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· 1mo ago

A Dogcow Appears in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate’s Liquid Glass Settings https://512pixels.net/2026/09/liquid-glass-dogcow/

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A Dogcow Appears in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate’s Liquid Glass Settings

Moof!

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· 5mo ago

The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/patel-decoder-ai-software-brain/

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The Problem With AI: ‘Software Brain’

In a world of companies burning money and resources at a breathtaking rate, Nilay Patel’s essay on the state of AI offers a refreshing level of clarity. The next time someone asks me what I think about AI, I will send this video with a note that I agree with all of it. AI is the most complex thing to happen to the technology industry, and Patel nails many of the reasons why.

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· 6mo ago

Bruce the Yak was Final Cut Pro’s Clarus the Dogcow

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/bruce-the-yak-final-cut/

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Bruce the Yak was Final Cut Pro’s Dogcow

I like to think I’m pretty knowledgeable when it comes to the weirdest corners of Apple history, but Cody Bromley’s recent blog post on a Final Cut Pro taught me I still have plenty to learn: On the Macintosh episode of Version History, David Pierce and Nilay Patel had a lot of fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Jobs’s obscure concept for a digital cryptid who lives in your computer. About 15 years later, Apple actually shipped something very similar, except instead of a mysterious little ma

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· 5mo ago

Cook Out

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/cook-out/

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Cook Out

Tim Cook, writing on apple.com: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share little pieces of your lives with me and tell me things you want me to know about how Apple has touched you. About the moment your mom was saved by her Apple Watch. About the perfect selfie you captured at the summit of a mountain that seemed impossible to climb. You thank me for the wa

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· 6mo ago

The Artemis II Crew is Home

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-artemis-ii-crew-is-home/

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The Artemis II Crew is Home

Stephen Clark at Ars: Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first voyage to the Moon in nearly 54 years. Temperatures outside the capsule built up to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as a sheath of plasma enveloped the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, and its four long-distance travelers, temporarily blocking radio signals the

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· 5mo ago

Clarus Can Walk

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/clarus-can-walk/

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Clarus Can Walk

With today’s update to its Developer app, Apple released a new sticker of Clarus the Dogcow. I am all for that, but seeing her walk is weird. As far as I know, this is the first time the Dogcow has even been shown with more than two legs. This feels wrong.

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· 6mo ago

A Good Mac Studio is Hard to Find

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/a-good-mac-studio-is-hard-to-find/

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· 5mo ago

‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/grok-is-the-rc-cola-of-the-ai-world/

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‘Grok is the RC Cola’ of the AI World

Joe Wilkins, writing at Futurism: In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of AI.” These are Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta — giant tech monopolies which happen to also be four of the six top US corporations by market value. Then there are the lesser houses, the lower fiefdoms squabbling over the crumbs that fall from the big kids’ table. This is where we find Elon Musk’s xAI. Though the world’s richest man has pumped billions of dollars in

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II’s View of Earth

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-iis-view-of-earth/

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Artemis II’s View of Earth

Commander Reid Wiseman’s view is one we haven’t seen of our world since 1972:

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Crew on Way to Moon

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-ii-crew-on-way-to-moon/

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· 6mo ago

xAI’s Memphis Water Treatment Plant ‘on an Indefinite Pause’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/xais-memphis-water-treatment-plant-on-an-indefinite-pause/

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xAI’s Memphis Water Treatment Plant ‘on an Indefinite Pause’

Part of xAI’s deal with the city of Memphis included an $80 million greywater facility designed to reduce the amount of water the company needs for cooling its data centers. The Mid-South sits atop the Memphis Sand Aquifer that provides us with some of the very best water in the country. It is our best natural resource by far, and one that many people have worked hard to protect. Ground was broken on the plant in October, but as of today, work has stopped. Samuel Hardiman at The Daily Memphian b

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Photos

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-ii-photos/

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Artemis II Photos

NASA is uploading a bunch of Artemis II photos to Flickr. This one, named Earthset, is a throwback to Apollo 8 in the best possible way: Don’t miss this image of the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. We live in an amazing universe.

