av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 22, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, convinced of Bird’s greatness. Bliss, a young assistant coach at Indiana with blond hair and blue eyes, recorded his thoughts about Bird in his journal again and again. “Guy is going to be really good,” Bliss wrote. “Bird’s better… Bird’s better than all.” Bliss didn’t even care who else the Hoosiers signed that year. “As long as Bird is one!” he noted. And most importantly, Bliss had convinced his boss, Hoosier head coach Bobby Knight, to at least consider the possibility of Larry Bird.
Källa: Rollingstone
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 22, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
A new report claims that Apple will repeat the vibrant color of the iPhone 17 Pro Max and offer options including a return to a deep red for the iPhone 18 Pro Max, but not the iPhone Fold.Mockup of a deep red iPhone 18 Pro MaxIt has traditionally been that lower-end iPhones can get bright colors such as the purple iPhone 12, while with exceptions, the Pro models have more muted ones. Now according to Bloomberg, the iPhone 18 Pro line will also get stronger than usual colors.This is said to be specifically because the orange iPhone 17 Pro Max has allegedly been particularly popular in China. Consequently, the claim is that deep red is in consideration as the color of the two Pro models in the iPhone 18 range. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Källa: AppleInsider
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 22, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
Euphoria creator Sam Levison has donated $27,000 (£20,030) to the GoFundMe campaign set up to help support the children of late actor Eric Dane.
On Thursday (February 19), Dane, also known for Grey’s Anatomy, passed away after what his family described as “a courageous battle with ALS”. He had first shared his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis less than a year ago.
Dane’s friend Mike McGuiness went on to set up a crowdfunding campaign to help raise funds for his daughters, explaining that “Covid and ALS did a number on his work life and he sadly couldn’t leave his family with the resources he had hoped”.
“Even as his own health declined, he remained deeply committed to helping others facing the same devastating disease,” the donation page reads. “As his illness progressed far more quickly than anyone could have imagined, Eric’s friends have come together to create this GoFundMe to support his girls and their future needs.”
Källa: Nme
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 22, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has said several actors have turned down the role of murderous banker Patrick Bateman in an upcoming adaptation.
Back in 2024, it was announced that Challengers director Luca Guadagnino was attached to film a new adaptation, which is said to draw more from Ellis’s controversial 1991 satirical novel than the original film directed by Mary Harron.
That version, which turned 25 last year, saw Christian Bale give a career-defining performance as an investment banker in the ‘80s who works to hide his psychopathic behaviour from those around him.
Källa: Nme
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 22, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads
GOING ONLINE IN 2026 means subjecting yourself to a relentless bombardment of generative AI tools. How about a few AI agents to get you started? Do you want to use this chatbot sidebar? Would you like every search query to be answered with an AI summary? While there’s no off switch to avoid this smorgasbord of AI tools entirely, there is one keyboard trick you can use to dodge Google’s AI Overviews for a brief respite.
Källa: Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 22, 2026 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details.
A bit of background on Ferret
In December 2023, a team of 9 researchers published a study called “FERRET: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity”. In it, they presented a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that was capable of understanding natural language references to specific parts of an image
Källa: 9to5mac
