@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/googles-personal-int…
@heiseonline@social.heise.dePersonal Intelligence: Googles Gemini wird noch persönlicher
Gemini wird ein KI-Assistent, der Kontext versteht – basierend auf Gmail, Fotos, Such-Historie und YouTube-Verlauf. Zunächst als Beta-Version.
https:…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Wikidata-Enhanced Authority Records: A Project for Personal Names in SBN" https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-677 [Artikel auf Italienisch]
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBefore you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Trump officials might boycott RSAC citing Easterly's CEO position,
--Grubhub confirms data breach,
--China's UAT-8837 breached CIC orgs in N. America,
--Hackers exploit top severity flaw in Modular DS WordPress plugin,
--Flaw in MD CPUs exposes secure virtualization environment,
--Gemini 'personal intelli…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGoogle handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/goo…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAny 'analysis' of actions by Trump that does not at least include his personal gains power grab ego issues can now be rated as deeply stupid. National interests / America First, my foot.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."
@comex@mas.toThe OpenClaw repo itself has 36 PRs in the last hour:
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls
This seems to be its usual rate. The PRs are ~all AI-generated, judging by the writing. Some of them are dedicated agent accounts; some of them are human accounts where the human is…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-gemini-personal-intelligence/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: President Trump is increasingly taking journalists' calls himself, as his personal phone number circulates and is offered for sale to rich individuals (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/
@cheryanne@aus.socialLadies Finance Club - Get Rich
The personal finance podcast that helps women do just that: get rich and stay rich, hosted by Molly Benjamin...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ladies-finance-club/
@Xavier@infosec.exchange
@datascience@genomic.social
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Personal computing must be [...] a social project of all of us building things, trying things, learning from one another."
(Original title: Personal computing)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-computing/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
There have been many dark days in Canada, from natural disasters to personal tragedies. And there are also emotional dark days like when Doug Ford was elected Premier.... twice.
The most mysterious darkest day in Canadian history occurred on November 7, 1819, when the sun refused to rise over New Brunswick. And it wasn't even a Monday. Although 1st person accounts described it as an unusually dreary day, later newspaper accounts were slightly more sensational. Reporters documented that a "black veil" or intense, unnatural darkness descended upon New Brunswick. The sky remained so dark that residents were forced to light candles in the middle of the day. Apparently the phenomenon caused widespread alarm with many believing it was the apocalypse or a divine awful visitation. According to newspaper reports there was mild hysteria, outright madness, and praying and searching for cover. Just like the day after Ford was elected.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Meteorology
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/201-years-since-new-brunswick-s-darkest-day-1.5791283
@boris@cosocial.caJust paid for a personal annual account with Photopea, the web based image editor. It's free to use and you don't need to login, but 50EU/year takes off the very large amount of ads.
It's got that Photoshop 3.0 design vibes that means I can still sort of use it. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge…”
“…latest example of how the U.S. government is using a controversial type of legal request, called an administrative subpoena, to demand that tech companies turn over the private data of individuals who have been critical of the Trump administration.”
@frankstohl@mastodon.socialWieso hat ein Land, das nicht mehr existiert bei uns noch eine Vertretung? Warum wurde das Personal nicht aufgelöst und die Leute heimgeschickt?
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr/taliban-diplomaten-deutschland-afghanistan-100.html…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPersonal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p101#a260113p101
@cdarwin@c.imGoogle handed over a trove of personal data
about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePersonal information associated with airport operations, vendors, and potentially some traveler-facing services may have been exposed in a breach at Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust (TAIT).
The official announcement, however, is disconcertingly vague.
https://flytulsa.com/news/notice-of-da
@macandi@social.heise.dePerplexity baut „Personal Computer“ auf Mac-mini-Basis
Perplexity Computer nennt sich Perplexitys persönlicher Assistent. Der soll im OpenClaw-Stil nun auf den Mac kommen. Derzeit gibt es eine Warteliste.
https://www.
