Terrence O'Brien
50 Years of Apple startup sounds.
Enjoy this montage of 44 (by my count) Apple computers powering on, starting with a replica of the original Apple I from 1976 to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
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Murphy Campbell plays public domain ballads, but YouTube accepted the copyright claim anyway.
Terrence O'Brien
Cameron Faulkner
Terrence O'Brien
Why the Artemis II crew is relying on decade old tech.
After liftoff, there was an issue with Outlook running on the mission’s Surface Pro. That left some wondering why NASA was still using such old tech. Well, devices need to be tested and certified. To save money, they went with tech that was already approved. Then the launch date got pushed back… repeatedly. Check out this thread from NASA’s Jason Hutt for the full breakdown.
Human creators want an ‘AI-free’ label, but can’t agree which one.
Jess Weatherbed
Jay Peters
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Jay Peters
A company that makes AI training data has been hit by a security breach.
Meta has paused work with the company, Mercor (which The Verge has profiled), while OpenAI is investigating the security incident, Wired reports.
Sean Hollister
Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs.
Did hell freeze over? Not quite: the driver belongs to Tiny Corp, not Nvidia, you’ll have to compile it with Docker rather than plug-and-play, and it’s designed for LLMs. But you no longer need to disable Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP), because Apple is letting that driver get signed, Tiny says.
Hayden Field
PSA: I am not Sam Altman’s sister.
But apparently when you write a story about something, sometimes your profile photo comes up in the image search results for it, and a major X account doesn’t bother clicking through to figure that out.
Stevie Bonifield
Hayden Field