Abstractions

Kagi adds a setting to remove paywalled links from search results, Apple Watch will soon have always-on recording capability, and Apple releases its MacOS 27 “Golden Gate” and iOS 27 operating systems.

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Destroy Any Website

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Audio Intelligence features on Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4

Torment Nexus

Apple OS 27

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Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

Apple announces new products, including the iPhone 18 Pro and its first folding phone, the iPhone Duo.

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

Apple announces M6 & M5 Ultra processors along with new Mac Mini and Mac Studio computers, Walmart finally caves and will support Apple Pay, and France bans unsolicited marketing phone calls.

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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Apple M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini

Apple introduces Mac Studio with M5 Max & Ultra

Walmart finally caves, will support Apple Pay

France bans unsolicited telemarketing calls

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

A promotional video for new AirPods appears to have been leaked, BMW shows ads to drivers on its car dashboard screens, and there is a correct orientation when putting down your case-less phone.

Mario meets Pareto

MacOS 26.7 Tahoe Release Candidate Contains a Video Demonstrating Camera-Equipped AirPods in Action

BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ Cars

iDrive Ads

You Don’t Need to Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

Safari has one major advantage over Chrome, Hugging Face fends off a cyberattack by a rogue language model, and OpenAI will reportedly ship a ChatGPT device replete with speaker, microphone, and camera.

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Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today (2026-08-04)

There Will Come Soft Rains (PDF)

Timeline of Fictional Future Events

Neonomicon by Alan Moore

Chrome’s glaring lack of window/tab session isolation

Safari’s support for web platform features is… not great

Chrome is bad

Google settled a class-action lawsuit for $5 billion in which it was accused of collecting user data in Chrome’s incognito mode

Helium web browser

Request for session/storage/cookie isolation in Chromium in… 2013

StopTheScript

Scorched Earth, video game classic

Language model breaks out of sandbox and breaks into Hugging Face

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.