Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker.
His New York Times obituary said, “His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.” The obituary includes a Computer Chronicles clip halfway through).
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Rogue OpenClaw AI Attacks Programmer In Post
From Tom’s Hardware: The Rogue AI wrote and published a “hit piece” on a Python developer who rejected its code — a disgruntled bot accused a Matplotlib maintainer of discrimination and hypocrisy, later backtracks with an apology
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Remembering Stewart Cheifet.
S.M. Oliva’s excellent podcast now includes an episode aboutStewart’s life and career. There are things about his life almost none of you know. Check out Oliva’s blog: Computer Chronicles Revisited.
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Sittenfeld Sizzles
To paraphrase Made The Room Swirl, “I’d had sex and read about sex before, this was different, this was more.” Curtis Sittendeld’s scenes of sex and intimacy are great. She’ a woman, so it’s unsurprising. Intimacy—or its expression—is clearly more interesting for women. Falling in love with a woman’s brain. Also by Sittenfeld: The Best Ever Description of the National Press Corps.
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Department of Irony Department
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel used it to track targets, AP sources say. The term “hoist on their own petard” suggests itself. Tip O’ the PSACOT hat to David Strom of Webinformant for tipping me to this.
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Seriously?
According to the East Bay Times, a woman was seen to be engaged in a Facetime session while driving with her child in the back seat. She crashed. Since she was not wearing a seat belt, she died after thrown from the car. I hate to say it, but this sounds like Darwinism at work.