Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-crippling-and-widespread
Substack
Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world
LLM failures to reason, as documented in Apple’s Illusion of Thinking paper, are really only part of a much deeper problem
Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html
More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad
Daring Fireball
More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad
Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, *to get users to believe that it’s private*.
Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity https://jamesmcm.github.io/blog/no-ipv4/
jamesmcm.github.io
Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
A technical blog about Rust, Linux and other topics.
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit/
GamingOnLinux
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
More to think on for the Fedora Linux change proposal to drop 32-bit support - as the popular Bazzite would have to shut down.
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/did-lead-poisoning-create-a-generation-of-serial-killers
The New Yorker
Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers?
Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that there was something in the water.
Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok https://github.com/octelium/octelium
GitHub
GitHub - octelium/octelium: A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote…
A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA/BeyondCorp architecture, API/AI gateway, a PaaS, an infrastructure for MCP &...
Abusing copyright strings to trick SW into thinking it's running competitor's PC https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250624-00/?p=111299
Microsoft News
Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it’s running on your competitor’s PC
I did technically cross my fingers.
Bloom Filters by Example https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/
Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once https://oeis.org/A005228
What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares? https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31806/what-ui-first-distinguished-radio-buttons-from-checkboxes-with-circles-and-squar
Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles and squares?
Nowadays most UIs use circles for radio buttons (where the user must select only one of the presented options) and squares for checkboxes (where each option can be independently selected or unselec...
Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7908
Science Advances
Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
Personal care products substantially suppress a human’s production of OH radicals.
Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/noaa-cuts-hurricane-forecasting-climate
the Guardian
Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’
Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered
Implementing fast TCP fingerprinting with eBPF https://halb.it/posts/ebpf-fingerprinting-1/