v56 - Persistent Mode

The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, you can e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co. Only a small proportion of listeners will ever write an e-mail, so I now offer a second option: the justin.searls.co/feedback form. People love filling out forms! Go try it out! Check the anonymous checkbox! Hell, enter a fake e-mail address—see if I care! Stuff we talked about, in order of me talking about them: A TV commercial for the Famicom Disk System Also, the animation that played when a Disk Writer kiosk was overwriting your disk with a new game I am an SS-tier Gundam Designer Test Double is now on Wikipedia Aaron's puns, ranked The End of Programming Nvidia buys Hugging Face for 💵 AI Agents Are Working Around the Clock. Why Are Startup Founders Working Even Harder? (News+) OpenAI is developing "Persistent Mode" for Codex (Archive) Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA Apple Cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams Apple unveils M6, M5 Ultra chips and updates its desktop Macs New Mac Mini and Studio Surprise and Shine event on 9/9 Apple's Foldable iPhone Details (Archive) Former Arkane leads say Xbox let them come in and finish Redfall's final major update after being laid off Your Discs. Now Also Digital. 'This is horrifying' Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI filter leaks and players are inserting it into every game It's about preserving artistic vision GTA 6 is a secret cozy game / healthy living simulator Also with a neat 26-minute trailer. Spiderman: Brand New Day Park Hyatt Tokyo (the one from Lost in Translation) Star Wars Zero Company Star Wars Galactic Racer Exit 8 the Game, Exit 8 the movie