📰 AI Blog Daily Digest — 2026-05-02
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🥇 iNaturalist Sightings
iNaturalist Sightings — simonwillison.net · 10h ago · 📝 Other
Tool: iNaturalist Sightings I wanted to see my iNaturalist observations - across two separate accounts - grouped by when they occurred. I’m camping this weekend so I built this entirely on my phon
🥈 More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution
More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution — daringfireball.net · 4h ago · 📝 Other
Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund check without drawing the ire of Donald “Tar
🥉 Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet
Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet — daringfireball.net · 9h ago · 📝 Other
Remember the appalling but utterly-unsurprising story two months ago where a team of investigative reporters in Sweden uncovered a company in Kenya contracted by Meta to review video content captured
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1. iNaturalist Sightings
iNaturalist Sightings — simonwillison.net · 10h ago · ⭐ 15/30
Tool: iNaturalist Sightings I wanted to see my iNaturalist observations - across two separate accounts - grouped by when they occurred. I’m camping this weekend so I built this entirely on my phon
2. More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution
More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution — daringfireball.net · 4h ago · ⭐ 15/30
Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund check without drawing the ire of Donald “Tar
3. Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet
Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet — daringfireball.net · 9h ago · ⭐ 15/30
Remember the appalling but utterly-unsurprising story two months ago where a team of investigative reporters in Sweden uncovered a company in Kenya contracted by Meta to review video content captured
4. Tim Cook’s Clever Solution to the Tariff Refund Puzzle
Tim Cook’s Clever Solution to the Tariff Refund Puzzle — daringfireball.net · 9h ago · ⭐ 15/30
One more from Jason Snell, from his analysis of Apple’s quarterly results:
During a complicated question from J.P. Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee about product margins, Parekh unusually half-answ
5. Editing my LLM assisted Articles
Editing my LLM assisted Articles — idiallo.com · 3h ago · ⭐ 15/30
Last year, I used AI to help me write articles. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s convenient when you are doing so because it saves you time. But the problem comes up when you try to quote those articles
6. Disable Auto-Update
Disable Auto-Update — idiallo.com · 6h ago · ⭐ 15/30
How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just disappeared from my phone?
I use a fitness app. My metrics, such as steps, workout routines, heart
7. Some of our servers revived themselves unexpectedly
Some of our servers revived themselves unexpectedly — utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks · 2h ago · ⭐ 15/30
We have a whole building, weekend long power shutdown in the building with our machine room that officially starts tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 5am, which is the motivation for our newly added tempo
8. Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment
Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment — devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing · 16h ago · ⭐ 15/30
Recovering from death of the owner. The post Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment appeared first on The Old New Thing.
9. “A model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, maintainable, well-architected software”
“A model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, maintainable, well-architected software” — garymarcus.substack.com · 10h ago · ⭐ 15/30
A lot of code is being written by AI, but what does it mean?
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