MacBook Neo at $599, Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity, and a Neural Network CPU

Apple unveils the MacBook Neo starting at $599 with A18 Pro chip and four fun colors, a viral blog post argues that engineering teams systematically punish simplicity and reward unnecessary complexity, TikTok refuses to add end-to-end encryption claiming it makes users less safe, Simon Willison publishes a definitive guide to agentic engineering patterns, Motorola's GrapheneOS bootloader support gets confirmed, a researcher builds an entire CPU from neural networks running on GPU where multiplication is 12x faster than addition, and TLS Encrypted Client Hello becomes an official RFC.