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A book about truth in the age of artificial intelligence has itself fallen victim to AI fabrication. The New York Times reports that a recently published title on the subject contains quotes that were simply made up by an AI system — a deeply ironic failure that raises hard questions about editorial oversight and what it means to write seriously about a technology you clearly don't fully understand yet.
Turning to a story that will frustrate anyone still holding onto an older iPhone — a former Apple software engineer is claiming the company deliberately slows down older devices through software updates. This isn't the first time Apple has faced this accusation, and while the company has previously cited battery management as the reason, the distinction between optimization and obsolescence has always felt uncomfortably thin.
And from the world of programming, a blog post arguing that essentially everything in C is undefined behavior is making the rounds among developers. It sounds like hyperbole, but the piece makes a serious point — that C's specification leaves so much to compiler interpretation that writing truly safe C code may be closer to folklore than engineering. It's a reminder that the foundations beneath modern software are older and stranger than most people realize.
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