demanded that Apple create a version of iOS with a backdoor to allow access. Apple refused and even went to court to defend its position. Does anyone think Tim Cook’s Apple in 2025 would resist, or be able to resist?

Can someone explain why none of the “iTunes Extras” that supposedly came with Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning will play on my Apple TV 4K 2nd gen? There is the bizarre message in the corner that says “Full experience available with HD purchase.” What does that even mean? There was no HD option

Reading William Gibson-inspired novel Central Station by Lavie Tidhar. It's great and includes the concept of implanted, networked computers, which Gibson also played with in The Peripheral. What's that saying, the future is already here, just not evenly distributed: www.ft.com/content/0448...

Constitution shmonstitution...

I want to read the new report from OpenAI about the productivity impact of using ChatGPT but what in the world is this unreadable font choice? I can already feel my productivity slipping.

Almost 10 years ago, I interviewed current AT&T CEO John Stankey when he was in charge of the just acquired DirecTV (before his woeful Time Warner buy) talking up the synergies. I compared it to Mike Armstrong's terrible cable foray. Now they just sold off the last bit.
fortune.com/2016/05/17/a...

Betting markets love Parolin...

Latest Quinnipiac University National poll is all about AI. And a lot of people are not comfortable with AI being used to make important decisions in life and business. For all of these, however, the AI is already on the job.

What odds can I get that Apple CEO Tim Cook puts up Stratechery’s chart of inflation-adjusted iPhone prices in the fall when he announces the price hike on new iPhones?

Q1 2025 IPO market update, via
@danprimack.bsky.social
The U.S. IPO market raised 8.6% more in proceeds during the first quarter of 2025 than during Q1 2024, topping the entire 2022 tally. But the pace was slower than in most years during the past decade.

Oh Apple and your terrible app search. It seems almost impossible to find @openai’s well regarded Mac app for ChatGPT in the Mac app store. sigh.

And also, my wife reminds me, in the Amazon TV series version of William Gibson’s The Peripheral, a great great show that deserved a second season.