As we observe Independence Day in America—our annual celebration of the hard-fought freedom to not be subject to the unchecked whims of a monarch—the #1 app in the “Social” category of the App Store sits at the intersection of the iPhone and the law…
Lees meerSummerFest: Your inspiration doesn’t come from a factory. Neither does artisanal software. For a limited time, we’re all offering you a great price on great software, right at the workshop door. No ridiculous bundles, no silly gimmicks. Great softwa…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you have old Finder aliases that need to be checked and repaired, Alifix will do that job with you. Use it to scan a folder containing those aliases, and it will warn you which can’t be resolved any longer, and can rewrite those th…
Lees meerMatthew Bickham: Magic Lasso Adblock v5.0 now lets you block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — not just in Safari. […] Whether you’re scrolling through social media, playing games, or reading the news (including Apple N…
Lees meerJohn Sundell: When a type conforms to either EncodableWithConfiguration or DecodableWithConfiguration, it requires an additional configuration value to be passed when either encoding or decoding it (and the compiler will enforce that requirement). […
Lees meerMatthew Prince (Hacker News, Slashdot): The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you’ve created, an AI-driven web doesn’t reward content creators the way that the old search-dr…
Lees meerThomas Claburn (Figma, Hacker News): The company prospectus mentions AI more than 150 times, characterizing it both as a creative accelerant and a potential threat.[…]Back to Figma, whose prospectus says that as of the first three months of 2025 it …
Lees meerBryson Thill (via Hacker News): Fakespot’s technology revealed some eye-opening statistics. About 43% of the best-selling Amazon products had reviews that were unreliable or fabricated, according to a study by app company Circuit. The problem was ev…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Reddit post. As a result, the first few iPod models and old external storage d…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: The recommendation was issued by the General Superintendence of Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (SG/CADE), the technical body of the federal antitrust authority. In a public statement translated from Portuguese…
Lees meerPeter Cohen: Confirmed with the family this morning that @mymac founder Tim Robertson passed away after a recent illness.Tim was not just a mainstay of Apple blogging, podcasting and smart analysis for decades, but one of the very nicest people I’ve…
Lees meerKrystal Hu (via Hacker News): Grammarly has signed a deal to acquire email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company’s push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite and diversify its business, its executives told Reuter…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (Mastodon): From the very beginning, iOS has had a notion of an app being in the foreground or background. When you saw an app on screen it was active and when it was gone it was inactive. […] It was simple system that let you do w…
Lees meerProton (PDF): We believe that Apple’s conduct, as detailed in the complaint we filed, constitutes further violations of US antitrust law. Without this case, Apple could get away with behavior in the US that is already outlawed in the European Union.…
Lees meerAdi Robertson: Age verification is perhaps the hottest battleground for online speech, and the Supreme Court just settled a pivotal question: does using it to gate adult content violate the First Amendment in the US? For roughly the past 20 years th…
Lees meerRiccardo Mori: I’ve been trying to make sense of Apple’s latest user-interface redesign — Apple calls it Liquid Glass — that will affect all their platforms in the next iteration of their respective OS versions. But it’s hard to make sense of it whe…
Lees meerZhenyi Tan (via Kyle Howells): A few months ago, I posted this image on Mastodon, because the Apple documentation website sometimes feel… err, underwhelming. Many people have already pointed this out, so I won’t repeat their complaints. When people …
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