Zac Hall: Both the M3 MacBook Air and the M3 MacBook Pro offer support for one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz when the display is open, and with the update, the M3 MacBooks will also be able to power two 5K external displays with …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): With M3, MacBook Air is up to 60 percent faster than the model with the M1 chip and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air. And with a faster and more efficient Neural Engine in M3, MacBook Air cont…
Lees meerFoo Yun Chee (European Commission, Hacker News, MacRumors): Brussels on Monday fined Apple, opens new tab 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store, the iPhone maker’s fir…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Spotify, Epic Games, Deezer, Paddle, and several other developers and EU associations today sent a joint letter to the European Commission to complain about Apple’s “proposed scheme for compliance” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).The…
Lees meerDan Moren (Mastodon): What a difference eight months makes. That’s in no small part due to Whisky, an app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very…
Lees meerDeborah Pickett: Kazakhstan, which has not observed daylight saving for 20 years, is turning the clocks back at 0:00 on 1 March 2024, to 23:00 on leap day February 29 2024. Definitely playing time zones on Hard Mode, Kazakhstan. Thanks for doing som…
Lees meerDave DeLong: Four years ago I introduced Time 0.9.0. It is appropriate that today, on its first birthday, it finally graduates to 1.0.0![…]All “fixed values” keep track of their calendar, locale, and time zone, enabling you to easily work with calen…
Lees meerOle Begemann (Mastodon): A bit of experimentation reveals that it is in fact a relatively coarse source-code-based check that singles out invocations on DispatchQueue.main, in exactly that spelling. […] Fun fact: since this is a purely syntax-based …
Lees meerOle Begemann: SwiftUI’s .task modifier inherits its actor context from the surrounding function. If you call .task inside a view’s body property, the async operation will run on the main actor because View.body is (semi-secretly) annotated with @Mai…
Lees meerStephen Robles: Hands-on with Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone 15 Pro Max case in Taupe and Cypress Green Silicone Case! Apple’s announced at the Wonderlust event that it will no longer make any leather products, with FineWoven replacing the higher end …
Lees meerNitish Pahwa (via Hacker News): Today’s Quora, however, hardly meshes with those utopian aims. The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical, straight-up hateful, a…
Lees meerSamantha Cole (tweet, Slashdot): Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. […] The internal doc…
Lees meerSaagar Jha: If you’ve used SwiftUI for long enough, you’ve probably noticed that the public Swift APIs it provides are really only half the story. Normally inconspicuous unless something goes exceedingly wrong, the private framework called Attribute…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Mark Gurman, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple has canceled all plans to release an autonomous, electric vehicle, reports Bloomberg. Apple has been working on an Apple Car for more than a decade and invested millions of dollars into develop…
Lees meerRed Sweater: This update includes a major new premium scripting addition, facilitating mouse automation by providing a variety of new scripting commands, including a powerhouse for synthesizing clicks and drags[…][…]When automating mouse events, the…
Lees meerFeross Aboukhadijeh: Just when we thought we’d seen it all, an npm user named PatrickJS, aka gdi2290, threw us a curveball. He (along with a group of contributors) kicked off the year with a bang, launching a troll campaign that uploaded an npm pack…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user content for training purposes … The deal is said to be worth around $60M per year, and comes at a time when the company is seeking t…
Lees meerVatsal Manot: Folks, if you’re also frustrated with the state of Swift Macros (w.r.t. compile times), please engage on the forums thread here. I can’t think of any other language where such a fundamental feature is dependent on a heavy source packag…
Lees meerFTC (via Lina Khan): The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its …
Lees meerNeil Long (2023, Slashdot, MacDailyNews): In the 15 years since it launched the App Store, Apple has proved again and again that it cares very little about games – though it is happy to make billions from them. I should know: I was an App Store game…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Jony Ive tried to persuade Apple to cease making the MacBook Air, leaving a redesigned MacBook Pro as the only portable Mac.[…]Mossberg’s source said this led to a huge battle between Ive’s design team and the product managers, and was …
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