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Article URL: https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/what-we-learned-elon-musk-sam-altman

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Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/products-are-out-brains-are-in-new/

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Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd

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I got frustrated hearing about phone snatching in London - thieves grab unlocked phones and immediately access banking apps, messages, photos. Android has had Theft Detection Lock since 2024 while iOS still has nothing.

Apple's Stolen Device Protection delays password changes but doesn't touch the content of an unlocked phone. So I wired a few things together:

- CMMotionManager at 20Hz for grab detection. I tried CMMotionActivityManager first - total waste of time. It reports "Unknown" instead of "Running", flickers between states and has a much bigger delay.

- FamilyControls + ManagedSettings for system-level shields. As there's no way to lock the phone programmatically I came up with the idea of locking the desired apps. The shield overlay persists after force-close and there's no way to dismiss it without opening the app and passing Face ID.

- Background location at kCLLocationAccuracyThreeKilometers to keep the accelerometer alive when the app is suspended. The data is never transmitted — coordinates are stored locally only when a snatch triggers so you can see where it happened.

Main weakness I should mention: deleting the app removes the shields. You can mitigate this with Screen Time passcode + disabling app deletion in Settings, but it's not automatic.

No analytics, no tracking, no network calls.

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Article URL: https://speytech.com/insights/rotational-bot-identity-detection/

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Article URL: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rcp85-is-officially-dead

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Article URL: https://peeklens.ai/

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Article URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6205492/

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Article URL: https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/

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Article URL: https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb

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Article URL: https://www.downes.ca/post/38526

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Article URL: https://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Nine-Things-I-Learned-In-Ninety-Years.pdf

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Article URL: https://openkaiden.ai/

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Article URL: https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@andvgal/how-agile-became-a-mis-agile-disaster-1c1905cba329

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Article URL: https://kixpanganiban.bearblog.dev/the-age-of-thin-clients-and-middle-managers/

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Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Lightroom-CC-Linux

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Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/16/your-browser-probably-lies-to-the-big-sites-blame-chrome/

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