Jan SchaumannI miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.
AI is the new cocaine
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P Gurgel-SegrilloVia Everyone Hates Elon, London:
Imagine having enough wealth to end world hunger 166 times over but you chose not to (and chose to incite violence instead)
#EveryoneHatesElon #FuckElon #USpol #TaxTheRich #immigrant #racist #ukpol #HateSpeech #ChildPorn #BelfastRiots #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #ElonMusk
Scott PerryLast year, my team shipped a Swift rewrite of Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter. The new code is strictly memory safe, relentlessly tested, and faster than the C code it replaced.
This year, it is my pleasure to ship it for a second time, now as an open source package, and to share our experience on the Swift blog: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution displays. Modern high-resolution displays enable beautiful typography from outlines alone, but TrueType fonts that need hinting to render legibly remain in use and we continue to support them. Font parsers process data from untrusted sources, making the TrueType hinting interpreter a security-critical attack surface. To make the format more resilient on Apple platforms, we rewrote its hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift for the Fall 2025 releases. In addition to memory safety, we also improved performance: on average, our Swift interpreter runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced. To accompany this post, we’ve also published the source code of the Swift TrueType hinting interpreter. We hope sharing our experience helps others doing similar work in Swift.
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Mike ElganNow you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5
> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.
Seán FobbeWe somehow went from "script kiddies are bad" to giving any random office worker the power to launch hundreds of programs that will hammer unknown servers across the web to make mediocre power point presentations.
Not to mention the massive usage spikes that are now hitting public software and data repositories.
What a world.
Darren MinifieCome work with us on the Speech and Vision Accessibility team at Apple.
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200661027/software-engineer-accessability
Role is for onsite in Cupertino.
rob pikeAlthough trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.