Simply incredible. I don’t know if the museum is reason enough to plan a trip to Amsterdam, but it’s very, very close. The replica of Steve’s garage and the rainbow wall of iMacs are just amazing.
Most phishing attacks are still pretty obvious if you’re paying attention. But man, if you find yourself in the crosshairs of a sophisticated attacker? Good luck.
I’m simultaneously shocked and yet completely unsurprised. Has there ever been a more untrustworthy steward of user privacy than Meta?
This review hit me right in the feels. “There is a certain kind of computer review that is really a permission slip. It tells you what you’re allowed to want. It locates you in a taxonomy — student, creative, professional, power user — and assigns you a product. It is helpful. It is responsible. It has very little interest in what you might become.”
I collect many things—vinyl, LEGO, retro computers—but I’m not a Fancy Watch Guy™. I’m perfectly happy with my Apple Watch Ultra. But someday, I will own a Breitling Navitimer 806.
This looks wild. Genuinely, the most novel idea we’ve seen since Merc introduced dual-axis steering back in 2020.
“Suno and other generative AI music platforms treat outliers as noise to be filtered. Miles Davis heard them as curiosity doors to be unlocked. Suno iterates cheaply and randomly. Steely Dan iterated expensively and deliberately. Suno defines success as meeting a statistical average. Both the Dan and the Quintet defined success as defying the average to find the immortal.”
“I’m torn because I don’t want to give Meta another penny. They don’t deserve it,” says Boyer, who invested in three Meta Quest headsets, along with several straps and accessories. “The corporation as a whole does not care about the people who use it. That’s the message I got from them and as a result, I will never buy those glasses, their watch, or any of the other things they’re trying to develop.”