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Who could have known. WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/us/david-hearn-reflecting-pool-vandalism-charges.html

Charges Dropped in Reflecting Pool Case as Prosecutors Say Work Was ‘Botched’A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.www.nytimes.com

Should AI companies be culpable for crimes committed by their AI? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/anthropic-ai-hack.html

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 OrganizationsThe disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.www.nytimes.com

The next time my editor asks me how my story is going, I’ll respond like Gemini just did.

I have recently been getting PR pitches touting Musk’s praise for stuff as if it were something to brag about rather than an embarrassment to try to cover up.

Also, breaking news about VCF West: If you are there on Saturday, you’ll have the opportunity to buy a (replica) Apple-1 from the Byte Shop’s Paul Terrell, for the first time since he became Apple’s original dealer 50 years ago.

It always fascinates me when companies claim that something their employees did didn’t reflect their corporate culture. Your culture is what you do. didn’https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2026/7/1785201549.html

EcommerceBytes Publishers Settle Lawsuit with eBayDavid and I officially settled the lawsuit we filed in 2021 against eBay and its former executives over the stalking ...www.ecommercebytes.com

I wonder why that would be? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-carroll.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1FA.V90m.GruTc5EiSBLN&smid=url-share

Finally some measure of justice, though former CEO Wenig clearly knew of and encouraged the plan to harass these people, and seems to have stoked the culture where this was regarded as appropriate. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/ebay-blogger-harassment-stalking-steiner.html

EBay, former execs to pay $56 million in blogger harassment and stalking caseIna and David Steiner run a popular ecommerce blog that had angered eBay executives due to its critical coverage.www.cnbc.com

Legalizing this was a huge self-own.

Sadly, the Cauzin Softstrip—which let computer magazines run software as scannable strips that looked, in retrospect, like the world’s tallest, densest QR codes—never caught on.

Is it possible that Mitch McConnell’s issue is that an extended stay in the hospital and rehabilitation has led to him being temporarily delusional, as has happened to several elderly relatives of mine? Able to smile for a photo, but not guaranteed to make sense in a live call/video appearance.

Is it normal for a plane ticket’s cost to be mostly taxes and fees?

I’m looking up stuff in 1970s issues of Creative Computing, and getting distracted by Monte Wolverton’s funny and prescient cartoons.

Thank heaven they were able to reschedule.

I paid for Wi-Fi on a United flight yesterday, and got some use out of it, but it eventually conked out. The airline just proactively issued a refund, without me having to ask for it. I didn’t know that ever happened!

I wrote about how and why Nvidia redesigned its Vera Rubin platform to eliminate dozens of cables—something I didn’t even realize was possible. https://www.fastcompany.com/91578917/nvidia-vera-rubin

Where Nvidia is going, it doesn’t need cableswww.fastcompany.com

I don’t actually want to see a movie based on my favorite Atari game, Tempest, but it does have unusually evocative display graphics.

Flight attendant on this United plane just announced they’re going to treat us like next of kin and that, in case of emergency, their goal is that we not look like a deer in the headlights or sound like Scooby Doo. She also said we should send any complaints about the flight to Delta.com.

I’m working on an article on John C. Dvorak, the king of computer magazine columnists—RIP—but in the interim, here he is from February 1984 on Macworld and computer magazines in general.