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When you are an iOS user, every third Monday of September 2025 is Christmas!
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/new-versions-of-apples-software-platforms-are-available-today/

New versions of Apple’s software platforms are available today
Apple today released exciting new features and capabilities across each of its software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.

"Every morning, a spider rebuilt its web on my car mirror, only for the wind to destroy it again. Watching that tiny creature taught me something about toxic cycles, misplaced resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to stop rebuilding in the wrong place."
"True resilience isn't about stubbornly withstanding the storm; it's about having the wisdom to find a new foundation."
This piece of writing hits like a gut punch.

What a Spider Taught Me About Resilience and Letting Go
Every morning, a spider rebuilt its web on my car mirror, only for the wind to destroy it again. Watching that tiny creature taught me something about toxic cycles, misplaced resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to stop rebuilding in the wrong place.

Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (David Penn/Finovate)
https://finovate.com/data-privacy-management-software-provider-basis-…

Data Privacy Management Software Provider Basis Theory Secures $33 Million - Finovate
Data management innovator Basis Theory has secured $33 million in Series B funding.

My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden

No. 1 pick Cam Ward, Titans offense sputter over three series against Falcons https://www.nfl.com/news/no-1-pick-cam-ward-titans-offense-sputter-over-three-series-against-falcons

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Spidergawd:
🎵 Confirmation
#NowPlaying #Spidergawd
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://spidergawdnorway.bandcamp.com/track/confirmation
https://open.spotify.com/track/01T0bFfzh7LVBfrGqWEBse

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gpt-5-coding-review-software-engineering/

Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag
Software engineers are finding that OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding.

C.J. Stroud, Texans offense continues to sputter: 'Everybody’s going to talk crazy and say we suck' https://www.nfl.com/news/c-j-stroud-texans-offense-continues-to-sputter-everybody-s-going-to-talk-crazy-and-say-we-suc…

Chip design software maker Cadence agrees to acquire Stockholm-based Hexagon's design and simulation software business for ~$3.18B in cash and stock (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/cad

Cadence Design Systems to spend $3.2B on Hexagon’s simulations tech
The acquisition would bolster the industrial software maker’s position in the growing structural analysis market used widely by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Toyota and other suppliers.