MarkItDown: Python Tool for Converting Files and Office Documents to Markdown

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MarkItDown: Python Tool for Converting Files and Office Documents to Markdown

What’s New in MacOS 15.2 Sequoia

What’s New in iOS 18.2

★ Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool

Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip.

★ The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip

Reporting from The Information suggests that an M-series tier above Ultra might remain years away.

★ Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool

Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip.

What’s New in MacOS 15.2 Sequoia

What’s New in iOS 18.2

Xcode 16.2

Apple (downloads): The Command Line Tools package now supports using the swift test command to build and run package tests written with Swift Testing.[…]Sometimes running parallel Tests on macOS run destinations never finishes.[…]macOS projects that…

iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features, including the first image generation capabilities. Image Playground is a new app for creating images b…

tvOS 18.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): tvOS 18.2 adds a selection of new Snoopy screen savers that are available as an alternative to the aerial, memory, and portrait screen saver options, plus it includes natural language search support …

watchOS 11.2

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 11.2 lets you pause video that you’re recording on the iPhone using the Camera Remote app on Apple Watch. Previously: watchOS 11.1

visionOS 2.2

Juli Clover (release notes, developer, security, enterprise): visionOS 2.2 adds new wide and ultrawide aspect ratios to the Mac Virtual Display feature, so you can have more workspace when using the Vision Pro as a display for your Mac. Apple says t…

audioOS 18.2

Apple: Siri on HomePod is now integrated with Apple Music natural language search so you can describe what you want to hear using any combination of categories like genre, mood, decade or activity. Enhance Dialogue on HomePod (2nd generation) when p…

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