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V.C. Andrews died in 1986. Since then, more than 100 novels have been published under her name by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. Most readers either never noticed or didn't care. The books still had the gothic families, dark secrets, and familiar atmosphere people expected from a V.C. Andrews novel. It got me thinking about something we're starting to see with AI. When people ask whether AI can continue the work of a deceased author, musician, or artist, they're treating it as a brand-new question. But publishing has already been running a real-world experiment for nearly 40 years. A dead author's name remained on the cover. Someone else learned the style, themes, and formula. New works were produced for an audience that wanted more of the same. The franchise continued. The obvious difference is that Neiderman was a human ghostwriter and an AI model isn't. But from the perspective of readers, what exactly is the meaningful distinction? If a future "new" novel by a deceased author is good enough that readers enjoy it and can't tell the difference, should we care how it was produced? Or is there something fundamentally different about a human ghostwriter carrying on a literary legacy versus a model trained on the author's corpus? I wrote a longer piece about the V.C. Andrews case and why it feels relevant to the future of AI-generated creative work: https://tjcrowley.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-machine-has-been Curious where people here draw the line. submitted by /u/Dependent_Run_6410 [link] [留言]

As part of Apple's worldwide developers conference (WWDC) they announced some of the new stuff coming to WebKit and Safari 27. Among them is a feature that Google Chrome got in April of last year: fully customizable select elements. As an accessibility professional, I am absolutely thrilled. I am disappointed, though, that Firefox doesn't have it yet. You can find the session for what's new here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/204 submitted by /u/ThatBlindSwiftDevGuy [link] [留言]

Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time […]

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We're open-sourcing 14 components & examples today for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX viewers, plus bounding box citations, file upload, e-signature, and more. It's MIT licensed and fully customizable. Demo video here: https://share.extend.ai/kRmSGKRF When we started, we tried every file viewer and document component library we could find. Unfortunately, none of them had all the functionality (and polish) that we wanted, so we ended up building our own for https://extend.ai/ . It was only ever meant to be

Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence. The post Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

I don’t want to stereotype all devs, but a lot of them seem to have difficult personalities. Things I’ve noticed are smugness/arrogance/elitism, gatekeeping/knowledge hoarding, favoritism/cliques, ostracism and mobbing. You have ppl who are just downright mean and carry bad attitudes who constantly need to remind you how smart they are. So they use every opportunity to show off and one up you in front to management. A lot of ppl don’t take this as a job, it’s like their entire personality. And then you have these lone wolf or extremely socially awkward types that you can barely talk to. I think it’s kinda rare to find just a normal group of chill friendly engineers to work with. Thoughts? submitted by /u/throwaway0134hdj [link] [留言]

Me: If I’m half Canadian and my wife is half Canadian (both moms) what does that make our kids? Claude: quarter Canadian. 🍁 Me: Imagine i have a box that is 50% pepper and 50% salt. And I have another box that 50% sugar and 50% salt. I mix the two together. Now it's 50% salt, 25% sugar, 25% pepper. Claude: Right — and your kids are 50% American (or whatever), 25% Canadian from you, 25% Canadian from your wife. Which adds up to half Canadian, same as each of you. The Canadian fraction doesn't shrink because both sides contributed it. Me: But your first answer was 25% (quarter) Canadian? Claude: You're right, I goofed. Following the salt logic: 25% + 25% = 50%, so they're half Canadian, same as each of you. I shouldn't have said quarter. Me: This was a really simple problem for me. What should I tell my friends about your abilities? Claud: What to tell your friends: I'm useful for research, drafting, analysis, and grinding through detail — but I can whiff on simple stuff, especially when I'm moving fast or anchoring on the wrong frame. Check my work, particularly on anything where the answer should be obvious. If it feels off, it probably is. submitted by /u/NECESolarGuy [link] [留言]

Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.