Mux: Video API for Developers

Trump Wants Commanders’ New D.C. Stadium Named for Him

Fred Vogelstein on Techmeme’s Enduring Popularity

‘Explaining, at Some Length, Techmeme’s 20 Years of Consistency’

Podcast episode 221: Special Guest Stephen Embry – Meta Spectacles 👓 Approved AI, and the Best Bathroom Breaks on a Plane 🚽

We have a special guest for this week’s episode of the podcast: Stephen Embry of the TechLaw Crossroads website, who you may also know from his frequent contributions to the Above the Law website. We discuss how Steve uses technology to get his job …

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass

Gus Mueller: Acorn 8.3 is out and the big new feature is that it supports Liquid Glass for folks who are running macOS Tahoe (which is over 50% of Acorn 8 users at this point!). […] But the UI was a ton of work! And I made it extra difficult on myse…

White Label Gemini on Private Cloud Compute

Juli Clover (Hacker News): The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intell…

iOS 26.2: App Marketplaces and Browser Choice in Japan

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple on Tuesday released the first beta of iOS 26.2 to developers, and it appears that the software will allow users in Japan to install alternative app marketplaces on their devices when it is released to the …

MainActor.assumeIsolated, Preconcurrency, and Isolated Conformances

Fatbobman: As Swift 6 gradually gains adoption, this problem becomes increasingly prominent: developers want to benefit from the concurrency safety guarantees provided by the Swift compiler, while struggling with how to make their code meet compilat…

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

Tyler Hayes Suggests Trying a Flip-Style Foldable If You Want a Smaller Phone

I Like My Presidents to Care When Someone Faints During a Press Event

Some Flunky Fainted in the Oval Office During a Press Event, and Trump Just Stood There With a Stupid Look on His Face

Some Flunky Fainted in the Oval Office During a Press Event, and Trump Just Stood There With a Stupid Look on His Face

★ Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree

It makes sense in this scenario for neither company to want to publicize a white-label version of Gemini behind Apple Intelligence.

★ Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree

It makes sense in this scenario for neither company to want to publicize a white-label version of Gemini behind Apple Intelligence.

iOS 26.2 to Remove iPhone–Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU

Tim Hardwick: Normally, when an iPhone connects to a new Wi-Fi network, it automatically shares the network credentials with the paired Apple Watch. This allows the watch to connect to the same network independently – for example, when the iPhone is…

AirPods Live Translation Expands to the EU

Apple (9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reddit): Next month, Live Translation on AirPods will expand to the EU, making face-to-face conversations easier by helping users communicate even if they don’t speak the same language. […] Live Translation on AirPods is a…

Proposal to Settle Epic and Google Antitrust Case

Sean Hollister (PDF, Hacker News, Slashdot): Just when we thought Epic v. Google might be over, just one Supreme Court rejection away from a complete victory for Epic, both sides have agreed to settle Tuesday evening.[…]Now, instead, Google is agree…

Microsoft Australia Refunds for Office/Copilot Dark Pattern

Nassim Khadem (via Diego Barros): Microsoft has apologised to customers and said it will refund them, after the consumer watchdog alleged the tech giant misled about 2.7 million Australians over subscription costs so they would remain on more expens…