Starting with the iMac, Jobs and Apple went on one of the all-time hot streaks in business history, churning out hit products, cultural revolutions, and game-changing new ideas about the future. From that May day in 1998 to the January Macworld in 2007 when Jobs revealed the iPhone — a time you might call the iDecade — Apple was on a product tear the likes of which we’ve never seen before or since. (The Verge)
I haven’t gone down the ‘do it all for me’ agent route as pioneered by OpenClaw. So far Claude and Claude Cowork are doing all I need.
If I did want a 24/7 all knowing, all doing agent then I would choose NanoClaw. Not initially as broadly capable as OpenClaw - need to train with ‘skills’ - but much, much more secure and robust.
NanoClaw are now making their implementation even more robust.
The chart doing the rounds today is brutal. Melbourne’s weighted average fuel price sits at $3.02 per litre. The equivalent electricity to drive an Electric Vehicle the same distance? $0.35. That’s 2.13 kWh at 16.3c/kWh. An 88% cost advantage.
It lines up neatly with The Driven’s reporting that petrol and diesel prices are soaring while EV fast-charging costs are actually falling. Two lines on a graph heading in opposite directions. The crossover story writes itself.
OpenYak looks like a genuinely capable local AI agent. File automation, data analysis, 46 MCP connectors, persistent memory. The price against Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is hard to argue with: free, open source, one-click install. But there’s a detail buried in the feature list that should give you pause. “Auto-updating via GitHub releases.” That sentence is doing a lot of work. Every time OpenYak checks for an update, it trusts the GitHub repository to be exactly what it says it is.
Google’s TurboQuant algorithm compresses the KV cache (the RAM-hungry memory core of every large language model) by 6x, with no accuracy trade-off and no model retraining required. It operates near the theoretical lower bound of what information theory says is even possible. This is not incremental. If adopted at scale, the economics of AI inference flip. adlrocha’s writeup is the clearest explanation I’ve seen of why this matters.
What an epic movie. Received 8.5/10 on IMDB. I agree. Best movie I’ve seen in years. Skillful storytelling and cinematography. VFX to support the story, not swamp it. I will avoid spoilers. Loved the book - listened as an audio-book as I drove the 6+ hours drive to and from Canberra in the back end of 2024 as my father spent months in hospital. The audio-book was 16 hrs and 10 mins!
I’m never quite sure where to sit at the cinema. Too close feels wrong. Too far back feels like watching television. I end up somewhere in the middle and spend the first ten minutes of the film wondering if I got it right. So before heading to the Cameo Cinema in Belgrave on Sunday to see Project Hail Mary, I did what any reasonable person does in 2026. I asked Claude.
• What AI Hypists Miss - by Francis Fukuyama - Persuasion (persuasion.community) Francis Fukuyama examines the limitations and blind spots of artificial intelligence hype, arguing that AI systems fail to adequately address real-world complexities and practical challenges.
• Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis? (houseofsaud.com) Explores the controversial hypothesis that artificial intelligence psychosis or sycophancy may have influenced geopolitical decisions leading to conflict with Iran.
• The ‘Paperwork Flood’: How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles (sightlessscribbles.com) A humorous narrative exploring the overwhelming burden of bureaucratic paperwork and administrative red tape. The author uses satirical storytelling to illustrate how excessive documentation and procedural requirements can overwhelm even seasoned professionals
• Austria Plans Social Media Ban For Under-14s (tech.slashdot.org) Austria proposes implementing a social media ban for children under 14 years old, addressing concerns about youth online safety and digital platform usage among minors.
My first public internet post was in 1991. It was a post in rec.music.beatles which I accessed using a unix session over dial-up internet - 14,400 kbaud. Smoking fast!
Even then it was obvious that Paul McCartney’s voice was getting ‘worn’. He was 48 years old. Had been a consistent smoker and didn’t believe in hydrating during long concerts. He’s only recently decided to do it. A bit late at age 83!
In January, pre-restarting this blog, I sent a note to a friend listing 23 Chinese EV brands either confirmed, launching or strongly indicated for the Australian market by 2026. Twenty-three. In a country that sells 1.2 million new cars a year.
I wrote: “Are they all going to have service and parts for the next 7 years? What about beyond that?”
Today we got the first answer. No.
