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Harry McCracken

@harrymccracken.com
36 posts
2026-03-06
God, no, not the Cluely guy. techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...
2026-03-06 View on X
TechCrunch

Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue in 2025 and that it “is the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online”

The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie …

2026-02-27
ParaWarner SkyDiscovery sounds like a terrible outcome for the industry, consumers, and democracy.  Looking on the bright side, nobody owns Warner Bros. for very long. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Netflix walks away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after WBD deemed Paramount's $31/share bid to be superior; NFLX jumps 8%+

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed …

2026-02-26
I can't remember the last time a smartphone got an all-new feature that sounded this compelling.  (I wonder if it will become table stakes?) www.theverge.com/tech/884337/ ...
2026-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash

Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.

I can't remember the last time a smartphone got an all-new feature that sounded this compelling.  (I wonder if it will become table stakes?) www.theverge.com/tech/884337/ ...
2026-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: the two sets of pixels that lets users toggle the viewing angle to prevent screen peeking is very impressive

New hardware features?  At a time like this? … Maybe it's a reflection of just how slow hardware innovation has been …

2026-01-22
Now I'm having these horrible visions of this failing so badly that Apple has to sell itself to HP.  —  www.theinformation.com/articles/ app...
2026-01-22 View on X
The Information

Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, which it could launch as early as 2027

Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …

Now I'm having these horrible visions of this failing so badly that Apple has to sell itself to HP.  —  www.theinformation.com/articles/ app...
2026-01-22 View on X
The Information

A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026

The Information:

2025-12-29
The guy who proved it's possible to be a high-achieving CEO in multiple, seemingly unrelated fields.  But how many other examples are there?  RIP. www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
2025-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure

Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday.

2025-12-22
I do think we might all be better off if chatbots were trained to be anodyne, not friendly.  I love Google's AI Studio in part because it just does what I tell it to do, and is devoid of manufactured charm. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
2025-12-22 View on X
New York Times

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them

I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.

2025-12-07
Sorry, there's no such thing as refounding a company. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...
2025-12-07 View on X
New York Times

In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are “refounding”, as they scramble to add new AI features

In the age of artificial intelligence, some company leaders are framing new business lines as radical reboots.

2025-12-04
This is shocking to me.  Then again, I'm not sure when I last bought a RAM upgrade.  —  (In the 90s, Micron made some good PCs.) www.theverge.com/news/837594/ ...
2025-12-04 View on X
Reuters

Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage

because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI ...

2025-11-21
I'm excited by this news.  (My biggest remaining bit of Apple ecosystem lock-in is my Apple Watch, which I wouldn't want to give up and is predicated on me having an iPhone.) blog.google/products/and...
2025-11-21 View on X
The Keyword

Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make file transfers between iPhones and Android devices easier, starting with the Pixel 10 family

Will Apple Kill It? Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : QuickShare Now Interoperable With AirDrop: Send Files From Android to Apple via Pixel 10 Corey Blackwell / WebProNews : Google's A...

2025-11-16
Excessive use of em dashes would be about #25 on my list of telltale signs something was written by AI.  And it's far from the most annoying one.  —  (My personal #1 annoying telltale sign is endless use of “It wasn't just x, it was also y”-type constructions.) techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/o...
2025-11-16 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI

Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekash...

2025-11-15
Excessive use of em dashes would be about #25 on my list of telltale signs something was written by AI.  And it's far from the most annoying one.  —  (My personal #1 annoying telltale sign is endless use of “It wasn't just x, it was also y”-type constructions.) techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/o...
2025-11-15 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to.  The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped …

2025-10-30
I spoke with Logitech's CEO about products old (mice), new (environmental sensors), AI, tariffs, and more. www.fastcompany.com/91428349/ log...
2025-10-30 View on X
Fast Company

Q&A with Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber on software-enabled hardware, prioritizing design, launching about 40 new products each year, AI, tariffs, and more

Harry McCracken / Fast Company :

2025-10-09
What possibile justification is there for this? www.404media.co/apple-banned...
2025-10-09 View on X
404 Media

Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations

and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights.  —...

2025-07-09
Tay on steroids.  —  (Remind me again why people are supposed to feel guilty about abandoning Twitter?) gizmodo.com/round-them-u...
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

Tay on steroids.  —  (Remind me again why people are supposed to feel guilty about abandoning Twitter?) gizmodo.com/round-them-u...
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

2025-06-25
They shoulda had U2 compose the score for this movie. techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/i...
2025-06-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after the Apple Wallet app pushed a notification that promoted a $10 discount at Fandango for Apple's F1 movie

Casey Liss: … In case you forgot after F1 got multiple sections … Kelsey Fogarty / Pocket-lint : This F1 stunt in your Apple Wallet deserves a penalty flag David Uzondu / Neowin : ...

I hadn't thought about Monster in years, but once upon a time, it WAS online job hunting.  It could have been LinkedIn before there was a LinkedIn. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
2025-06-25 View on X
Reuters

CareerBuilder + Monster, which once dominated online recruitment, files for Chapter 11 and agrees to sell its job board to JobGet and sell its other businesses

Two of the most prominent legacy job application sites file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Jordan Valinsky / CNN : Monster and CareerBuilder, once popular with job seekers, file for ba...

2025-06-08
I'm very sorry to hear about the death of Bill Atkinson, a genius whose impact on computing history and life in general is huge.  In 2019, I got to spend some time chatting with him and looking at his incredible Polaroids documenting the Lisa's development, and my awe only increased.  [images]
2025-06-08 View on X
Daring Fireball

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer

From his family, on Atkinson's Facebook page: … One of the great heroes in not just Apple history, but computer history.