@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-discusses-custom-chips-broadcom
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI just found a relatively new tool for syntax-aware diff/merge operations on git repositories ( #Mergiraf ).
Unlike other tools I've tried in the past, this one is also diff3-friendly 
.
- https://mergiraf.org/
- https://lwn.net/Articles/1042355/
For the weirdos like me who prefer `rebase` over `merge` this can be a great mood & productivity booster 
@selea@social.linux.pizzaChecking my #meshtastic solar nodes that has'nt gotten any sunshine for the past three weeks.
My custom built one, with a 4000mAh battery is probably going offline any day now, with 23% battery left.
The Seeed Studio Solar Node, with a muuch larger battery bank (nearly 10000mAh) is reporting 76% left.
@adulau@infosec.exchangeBRICKSTORM Backdoor
"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) analyzed eight BRICKSTORM samples obtained from victim organizations. BRICKSTORM is a custom Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) Go-based backdoor. "
MISP standard and STIX files available at the following location:
🔗 https://cti-tra…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialRunning a custom kernel on a HiSilicon IP camera SoC again after a few years, rediscovering the importance of picking the right toolchain.
https://gist.github.com/orangecms/5c597bdbe165a7151ff85f14ddffbdcf
@cheryanne@aus.socialBuilding Dreams With Virtue Homes
Be taken on a custom home building journey with the team behind Virtue Homes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/building-dreams-with-virtue-homes/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow the Jaguars pulled off giving Trevor Lawrence a custom grill https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955266/2026/01/08/jaguars-trevor-lawrence-custom-grill/
@luana@wetdry.worldYEEEEESSSSS EXPEDITION 33 
#TGA #TheGameAwards #GameOfTheYear
@joe@toot.worksIs it because they are eating less or because they can't afford food after buying Ozempic? 
"According to new research, the medications are associated with meaningful reductions in how much households spend on food, both at the grocery store and at restaurants."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
@jan_j@chaos.socialTIL: Wenn man unter macOS einer App ein Custom Icon verpasst, wird dieses durch iCloud / „Screen time“ auch auf andere Geräte synchronisiert.
Daher mein Blåhaj @… :blahaj_full:
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz#Upcoming Help kickstart a release of “Symphony No. 4” by Glenn Branca! This piece has never been released because there was never a good enough recording. A live performance from 1983 has been found, featuring Glenn’s custom built Harmonic Series instruments with Stefan Wischerth, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Dan Witz, the late Barbara Ess, Margaret DeWys, Amanda Linn, and Greg Letson.
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialSometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦♂️
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialOn Monday we're flying for holidays to Vietnam. While planning the trip, I've rediscovered #epub for your
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📥 Powerful import system directly in prompts: @./src/api.ts for single files, @./src/**/*.ts for glob patterns, @./file.ts:10-50 for line ranges, @./types.ts#UserInterface for TypeScript symbol extraction, @https://url for remote content
🎯 Template variables for dynamic prompts: {{ _stdin }} captures piped input, {{ _1 }} {{ _2 }} for positional arguments, {{ _args }} for numbered list of all args, custom variables like {{ _feature_name }} with CLI overrides --_feature_name "value…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioThat's a cute #phishing attempt.
I think they've abused auto-forwarding on an Outlook account with a custom domain - but looks like they injected a custom name into the Zoom account with scary messaging trying to get you to call their number as well.
@hynek@mastodon.socialI’m slightly feverish (I’m sure that’s the reason) to announce stamina 25.2.0! Among others, it allows `on` hooks to return custom back-off values (think: Retry-After headers!) and adds support for retrying generators (both sync and async):
https://github.com/hynek/stamina/releases/tag/…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeEvery once in a while I'm reminded that despite being a graphically heavy GPU accelerated application built entirely in Vulkan with a ton of very custom rendering, ngscopeclient doesn't contain a single vertex or fragment shader in the codebase, just whatever dummy/passthrough shader is used internally by imgui.
