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IT, Technology

GPT-6 Astra: And the future of work…

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These product videos, especially at the start of a new technology, are always important in showing people how to use the new technology. So a couple of notes.

  • It’s a home setting. Obviously a studio but it represents a home.
  • There is no team work.
  • It’s dark. There are no windows.

The future of work?

GPT-6 Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks for long-running computer-use tasks across professions and desktop apps, which means anything you…

Introducing GPT-6 Astra: the most intelligent and aligned model in the world. – YouTube

Apple, IT

Why is this not built-in?

Why is my MacBook charging slowly? WhatCable shows USB-C cable speed, charging power, and e-marker data in plain English. Featured in The Verge, ZDNet, and 9to5Mac.

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can really do

DXC, IT, Uncategorized

Richard Wilkinson on AI infrastructure at Scale | Data Centre Magazine

Episode 3 of the Data Centre Podcast: DXC’s Richard Wilkinson discusses AI at scale, data sovereignty, quantum computing and the future of data centres

Episode 3 | Richard Wilkinson on AI infrastructure at Scale | Data Centre Magazine

DXC, IT, Uncategorized

The Brutal Cost of Digital Sovereignty & The AI Catch-22…

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The data centre industry has suddenly become the centre of the corporate universe—but European enterprises are about to run straight into a massive regulator…

Richard Wilkinson: The Brutal Cost of Digital Sovereignty & The AI Catch-22 : Data Centre LIVE 2026 – YouTube

Apple, IT

10 Years of Daring Fireball…

It’s the blog that I check first and the only one where I have the T-shirt! It’s been an interesting ten years. I started reading before I understood what he was talking about.

I think that Gruber’s writing has had too much influence on me. When I started reading I didn’t own a single Apple product or admit to liking 2001 too much!

Distant Shape: 10 Years of Daring Fireball.

IT, Technology, Uncategorized

The future of the corporate computer…

The future of the corporate computer – One Man and His Blog.

OK so we all agree that this is the future of corporate computing. It’s what the users want and the good employees want this flexibility. Do we know of anyone that is actually implementing this today rather than just openning up Outlook to iPads?

As an interesting aside; the corporate move to HTML was initially sold to allow a move this sort of flexibility. The move to HTML is now almost complete and there is no no excuse. Wonder what reason they’ll find at HQ to push this down the road?

 

Apple, IT

Apps vs. HTML 5…

Are Apps that much more valuable HTML 5?

A Little Devil’s Advocacy on iPad Subs – One Man and His Blog

I think that only Apple has realized that the App Store is so valuable because it’s not full of the rubbish that fills a Google results page.

Will Google understand this?