Thomas Claburn: Microsoft Excel for the past week has been hanging or crashing on iOS and iPadOS devices, to customers’ great annoyance.The problems appear to have begun following the release of Excel version 2.102.1 for iOS and iPadOS on October 13…
Lees meerJuli Clover: General Motors began phasing out support for CarPlay in its electric vehicles back in 2023, leading to complaints from iPhone users, but the company has no plans to back down.In fact, GM is going further and plans to remove CarPlay from…
Lees meerSam Tobin: Apple abused its dominant position by charging app developers unfair commissions, a London tribunal ruled on Thursday, in a blow which could leave the U.S. tech company on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds in damages.[…]Thursday…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: A law firm in China has filed a new antitrust complaint accusing Apple of abusing its control over iOS app distribution and payments, escalating a dispute that previously failed in civil court by seeking action from state regulator…
Lees meerOpenAI (MacRumors, Reddit): Today we’re introducing ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core. […] With Atlas, ChatGPT can come with you anywhere across the web—helping you in the window right where you are, understanding what …
Lees meerCrispy Crunchy Computerware (Mastodon): I wanted to go back to a simpler time. I wanted a music app that gives me easy access to my music – organized the way I want – and provides a comfortable, peaceful environment to listen to it. I wanted an app …
Lees meerSmallCubed: 🎉 MailMaven Version 1.0 Official Release! 🎉 Joe Kissell’s Take Control of MailMaven is now available as a free download. Previously: MailMaven Public Beta
Lees meerJuli Clover: Even though we’re at the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, Apple is continuing to add new features. In fact, the fourth beta has some of the biggest changes that we’ll get when iOS 26.1 releases to the public later this month. Juli Clover (Hacke…
Lees meerLawrence Abrams: Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports that a new variant of the XCSSET macOS malware has been detected in limited attacks, incorporating several new features, including enhanced browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and improved p…
Lees meerAmazon (Reddit, Hacker News, 2, 3): We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region. I like how, unlike Apple’s status page, you can see a history of outages and updates. Jess Weatherbed: A …
Lees meerNorbert Heger: Back in our pilot Deletion Impossible, you learned about a bug in macOS 15.3 where dragging an app to the Trash did not reliably uninstall its system extension. Despite macOS promising to “remove the associated system extension,” the …
Lees meerMichael Simon (via Ric Ford): If you use Firefox on a Mac or PC, Apple offers a handy browser extension that puts your iCloud passwords right at your fingertips without needing to open a separate app. However, a new warning might make you think twic…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally.[…]It was quickly alleged that Met…
Lees meerJohannes Weiss and Mitchell Allison (forum): Swift Profile Recorder, an in-process sampling profiler for Swift services, is now available as an open source project.[…]Swift Profile Recorder enables you to:Adopt profiling without extra privileges or …
Lees meerSE-0491 (via Becca Royal-Gordon): We propose that Swift’s grammar be extended so that, wherever an identifier is written in source code to reference a declaration, it can be prefixed by ModuleName:: to disambiguate which module the declaration is ex…
Lees meerFight to Repair: A coalition of businesses, nonprofits, and elected officials (including Fight To Repair’s parent organization, the Secure Resilient Future Foundation) has formally petitioned Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support, which is currentl…
Lees meerAdam Engst (Hacker News): Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its effects and make your interfa…
Lees meerRaluca Budiu (Hacker News): One of the oldest findings in usability is that anything placed on top of something else becomes harder to see. Yet here we are, in 2025, with Apple proudly obscuring text, icons, and controls by making them transparent a…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Here’s where I take exception to Liquid Glass, and to Apple’s positioning of content as the most important aspect of our digital devices, and thus of our digital lives. Yes, many people are largely passive consumers of content, whether w…
Lees meerMario Guzmán: I can’t stop laughing at how comically large the corner radii are on #macOSTahoe windows. Clownish. Dominik Wagner: Preview? These are white, A4 PDF pages, they don’t have round corners. We are not on battlestar galactica. I need my pd…
Lees meerNick Heer (Mastodon): I do not think all these effects necessarily help legibility, which is as poor as it has ever been in translucent areas. The degree to which this is noticeable is dependent on the platform. In iOS 26, I find it less distracting…
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