Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Losing Confidence
Howard Oakley (Hacker News): Over the last few weeks I’ve been discovering problems that have been eroding confidence in macOS. From text files that simply won’t show up in Spotlight search, to Clock timers that are blank and don’t function, there’s one common feature: macOS encounters an error or fault, but doesn’t report that to […]
Anthropic Acquires Bun
Jarred Sumner (via Hacker News): Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.[…]Bun stays open-source & MIT-licensedBun continues to be extremely actively maintainedThe same team still works on BunBun is still built in public on GitHubBun’s […]
Runaway Spotlight With Pages Document on iCloud Drive
Mitch Stone: According to Activity Monitor, the corespotlightd process often occupies more than 100% of the CPU load, sometimes spiking as high as 400% on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio. This problem has become so severe that it often pinwheels under normally non-intensive tasks. It can cause the video to flicker on my Studio Display. […]
Airbus A320 Solar Radiation Recall
Gary Leff (Hacker News): According to aviation insiders, there’s a possible grounding of Airbus narrowbodies coming worldwide.[…]10-15 passengers were hospitalized after the aircraft rapidly descended without being instructed by pilots to do so. The uncontrolled descent “likely occurred during an ELAC switch change” according to the National Transportation Safety Board. This is not supposed to […]
John Giannandrea Leaving Apple
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, The Register, NY Times, TechCrunch): Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his position and will serve as an advisor to the company before retiring in the spring of 2026. Apple also announced that renowned AI researcher Amar Subramanya […]