Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/peacock-expand…
These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/15/ai-defense-warfare-companies
> From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the s…
Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/peacock-expand…
"At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Mr. Trump pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The answer was straightforward: Even one Iranian soldier or militia member zipping across the narrow neck of the strait in a speedboat could fire a mobile missile right into a slow-moving supertanker, or plant a limpet mine on its hull."
Ahead of trade meetings with China, the US has suspended its bans on China Telecom's US operations, domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link, the US internet business of China Unicom and China Mobile, and the sales of Chinese electric trucks and buses in the US.
https://www.…
Today in #guerrillaUrbanism news: The SF Bay Area Bench Collective has installed its first community bus bench on the Peninsula, at the El Camino Real/Maple stop on the SamTrans ECR line in Redwood City!
https://sfbabc.org/140
Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% (IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/1q26-mpt-top5/
Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows daily traffic down ~20% since March 5 vs. the previous month (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9584377-f63f-48c1-ac16-f46450d8c783