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Apple said on October 2, 2026, that it will introduce additional controls around Full Disk Access in macOS, stating in a post on its Developer News site that some developers are using the permission in ways that could put users at risk and that the risks tied to that level of access will grow as…

Allow me to paint a scene: you get a new dataset and need to explore it, so you don’t change a single number, but you make three different visualizations. If you showed those visualizations to three different people, they’d likely walk away with three slightly different impressions of what the data means. That is one…

When I ask a data scientist to explain an analysis, I am often handed a pull request and sent away to understand the implementation. Twenty minutes later, I may understand how the code is organized and still not know what the data showed. I want to understand the question, what we found, and whether the…

Part 1 of this series, “Why a green test suite can mean nothing”, started from the golden rule I worked to on General Motors’ Super Cruise and Ultra Cruise programs: the person who builds the system must never be the person who verifies it. It then described a new workflow that enforces that rule between…

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers…

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes.

For a moment, it looked like Starship’s first attempt at orbital flight would end in failure.

The United States Navy has long been the world’s dominant blue-water navy, thanks to its huge fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. As of this writing, the U.S. Navy operates 11 active aircraft carriers, which is to say nothing about smaller helicopter carriers. When the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) entered the fleet in 2017, it…

AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in a $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today.

Imagine you are building a robot to sort mail. You give it a set of simple rules: if the envelope is small, put it in the “letters” bin; if the envelope is large, put it in the “packages” bin. This is how traditional computer programming works. It relies on exact, rigid rules that humans write,…