Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits, it’s worth paying attention. In a recent long-form interview, Ilya Sutskever – co-founder of OpenAI and now head of Safe Superintelligence Inc. – argued that the industry is moving from an “age of scaling” to […]
Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices
Created on 26.11.25 Earlier this year I demoed iOS 6 running on an iPod touch 3 – a device that Apple never gave iOS 6 to, making iOS 5.1.1 the latest build it can run A few months later I also released a script that generates an iOS 6 restore image installable on that iPod […]
Bring Back Doors – Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
I’m done. I’m done arriving at hotels and discovering that they have removed the bathroom door. Something that should be as standard as having a bed, has been sacrificed in the name of “aesthetic”. I get it, you can save on material costs and make the room feel bigger, but what about my dignity??? I […]
Why Strong Consistency?
Eventual consistency makes your life harder. When I started at AWS in 2008, we ran the EC2 control plane on a tree of MySQL databases: a primary to handle writes, a secondary to take over from the primary, a handful of read replicas to scale reads, and some extra replicas for doing latency-insensitive reporting stuff. […]
EU approves Chat Control policy
The EU Council reached an agreement on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation Voluntary chat scanning remains in the bill despite privacy backlash The Council now prepares to start negotiations with the Parliament The EU Council has finally reached an agreement on the controversial Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) after more than three years of failed […]
The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
Last year, Apple finally added support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) texting to its platforms, improving consistency, reliability, and security when exchanging green-bubble texts between the competing iPhone and Android ecosystems. Today, Google is announcing another small step forward in interoperability, pointing to a slightly less annoying future for friend groups or households where not […]
AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling
Out of nowhere, Google brought cross-platform AirDrop support to the Pixel 10 this week, allowing the company’s latest lineup of flagships to safely and securely send photos, files, and more to the iPhone. While it initially seemed like this was a rogue move made by Google to coerce Apple into another boundary-breaking decision, it might […]
Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
Tags: #Blogging #ClassicCinema #ModernMovies #Netflix #Streaming I was rewatching The Silence of the Lambs the other night, and something hit me hard. This movie, made in 1991, feels more alive, more gripping, more real than most things coming out today. And it got me thinking: why do 80s and 90s movies seem so much better […]
Crews Claim Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns
🦅 The best of the Banner in your inbox with The Flyer newsletter. Willie Shane broke the asphalt on Elon Musk’s Music City Loop project this summer. Seven of his crew had been the sole excavators, fabricators and dump trucking company on The Boring Company’s proposed tunnel through Nashville for months. Then came Monday night, […]
The most male and female reasons to end up hospital
In which some stereotypes are resoundingly confirmed The first post I wrote for this blog was about people being injured by dogs. Specifically, how much of this goes on, and what counts as a lot. We can measure this reasonably well in England, because the health service publishes annual data for hospital admissions showing what […]