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· 6mo ago

The Late Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Recorded Message for Artemis II Crew

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/lovell-artemis/

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The Late Apollo 8 and 13 Commander Jim Lovell Recorded Message for Artemis II Crew

Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY: Before etching their names in spaceflight history, the four Artemis II astronauts received some posthumous words of encouragement from one of NASA’s greats. Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the astronauts before his death in 2025. They heard it before they became the first humans to fly near the moon in more than 50 years. On Monday, April 6, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover of NASA, as well

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· 6mo ago

I Have Done a Vibe Code

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/i-have-done-a-vibe-code/

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I Have Done a Vibe Code

For the last couple of years, I have used Apple’s Reminders app, but over the last few months, it has become clear I needed something with planned dates to better map out future work. Last fall, OmniFocus 4.7 shipped with just that feature, so after years away, I have returned to the venerable application. When using Reminders, I was also using InstaRemind to add tasks quickly using natural language processing. OmniFocus’ Quick Entry tool is pretty great, but I have found it to be error-prone as

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· 6mo ago

Lil Finder is a Star

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/lil-finder-is-a-star/

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· 5mo ago

A Presidential Proclamation for Tim Cook

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/a-presidential-proclamation-for-tim-cook/

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A Presidential Proclamation Marking Tim Cook’s Retirement

A very official and normal statement from the President: I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim. For me it began with a phone call from Tim at the beginning of my First Term. He had a fairly large problem that only I, as President, could fix. Most people would have paid millions of dollars to a c

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· 5mo ago

Surprise! xAI is Running a Bunch of Unpermitted Turbines in North Mississippi

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/xai-unpermitted-turbines-north-ms/

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Surprise! xAI is Running a Bunch of Unpermitted Turbines in North Mississippi

Tim De Chant, TechCrunch: Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they are sitting on flatbed trailers, thus allowing them to dodge to air pollution regulations for one year. The NAACP, which has filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents in the area, says the unchecked emissions from the turbines

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· 5mo ago

The Wonderful World of Artemis II Photos

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-wonderful-world-of-artemis-ii-photos/

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The Wonderful World of Artemis II Photos

Hank Green has made something really cool. Called the Artemis II Photo Timeline, it’s an interactive way to scroll through photos from NASA’s recent crewed mission to cislunar space — but pinned to NASA’s official schedule of the mission. Nick Heer has more: It is also a tribute to publicly available data. Though the timeline includes some videos published to Instagram and YouTube, the vast majority are images from Flickr. NASA usually uploads them with EXIF data intact, and Flickr preserves it.

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· 5mo ago

Pedometer++ 8.0

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/pedometer-v8-new-watch-app/

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Pedometer++ 8.0

Today, we shipped a huge update to Pedometer++. We have full details over on the Pedometer++ blog, and David has a post up as well: Today I’m beyond delighted to announce the release of Pedometer++ version 8. I worked with legendary designer Rafa Conde to re-design the appearance and layout of the watchOS app to make it the most capable, yet intuitive, walking app on the App Store. Pedometer++ has been on the Apple Watch from day one twelve years ago. Over that time I’ve built dozens of designs

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· 6mo ago

FireWire via a Raspberry Pi

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/firewire-pi/

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· 6mo ago

The Future of the Artemis Program

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-future-of-the-artemis-program/

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The Future of the Artemis Program

Eric Berger: The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. For NASA, for its international partners, and for all of humanity the successful conclusion of the Artemis II mission marked a return to deep space by our species after more than half a century.

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Crew Share Easter Messages

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/artemis-ii-crew-share-easter-messages/

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: The Importance of the MacBook Air

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/apple-at-50-the-importance-of-the-macbook-air/

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· 6mo ago

How Apple Could Have Saved the Mac Pro

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/how-apple-could-have-saved-the-mac-pro/

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· 5mo ago

Connected #601: I Love Wrists — A Tier List of Tim Cook Quotes

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-601/

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Connected #601: I Love Wrists — A Tier List of Tim Cook Quotes

This week on the podcast: In honor of Tim Cook’s pending retirement, Federico, Myke, and Stephen rank some of his quotes from the last 15 years. This was quite the trip down memory lane.

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· 5mo ago

‘Debating New iPhone Colors for a Living’

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/debating-new-iphone-colors-for-a-living/

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‘Debating New iPhone Colors for a Living’

I was honored to join Eric Schwarz for the first episode of his new podcast, named Magical & Revolutionary. We had a wide-ranging conversation about my background and career, touching on the weirdness of covering large companies, my issues with xAI’s presence here in Memphis, and a lot more.