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Following the discovery, we immediately began work to secure our systems"
Does that imply that before the incident, there was no work done to secure the systems?
h/t @…
#Interrail
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116076482066316165
I’m so happy how AI is ruining personal computing for all of us
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaSigh, the one model that has what I want and it isn't available. Another similar model from a different company, not available. Both are much more expensive compared to last year. I didn't buy then as we needed a new A/C, Furnace, hot water tank, washer, dryer and a fireplace removal. Now that I have the cash saved up... :(
Personal preference is a mini machine to replace my laptop. Hooked into a UPS so I have several hours of backup power. I can then do my final backup …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-advanced-talks…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI know it's easy to get down on the web, but I've seen so many cool projects and blogs and personal sites and attempts to (re?)build a more human web free of corporate social media and the enshittified part of the web...
It's giving me hope that we can build an Alternative Web. The People's Web. Free of AI bullshit, free of advertisements and tracking and all that crap so many of us just do not want.
@mela@zusammenkunft.netThe Chief Science Officer discovers the OPS, her childhood best-friend, has kept a lot of personal stuff from her over the last years, and realizes it's because she, the OPS, had been in trouble:
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
*Admiral enters, overhears the last sentence and turns to the Yeoman*
Admiral: »Tell me, Cadet Vratsian, what kind of science vessel is this exactly?«
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzStephen Jones ve avances en la búsqueda del coordinador defensivo https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stephen-jones-ve-avances-en-la-busqueda-del-coordinador-defensivo
@servelan@newsie.socialWebsite that leaked thousands of ICE agents’ personal information is down after huge ‘Russian cyberattack,’ founder says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-information-leak-website-down-russia-cyberattack-b2900713.html
@davej@dice.camp“A week ago, someone sent me a link to an online article describing a flaming confrontation between me and the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, on the set of 7.30.
“The story was 2,000 words long, very detailed, and had pictures of Comyn and me arguing in front of 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, before Matt throws away his microphone and storms off.
“Not a word nor a photo of it was true. It was an #AI
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCanada Goose says leaked customer transaction data did not come from company systems https://therecord.media/canada-goose-says-leaked-customer-data-was-not-from-company
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePersonal information of thousands of Victorian students accessed in targeted cyberattack on schools
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking…
@BugWarp@wikis.worldMy personal ranking for tonight #Oscars Best Animated Feature
https://boxd.it/TdO8c
@rasterweb@mastodon.social"I am the programming equivalent of a home cook."
I have talked about it for programming and making, this idea that it can be for personal enrichment, and even mental health, and always thinking about the things you produce in a capitalist/consumer context can be... not great.
https://www.robinsloan.com/…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI've been using @… now for a while.
It works quite well. Found everything I was looking for.
Didn't use Google in a while.
https://www.qwant.com/
@kubikpixel@chaos.social5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free
European Union countries are moving away from American tech giants to run their own clouds and servers to control their digital destiny. You can do this, too. Here's how.
💻 https://www.z…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Just write a quick note to specify something from your last article." he tought. "It'll be quick and you can be in bed early." he thought.
He's a dumbass. That's what he is. Well, here's "Personal computing"
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-c
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineA lot of my thoughts and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X.
I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here: A lot of my thought and personal perspective was shared on Twitter; now the online dumpster fire and harassment tool X. I've made all of my tweets available on a separate server here:
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.socialConfronting the Challenges of Sensitive #OpenData
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal #privacy and governmental #transparency come into conflict. How…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzStephen Jones ve avances en la búsqueda del coordinador defensivo https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stephen-jones-ve-avances-en-la-busqueda-del-coordinador-defensivo
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caChallenges, both personal and professional, fuel growth. Just as gems need friction to shine, trials sharpen our resilience and skills. Embrace these moments – they craft your development. 🏅 As Seneca noted, "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." Let's cherish each hardship for the lessons they provide on our journey to excellence. #Inspiration #GrowthMindset
@cdarwin@c.imAn AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution.
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialDoin' US taxes again. Super blah without a donut!!
Last year my personal filing was about 200 pages long. (We also do a separate corporate filing.)
And once again my taxes will far, far, far exceed the actual disposable income I have received.
Yes, this is an upper-middle-class, first world problem.. But I do hate paying what amounts to big wads of $$ to pay for El Cheato's destruction of the US.
