Humane Raises Another $100 Million, Announces Partnerships With Microsoft and OpenAI, But Their Products Remain a Mystery

Humane Raises Another $100 Million, Announces Partnerships With Microsoft and OpenAI, But Their Products Remain a Mystery

★ Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter

Thorleifsson, to put it mildly, is a rather remarkable and inspiring person.

Love Letters From Letterboxd

Swift “Certificates” and “ASN.1” Packages

Cory Benfield: I’m excited to announce two new open source Swift packages: swift-certificates and swift-asn1. Together, these libraries provide developers a faster and safer implementation of X.509 certificates, a critical technology that powers the…

Medium’s me.dm Mastodon Server

Alex Benzer: A few weeks ago, we announced that Medium is embracing short-form writing by launching our very own Mastodon server at me.dm. Starting today, we’re opening up me.dm access for our member community. If you’re a Medium member, you can cre…

Overhead of Using APFS Encryption

Howard Oakley: T2 Intel and Apple silicon Macs invariably encrypt the Data volume on their internal SSD; adding the protection of FileVault’s password comes at no cost. Some external SSDs can use APFS encryption without any reduction in performance …

macOS Network Metrics Using sysctl()

Milen Dzhumerov: As part of my work on the Buck2 build system, I needed a way to observe the network throughput of the system. After some research, the conclusion was to use sysctl() with NET_RT_IFLIST2: this provided access to 64bit metrics which d…

Elon Musk Is Watching His Back; His Security Guards Are Watching Him Poop

Medium’s me.dm Mastodon Server Opens Up

Apple’s Mid-Cycle Color Refresh: Yellow iPhones 14 and 14 Plus

★ Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter

Thorleifsson, to put it mildly, is a rather remarkable and inspiring person.

Cracking the Mac Gaming Market

Oliver Mackenzie (in August 2022, via John Voorhees): Let’s take a look at our gaming benchmarks, calculated via video capture as is the Digital Foundry way.[…]It’s not a particularly large table because, unfortunately, there aren’t many high-end Ma…

MoneyWell 2023.01

Diligent Robot: After a lot of dillydallying, we’re very pleased to announce the return of sync to MoneyWell. This is available in MoneyWell 2023.1. To go along with this, we’re releasing MoneyWell Express 2023.1 for iPhone. […] We know a subscripti…

Microsoft Adds Free Outlook Tier

Jeremy Perdue (AppleInsider, MacRumors, Slashdot, Hacker News): Now consumers can use Outlook for free on macOS, no Microsoft 365 subscription or license necessary. However, according to the pricing page, you need to pay in order for it to be ad-fre…

How Troubleshooting Has Changed With macOS Security

Howard Oakley: With the guaranteed integrity of the SSV and cryptexes on IT2 and AS models, reinstalling the same version of macOS has no effect on the great majority of macOS. Similarly, installing an older version and updating it to the current on…

Medium’s me.dm Mastodon Server Opens Up

iPhone Gaining in Popularity Worldwide, Especially With Younger People

Medium’s me.dm Mastodon Server Opens Up

Phony Stark Stiffed Amazon on Twitter’s AWS Bill, So Amazon Threatened to Pull Its Ads

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