Everything is done in compute shaders, even drawing the waveforms (they're just a single textured pair of triangles in the final compositing pass with the ui chrome…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReddit launches Interactive Ads, letting brands create immersive, participatory experiences directly in the Reddit feed, now testing with select advertisers (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-interactive-ad-format-paramount-runni…
@Dragofix@veganism.social
@newsie@darktundra.xyz‘Advanced’ hacker seen exploiting Cisco, Citrix zero-days https://therecord.media/advanced-hacker-exploiting-cisco-citrix-zero-days-amazon
@luana@wetdry.worldOk, I’m procrastinating downloading a bunch of vids with yt-dlp and at this point I’m already reaching the tabs limit on this Safari profile
What’d be the best way of downloading a bunch of videos with yt-dlp while still keeping a good control of what failed and what succeeded? (this is basically impossible from its output if you feed it a bunch of links in a single go)
I was wanting a webui I could selfhost and it’d show progress and status for each video it’s downloading (and let me pass custom options to the yt-dlp command, such as filename), but should I just make a script with a for loop for each URL instead?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnd this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
@cdarwin@c.im
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialSeattle-based Spangle AI, which makes AI tools for online retailers to build custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/former-amazo
@unixorn@hachyderm.ioParaphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
@…
@UP8@mastodon.social🫙 Light-triggered process lets 3D printers create custom glass structures without glue or high temperatures
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-triggered-3d-printers-custom-glass.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys WR trolls Dak Prescott with custom gift over Egg Bowl rivalry https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-wr-trolls-dak-prescott-custom-gift-over-egg-bowl-rivalry
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaWelcome to Aurorix Saigon, my opinionated take on Aurora KDE, showing a menu and a terminal window with installed cli tools. These CLI tools were installed using a predefined list in Homebrew , as was the Ungoogled Chromium flatpak. An automatically created custom image.This is very cool; further tweaking to follow.
#auroralinux
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @newsie@darktundra.xyzGoogle files lawsuit to disrupt massive ‘Lighthouse’ smishing scheme https://therecord.media/google-files-lawsuit-to-disrupt-lighthouse-scam
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMy Cause, My Cleats: Players step out in support of the V Foundation and other causes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47194192/nfl-players-honor-v-foundation-custom-cleats
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” "
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚙️ Configuration: `cache.result` for result caching, `extensions` for custom listeners
🐛 Bug fixes: Parallel mode stability, Windows path handling, PHAR extraction issues
https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit
@compfu@mograph.social
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAs somebody who’s taking a break from his working on his absurdly custom bespoke static site generator for a course, I approve the (hand waving) grand general notion here.
1/2 https://hcommons.social/@zeblarson/115500289981846435
@frankel@mastodon.top @heiseonline@social.heise.deSnapdragon 8 Gen 5: Acht Custom-Kerne bleiben mit weniger Takt und Cache
Der Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 bekommt einen kleinen Bruder. Er verwendet weiter acht Oryon-Kerne und soll in günstigere Smartphones gelangen als der Elite.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioCurious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷♀️
#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble
@pre@boing.worldBy post, it's mostly web rather than Phanpy.
Suspect it's mostly replies over stand-alone only because of threads here really. Most of a thread counts as a reply because it's a reply-to-self.
I mostly use the web interface for new posts rather than the phanpy one because I can't type an emoji in Phanpy. Only instance custom-emojis can be typed starting with a colon and I usually want 😄 or 😉 or 🙄 not the custom emojii. Can't type them on Phanpy. So I mostly compose on web.
Maybe the Phanpy dev has some kind of emoji plugin or something? Dunno why he makes it only do the custom ones.
But this is why I mostly post from web even though I almost entirely read from Phanphy. Which means replies mostly come from Phanpy but standalone mostly from Web.
@macandi@social.heise.de
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineI know some people are iffy about @…, but I've had a great experience with them. I'm not a huge fan of the AI-related stuff they're doing, but it's turned off by default and you can ignore it (like I do) if you're not a fan.
I'm a paid customer because I use a custom domain with catch-all addresses and it's been amazi…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaSo after all that crap yesterday to get my CM4 NAS onto a contemporary, distro-provided kernel, I am now back on my custom `5.15.92-v8-sata-sas-pericompatch ` trying to figure out why the box's power consumption increased by 10 watts over normal (25W instead of 15W) following the switch
@UP8@mastodon.social🕹️ Building Custom Graphics Cards For Cloud Gaming
#graphics
@boris@cosocial.caOn stage now @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking through additional tooling of custom feeds to collaborate on sharing content across organizations.
#EuroSkyLive https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org#Rstats problems: Did you ever think that the dots for dotted lines are a bit too far apart per default? TIL that it's super easy to change this.
