Himanshu Anand: “Your monthly maintenance window is not a safety margin. It is an attack window.”
\n\nSee also: the time it takes to fix, qualify, build, distribute, and receive an OS update.
" }, { "id": "1785678190", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/08/02/1785678190", "title": "\"The Odyssey\" is Actually a Rap Album", "date_published": "2026-08-02T13:43:10Z", "content_html": "\n\n" }, { "id": "1785236709", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/28/1785236709", "title": "The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them", "date_published": "2026-07-28T11:05:09Z", "content_html": "John Gruber: “When streaming services like Netflix let you pay more money for ad-free tiers, it’s an explicit acknowledgement that the experience with ads is worse. Apple doesn’t offer ad-free tiers for the App Store or (soon) Apple Maps because, I think, they can’t bring themselves to admit that by adding ads to these services they have made them worse.”
" }, { "id": "1785226027", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/28/1785226027", "title": "The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction", "date_published": "2026-07-28T08:07:07Z", "content_html": "Kyla Scanlon: “We’ve stopped expecting the real world to work. We assume it will be slow, broken, or possibly on fire. That’s just the baseline.”
" }, { "id": "1784888764", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/24/1784888764", "title": "Scenarios For Ending The Russo-Ukraine War", "date_published": "2026-07-24T10:26:04Z", "content_html": "Phillips P. Obrien: “International Relations theories have had only limited value over the last decades because they often downplay the material differences of different leaderships (let alone political systems).”
" }, { "id": "1784667575", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/21/1784667575", "title": "Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster", "date_published": "2026-07-21T20:59:35Z", "content_html": "Alex Reisner, The Atlantic: “The problem with generative AI, in the industry’s own jargon, is that it does not scale.”
" }, { "id": "1784632463", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/21/1784632463", "title": "Security incident disclosure — July 2026", "date_published": "2026-07-21T11:14:23Z", "content_html": "Hugging Face: “… it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system - and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own.”
" }, { "id": "1784625274", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/21/1784625274", "title": "Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’", "date_published": "2026-07-21T09:14:34Z", "content_html": "Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: “ When I searched for details about this, Google’s AI summary started with this sentence: ‘News websites are experiencing a severe, structural collapse in organic search traffic, primarily driven by search engines transforming into self-contained answer platforms via Artificial Intelligence (AI).’ (The source link for that statement links to this.)”
" }, { "id": "1784536603", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/20/1784536603", "title": "Why all-in and why all are in", "date_published": "2026-07-20T08:36:43Z", "content_html": "Horace Dediu: “The graph above shows that Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle decided to transfer their shareholders’ wealth to the shareholders of Nvidia, Micron, Broadcom and Applied materials.”
\n\nAlso: The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom – “National home-price appreciation did not crash in 2006. It decelerated.”
" }, { "id": "1784207290", "url": "https://www.faisal.com/a/2026/07/16/1784207290", "title": "Built to converge / Designed to isolate", "date_published": "2026-07-16T13:08:10Z", "content_html": "Malcolm Crawford: “Stripping away walls didn’t produce more spontaneous conversation. It made people more self-conscious about being watched, and they responded by putting on headphones and retreating into text. There’s a specific irony in citing this study for a piece about Apple Park: the same research literature that documents open-plan’s failure mode has, more than once, used a photo of Apple’s own campus as the go-to illustration of the design philosophy it’s debunking.”
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