Ron Elemans: News Explorer 2.1 brings support for Bluesky feeds based on the official API, a large collection of Shortcuts actions, sharing to Readwise, and some other useful features and improvements. Previously: News Explorer 2.0
Lees meerY Combinator (transcript, slides, via Duncan Davidson, Hacker News): Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej [Karpathy] sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural lan…
Lees meerMarcus Mendes: A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the 2021 Open App Markets Act, a bill aimed at curbing the gatekeeper power that Apple and Google hold over the so-called “mobile app economy.” Here’s what they’re going for.If passed, t…
Lees meerBrian Croll, quoted by John Gruber: Paula was an employee who you are not going to see profiled in any books on the history of Apple or Steve Jobs. She worked closely with the ops team to ensure CDs and then DVDs shipped on time and correctly packag…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple says that Adaptive Power Mode can make “small performance adjustments” when necessary to extend an iPhone’s battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to “take a little longer.”[…
Lees meerNick Heer: App icons across Apple’s three most popular operating systems share a similar rounded square mask, and it is a downgrade. Simon B. Støvring correctly calls out the “expressive, varied app icons, a case of character over conformity” as a h…
Lees meerApple (download): Added a new setting that dictates how function names are displayed in C++ frames: plugin.cplusplus.display.function-name-format[…]The span property of UTF8View does not support the small string representation in beta 1, and traps f…
Lees meerMarko Zivkovic (via Ric Ford, Reddit): Apple announced its plans for a new opt-in Apple Intelligence training program. In essence, users can let Apple use content from their iPhone to train AI models. The training itself happens entirely on-device, …
Lees meerJason Snell: It’s probably worth explaining why this feature has so many podcasters and other creators in a bit of a tizzy. Many podcasts record remotely, with people all over the world, and they usually use some sort of app to have that real-time c…
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