Apple Pulled a Fun In-Character Promo Stunt for ‘Severance’ Yesterday at Grand Central Terminal

Let the User Help Solve Their Own Problem

Peter Hosey (Mastodon): I wish we had a maps app like Apple Maps or Google Maps that let you order up a travel itinerary using public transit between two points, and explicitly pick the transit routes involved. Or, ideally, multiple sets of routes, …

M4 Mac mini USB-C Issues

Malcolm Owen (Reddit, 2): However, it seems that in a small number of cases, USB-C connections on the M4 Mac mini are problematic.Various Internet posts uncovered by AppleInsider reveal that users are undergoing similar problems. They generally cons…

Putnam-AXIOM Variation

Aryan Gulati et al. (PDF, via Hacker News): As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, many existing benchmarks designed to evaluate their reasoning capabilities are becoming saturated. Therefore, we present the Putnam-AXIOM Original bench…

macOS 15.2 Changes XProtect Update Mechanism

Howard Oakley: In the latest release of Sequoia, the traditional method of updating XProtect is no longer used. If softwareupdate were to download and install an update, then it will only end up in the traditional location, and xprotect update can’t…

Nintendo Drops Switch 2 Trailer

Apple Pulled a Fun In-Character Promo Stunt for ‘Severance’ Yesterday at Grand Central Terminal

Breakfast With Pete Hegseth

Bloomberg: Tim Cook Plans to Attend Trump’s Inauguration

‘Twenty Years of Kraft’

‘Twenty Years of Kraft’

Bloomberg: Tim Cook Plans to Attend Trump’s Inauguration

Apple Pulled a Fun In-Character Promo Stunt for ‘Severance’ Yesterday at Grand Central Terminal

‘TikTok Is Just the Beginning’

AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 Pushed Into Transparency Mode

Spencer Dailey (via Hacker News): A couple of weeks ago I noticed my pair of AirPods Pro 2 aggressively switching me into Transparency mode. It seemed like a bug. Again and again I would have to manually switch back out of Transparency mode. Annoyin…

AirPods Pro Case Chime Sound

Juli Clover: If you’ve been hearing a chiming sound from your AirPods Pro 2 case when the AirPods are charging, it’s a feature that Apple added with the launch of Hearing Health last year.[…]Apple says that the AirPods Pro may play a sound every so …

Tony Fadell Wanted Apple to Buy Sonos

John Gruber: I asked Tony Fadell and he confirmed to me it was him, saying it was back in the very earliest days of Sonos, when Sonos was set to debut with a device featuring an obviously iPod-like scroll wheel for input. Jobs wanted to sue (of cour…

PyObjC 11

Ronald Oussoren: This release has two major features:Support for the macOS 15.2 SDK, including new bindings for the frameworks MediaExtension and DeviceDiscoveryExtensionExperimental support for GIL-less operation in the free-threaded build of Pytho…

Breakfast With Pete Hegseth

While CTO at Pandora, Tom Conrad Had Them Building Their iPhone App Before the iPhone SDK Was Released

Sonos’s Reboot Continues: Chief Product Officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin Is Out Too