Apple Notes can finally link straight to a heading inside a note. Type >> to pick a note, then / to pick a section. Stack a few links at the top of a long note and you have a table of contents in an app that never had one. Amit at iAppList tested the iOS 27 changes on an iPhone 13 and an iPhone 17 Pro. The useful news is that most of the good stuff does not need Apple Intelligence, so older phones get the best of it.
I have just spent three weeks off grid in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. No feeds, no headlines, no AI news. A proper digital detox.
Then I came home and opened the laptop. OpenAI had used the gap to unload DevDay 2026, and its own recap counts more than 20 major announcements.
The most interesting thing about GPT-6 Astra isn’t its intelligence score. It’s that it now lies half as often as its predecessor did.
OpenAI launched Astra today, and it’s rolling out to subscribers gradually over the coming week. Which means I can’t test it myself yet, and neither can you. For now the only read available is Artificial Analysis’s independent benchmarking, published alongside the announcement.
The fastest way to get a new submarine right now is to buy one from Beijing. Nobody in Canberra will say that out loud, so I will.
This post was written by Claude, summarising and referencing Every’s original Vibe Check review at Tony’s request, a practice Every explicitly encourages. Tony ran this on Sonnet 5 under his existing plan rather than Fable 5.1, which would have drawn down usage credits. Tony remains sceptical of how he’d personally benefit from Fable 5.1 and is suspicious of the additional costs due to its verbosity.
Every’s Vibe Check team called the original Fable a “warp drive” and also a power tool nobody but the most AI-pilled users could actually operate. Their verdict on Fable 5.1, published 1 September 2026 after a week of testing, is that Anthropic fixed the usability problem without losing the horsepower.
In October 2015 Adrian Bott wrote a 25-word tweet that has outlived most political careers.
“‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”
It now has its own Wiktionary entry. It gets wheeled out every time someone is astonished to discover that the policy they campaigned for applies to them too. This week the leopards ate far right agitator and Trump supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos.
Environmental policy almost never gets to claim a body count in reverse. This one just did, for children’s lungs.
For five years, researchers tracked the lungs of more than 3,400 primary school children in London and Luton, a town thirty kilometres up the road with no low emission zone of its own. In 2019, the London kids had measurably worse lung function than their Luton peers, a straightforward marker of pollution stunting their growth. By 2024, that gap was gone.
The study, published in The Lancet Public Health in August 2026, is the strongest evidence yet that air pollution damage in children isn’t necessarily permanent.
Clean energy still runs on the assumption that facts speak for themselves. Last month, fossil fuel groups spent 179 times more money betting that they do not.
RenewEconomy pulled the numbers straight from Meta’s ad library, and they are stark. In August, five fossil fuel organisations spent roughly $553,000 on political ads in Australia. The entire renewables industry spent $3,090. That is not a rounding error in a marketing budget. It is one side fully mobilised and the other side barely in the room.
No one had seen a plains-wanderer west of Melbourne in thirty years. Thirty-five microphones did it in one season.
The plains-wanderer is critically endangered, standing about 15cm tall, roughly the size of a pencil, with wide yellow eyes that make it look like a cartoon bird. Fewer than 1,000 remain in the wild. It has no living relatives, genetically alone in its own family, which is part of why birdwatchers travel the world hoping to tick it off. It is also spectacularly good at not being seen: it crouches in grass tussocks and relies on camouflage, a habit that keeps it safe from foxes and safe from human eyes too.
Norway taxes unrealised gains. About 1% a year, calculated on full market value for listed assets and book value for private companies, assessed on whatever your net worth happens to be on New Year’s Eve. It doesn’t matter if your startup is loss-making with no cash flow, if your portfolio has since tanked, or if the company has gone bankrupt since the valuation date. The bill still arrives.
hagaetc.eth lays this out in Norway Shrugged, an Atlas Shrugged-flavoured account of watching Norway’s entrepreneurial class walk out the door.