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Retired but not good at it. Still tech columnizing at @houstonchronicle.com. Passable iPhone photographer, pizza lover, aspiring cat lady. Other base camps at https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman, https://www.threads.net/@dsilverman #housky
We put the very, very warm temperatures across the Houston region this morning into context. We also look ahead to the potential for storms with a front on Wednesday, with cooler and drier air to follow.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
We look back at what was a wet weekend for much of the Houston region. A mid-week front will bring us another chance of showers followed by a bit of drier, cooler weather. The weekend looks sunny and warm.
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In Texas, that IS winning! (But not for long.)
Fox is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.
I am not going this year, either.
There's always a tweet
Yes. An analyst I interviewed addresses that in the column.
Jessica Silverman and Dwight Silverman
Proof! From 2009, with my daughter Jessica.
Fun fact: I have never attended SXSW, with the exception of showing up to accept an award in the early days of social media.
Since December I've been writing about how soaring memory chip prices will affect the cost of consumer tech, and two of the biggest makers of them - Samsung and Apple - have raised prices as a result of what's been called the RAMpocalypse.
It's just the beginning.
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That's great!
The hands - and the Rolex watches on both wrists - give it away as AI.
Also worth reading some of the other posts on DF's home page, featuring historical quotes from Steve Jobs about Apple not shipping "junk," which the Neo is not.
Excellent take from @gruber.foo on the MacBook Neo. So much of the geekerati screaming about it not having this or that, but they don't get that ... It's Not For You™. One good insight: Touch ID doesn't really work for the education market, where younger kids often share computers.
NEW: Anchorage Daily News staff becomes the first newsroom in Alaska to unionize and win a union contract!
Congratulations to the @pacnwguild.bsky.social for this historic win ✊
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We discuss the recent and ongoing sea fog as well as our warmer than usual temperatures. Then our attention turns to the likelihood of storms this weekend as a front sags into Houston and brings much needed rain.
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Apple's Biggest Week of 2026: Details on Every New Product Announced
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Yet another reason to use an ad blocker.
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Good read. @lyz.bsky.social really sums it up, focusing on the focusing on the curtains: "He’s a madman who is supported by an entire system — an entire administration; an entire media ecosystem, too — that believes in what he is doing." www.patreon.com/posts/madman...
Good discussion of Apple's use of an A18 iPhone chip for its new MacBook Neo. Based on benchmarks shown, it would have the equivalent power of an M1 MacBook Air - which doesn't suck. Those M1s are still very capable, and I would still have my M1 MBP if the memory price crunch hadn't forced my hand.
We review the last six months of precipitation across Texas (spoiler alert, it’s been very dry). We then look ahead to warm and muggy weather for the rest of the week, and spiky rain chances this weekend.
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There are reports of people still in line to vote.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
This is because Apple's RAM prices have historically been much more expensive than market. Maybe now they align with the market?
Interesting the move to larger base storage in these new Macs - with over price hikes. SSD NAND is also being hit by the AI manufacturing constraint.
