tl;dr — Week 36, 2025
Weather in your calendar
A nice service that I stumbled across. Subscribe to an online calendar that displays the weather forecast right in your calendar application of choice. Useful when scheduling sun-required events.
Exploiting AI via the browser
Why is no one talking about this?
— zack (in SF) (@zack_overflow) August 23, 2025
This is why I don't use an AI browser
You can literally get prompt injected and your bank account drained by doomscrolling on reddit: https://t.co/keiz7bL2XX pic.twitter.com/aGN8xrdZtD
OpenAI, Perplexity, Dia etc. are all focusing on transforming the browser as the next big gateway into AI for the common people. I can build directly upon last week's tldr on AI security, with Perplexity Comet proving the point to be weary of agentic AI.
Bringing sense to AI usage
David Autor, James Manyika
This article was shared all over the internet the last weeks. How much cognitive power do we offload and are we willing to lose any?
Correlating pizza to crisis
Systema
Every time a major event or crisis occurred near the Pentagon, neighboring pizza places saw their orders increase. Over time journalists became aware of this and started observing the pizza shops in order to assess seriousness of ongoing events. A fun read, with its own history tracking website
Hype sensitivity of the tech sector
This article is in Dutch
A highly resonating article. I often find myself wondering whether the tech sector doesn’t see consider itself too much larger than life. Are we losing the focus on delivering value over hype & self-credit?