Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support (Steve Yegge/@steve_yegge)

Steve Yegge / @steve_yegge:
Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support  —  I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don't even

Sources: Apple planned to announce a smart home hub in March but it has been postponed since the device relies on the delayed Siri capabilities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple planned to announce a smart home hub in March but it has been postponed since the device relies on the delayed Siri capabilities  —  Also: The company continues to explore different glasses ideas, and the latest iOS beta software adds a Vision Pro app and new AI capabilities.

In an SEC whistleblower complaint ahead of an upcoming book, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges Facebook built a censorship system for the CPP in a bid to enter China (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
In an SEC whistleblower complaint ahead of an upcoming book, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges Facebook built a censorship system for the CPP in a bid to enter China  —  Meta went to extreme lengths, including developing a censorship system, in a failed attempt to bring Facebook to millions …

A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages (Richard MacManus/Cybercultural)

Richard MacManus / Cybercultural:
A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages  —  GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy …

Wikipedia editors and administrators detail the turmoil over maintaining neutrality on pages about the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts in the Middle East (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:
Wikipedia editors and administrators detail the turmoil over maintaining neutrality on pages about the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts in the Middle East  —  Shadow edit campaigns and political disputes have created headaches for overwhelmed editors and administrators.

As Japan copes with a labor shortage, its market for service robots, which assist people with tasks like waiting tables, is expected to almost triple by 2030 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
As Japan copes with a labor shortage, its market for service robots, which assist people with tasks like waiting tables, is expected to almost triple by 2030  —  As Japan copes with a labor shortage, the service robot market is expected to triple in the next five years.