From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 28th. Theo here. June 28th, tech desk. Five stories from the last twenty-four hours — here's where I'd start. Let's get into it. First, from XDA Developers. PowerToys is potentially getting a new feature that lets you Alt-Tab within an app. So the latest tweak in PowerToys is all about reshaping the Alt‑Tab experience, but only when you’re inside a single app. Instead of the usual system‑wide switcher, the new option would let the shortcut cycle through the windows or tabs that belong to the current program, keeping you in the same context without hopping across the whole desktop. It’s a small shift in the underlying logic—PowerToys is intercepting the keystroke and rerouting it to the app’s own window manager, rather than the OS’s global list. The idea came from folks who find themselves juggling multiple documents in the same suite, like several Word files or a bunch of Chrome tabs, and they want a quicker way to hop between them

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 27th. Theo, June 27th. The systems update — five tech stories that bear on what's coming next. Let's get into it. First, from AI News. SAP aligns commerce data for AI personalisation. SAP aligns fragmented commerce data structures to enable operational AI personalisation at the execution layer. Enterprise leadership routinely establishes objectives to anticipate customer requirements and deliver relevant interactions across digital touchpoints. However, the actual infrastructure running inside these enterprises fails to support systematic execution at the required volume. Recommendation engines display generic product listings because the underlying behavioural data remains isolated. Marketing departments dispatch email communications based on rigid calendar schedules rather than adapting to individual user habits. Corporate loyalty programs issue rewards based entirely on financial transactions while ignoring broader relationship

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 27th. Theo, June 27th. The systems update — five tech stories that bear on what's coming next. Let's get into it. First, from melaniemasarin. What to Wear to Eat Aioli. Thank you to Marine Layer and Aerin for taking me on the most fab euro tour early in the season - a lot of content from this newsletter was captured thanks to them. Much like Dua Lipa, everybody thinks I’m on vacation all the time, and I don’t mind! Summer is my favorite season and I will gladly stretch it longer if I can. It’s also the season I shop for the least: every year around this time I gleefully pull out the box of sarongs and crochets — the one box to escape my monthly purges — to reassemble the wardrobe I feel the best in. I’m back from Formentera and Ravello by way of Paris, where it was even hotter than they say. I was welcomed back to America by ~Prime Day~, and I feel a great responsibility to tell you to only buy things you actually wanted, or stock

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 26th. Theo, June 26th. The systems update — five tech stories that bear on what's coming next. Let's get into it. First, from Design Better. Portfolio Club with Jared Erondu. Jared’s team at Span has been quietly reshaping their design pipeline by slipping a generative‑AI assistant into the early sketch phase. Instead of waiting for a designer to mock up every variation, they feed prompts into a model that spits out layout options, color palettes, and even micro‑copy, letting the human step back to choose direction rather than labor over details. What’s interesting is how they’ve built a feedback loop: the AI suggestions are tagged with the designer’s intent, then the model learns which tweaks get approved and which get tossed. Over a few weeks the system started surfacing concepts that already align with the brand’s tone, cutting iteration time dramatically. During the session they also dissected two real portfolios. The first suf

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 25th. Quick one from Theo — five tech stories from overnight, ordered by how much they made me sit up. Let's get into it. First, from frankdasilva. The Architecture of Influence. Somewhere inside the internal systems of Peter Thiel’s Dialog network, founders, politicians, investors, writers and public figures were being reduced to letters, scores and projected social value. Their names, wealth, reputation and perceived usefulness were folded into an internal machinery designed to decide who should enter the room, who should sit beside whom, and which relationships might be worth cultivating. Next. Second, from avichawla. Speculation Is All You Need!. Master.dev partnered with Anthropic and made their Claude Code course free for everyone. You can just dive in without any subscription or trial. It’s taught by Lydia Hallie, who’s been an instructor with Master.dev for years and now works on the Claude Code team at Anthropic. When she

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 24th. Theo here. June 24th, tech desk. Five stories from the last twenty-four hours — here's where I'd start. Let's get into it. First, from AI News. Anthropic drops ‘workplace AI agents’ directly inside Slack. Anthropic launched a beta version of its Claude Tag feature for Enterprise and Team tiers, shifting its chat model into shared Slack channels. Moving away from traditional isolated chat boxes, users pull the artificial intelligence model into active group threads by typing @Claude. The integration allows any team member in the channel to delegate a task, review the model’s outputs, and pick up the discussion thread from a previous point. This structural shift follows a US$65 billion Series H funding round that brought Anthropic’s post-money valuation to US$965 billion, positioned above rival OpenAI’s US$852 billion mark. Following a confidential S-1 filing for an initial public offering, market competition for business softw

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 24th. Theo here. June 24th, tech desk. Five stories from the last twenty-four hours — here's where I'd start. Let's get into it. First, from Home Therapy™ with Michelle Ogundehin. A fragrant illusion. What does clean smell like? It’s a simple question, but one that reveals just how successfully we’ve been sold a myth. Because, for most of human history, clean didn’t smell of anything in particular. It meant washing dried outside in the sun; soap, water and open windows. Clean was simply the absence of unpleasant odours. Then somewhere along the way, clean acquired a scent. “Fresh Linen”. “Spring Meadow”. “Cotton Breeze”. Next. Second, from XDA Developers. Someone built a BIOS for the ESP32-C6, bringing a PC-like architecture to the $2 chip. Long before UEFI came along, PCs used to use a BIOS to get everything set up. It took quite a bit longer to get the job done, but seeing the old BIOS screens brings back memories of diving into

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 23rd. It's Theo. June 23rd, tech roundup — five stories, here's number one. Let's get into it. First, from KDnuggets. 5 Essential Approaches to Robust Outlier Detection. I’ve been digging into the ways people keep outliers from wrecking a model, and the most interesting part is how each method reshapes the data space before you even fit anything. The classic statistical route trims extremes by fitting a heavy‑tailed distribution and then flagging points beyond a quantile, which is neat because it lets the model itself decide what “normal” looks like. Then there’s the distance‑based angle: you compute a robust covariance matrix, project everything into that space, and any point whose Mahalanobis distance spikes gets a look‑out. The density tricks go the other way, estimating local point density with something like a k‑nearest‑neighbors kernel; low‑density islands get marked as outliers, which works well when clusters have irregular

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 23rd. It's Theo. June 23rd, tech roundup — five stories, here's number one. Let's get into it. First, from Cabana. Travel Guide: My Florence with David Prior. So in Florence, there's this really cool opportunity to experience the city in a unique way. You can stay for three nights and get private access to some amazing places, like artisans' workshops and private palaces. You'll also get to visit the Ferragamo Archives, which is pretty special. And since it's just after the grape harvest, you'll get to see the Chianti countryside in all its beauty. The food is also a big part of this experience, with meals in some really grand and intimate settings. You'll get to try some classic Florentine dishes like ribollita and bistecca alla fiorentina. It's a great way to learn about the city's culinary heritage. There's also a guide put together by David Prior that recommends some of the best hotels, restaurants, and shops in Florence. It's

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 22nd. Hey, it's Theo. June 22nd. Five things in tech that mattered this morning — let's start with the one that surprised me most. Let's get into it. First, from AI News. L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT. L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. The collaboration also covers L’Oréal’s internal use of AI in research, formulation, content production, and employee tools. OpenAI said in 2026 that ChatGPT had more than 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million subscribers. Maybelline’s Makeup Virtual Try-On will be available directly within ChatGPT. The feature will use L’Oréal’s ModiFace technology, which allows users to test makeup lo