Quiche Browser Now Defaults to No-AI Web Search Results

Dithering: ‘Apple Sues OpenAI’

OpenAI Takes a Second Crack at a Response to Apple’s Trade Secret Theft Lawsuit

Lawyer for Apple Mixed Up Two OpenAI Employees’ Names, Sent One Email to the Wrong Guy, Back in February

Golden Gate Squircle Jail

Paul Kafasis: With last year’s release of MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple made a mess of app icons. In the first betas of MacOS 27 (Golden Gate), however, there are signs of a turnaround. We’re urging Apple to continue making improvements, by restoring the …

Clear and Tinted Icons Are a Hard Pass

Adam Engst: Of the TidBITS readers who chose to respond to the poll, only 1% said they use clear icons on the Mac, and no one admitted to using tinted icons. On the iPhone, clear icons were twice as popular—a whopping 2%—and just 1% of respondents s…

Suno Hack and Audio Scraping

Jason Koebler (tweet, Reddit): The AI music generation tool Suno scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, as well as from the stock music libraries Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Score Library …

Louie Mantia: ‘The Shape of Apps’

OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad

Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’

Eric Seufert: ‘Did Apple Just Signal a Third-Party Expansion of Apple Ads?’

Apple Updates Advertising Services Policy With New Rules for Ads in Maps

Apple Intelligence OK’d to Launch in China, Using AI Models from Baidu and Alibaba

SpamSieve 3.3.1

SpamSieve 3.3.1 is an update of my Mac e-mail spam filter that improves the filtering accuracy and includes various optimizations, fixes, and updates for macOS 27. Some interesting engineering issues were: I’m still supporting macOS 10.13, but the a…

Flickr 5.0

Phil Gyford: Flickr recently updated their iOS/iPadOS app to version 5 (App Store link) and, while it’s not radically new, for a service whose changes have been incremental over recent years it contains a lot of differences. However I’ve yet to find…

macOS 27 Public Beta

Juli Clover: Apple today released the first public beta of macOS Golden Gate, expanding the macOS 27 beta test to non-developers. You can sign up to test the update on Apple’s beta website, and then download it by going to System Settings > General …

iOS 27 Public Beta

Juli Clover: Apple released the iOS 27 public beta today, and if you’ve been curious about the new software, now’s the time to try it out. iOS 27 brings Siri AI, performance improvements, and lots of new Apple Intelligence features. […] Everything f…

Sunsetting CoreStorage

Apple: In macOS 28 and later, the Mac OS Extended file system format will be supported only for volumes (disks and other storage devices) that aren’t encrypted. For future macOS compatibility, either decrypt or reformat any encrypted Mac OS Extended…

Ryanair Literally Sucks

[Sponsor] Paper

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets

Sarah Perez (PDF, Hacker News, MacRumors): The iPhone maker alleges that this misconduct, which it says reveals a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple, was directed by OpenAI’s senior leadership, including Chief Hard…