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50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple

Why Apple should buy Perplexity and possibly keep going
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping. Bloomberg reported last month that Apple was discussing a purchase of the AI search startup. Let's look at why an Apple purchase of Perplexity, reportedly valued at about $14 billion or so, would make sense. Apple needs an AI strategy and story. Let's state the obvious: Apple is an AI laggard. Apple's…

Rechtsverletzung bei OLED-Technik: Apple-Lieferant droht US-Importverbot
Samsung Display, selbst Apple-Lieferant, geht gegen Produkte des chinesischen Bildschirmherstellers BOE vor. Das hat Auswirkungen auf Apple.

Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to open-source ML framework MLX, which may mean that code developed using MLX would work with CUDA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications for Nvidia hardware, by developing on an Apple Silicon Mac and exporting it to CUDA.

Apple researchers maybe disprove ‘reasoning’ (vs. well-specified conventional algorithms):
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

> By the time we got to the first Q&A, Apple's lawyers had already wasted half of our time.
https://formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/apple-vs-the-law/

Dienstag: Kritik an Apple wegen Designplänen, Meta mit großen Plänen
Apple fährt Designelemente zurück Meta plant den Bau von Rechenzentren Unternehmen meiden X BSI mahnt Windows-Upgrade an Entlassungen bei Intel

Foldable iPhone voraus: Apple drängt Entwickler zu flexiblen Apps
Apple schwört Entwickler darauf ein, Apps mit anpassbarer Bedienoberfläche zu bauen. Es geht auch um die Kompatibilität mit Zukunfts-Hardware.

Analyse zum iPad: Produkt für Apple wichtiger als der Mac?
Eine Marktanalyse zeigt, dass die Apple-Tablets sich offenbar bei Nutzern stärker durchsetzen als Macs – gleich hinter dem iPhone.
https://www.…

Streaming: Apple TV packt es erstmals in die US-Top-5
Apples Streamingangebot ist im Vergleich zu Netflix und Prime ein Winzling. Dennoch schaffte eine Show es nun in die US-amerikanischen Halbjahrescharts.
https://ww…