Jarred Sumner (via Hacker News):
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
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- Bun stays open-source & MIT-licensed
- Bun continues to be extremely actively maintained
- The same team still works on Bun
- Bun is still built in public on GitHub
- Bun’s roadmap will continue to focus on high performance JavaScript tooling, Node.js compatibility & replacing Node.js as the default server-side runtime for JavaScript
[…]
Instead of putting our users & community through “Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization” – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.
Previously:
Acquisition Anthropic Artificial Intelligence Bun Business Claude JavaScript Node.js Open Source
Mitch Stone:
According to Activity Monitor, the corespotlightd process often occupies more than 100% of the CPU load, sometimes spiking as high as 400% on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio. This problem has become so severe that it often pinwheels under normally non-intensive tasks. It can cause the video to flicker on my Studio Display. In one case it caused my Mac to kernel panic (crash).
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All this said, based on the now 12(!) pages of discussion since I started this thread, I have become convinced that the problem is Spotlight trying to index documents with a large number of edits. This is exactly how it manifested for me, with an 80k word Pages document being edited by two people with Track Changes turned on. Between us, this resulted in probably more than a thousand edits. Towards the end of the editing, I was seeing beach balling every time I opened this document for more than a few minutes at a time, and had one kernel panic.
Once this editing process was completed, I Finder copied the document. I can now open and make additional edits to the copy without incident.
KWiPod:
For three days now:
• I’ve been editing these local Pages files, keeping them open alongside other apps like Mail, Messages, and large Numbers spreadsheets (still stored in iCloud).
• There have been no corespotlightd spikes.
• In fact, the corespotlightd process doesn’t appear at all in Activity Monitor when working outside of iCloud.
• In contrast, with Pages files stored in iCloud/Documents or iCloud/Desktop, corespotlightd is always active.
This suggests a strong link between Pages auto-saving to iCloud Drive and Spotlight re-indexing, which seems to trigger runaway CPS activity.
Via Malcolm Hall:
If you leave a Pages document open that is stored in iCloud Drive then Spotlight will fill the disk and the Mac will begin to hang as it writes out huge files every 10 seconds.
Previously:
Bug iCloud Drive macOS 15 Sequoia macOS Tahoe 26 Pages.app Spotlight
Gary Leff (Hacker News):
According to aviation insiders, there’s a possible grounding of Airbus narrowbodies coming worldwide.
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10-15 passengers were hospitalized after the aircraft rapidly descended without being instructed by pilots to do so. The uncontrolled descent “likely occurred during an ELAC switch change” according to the National Transportation Safety Board. This is not supposed to happen! If there’s an issue with one ELAC computer, the other is supposed to take control without missing a beat.
BBC (Hacker News):
It’s thought the incident was caused by interference from intense solar radiation, which corrupted data in a computer which controls the aircraft’s elevation.
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Former Qantas captain Dr Ian Getley, who holds a PHD in cosmic and solar radiation in aviation, says flights can be affected by coronal mass ejections (CME), which is when plasma is ejected from the sun into space.
The higher the severity of the CME, the more likely it is that issues could arise with satellites and aircraft electronics above 28,000 ft (8.5 km), he tell us.
Airbus (Hacker News):
Airbus has consequently identified a significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.
Airbus has worked proactively with the aviation authorities to request immediate precautionary action from operators via an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) in order to implement the available software and/or hardware protection, and ensure the fleet is safe to fly.
Reuters (Slashdot):
Airbus said on Monday that the vast majority of around 6,000 of its A320-family fleet affected by the safety alert had been modified, with fewer than 100 jets still requiring work.
But some require a longer process and Colombia’s Avianca continued to halt bookings for dates until December 8. JetBlue said it would cancel 20 flights for Monday.
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The sweeping warning exposed the fact that Airbus does not have full real-time awareness of which software version is used given reporting lags, industry sources said.
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The fix involved reverting to an earlier version of software that handles the nose angle. It involves uploading the previous version via a cable from a device called a data loader, which is carried into the cockpit to prevent cyberattacks.
This seems like an impressive response. What’s the software fix for such a hardware problem? I guess you could add redundant storage with checksums to determine which version is correct, but the stated fix of reverting to the previous version of the software doesn’t sound like that.
Previously:
Airplane Data Integrity Programming RAM
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, The Register, NY Times, TechCrunch):
Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his position and will serve as an advisor to the company before retiring in the spring of 2026. Apple also announced that renowned AI researcher Amar Subramanya has joined Apple as vice president of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Subramanya will be leading critical areas, including Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. The balance of Giannandrea’s organization will shift to Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue to align closer with similar organizations.
John Gruber:
In fact, I’m surprised he wasn’t out before WWDC this past June.
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As for Subramanya, according to his LinkedIn profile, he was at Google for 16 years, and left to join Microsoft only five months ago. Either he didn’t like working at Microsoft, or Apple made him an offer he couldn’t refuse (or, perhaps, both).
Nick Heer:
When Apple hired Giannadrea from Google in 2018, the New York Times called it a “major coup”, given that Siri was “less effective than its counterparts at Google and Amazon”. The world changed a lot in the past six-and-a-half years, though: Siri is now also worse than a bunch of A.I. products. Of course, Giannadrea’s role at Apple was not limited to Siri. He spent time on the Project Titan autonomous car, which was cancelled early last year, before moving to generative A.I. projects. The first results of that effort were shown at WWDC last year; the most impressive features have yet to ship.
Jason Anthony Guy:
JG was seemingly too focused on research and development and not enough on shipping products (in Apple terms, he was perhaps good at his “Category 1”—AI research—and not so great at his “Category 3”—making that work available for others to successfully perform their Category 1).
Breaking up JG’s organization makes sense, then. (My understanding is it was a mess—apparently the admin he brought over with him from Google was running the team.) Subramanya keeps JG’s research and foundational AI portfolio (under Federighi’s SWE—Software Engineering), while I’ll guess that AI infrastructure, which wouldn’t fit well under SWE, shifts to Khan (Apple’s COO), and front-end and related services lands with Cue, who owns Services (like the App Store and App Store Connect). Fortunately, Cue’s and Federighi’s teams have a lot of experience working together to deliver products (Xcode Cloud or In App Purchase are but two examples), so I’m confident this bodes well for the future of Apple Intelligence.
Previously:
Apple Artificial Intelligence Business
