Bill Gates (via Slashdot): It feels like just yesterday that Paul and I were hunched over the PDP-10 in Harvard’s computer lab, writing the code that would become the first product of our new company. That code remains the coolest code I’ve ever wri…
Lees meerReuters (PDF, Slashdot): Apple was hit with a 150 million euro ($162.4 million) fine by French antitrust regulators on Monday for abusing its dominant position in mobile app advertising on its devices via a privacy control tool. […] “While we are di…
Lees meerJoe Mullin: In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name …
Lees meerApple: Starting today, with the availability of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, Apple Intelligence features are now available in many new languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, an…
Lees meerNick Lockwood: Airdrop on macOS has this “great” feature where it displays receivers asynchronously as it finds them and they are sorted alphabetically, so the order shuffles randomly under the mouse as you are trying to clickBrought to you by the g…
Lees meerAlso new in Swift 6.1, ST-0006: We offer three variants of #expect(throws:):One that takes an error type, and matches any error of the same type;One that takes an error instance (conforming to Equatable) and matches any error that compares equal to …
Lees meerErnie Smith (via Hacker News): But it of course raises the question: Do they make Apple‘s shows on Macs? As the second season of Severance ended in dramatic fashion, Apple decided to answer that question, and the answer was … surprisingly confusing.…
Lees meerMakena Kelly (Hacker News): The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common bu…
Lees meerHolly Borla: Swift 6.1 enables custom Swift Testing traits to perform logic before or after tests run in order to share set-up or tear-down logic. If you write a custom trait type which conforms to the new TestScoping protocol, you can implement a m…
Lees meerApple (security, downloads): Clang now defines TARGET_OS_* conditionals as built-in macros based on the provided target triple.[…]Searching in the documentation viewer may start an indexing process which makes no progress. This may result in missing…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.1.2 improves the filtering accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst other enhancements and fixes. Some interesting issues were: I made some more table view improvements enabled by the lazy Core Data collections mentioned in the pre…
Lees meerElon Musk (Hacker News): @xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in t…
Lees meerIt’s like a consortium of sketchy pawn shops complaining to the authorities after a retailer successfully cracked down on an organized shoplifting/pickpocketing ring, and the authorities then fining the retailer for the damage to the pawnbrokers’ bu…
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