Daily Read · 2026-03-03
17 articles · 5.0/10 avg · 0 highlights (≥7.5)
1. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · 5.0/10 · simonwillison
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family. At $0.25/million tokens of input and $1.5/million out
2. Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering · 5.0/10 · seangoedecke
3. Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and All-New Studio Display XDR · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a new family of displays engineered to pair beautifully with Mac and meet the needs of everyone, from everyday u
4. New MacBook Air With M5 · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: MacBook Air now comes standard with double the starting storage at 512GB with faster SSD technology, and is configurable up to 4TB, so
5. Apple Might Have Prematurely Leaked the Name ‘MacBook Neo’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: A regulatory document for a “MacBook Neo” (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple’s website. Unfortunately, there are no further
6. Apple Introduces MacBook Pro Models With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance an
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7. Apple Debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max, and Renames Its M-Series CPU Cores · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced M5 Pro and M5 Max, the world’s most advanced chips for pro laptops, powering the new MacBook Pro. The chips are
8. [Sponsor] npx workos: An AI Agent That Writes Auth Directly Into Your Codebase · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
npx workos launches an AI agent , powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly
9. ★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes
10. Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung (which is just an incredibly good and fun weblog): Half of my education in URLs as user interface came from Flickr i
11. ‘Anthropic and Alignment’ · 5.0/10 · daringfireball
Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery: In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that
12. Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026) · 5.0/10 · pluralistic
Today's links Supreme Court saves artists from AI: Just because you're on their side, it doesn't mean they're on your side. Hey look at this: Delights
13. Game Review: Unravel Two ★★★⯪☆ · 5.0/10 · shkspr.mobi
My new year's resolution is to play more video games. Specifically co-operative games. I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory a
14. Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media · 5.0/10 · oldnewthing
Just some useless trivia. The post Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media appeared first on The Old New Thing
15. Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt” · 5.0/10 · garymarcus
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
16. How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity · 5.0/10 · garymarcus
The road to where we are now was (mostly) paved with good intentions — but mixed with too much uncritical acceptance of hype.
17. An AI Odyssey, Part 1: Correctness Conundrum · 5.0/10 · johndcook
I recently talked with a contact who repeated what he’d heard regarding agentic AI systems—namely, that they can greatly increase productivity in prof
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