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchangeRun your own local chat on your laptop. Plus add web search like Perplexity. I do this on my Mac to to save a few AI DC BTUs and to learn stuff based on real web pages rather than hallucinated LLMs.
• Run your own chat: https://carlosvaz.com/posts/running-ll
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
P.M. Dawn:
🎵 My Own Personal Gravity
#PMDawn
@emd@cosocial.caThanks to the wonderful (you all should sign up to his newsletter) @… I learned about Green Beaver (https://greenbeaver.com), a Canadian personal care company.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC files a motion to dismiss Trump's lawsuit over how his January 6 speech was edited in Panorama, saying the Florida court lacks "personal jurisdiction" (Yang Tian/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c394x4z8kpdo
@benb@osintua.euPersonal bankruptcies in Russia soar 31% to nearly 568,000 in 2025, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/personal-bankruptcies-in-russia-soar.html
@kctipton@mas.toEveryone Now Has Trump’s Phone Number - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/trump-phone-number/686370/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3oytlFzIBnPfQHi4yQTwT_4 What could go wrong?
@rmdes@mstdn.socialNow my CV Editor plugin for #indiekit is able to handle both personal projects or work projects https://rmendes.net/cv/
@servelan@newsie.socialReport warns that reduced oversight of student loans could affect more than 40 million people | Marca
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2026/03/13/69b3f9e122601ddb678b4603.html
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… @… @… yeah! my personal site just… uh… leaves some things out of the small viewport nav. This is probably a bet…
@cheryanne@aus.socialFinancial Independence Podcast
I open the cockpit to the Best and Brightest in Personal Finance, and those who've reached or are on their way to Financial Independence...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/captain-fi/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialF*%! #interrail and railway operators that require passport information
https://www.interrail.eu/en/ni/data-security-incident
@crell@phpc.socialThis is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Of particular note:
"The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe UK’s Companies House has been forced to suspend access to its WebFiling dashboard after being notified of a serious flaw which may have exposed countless businesses to fraud.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/companies-house-glitch-exposes/…
@neverpanic@chaos.socialTIL that the writer and director of The IT Crowd is a transphobe: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/03/how-graham-linehan-gender-activism-led-to-comedian-career-and-personal-armageddon
Sad…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioExtremely satisfying thing with something I started doing recently happened today that I can’t say what it is, but it was, well, very satisfying.
Hope you all also have those small moments of personal or professional satisfaction.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deWegen Visa-Restriktionen: US-Techjobs boomen in Indien
Die restriktive Visa-Politik der Trump-Regierung entfaltet eine ungewollte Wirkung: US-Techkonzerne setzen verstärkt auf Personal in Indien statt den USA.
https:/…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dereality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
@anneroth@systemli.socialHeute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeHave you downloaded Signal and Proton Mail yet? Now is the time.
Signal and Proton Mail won’t go away, but they might be removed from the Apple and Google stores putting them out of reach for most users. Remember ICEBlock? It can happen. Download Signal and Proton Mail today and ask your friends to do the same. Free installation and configuration guides here:
htt…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF Releases an Updated Issue Brief on Vietnam’s Law on Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Data
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-issue-brief-on-vietnams-law-on-protection-of-personal-data-and-the-law-on…
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgCoast Guard pilot fired then immediately reinstated because he didn’t move DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s personal blankie from one plane to the next plane.
#USCG #CoastGuard #DHS
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web
https://www.wired.com/story/sears-exposed-ai-chatbot-phone-calls-and-text-chats-to-anyone-on-the-web/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialRegardless this good blog about the many aspects that make the midterms difficult to manipulate, I am not as optimistic as the author. The bottomline is Trump and his allies will pay with their freedom and personal wealth if democrats win the midterms and the elections after that, they simply can't allow that to happen... It puzzles me that after everything that already happened under Trump some people don't see this.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPerplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/perplexity-personal-computer-mac
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump faces a 'personal Vietnam' in Iran (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/trump-iran-vietnam
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p25#a260314p25
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts:
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information that is now circulating on the dark web«
Which of you is surprised or even shocked - as you are not now? Unfortunately, many still naively believe that they have nothing to hide.
