Watching the video, the chance that these are two people having an affair is basically zero. It's obviously a joke. If you want to overthink it and tie it to technology.. People don't need fake AI generated videos to spread disinformation, they can just make up a fake story for video that already exists and the internet will run with it.

They have a mountain of parts for the original model that were never assembled because demand wasn't there. Swapping in the M4 is a way to build a "new" model with mostly the same parts, so they can generate some demand to clear those out.

Apple's Wearables division has made less money than the previous year, every quarter since the Vision Pro was released. I would have assumed that's because when the Vision Pro moved from R+D to actual product, the Wearables division started taking its losses. So the question is.. if the AVP is breaking even, what wearables product do you think is cratering? AirPods or Watches?

The cheapest one.

Years ago I was being shown around an industrial parts supplier's warehouse. The guy who owned it was proudly telling me they sold all the parts used in the machines that make frozen pizzas because they had "food grade" parts. When I asked what made some of the tubes "food grade" he said "They're clear." I the made the mistake of asking, "How does that make them food grade?" and he explained that "All rubber hoses break down, and nobody likes to see black bits of rubber in their pizza sauce."

I think glass containers are a great, but until all of the harvesting, processing and packaging equipment is plastic free, I'd be shocked if the liquid inside didn't have microplastics in it, and hos much is probably more dependent on the factory than the container.

"Handmade" items are *already* a thing, but people still mostly choose to buy things made by machines in factories. And most of the goods made by hand today *hide that fact* because the person making it is getting paid slave wages to stay competitive against the cheap machine made products.

I think as more and more movies got made, marketing became more and more important for financial success. The result is that the money that could go to quality (more time in pre-production, more days shooting, etc.) got shifted to more intensive marketing. So Hollywood didn't start acting like audiences were dumb, they started acting like audiences were savvy consumers who cost more to acquire. The result is the actual product has suffered. Marketing is exactly why there are so many superhero movies.. it's cheaper to market the product when you don't have to explain what it is. Everyone knows what a superhero movie is, so the marketing can skip straight to giving you reasons why you would want to see this one.

At this point it's wrong to take the tariffs at face value, because they have nothing to do with policy or incentives. It's all a classic pump and dump scheme: 1) Announce tariffs on a company and drive the stock price down. 2) You and your friends buy up the stock. 3) Announce a "deal" has been made and there will be no tariffs. 4) Sell when the stock rebounds. 5) Move on to the next company.

I work at a major tech company and we have plenty of Rust projects and developers, and totally agree that it's not Duplos, but overall Rust is.. just fine. It's definitely not magic that makes code better and the toolchain is clearly immature. We have as many (and possibly even more) outstanding issues in our Rust code as any other codebase. IMHO, it's a language optimized for the wrong things (ie. stack allocation) at the expense of usability. It's no surprise that Rust performs a little worse than C code, because it was primarily designed to replace C++ which is an easier target to beat. I have no problem with Rust (like I said, it's fine), but people should stop pretending memory safety is the biggest problem in software development. We've had smart ptrs and other solutions for years now.

Between franchises, smartphones, digital distribution and product placement, AI has some tough competition for being responsible for ruining film.

In the next 5 years, a large part of every senior level job will become to document processes and what you know in writing. After a few years of that, junior level jobs will take off again.

Whatever you think of the companies he's involved in, it sure seems like he wants an award for "quickest to burn up all the fossil fuels to power computers".

Headline should say Vision Pro's content drought continues despite new 3D videos.

Rewriting your app in a "super safe" language is a guaranteed way to introduce a large numbers of bugs. But of course at some nebulous point in the future after a ton of effort you may have 1 or 2 fewer than the original code base.

Practically Apple can do whatever they want with their AI cloud systems, no outside developer is going to use them. Who would lock themself into Apple's services when they could easily use other systems that support Android and the web. Plus, Apple's release cycles are extremely slow.. Apple itself won't be launching any meaningful AI features until September 2025! Who would agree to operate on that timeline when competition is fierce. Apple's institutionally misaligned with the world of AI right now, so it'll be interesting to see if they decide to change their approach or just sit on the sidelines and try to swoop in further down the road. Talk of AI emoji and "black box" cloud services are just a bone to throw to Wall Street so they don't look empty handed.