Brad Sams

Brad Sams

@bdsams.com

Building apps you love for Windows @stardock | Xbox and Windows on Youtube- youtube.com/@bdsams

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Not enough margin in the wheels to keep this product alive.

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Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and says it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sony's rumored changes to exclusives makes sense if they see their future as a hardware vendor. It's easier to sell hardware long-term but you sacrifice short-term revenue. If true, this signals Sony doesnt want to become a publisher first and wants to be more like Nintendo

Apple desktops for sale today: - Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, $6999 - Mac Studio with M3 Ultra, $3999 It doesnt really make any sense why you would buy either of those?

I'm old enough to remember when Apple laughed at Microsoft for doing this.

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Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

One of the "a ha" sorta moments with the new app we are building was I needed annotations for a slide deck...so I gave it the image and it built an annotation tool for me in a minute..full drag and drop, line drawing and editing. Disposable apps are here.

is it a rootkit again?

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Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

And they are announcing this with a new TV ad

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Anthropic says Claude "will remain ad-free", users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

New Update Day: Connection Explorer .90 is here! 🔥Overhauled the Firewall panel...now 1 click to block inbound or outbound connections 💻 App icons for each process Lots of perf improvements as well

Apple picks Google Gemini to backbone Siri because it has the best technology for it. Absolutely not because Google has been paying Apple billions per year for default search status.

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Apple announces a multi-year deal to use Google's Gemini to power new Siri features later in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Christmas project…use a 1090 antenna to capture flight data of aircraft overhead and get it to display on a matrix display…🎉

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Added transition animation for delay to lookup airport origin and destination …need to add aircraft model back in somewhere.

Almost done, 3d printed shell for the display, also now displays aircraft type (altitude/aircraft type rotate every 3 seconds)

Christmas project…use a 1090 antenna to capture flight data of aircraft overhead and get it to display on a matrix display…🎉

Shoutout to the parents assembling poorly documented toys tonight and swearing that a part is missing only to find it a few minutes later.

If OpenAI valuation hiccups and every company has to markdown their investment, the stock market will collapse

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Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Microsoft probably gave LG money to put Xbox Cloud Gaming on LG TVs and that's not working out (?) so they changed it to Copilot.

Connection Explorer Beta 2 is now available. 📊 - Bandwidth monitoring 🗺️ - New 'focus mode' for clustered dots ⌛- New activity timeline And lots of minor fixes, updates, enhancements

Copilot? 🤔

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Source: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Next Connection Explorer update will have this pretty timeline to show the relationship of your bandwidth, apps, and total connections over time...help to identify outliers

This is dummy data i loaded in but the goal is to apply a visual layer to what is happening... "why was there a lot of data egress 36hrs ago with few connections active?"

"We are always working to bring the best value to our customers (and we really appreciate you!!!) and to help keep our content to the level you expect, we are raising your monthly subscription by $3"

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Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink