★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope

What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014.

Apple’s Classic Mac Era Forays Into ‘Apps as Tiled Buttons’ Simplified Computing: At Ease and Launcher

iPhone 18 Pro could bring three controversial design changes

We’re just two months away from Apple announcing the iPhone 18 Pro. Rumors suggest Apple could have three design changes in store that could be unpopular among some iPhone 18 Pro buyers …

Apple stops signing iOS versions for several older iPhones and iPads [U: Signing restored]

Update July 9, 3:28 p.m. ET: As Aaron Perris noted on X, Apple has resumed signing the iOS versions listed in this article. As a result, owners of the affected legacy iPhone and iPad models can once again restore to those software versions, most of …

Anthropic maakt dashboard waarin gebruikers Claude-gebruik kunnen zien

Anthropic heeft een dashboard gemaakt waarmee gebruikers zien hoe vaak en waarvoor ze de chatbot gebruiken. Ook is het mogelijk om pauzes in te stellen van het gebruik van de chatbot.

Meta komt met Muse Spark 1.1 voor onder meer programmeren

Meta heeft Muse Spark 1.1 aangekondigd. Het model is onder meer gericht op programmeren en agentische taken. Meta richt zich vooral op het uitvoeren van taken tegen lagere kosten dan voorgaande modellen en concurrenten.

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs

AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5

Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.

AI now wants half of America’s tech office space, and it’s all landing on a few streets

The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report from the real-estate platform VTS offers one answer, and it is striking. AI companies now account for nearly half of all…

Anthropic puts the man who steered the Fed through 2008 on its AI oversight trust

Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. The AI company announced the move on Thursday, adding a central-bank-grade name to the body meant to keep it honest. Bernanke led the Fed from 2006 to …

EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March

The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursday in Strasbourg, lawmakers sent the proposal to EU member states for approval, Politico reports. The twist is that Par…

Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off

Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at scale. He told CNBC on Thursday that token prices may need to fall by as much as 90%, according to CNBC. Arora was reactin…

AI companies are spending hundreds of millions on the midterms, and they want one thing

AI companies and their backers are pouring vast sums into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs. The spending runs into the hundreds of millions across the sector, CNBC reports, and their central demand is remarkably consistent. They want a single…

Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s name to a plan first reported earlier this month. M…

Weathergraph 1.0.358

Tomas Kafka: Pressure is now much easier to read. A new Pro trend strip under the chart shows whether pressure is holding steady, rising, or falling. Fast changes stand out with stronger marks and colour, so you can spot a front moving in sooner - u…

Apple Still Designated a Gatekeeper

Tim Hardwick: Apple’s challenge against the EU’s designation of its App Stores and iOS platform as “gatekeepers” was dismissed by Europe’s top court on Wednesday, reports Reuters. […] The company also disputed the classification of iMessage as a num…

Searching Time Machine Backups and Versions

Howard Oakley: Spotlight doesn’t currently appear able to search Time Machine backups reliably, at least not in Sequoia or Tahoe, although this may not be universal. […] If I now step back through my backups to reach one that I know contains that fi…

Apple TV will have a big presence at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International 

Apple TV will be making a big splash in Hall H at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International for the first time ever, reports Deadline.  The lineup for its two-hour panel set for 2 p.m. Saturday, July 25, includes the horror comedy “Widow’s Bay” …

Apple TV is now the fourth largest SVOD platform in the US

JustWatch, the largest streaming guide in the world, has published its “Q2 2026 Market Shares” report about streaming in the US. Here are some highlights from the report: Apple TV+ posts the strongest annual growth: Apple TV+ gained 1 percentage poi…

4 open-source tools that can replace your Claude subscription (and sometimes outperform it)

I ditched my Claude subscription for these 4 open-source tools—and they're actually better.