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‘Our Worst MacBook - Ever"Apple's Neo Fakebook exposed as a load of old junk \ A Parody on the Apple's Neo's components-old antiquated junk, hits the mark in this hysterical take down of the Neo which despite its humour, is spot on in the facts. Shame he didn't go as far as naming the real price of the Neo outside of the US - $1000 equivalent in the EU/UK and $1400 Brazil.’

They come in various shapes and colors.
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MacBook Neo clear to dominate: laptop prices could jump by ‘hundreds of dollars’ as RAMageddon hits Dell, HP and others at worst possible time "There is only so much PC companies can do."

Is timing everything, or everything?

www.tomsguide.com/computing/la...

Headline: "Your $1,200 Phone Looks Boring Next to These 5 Concepts", above an ungainly phone contraption photo

Concept of a plan or the plan of a concept?
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“Nobody gets promoted for the complexity they avoided.”

a) True
b) False

Leaked Mac benchmarks show that Apple offers tomorrow’s AI PCs today No one should settle for less in a $500 PC, and you can’t get any better at the high-end.

A different kind of a problem, if you can have it: Can you deliver too much value for too little and too early?

www.computerworld.com/article/4141...

The New York Review cover with difficult-to-read type over a busy grid design.

C'mon, why would you think this cover was designed while using Liquid Glass?!
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re: MacBook Neo:
“Windows OEMs are going to feel the heat, too. For years, OEMs have gotten away with shipping what can essentially be described as e-waste in this price bracket.”

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

Polymarket Pulls Nuclear Detonation Market Following Public Backlash - Decrypt War betting, insider trading accusations, and a list of overseas bans are piling pressure on the prediction market giant.

In a casino economy, the banning of betting on nuclear conflagration could be justified under what reasonable theory?

decrypt.co/359897/polym...

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya Meta claims media stays on the smart glasses — unless you share it with the company.

Fallen so far behind, again, heads should roll at Cupertino.

www.theverge.com/tech/889637/...

To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot

If Apple has not acquired this relatively new Israeli robotic AI companion yet, they may not be doing much work in this space or they already have something better.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Are we hop skipping towards the ultimate question: Is AI compatible with democratic governability and market economy?

Remember how just a few years ago everyone was talking about cloning sheep and designer babies as The Future?!

The paranoia about smartphone "addiction" assumes that "smartphone equals social media", a lazy conflation that confuses software with hardware; just because you think TikTok is a cancer and Mark Zuckerberg the devil doesn't automatically make phones evil, any more than the continued publication of the Daily Mail is an argument against allowing paper to exist. [...] We have on our person: a creative studio, cinema, concert hall, office, newswire, banking system and entire TV network in one. Objectively this feels like something that should be celebrated rather than vilified. If you feel that your phone is a problem in your life, is it possible that the problem is... you? Just a thought. After all, we're not going to go back to an analogue world (or, if we are, we can be sure that the manner in which we do so will make us very, very nostalgic for the current smartphone era). A world in which anyone can read these words on the bus while listening to music on a single device that is also their bus ticket is one which perhaps we should all agree is... quite good, actually.

Now what?

Apple News: apple.news/Al7imm-AATk6...
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Which is the best business proposition into the future?
a) OpenAI
b) YouTube
c) Netflix
d) Microsoft

Designing in English Components are dead. Use your words.

“We no longer need to compress our thinking into static artifacts. LLMs give us the ability to ship our exact train of thought, uncompressed, a little bit lossy but still significantly useful. […] Instead of shipping <Boxes>, ship a factory.”

Euphoria?

cianfrani.dev/posts/design...

What’s the German word for successfully relying on the ignorance and stupidity of your opponents?

Uber Engineers Created a Digital Clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — And It Raises Big Questions About AI in the C-Suite Uber engineers built an AI replica of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, trained on public speeches and earnings calls. The internal project highlights growing corporate interest in AI executive avatars while rai...

“If engineers can build an AI clone of the CEO, what stops them from building one of a middle manager, a board member, or a departing executive whose communication style the company wants to preserve?”

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Edition.

www.webpronews.com/uber-enginee...

And, in the background, are you listening to iTunes or Apple Music?

What do we want?
A new Apple CEO who has the chutzpah to change the iPhone name to Apple Phone.

When do we want it???

Yahoo! Finance headline: “The Al trade is punishing Big Tech, but not Apple”

How many Cupertino heads should roll for this?
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FAST COMPANY headline: “Microsoft just handed the Xbox keys to an Al exec. The internet is already freaking out”

Microsoft re: AI

Jun 2025: “'I want people to know that we made Google dance'”

Copilot years LATER:
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Gizmodo headline: “Apple's Al Gadgets Don't Sound Groundbreaking at All”

Nope, not one tiny bit…at all.
These unannounced, unscheduled, unseen gadgets.
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I don’t know if I should melt my Winter Olympics medal and then make tiny golden animal figures to sell on Etsy.

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted The feature could arrive as soon as this year.

'When you remember that Zuckerberg once said that early Facebook users were “dumb fucks” for entrusting him with their data, and more recently, that people who opt out of smart glasses will be at a “severe cognitive disadvantage”?'

www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

WIRED magazine: Perplexity's Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift \ The Al search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

Don’t want to belabor the point, again, but until recently the Army of the Easily Impressionable was urging Apple, daily, to buy Perplexity, which actually didn’t operate an LLM business like Gemini or ChatGPT, because…AI.
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CBS News: A California judge admonished members of Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Ray Ban-Meta Al glasses, which are equipped with a camera, as they entered a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday for a landmark trial over the impact of social media on children. \ "The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt," Jacob Ward, a technology journalist and the host of the Rip Current Podcast, told CBS News, calling the incident "an extraordinary misstep" by Meta. \ It's unclear if Zuckerberg's team had the glasses on inside the courtroom or how long they were wearing them. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment. \ The use of recording devices and cameras is generally banned in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Tragedy or farce?
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NEWS ALERT: \ SMITH: MICROSOFT-OPENAI PARTNERSHIP REMAINS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT, BUT IS NOW LESS EXCLUSIVE \ Microsoft President Brad Smith says there may be an increasing number of Al models and partnerships, but it's all part of 'one ecosystem', which will all ultimately benefit the consumer.

ElOhEl, do you like the smell of 'critical importance of less exclusivity' in the morning?
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LLM truths #18

THEN: "Garbage in, garbage out"

LATER: "Garbage out, garbage in”

What did devs do before Stackoverflow?

Base router is augmented on top by up to 3 removable tubes of fragrance that look like router antenna.

You’ve heard of the tech dream of crossing a toaster with a refrigerator.

But are you ready for crossing a Wi-Fi router with an incense burner?
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