In #ggplot2, simply try something like:
scale_linetype_manual(
values = c(a = "dotted", b = "11")
)
The '11' means: 1 point for a dot, 1 point for a gap. Find out more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25788945/how-to-define-more-line-types-for-graphs-in-r-custom-linetype
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBusiness Insider launches a monthlong pilot AI program to publish quick news stories, edited by BI editors, created using a GPT trained on its archives (Jamie Heller/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-pilot
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJake Ferguson's fiancée Haley Cavinder flexes custom Cowboys-Chiefs Thanksgiving fit https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jake-ferguson-s-fiancee-haley-cavinder-flexes-custom-cowboys-chiefs-thanksgiving-fit
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAnother crazy week is in the can, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--DOJ accuses director of defense firm's cyber division of selling secrets to Russia,
--N. Korean IT workers snagged work as animators,
--Ethical hackers breached F1 database and got access to Verstappen's info,
--Hackers enabled theft of Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover,
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe first large project that I took on basically alone in a large environment was polishing the custom-crafted system for feeding printers into something less support-ticket-generating at Daimler-Chrysler. That provides a rough date... The original author (who had become management) praised my work.
It got me a promotion of sorts. I graduated to no longer being required to work on printer issues or with anyone who might have printer issues.
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafeUnsure if I've even mentioned this anywhere before,
but I've maintain a "Steam Curator" page for the last few years, keeping a log of how well games handle custom keyboard layouts - feel free to follow it if you want to see a note on Steam Store pages telling you whether a game's keybind settings are up-to-snuff:
@mszll@datasci.socialRE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/115830860141268596
I've implemented this design on datasci.social now via Custom CSS. Looks much better than the default - great work by @…
@hex@kolektiva.socialPsychologist: you mentioned that you think you may be on the autism spectrum if you haven't been diagnosed. What leads you to believe that?
Me: I've created featural scripts for multiple alternative number systems. I have multiple notebook pages full of math in base 12 and base 16 with custom notation I created.
Psychologist, nodding meaningfully: ahh....
@nelson@tech.lgbtOne of my favorite emojis is the "hugs" emoji 🫂. Or an "okay_blob" custom reacji that my favorite Slack uses. I use it all the time to indicate "I hear you and I know what you're saying is emotional. I support you".
Another very progressive Slack I'm on has a "hugs OK?" emoji you are supposed to use first. Only if the other person responds with the "hugs OK!" emoji are you then allowed to respond with an actual "hug" emoji.
I think I'm a pro-explicit-consent person. But it strikes me that this careful three-way handshake, all for 16x16 pixels in a virtual environment, may be a little much.
@luana@wetdry.worldI don’t suppose there are any Wii Fit U mods that bring back the missing minigames from Wii Fit Plus right?
I guess they chose only the ones they thought were the best ones to bring back which is fair enough I guess, but some of the ones I like are missing 
I’d be very cool if they kept everything from Wii Fit Plus, PLUS the new ones in U
(don’t really wanna get plus on wii mode bc then it’ll be two separate games and leaderboards and stuff, and then I probably won’t want to switch between both modes during a playtime and also I’d probably forget to switch for minigames that are available in both places)
#WiiU
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… This may be of interest: https://fkcaps.com/custom…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… This may be of interest: https://fkcaps.com/custom…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/whatsapp-rolls-out-new-group-chat-features-memb…
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaLost the will to live with Shopify.
I have the code to a custom app that is already running in a store, just trying to replicate it on a new dev account and new store and it's like landing a fucking space shuttle. Absolute insanity.
@outer@mas.toCustom self-leveling, poured polyurethane art floors. Cool video.
I found others, e.g., on youtube:
"epoxy flooring 3d"
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=epoxy flooring 3d
@cdarwin@c.im @cowboys@darktundra.xyzJake Ferguson's fiancée Haley Cavinder rocks custom Ferg fit on National TE Day https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jake-ferguson-fiancee-haley-cavinder-custom-ferg-fit-national-tight-end-day
@aardrian@toot.cafeA read-only text field is focusable. And confusing to users.
If you add `tabindex="-1"` and/or `pointer-events: none`, admit it’s wrong and make it plain text instead.
If you use it anyway, style it so it’s clear (good luck). Here are my shitty styles: https://adrianroselli.com/…
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialOK, 30 Tage ging's gut. Ich hab jetzt die Kühlkörper drauf und auch schon ein 2025.12. update eingespielt. Dann war heute nacht die Datenbank weg. Ohne Restart / Update oder irgendwas anderes sichtbares gibt es nun keinerlei Daten mehr vor ca. 04:20 Uhr heute Nacht.
Kein irgendwie auffälliges Ereignis in den Logs, noch massenhaft Speicher frei, sonst alles normal.
Die Maschinen sollen mir helfen nicht andersrum. 
@… @… https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/115700256649777359
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caIn the last ~6 months someone linked to their blog about using JS-free custom elements for page structure and style in place of a methodology like BEM, e.g. using `<my-element>`/`my-element {}` instead of `<div class="my-element">`/`.my-element {}`. Might have referenced [HUG CSS](https://
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioCaught me some "Schäfflertanz", a dance custom dating back to 19th century coopers (makers of bins, barrels, etc.) of Old #Bavaria, #Germany. Performances in modern times are apparently on a 7-year cycle.
