AppleVis releases its Vision Accessibility Report Card ↦ - https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/03/applevis-releases-its-vision-accessibility-report-card/

AppleVis released its fourth annual [Vision Accessibility Report Card][1], a
survey of visually impaired Apple users inspired by the Six Colors Report Card:

This year saw our highest level of...

#mbw

First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for ...

#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

Weiss and Cibrowski announce they’re shutting down CBS News Radio, which has ~700 affiliated stations, on May 22. "Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

Thus, the CBS Radio Network (b. 1927) will be terminated at the age of 99.

CBS Radio was the foundation of American broadcast journalism. Over five decades I filed hundreds of news reports for it and felt immense pride to have been on the same network as Murrow, Sevareid, Smith, Collingwood, Cronkite, Edwards, Trout, Townsend, Kuralt, Rather, Stahl, Knoller & Portnoy.

BREAKING: Sam Altman concedes that we need major breakthroughs beyond mere scaling to get to AGI - https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-sam-altman-concedes-that

Another dramatic sign of changing times: Sam Altman, who ridiculed [my 2022
critique of LLMs that argued that scaling would not bring us to AGI and that we
would need architectures][1] has just...

#im

The 49KB Webpage - https://olly.world/the-49kb-webpage

In [The 49MB Webpage][1], Shubham Bose describes how the New York Times website
downloads 49MB of data across 422 (!) network requests.

#twit

CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century - https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/20/2052214/cbs-news-shutters-radio-service-after-nearly-a-century?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

CBS News is shutting down its nearly 100-year-old radio news service due to
economic pressures and the shift toward digital media and podcasts.

#twit

This is going to be hard to hear, but:

Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.