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GOOGLE SETTLEMENT WITH EPIC CAPS PLAY STORE FEES, BOOSTS OTHER ANDROID APP STORES

Google and Epic have reached a settlement that will provide a framework for long-term global changes to Android app distribution. It still needs to be approved by a judge, but the changes could be put into practice by late this year. Third-party app stores will get a boost, developers will enjoy lower fees, and Google won't drag out the process for years. The agreement isn't intended to undo the jury verdict or sidestep the court's previous order, but is aimed instead at reinforcing the court's intent while eliminating potential delays in realigning the app market.

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EXPECT MORE APPLE IMMERSIVE VIDEO THANKS TO STREAMLINED PRODUCTION PROCESS

Apple recently held an event where it detailed how to produce Apple Immersive Video for the Apple Vision Pro.

NETFLIX IS REPORTEDLY GOING BIG ON VIDEO PODCASTS FOR 2026

Netflix has sent dozens of requests to agents to add more video podcasts to a platform it plans to launch in early 2026.

STOP VIBE CODING YOUR UNIT TESTS

Large language models write unconstructive, noisy, brittle, and downright bad unit tests.

SEQUOIA CAPITAL LEADER EXITS IN VC SHAKE-UP

Longtime Sequoia investors Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will succeed Roelof Botha, who was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership style.

INTERNET ARCHIVE'S LEGAL FIGHTS ARE OVER, BUT ITS FOUNDER MOURNS WHAT WAS LOST

While the Internet Archive survived its copyright battles, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from its library.

BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS

The current generation of AI tools often have 'create and share' viral loops that amplify whatever top of funnel comes in.

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APPLE PREPARES TO ENTER LOW-COST LAPTOP MARKET FOR FIRST TIME

Apple is developing an entry-level budget Mac designed for students, businesses, and casual users. The low-cost laptop is currently in active testing at Apple and in early production with overseas suppliers. It will be priced well under $1,000. Apple plans to launch it in the first half of next year. The move is a strategic shift for Apple, which has previously vowed not to chase market share with lower-end offerings.

TESLA IS OBSESSED WITH MUSK'S PAY PACKAGE. MUSK IS OBSESSED WITH AI

Elon Musk spent most of his time at xAI after he left DOGE in May, even holding meetings for Tesla employees at xAI's offices. Musk has balanced his responsibilities between several fast-growing companies for years, but the potential of AI has led him to spend much more of his time at xAI. Tesla will soon announce preliminary results on a giant pay package designed to ensure that Musk focuses on Tesla for years to come. The package would increase his stake in Tesla over a decade from 15% to around 25% if he hits ambitious goals.

MEET PROJECT SUNCATCHER, GOOGLE'S PLAN TO PUT AI DATA CENTERS IN SPACE

The cost of electricity on Earth is a problem for large data centers. Google plans to put data centers in space in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous low-earth orbit to ensure they get almost constant sunlight exposure. It will require solar panels that are up to eight times more efficient to get the job done. The project will only be successful if Google's TPUs can run for at least five years. Google plans to launch a pair of prototype satellites by early 2027.

AMAZON EQUIPS NEXT UNDERWATER CABLE WITH 'ROBUST ARMORING' TO PREVENT CUTS

Amazon is currently laying a new subsea cable across the ocean floor that will connect the US and Europe. It should be up and running in 2028. Dubbed Fastnet, the state-of-the-art fiber-optic cable system will be able to transport over 320 terabits per second. Amazon is investing heavily in the burial process to prevent Fastnet from being cut or damaged.

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PG_LAKE

pg_lake integrates Iceberg and data lake files into Postgres, transforming Postgres into a stand-alone lakehouse system that supports transactions and fast queries on Iceberg tables. It can create and modify Iceberg tables directly from PostgreSQL, and directly work with raw data files in object stores like S3. pg_lake can be set up using Docker for an easy, ready-to-run test environment.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING WITH CSS HIGHLIGHTS API

The CSS Custom Highlight API lets developers style arbitrary text ranges without modifying the DOM structure. Developers just have to define 'Range' objects that point to a specific character position in text nodes, group them by style type, and register them with the browser's highlight registry. The API is supported in all modern browsers. This post provides an example implementation of syntax highlighting using the CSS Highlights API.

WHY AC IS CHEAP, BUT AC REPAIR IS A LUXURY

Huge bursts of productivity concentrated in one industry are great because they create a huge number of new jobs and new opportunities, but this has an interesting spillover effect: the more jobs and opportunities created by the productivity boom, the more wages increase in other industries. These industries still have to compete in the same labor market. As the AI supercycle plays out, some goods and services will become orders of magnitude cheaper, while others will become more expensive - but we'll consume more of them anyway. This effect will even be seen within a single job - some work will see 10x throughput at 10x the quality, while other work, which must be done by humans, will command a wildly high wage.

HOW I USE AI

AI has transformed how some developers work. We are just starting to see what the technology can achieve. We still haven't fully explored what current models can do. There are some concerning possibilities with the future of the technology, but for now, it is still in its 'wondrous' stage.

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ARCHITECTURAL DEBT IS NOT JUST TECHNICAL DEBT

Architectural debt on business and strategy layers can do more damage than architectural debt on technical layers.