#dance #Deutschland #tradition #photography #amateur
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon launches its Trainium3 AI chip, claiming it is 4x faster than the previous gen and can reduce AI training and operating costs by ~50% vs. equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazons-custom-chips-pose-a…
@datascience@genomic.socialGetting started with Shiny to make interactive web-apps with R: #rstats
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialRandom thought: maybe custom emojis should've be called "Stickers" 🤷♂️
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineIt seems to me that the Afghan who shot the National Guards in DC was supremely integrated in the US culture. After all, shooting each other is quite the custom over there.
@vartak@mastodon.online@… There used to be a web tool to create custom themes for is Presenter. I cannot seem to find any trace of it. Any hints ?
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaI have been stealing all your custom emojis to make a sticker pack BTW😁
@noellabo@fedibird.comnoppeさんからご提供いただき、新しいNightfox DAWNのアイコンを追加したよ。
iOS 26以降のアイコン（グラス）がこれ。
:dawn_appicon:
カスタム絵文字の詳細情報
https://fedibird.com/emojis/dawn_appicon
iOS 26以降のアイコン（ソリッド）がこれ。
:dawn:
カスタム絵文字の詳細情報
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMeet Nate Benjamin, the Cowboys athletic trainer who also creates custom cleats https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/meet-nate-benjamin-the-cowboys-athletic-trainer-who-also-creates-custom-cleats
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUnit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeLooking at the ARMv8-A ARM and I see implementer ID 0x44 is DEC.
I'm... very confident DEC has never built an ARMv8 CPU core.
Is this just copy-pasted from earlier docs because DEC had an ARM architecture license in years past? Or is this license still valid and held by DEC's successors (I think DEC -> Compaq -> HP -> HPE, does HPE make custom ARM cores?)
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMeet Nate Benjamin, the Cowboys athletic trainer who also creates custom cleats https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/meet-nate-benjamin-the-cowboys-athletic-trainer-who-also-creates-custom-cleats
@joe@toot.worksJebus! 
#Affinity
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/google-unveils-ironwood-seventh-gener…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🌐 #Tailscale VPN integration with pre-auth key support & custom server options
💾 Automated #rsync backups over SSH with cron scheduling & ntfy/Discord notifications
🔧 Kernel hardening via sysctl, swap file setup & Lynis/debsecan security audits
📋 Idempotent, produ…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apple plans to use a custom 1.2T-parameter Google Gemini model to help power the new Siri next year and will be paying Google ~$1B annually for it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioIdk what it says about me that my first thought was “this would be terrible for vampires”
(The proposal here is to put satellites that reflect the sun so someone could have custom sunlight over their house at night… very silly)
https://mas.to/@dmacphee/115418055122136038
@vartak@mastodon.online@… There used to be a web tool to create custom themes for is Presenter. I cannot seem to find any trace of it. Any hints ?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds (Jeremy White/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/lego-smart-brick-new-digital-brain/
@cdarwin@c.imDoctors made a custom CRISPR therapy to treat an infant with a rare genetic disease
A baby, named KJ, was born with a deficiency in carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1).
This deficiency means his liver couldn’t convert ammonia
– which is made naturally when the body breaks down proteins
– into urea, damaging his brain and liver.
Babies born with CPS1 deficiency often end up staying in the hospital until they’re eligible for a liver transplant.
They h…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle details a new implementation of generative UI that lets Gemini 3 Pro build interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-cus…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/
@cdarwin@c.imApple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly
$1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model
to power its overhaul of Siri.
The move is a big one for Apple,
which has traditionally relied on its own technology
but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough,
including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The…
@luana@wetdry.worldOh no the YouTube bullshit of substituting perfectly fine real videos (shorts) with very obvious AI without the creators consent just reached my timeline 
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses under Thomas Kurian, driven by investments in AI, data centers, custom chips, and more (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-turned-googl…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCustom Cowboys Patch ⭐️ Our friends at @AveryDennisonVideo held a custom patch design contest! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdPgEunkQyA
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApplied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others (@appliedcompute)
https://x.com/appliedcompute/status/1983574375933866502
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/googles-vibe-coding-tool-opal-comes-to-gemini/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly, updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech, adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express, and more (Jacob Roach/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-max-2025-firefly-photoshop-updates/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDirecTV plans to roll out custom shoppable TV screensavers that feature AI likenesses of users, available on DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/798174/directv-glance-ai-shoppable-screensavers