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· 5mo ago

Connected 600: Tommy Siri

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-600/

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Connected 600: Tommy Siri

It’s a big week on Connected: Stephen plays audio from a website, Federico prefers to talk about products, Myke takes a victory lap, Tim announces his retirement, and John gets a new job.

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· 5mo ago

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/the-framework-laptop-13-pro/

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The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

I think the most interesting company in the personal computer space may be Framework, the small company dedicated to making repairable and upgradeable notebooks and desktops. It launched its first laptop — named the Framework Laptop 13 — in 2021 and you can still replace and upgrade components in it five years later. It started with an 11th-gen Intel Core processor, but now can run up to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. A bunch of other things have been added as well, including support for Wi-Fi 7, a 2.8K

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· 6mo ago

iPhones in Spaaaaaaaace

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/iphones-in-spaaaaaaaace/

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iPhones in Spaaaaaaaace

Tim Cook on X (gross), about iPhones being used on the Artemis II mission: Congratulations to Artemis II on a successful mission! You captured the wonders of space and our planet beautifully, taking iPhone photography to new heights, and we’re grateful you shared it with the world. Your work continues to inspire us all to think different. Welcome home! Joz chimed in on X (gross) as well: Welcome home to the Artemis II crew! Honored that NASA astronauts brought iPhone to space with them. One smal

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· 6mo ago

‘Ultra’

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‘Ultra’

Tim Hardwick: Apple’s first foldable iPhone may not carry the speculative media-derived “Fold” branding after all, according to Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station. In a new post on Weibo, the oft-accurate leaker claimed that Apple’s book-style foldable could launch as the “iPhone Ultra.” Meanwhile, domestic Chinese manufacturers are allegedly deciding whether to follow Apple’s lead by tentatively branding their own upcoming foldables as “Ultra” models, but likely with a lighter price tag – Appl

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· 6mo ago

Musk Pushing Grok Subscriptions on Banks and Firms Working on SpaceX IPO

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/musk-grok-ipo-deal/

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· 6mo ago

Connected 591: S-Tier: Jason Snell

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-591-s-tier-jason-snell/

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: Ronald Wayne’s Other 90 Years

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/apple-at-50-ronald-waynes-other-90-years/

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· 6mo ago

Artemis II Launch Being Captured in Apple’s Immersive Video Format

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/whats-a-worse-deal-the-sls-or-the-vision-pro/

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: How Apple Became Apple

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/how-apple-became-apple/

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· 5mo ago

Connected 603: Ungraded for Style

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/connected-603-ungraded-for-style/

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Connected 603: Ungraded for Style

This week on the podcast, Gurman has details on iOS 27, Google has new laptops, and Myke has an obligation to skip the third topic.

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· 5mo ago

Building Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/building-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/

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Building Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

Logan Kugler, writing in early April: The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo era. Apollo astronauts navigated to the lunar surface using a computer with a 1-MHz processor and roughly 4 kilobytes of erasable memory, supported by a larger store of fixed “rope” memory. While it was a marvel of 1960s engineering, the Apollo Guidance Computer’s functional scope was focused and not in the control loop for every syste

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· 5mo ago

Connected 602: Computer Too Good

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/connected-602/

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Connected 602: Computer Too Good

This week on the podcast: Myke compliments Federico, and Stephen has gone down a rabbit hole with Casey Liss leading the way. Also: Apple continues to adjust its Mac lineup as the memory crisis drags on, and the guys have some jobs for John.