HOW BRUSSELS BROKE THE APPLE EXPERIENCE

EU tech regulations have fractured the once-unified, global Apple experience.

DEPLOYING TO AMAZON'S CLOUD IS A PAIN IN THE AWS YOUNGER DEVS WON'T TOLERATE

Younger developers will build on platforms that don't make them prove their worth through suffering.

ON AI SLOP VS OSS SECURITY

What matters in vulnerability reports is who submits them, what their incentives are, and whether they have actually verified their claims.

IN A STUNNING COMEBACK, JARED ISAACMAN IS RENOMINATED TO LEAD NASA

The Senate still needs to vote to confirm Isaacman as NASA administrator before the end of the calendar year, otherwise, he will have to resubmit conflict-of-interest paperwork.

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Deepnote is a drop-in replacement for Jupyter that can scale to Deepnote cloud for real-time collaboration, Deepnote agent, and deployable data apps.

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OPENAI, AMAZON SIGN $38 BILLION CLOUD DEAL

OpenAI will pay Amazon $38 billion for computing power in a multiyear deal. Amazon expects all of the computing capacity negotiated as part of the agreement to be available by the end of the year. It wasn't able to sell its cloud services to OpenAI for years because OpenAI had an exclusive cloud-computing partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI is set to generate $13 billion in revenue this year. It will have to continue expanding sales at an exponential rate to pay for its computing needs. Sam Altman claims that OpenAI is facing severe computing shortages and that revenue will grow even faster as more capacity becomes available.

FACEBOOK DATING IS A SURPRISE HIT FOR THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Facebook Dating debuted in 2019. The feature lets people create a free dating profile and swipe and match with other users. It has more than 21 million daily users, making it one of the most popular online dating services. Facebook Dating shows how social networking is evolving into two broad categories: content and services.

A COMMERCIAL SPACE STATION STARTUP NOW HAS A FOOTHOLD IN SPACE

Vast's Haven Demo mission launched into orbit on Sunday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After being released from the rocket, the Haven Demo spacecraft stabilized itself and extended its power-generating solar array. A link to a 4K video of the solar array deployment is available in the article. The Haven Demo will be followed by a single-module human-rated habitat called Haven-1, and then a multi-module space station complex named Haven-2.

ALPHABET IS INCREASINGLY LAUNCHING ‘MOONSHOT' PROJECTS AS INDEPENDENT COMPANIES — HERE'S WHY

Alphabet's X Moonshot factory is increasingly spinning out its ambitious technology projects to market as independent companies rather than keeping them within the Alphabet corporate structure, because while some moonshots benefit from Alphabet's resources and scale, others can go faster and won't really benefit from being part of the company because they're too different. It uses a dedicated venture fund called Series X Capital to invest in its spinouts. The moonshot factory has a culture that celebrates killing off promising ideas. It actively looks for reasons to shut down its projects, resulting in a brutal 2% hit rate - this makes it necessary to have a fund that deeply understands its goals.

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RMLX

Rmlx is an R interface to Apple's MLX framework, which enables high-performance GPU computing on Apple Silicon. It enables R on the Mac to use the GPU, which is great for performing matrix operations commonly seen in statistics. The package was vibe-coded with Claude/OpenAI Codex in a week.

THE FETCH()ENING

htmx 4.0 contains three major simplifying changes: fetch() will replace XMLHttpRequest as the core ajax infrastructure, attribute inheritance will be explicit rather than implicit, and history support will no longer snapshot to the DOM and keep it locally. Most things will stay the same - except for adding an :inherited modifier on a few attributes, most htmx projects will be compatible with htmx 4.0. htmx 2.0 will remain supported in perpetuity.

THE GREAT DECOUPLING OF LABOR AND CAPITAL

Today's megacap tech companies' growth is pretty much decoupled from their headcount. This was evident even before Generative AI arrived on the scene. AI taking over people's jobs might be a gradual thing rather than a moment in time. Even if we don't reach 'AGI', the actual difference of reaching it or not may prove to be minimal in a couple of decades.

THE STARTUP WINTER IS ALWAYS COMING

Market cycles keep repeating. Founders who internalize this pattern are never surprised and can adapt to changing conditions. A startup is a long trek through changing climates. Founders who ignore cycles risk being caught off guard, but those who obsess over cycles risk paralysis. The balance is to expect the inevitable and prepare for it without being fearful of it.

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AN INDIVIDUAL CAN CHANGE AN ORGANIZATION

Individuals can change organizations regardless of seniority by being persistent and willing to debate.

RM -RF REMAINS

This post looks at what happens to a system after performing 'rm -rf'.

INTRODUCING GENERALIZED CONSENSUS: AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO DISTRIBUTED DURABILITY

This series discusses consensus algorithms and proposes a conceptual framework that makes systems more approachable, adaptable, and flexible.

CHROME CAN NOW AUTOFILL DRIVER'S LICENSE, VEHICLE INFO, AND MORE

Chrome's new 'Enhanced autofill' option lets the browser understand forms better and autofill them faster with more information for users.

IS IT WORRYING THAT 95% OF AI ENTERPRISE PROJECTS FAIL?

95% of organizations are getting zero return from their AI projects, but around 95% of hard enterprise IT projects fail anyway - AI projects failing at that rate is nothing special.