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Apple holt Halide-Mitgründer Sebastiaan de With ins Design-Team
Der bekannte App-Designer Sebastiaan de With, Mitbegründer der iPhone-Kamera-App Halide, verstärkt Apples Design-Team und wirkt am Human Interface Design mit.

Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of the iPhone camera app Halide who previously freelanced for Apple, says he has joined Apple's Human Interface Design team (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/halide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-wi…

Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple's design team - 9to5Mac
Halide and Lux co-founder and designer Sebastiaan de With announced today that he is joining Apple’s human interface design team....

Qobuz’s policy on AI-generated music.
#music #genAI

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world

Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

In conclusion, I think the GOTY of 2025 is The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.
It was extremely ambitious, made by a very small team of very dedicated people that sacrificed their health and well being to show that humans can make long narrative games without needing to use AI, and make a distinctly human piece of art without ever forgetting about their message about war, peace, tolerance, and individual decisions

In that story of the Air Force measurements, the research team came up with a completely radical suggestion:
Make the seats adjustable.
WHOA 🤯
“Adjustable seats.” seems to me like a great starting point for thinking about variations in human minds.
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/05/2025/mi…

Microsoft superintelligence team promises to keep humans in charge
Microsoft AI’s “humanist” approach to superintelligence will be led by Mustafa Suleyman.

new rule: any AI assistant with "human oversight" needs to inject some deliberate mistakes. if the human oversight misses the deliberate mistakes, the batch is sent to another team for re-evaluation, and the humans get erased and upgraded to a better model.

You can only hope this is a point in time that causes team "I have nothing to hide, why should I be afraid of surveillance tech" might wake the fuck up a bit.
https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993

A body made entirely of head-like organs
Using state-of-the-art single-cell and gene expression analyses, the researchers mapped the cell types of young post-metamorphic sea urchins.
They found that the adult body plan is largely "head-like."
Genes that in other animals define trunk structures are active only in internal organs such as the gut and the water vascular system.
In sea urchins, a true trunk region is missing altogether.
An 'all-body brain&…

Researchers discover an 'all-body brain' in sea urchins
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an "all-body brain" whose genetic organization resembles that of the vertebrate brain. The team also identified light-sensitive cells distributed across the entire body—comparable to structures found in the human retina.