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· 5mo ago

Anthropic Taking Over All of xAI’s First Memphis Data Center

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/claude-and-grok-roommates/

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Anthropic Taking Over All Capacity of xAl’s First Memphis Data Center

Some afternoon news from an unsigned xAI press release: SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers. Built from the ground up in record time, Colossus delivers unprecedented scale for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and high-performance computing workloads. Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators. The c

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· 5mo ago

AI Psychosis Reaches the Executive Suite

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/ai-psychosis-reaches-the-executive-suite/

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AI Psychosis Reaches the Executive Suite

Jake Handy: An NBER study of nearly 6,000 CEOs and CFOs across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that roughly 90% of firms reported zero measurable impact on productivity or employment from AI over the past three years. The average employee AI usage was 1.5 hours per week. The average CEO AI usage was less than one hour per week. Meanwhile, their companies are pouring money into the $690 billion AI infrastructure buildout that, according to Sequoia, needs $600 billion in annual revenue to

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· 5mo ago

Control Center is Homeless

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/homekit-control-center-missing/

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Control Center is Homeless

Last night before going to bed, I told my iPhone to install iOS 26.4.2 and when I picked it up this morning, I was greeted by a Control Center bug that has been around since iOS 26 first launched: For months, HomeKit controls will be missing after an iOS update or device restart. In this case, I am missing controls for my garage door, my thermostats, and a couple of scenes.

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· 6mo ago

Replying to

@phirst I've never been a Nikon user but I can totally see that.

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· 6mo ago

Connected 598: 8TB of Space in a Trash Can

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/connected-598/

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Connected 598: 8TB of Space in a Trash Can

This week on the show, Myke and I take on Nilay Patel and David Pierce about the top 50 Apple products and then dream of going to the moon.

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· 6mo ago

Fifty

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/apple-50-years/

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Fifty

Anniversaries and birthdays serve as an opportunity to both reflect on where you’ve been and think about where you are going… whether you’re turning 16, planning your 20-year high school reunion, or celebrating 35 years of marriage. In the tech world, a milestone anniversary is a chance to revisit a product’s launch or a particularly meaningful update, inviting us to remember how far things have come. Just like in relationships, as the numbers get bigger, those reflections can get harder to make

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· 6mo ago

Apple at 50: Apple II Forever

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/apple-at-50-apple-ii-forever/

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· 5mo ago

Indigo

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/indigo/

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Indigo

I don’t keep text-based social media apps installed on my phone, but if I did, this would be this one I’d use for Mastodon and Bluesky.

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· 5mo ago

CHATBOT Act Introduced in Senate

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/chatbot-act-introduced-in-senate/

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CHATBOT Act Introduced in Senate

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, in a press release today: U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), John Curtis (R-Utah), and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) today introduced the CHATBOT Act, legislation that would put parents, not Big Tech, in charge of how children and teens interact with AI chatbots. While AI chatbots can support a child’s learning, research, and creativity, they also pose real risks to minors,

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· 6mo ago

xAI Says Memphis Water Plant Still Happening

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/xai-says-memphis-water-plant-still-happening/

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xAI Says Memphis Water Plant Still Happening

xAI, on X: xAI is committed to building a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis. This plant will protect billions of gallons of water each year. The team is currently prioritizing other more immediate projects at the site but our plans to build the water plant have not changed. I certainly hope so. Folks in Memphis responded strongly to yesterday’s news that the water treatment plant was on hold. xAI has very little credibility in the eyes of a lot of Memphians. The company not expla

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· 5mo ago

Google Fitbit Air

https://512pixels.net/2026/05/google-fitbit-air/

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Google Fitbit Air

I love the health-tracking features of my Apple Watch ( duh) but there are times that I’d rather wear a watch without Slack or iMessage on it. For years, I’ve clamored for Apple to make a screenless tracker like the Whoop band. It seems like Google beat Apple to the punch with its new Fitbit Air: Samantha Kelly has more at Bloomberg: The new device bears a striking resemblance to Whoop’s health tracker, featuring a soft fabric band with a battery and sensor pack underneath. One big difference is

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· 5mo ago

Sam Altman Apologizes to British Columbia Community, Wonders Who Could Have Stopped Such Violence

https://512pixels.net/2026/04/sam-altman-apologizes-to-british-columbia-community-wonders-who-could-have-stopped-such-violence/

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Sam Altman Apologizes to British Columbia Community, Wonders Who Could Have Stopped Such Violence

OpenAI, in a nameless blog post: Mass shootings, threats against public officials, bombing attempts, and attacks on communities and individuals are an unacceptable and grave reality in today’s world. These incidents are a reminder of how real the threat of violence is—and how quickly violent intent can move from words to action. People may also bring these moments and feelings into ChatGPT. They may ask questions about the news, try to understand what happened, express fear or anger, or talk abo

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