Jun 23
2026
"MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility [from Microsoft] for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines."
github.com
"The Coming Loop"
lucumr.pocoo.org
"Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore"
filippo.io
Jun 8
2026
Apple Core AI. Yes.
apple.com
A case for why every lab should have explicit AI-use guidelines.
substack.com
"AI Cannot Afford To Slow Down — It Needs $3 Trillion Or More In Revenue By End Of 2030 To Sustain Its Existence"
wheresyoured.at
May 7
2026
SQLite recommended as archiving format by LOC
sqlite.org
LOC-recommended data archiving formats
loc.gov
Apr 7
2026
"Apple built an LLM into your Mac. apfel gives it a front door."
apfel.franzai.com
Apr 5
2026
Caveman for Claude: "75% less word. Brain still big."
github.edu/
Mar 9
2026
"Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I'd been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic's hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I'll have to revise my opinions about "generative AI" one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving." — Donald Knuth
stanford.edu/
Feb 25
2026
Father of PageMaker, and coiner of "desktop publishing," dies.
geekwire.com/
"Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases."
newscientist.com/
From a matplotlib maintainer: "An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library."
theshamblog.com/
"New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or http://claude.ai/code"
claude.com/
Feb 24
2026
"We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models"
anthropic.com/
Claude Code can now modernize COBOL code
claude.com/
Feb 18
2026
27-year-old Apple iBooks can still download official updates from Apple.
reddit.com/
Feb 12
2026
"The Most Expensive Party Balloon in History": on El Paso's airport shutdown.
https://log.jasongodfrey.info/
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
openai.com/