🤷
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFor years, hacked Dutch telco Odido forwarded the names and MAC addresses of all devices on a home network to American AI-enabled Wi-Fi analytics firm Lifemote.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/03/11/odido-routers-forwarded-customers-personal-dat…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gang Starr:
🎵 Take It Personal
#GangStarr
https://djgambit.bandcamp.com/track/gang-starr-take-it-personal
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lqKYoYGYprzbFXT95tDTt
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @tante@tldr.nettime.orgAch ja, damals, als "das Metaverse" die Zukunft war und ich gescholten wurde, weil ich es für Bullshit hielt...
(Original title: Reality Labs: Meta streicht jede zehnte Stelle in der Metaverse-Sparte)
https://www.golem.de/news/reality-labs-…
@rmdes@mstdn.social @cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL World Reacts to Dak Prescott’s Heartbreaking Personal News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-world-reacts-dak-prescott-heartbreaking-personal-news/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIs this the disturbed view of AI / BigTech optimists, or does he have a point?
"Something Big Is Happening"
#ai
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMalwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-
@cdarwin@c.imI’m Derek Tran -- a veteran, small business owner, son of Vietnamese refugees, and the only House Democrat in SoCal that national Republicans are targeting in 2026.
This fight is personal for me.
My parents came to America after the fall of Saigon,
determined to give their kids a better life.
That’s the promise they carried with them.
I wore the uniform, and now I serve in Congress,
to make sure that promise is protected.
It was never my plan to r…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“I learn by failing, and if the LLM takes that work away from me, I won’t really understand what I’m doing.”
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI recently got a “new” iPad (meaning, a used model from 2020) and I was amazed at how terrible it was for web browsing. Then I realized I forgot to point it at my Pi-hole install for DNS.
So much of the (commercial) web is nearly unusable on old(er) devices because of the amount of advertising crammed onto a page.
(Indie sites personal blogs, etc are mostly unaffected. Recipe sites though… whew!)
#web
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNeura Robotics: Sanitärräume als Testfeld für lernende Infrastruktur
Ein schwäbisches Robotikunternehmen und eine Bauconsultingfirma entwickeln Gebäude, die Roboter von Beginn an einplanen, unter anderem um Personal zu sparen.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJeanine Pirro is filing a personal injury lawsuit against her hometown (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirro-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p93#a260212p93
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo much cybersecurity news, so little time. Check out today's Metacurity for a quick run-down of the most crucial infosec developments you should know today, including
--Hackers claim to be selling Target's internal source code,
--Poland thwarted power system cyberattack,
--Hackers accessed the systems of Spanish energy provider Endesa and Energía XXI,
--Personal finance platform Betterment was hacked through third-party,
--Dutch national sentenced to sev…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/c…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@cdarwin@c.imApple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year.
The next-generation version of Siri is expected to be introduced with iOS 26.4,
which will likely be released to the general public in March or April.
The new capabilities will include better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls.
For example, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri abou…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMetacurity is the independent, non-hype, non-personality-dependent cybersecurity newsletter that delivers a daily dose of critical developments you need to know.
Check out today's issue, which covers
--CISA warns US infrastructure owners following Russian attack on Poland's power grid,
--Russia throttles Telegram accusing it of failing to protect personal data or combat crime,
--N. Korean hackers targeted crypto company with unique malware and multiple scams,…
@cdarwin@c.imSelf-interest over ideology
as disparate inner circle shapes Trump foreign policy
Administration officials,
his family and even
Mar-a-Lago guests
wield outsized influence
on a mercurial president
“Trump is more accessible to a broader range of voices than any president in recent history,”
said Ian Bremmer,
president of the Eurasia Group.
“He’s on his phone constantly and people
– friends, business associates, media
– co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Runna, an AI-powered virtual coaching app acquired by Strava in 2025, toned down its aggressive training plans following reports of injuries from some users (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/runna-app-race-trainin…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioBecause I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPersonal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeShinyHunters publishes alleged personal data from Harvard, UPenn breaches
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/shinyhunters-claims-harvard-upenn-breaches-publishes-over-a-million-records/story
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years (Matt Shumer)
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-sho…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/word
