Heise reports that Chrome added “digital signatures” and annotations. Google’s own release wording (“annotate, highlight and draw a signature on a PDF”) conveys the same, but is only accurate for UX, not for standards semantics: this is proprietary scribbling, not digital signing. Worse, it breaks real digital signatures that are already in a do... Read more... 21 Feb 2026
OpenAI’s LLMs have improved utility in Swift coding a lot since GPT-4. But still, the Apple Swift Playground(s) variety - particularly on iPad - is not covered well. (Swift Playgrounds is positioned for programming beginners, but another plus is that it’s a dynamic code execution environment on iPad). With a recent EPUB creation project from onl... Read more... 15 Feb 2026
I have published Aileen 3, a Generative AI system to help with cutting down on the steady information (over-)flow through podcasts, conference sessions etc. Its predecessor Aileen 2 was about building personalized summaries of German parliament proceedings. Aileen 3 broadens the scope and narrows the output by moving to the concept of expectatio... Read more... 08 Feb 2026
OpenAI released “Codex app”, a nice GUI re-imagination of Codex CLI. It’s currently only available for macOS, with support for Linux and Windows coming “in a week or two”. While it, as the other Codex products, continues to be positioned as centered around coding, suitability for tasks other than coding was confirmed on the Codex AMA on X: possi... Read more... 05 Feb 2026
Sparks of AGI, revisited Back in 2023, Sparks of AGI implemented reverse engineering through reverse prompting: GPT-4 instructed the user to run Unix tools like file , strings , a debugger, and a disassembler, and then reasoned from the outputs. The paper’s reverse engineering example is essentially a supervised, tool-mediated process where the ... Read more... 31 Jan 2026