Read this before you vibe-code another app by Yael Grauer

The danger, he says, is when a personal app drifts into the realm of business software and stores shared, hosted data without anybody realizing that shift has happened. And, he says, the calculus changes when vibe coding moves away from local apps for tracking migraines or meals or package deliveries and enters the realm of apps that handle customer logs, medical data, financial records, or internal documents.

This is when you need to know what you’re building, or know enough to prompt the agent to build it for you.

WhatsApp head Will Cathcart is stepping down after seven years by Emma Roth

Will Cathcart, who led WhatsApp for the past seven years, is stepping down from his role as Meta appoints a new leader. On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that Kunal Shah, the founder of an Indian fintech startup called Cred, is taking over as the head of WhatsApp.

I used to use Cred at a time. My account is still there, and I guess it still has access to my Gmail.

The pessimist in me thinks Meta is doing this for the financial data Cred has on Indians.

The other aspect could be Kunal could help monetise WhatsApp somehow? Which would mean WhatsApp moving on from its messaging roots. Messaging could end up being a feature, instead of being the main thing. Which would be sad. WhatsApp used to be good. Not now, of course, but it used to be. I wish more of my circle was on Signal.

Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices by Emma Roth

Apple is getting ready to take the wraps off its latest lineup of iPhones later this year, though it’s unclear how big an impact the memory shortage will have on pricing. The WSJ estimates that the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro could cost $1,299, a jump from the $1,099 iPhone 17 Pro.

Thanks AI.

And, I guess I will keep my 16Pro for longer now.

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion by Robert Hart

Days after its massive IPO, SpaceX says it is spending $60 billion to buy Cursor — a bet designed to help Elon Musk’s sprawling rocket / AI / social media behemoth win over lucrative enterprise customers and close the gap with AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.

This is an all-stock deal. After the IPO, does 60 billion matter for SpaceX?

Boox’s new e-reader could replace your Kindle, Kobo, and digital notepad by Andrew Liszewski

Boox has announced a new version of its smallest e-reader that expands the Go 6’s functionality to now include note-taking. The new Go 6 (Gen II) sticks with a 6-inch, 300PPI E Ink screen like its predecessor but gets a bump from 2GB to 3GB of RAM and now supports Boox’s InkSense Plus stylus, which can be used for sketching, annotating documents, or making handwritten notes.

I guess I have made my peace with the fact that I can not make these e-readers (including my Kindle Paperwhite) work. I am mostly reading books borrowed from my library and that does not work with these devices.

It is mentioned as something that could come in the future, but, it is not out yet.

Anyway the places where I do my reading are -

1. Listening to audiobooks while driving
2. Listening to audiobooks while walking
3. Reading ebook on my phone while on my lunch break
4. Reading on my iPad during the weekends - perhaps a chapter or two while Savya sleeps

I don’t see a space for an e-reader here. Maybe I could replace my phone with a Palma, but what’s the point. I don’t want to carry another device.