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Wrong link. Technical, Cognitive and Intent Debt was discussed here: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html

TLDR

* Destructuring via Record Patterns

The most prominent feature is the ability to use a record pattern on the left-hand side of a local variable declaration. This allows you to "destructure" an object and initialize multiple variables in a single statement.

Traditional way:

  Point p = getPoint();
  int x = p.x();
  int y = p.y();

  Point(int x, int y) = getPoint();

  Circle(Point(int x, int y), double radius) = getCircle();

You can now use these same record patterns in the header of an enhanced for loop to extract data from every element in a collection or array.

  for (Circle(Point(int x, int y), double radius) : circles) {
      // Directly use x, y, and radius here
  }

IBM down 11% following this blog post: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/IBM:NYSE

In Claude Code 2.1.45:

  1. Default (recommended)   Opus 4.6 · Most capable for complex work
   2. Opus (1M context)        Opus 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $10/$37.50 per Mtok
   3. Sonnet                   Sonnet 4.6 · Best for everyday tasks
   4. Sonnet (1M context)      Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $6/$22.50 per Mtok

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman:

As I wrote a month ago, Apple is due for a major management shake-up and the spotlight is squarely on John Ternus as Tim Cook’s successor as CEO. But I don’t get the sense anything is imminent as the FT is claiming.

https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1989764365705515220

DHS Proposal: Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap- Subject H-1B Petitions [1]

Summary: USCIS would use the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) wage levels for the relevant job classification (SOC code) and location to determine how many times a registration is entered into the selection pool.

Registrations would be weighted like this:

  • Wage Level IV → 4 entries

  • Wage Level III → 3 entries

  • Wage Level II → 2 entries

  • Wage Level I → 1 entry

[1] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18473.pdf

Other updates will be known as iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26 and visionOS 26.

Especially the consistency it brings.

Jim Keller: "The best computer manual I've ever read." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/jimkxa/status/1900605071869833278

I hereby order the Attorney General not to take any action on behalf of the United States to enforce the Act for 75 days from the date of this order, to permit my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course of action with respect to TikTok.

I further order the Attorney General to issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred during the above-specified period

While the court today decides that the Act's divestment mandate survives a First Amendment challenge, that is not without regard for the significant interests at stake on all sides. Some 170 million Americans use TikTok to create and view all sorts of free expression and engage with one another and the world. And yet, in part precisely because of the platform's expansive reach, Congress and multiple Presidents determined that divesting it from the PRC's control is essential to protect our national security.

To give effect to those competing interests, Congress chose divestment as a means of paring away the PRC's control-and thus containing the security threat—while maintaining the app and its algorithm for American users. But if no qualifying divestment occurs—including because of the PRC's or ByteDance's unwillingness-many Americans may lose access to an outlet for expression, a source of community, and even a means of income.

Congress judged it necessary to assume that risk given the grave national-security threats it perceived. And because the record reflects that Congress's decision was considered, consistent with longstanding regulatory practice, and devoid of an institutional aim to suppress particular messages or ideas, we are not in a position to set it aside.

The examples given here are not on the same scale. The numbers known so far:

- 120m viewers [1]

- Entire Netflix CDN Traffic grew 4x when the live stream started [2]

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jake-paul-...

[2] https://x.com/DougMadory/status/1857634875257294866

Code repo: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/raft-distillation-recipe

Apple Discontinues iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max [1], so iPhone 16 is the only new phone that can be purchased with Apple Intelligence.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/09/apple-discontinues-ipho...

Requires IntelliJ 2024.2

ChatGPT explanation:

When you concatenate an executable and a JAR file:

- The operating system reads the initial part of the file (the executable header) and treats it as a binary executable.

- The JVM, on the other hand, looks for the ZIP file structure when attempting to load a JAR. Since the ZIP file format places its directory structure and central directory headers at the end of the file, the JVM can still recognize and load the JAR contents even when the ZIP file is appended to the executable.

As a result, the file can be executed as a binary by the operating system, while the JVM can also load and run it as a JAR file. This dual functionality is possible because the executable and JAR components operate independently of each other based on their respective file structures and headers.

Privacy protections are built in for users who access ChatGPT — their IP addresses are obscured, and OpenAI won’t store requests. ChatGPT’s data-use policies apply for users who choose to connect their account.

ChatGPT will come to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia later this year, powered by GPT-4o.

Acquired Podcast did a 3 hours episode on the history of Renaissance Technologies last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KjW4BqNFy0

Two different M4 chips come with the new iPad Pro depending on the selected storage capacity.

Apple M4 chip Models with 256GB or 512GB storage: 9-core CPU with 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores 10-core GPU

Models with 1TB or 2TB storage: 10-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores 10-core GPU

The instant generation of pictures as you type in meta.ai is really impressive!

Deliveries begin 2026. From $45,000.

Sam Altman emails Elon Musk (2015): https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1763633741807960498

To justify its current valuation, everyone everywhere needs to spend $800 a year on Apple products, says UBS

Code and models related to this study are publicly available at https://github.com/evo-design/evo

CFO: "In Q4 FY 24, large cloud providers represented more than half of our Data Center revenue..Strong demand was driven by enterprise software and consumer internet applications & multiple industry verticals"

Not clear if Meta is included in the "cloud providers", if not that would push the share of revenue from Big Tech even further to 60-70% considering the 300k H100 order from Meta.

As mentioned by several comments, while one can argue that Big Pharma should spend more on R&D, the title of the article is not so relevant.

From Apple financial statement for 2023 [1]:

- Spent on R&D: $29.9B

- Spent on stockholders (dividends + buybacks): $92.6B

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2023-q4/FY23_Q4_Consol...

Over Zen 4, this confirms AMD Zen 5 as adding AVXVNNI, MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B, AVX512VP2INTERSECT, and PREFETCHI.

AVX512-FP16 not listed, we'll have to wait for Zen 6.

Currently targeting JDK 23

Andrej Karpathy's comment: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1745921205020799433

These numbers are much higher than I thought:

for every $1 billion in sales, the average retailer incurs $145 million in merchandise returns. Online sales do see a higher return rate, with 17.6%.

The board never received any formal communication about Q*