Mattt Thompson: In 2014, researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research proposed a radical idea: What if uncertainty were encoded directly into the type system? Their paper, Uncertain: A First-Order Type for Uncertain Data introd…
Lees meerVictoria Bampton on 14.3 (Adobe): A new mask selection tool is introduced for Landscape. It works much like the Select People tool, using AI to read the scene and select specific elements[…] […] In the Develop and Photo Merge dialogs, transparency n…
Lees meerJack Baty (Mastodon): Some former Nik Software people are building a new tool for managing photo libraries. It’s called Aspect. I’m a sucker for any photo-related software, so I installed the beta and spent yesterday testing it. I took some notes af…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: When you enter an email address or type one into the address field in Messages, the software does a quick behind-the-scenes check. Messages tries to determine if the address is associated with an active iCloud account. As you accept…
Lees meerMason Freed (Hacker News): XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart from the old version frozen into browsers. This lack of advancement,…
Lees meerParachute Apps: Parachute is a set-and-forget backup companion for iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive. It automatically syncs your memories—photos, videos, and documents—to your own storage, giving you peace of mind and full control.[…]Originals, edits,…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Preview has had more than its fair share of bugs in handling PDF annotations. During my research for this article, Preview 11.0 (1069.7.1) in macOS 15.6 was generally well behaved, but did mangle comments added to a test document by P…
Lees meerTaylor M. Reyes: On July 31st, 2025, the Provenance X (formerly Twitter) account posted a direct plea to the community:“I’ve been on the phone with App Store review support 5 times now about my TestFlights not being reviewed. The longest of which wa…
Lees meerMenial: The app has had a major overhaul to all areas while keeping a familiar UI. […] Highlights of this version include: Working with multiple attached databases Support for more SQLite features like: WITHOUT ROWID & STRICT tables Partial indexes …
Lees meerSheryl Estrada (Reddit): The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling fla…
Lees meerSarah Perez: Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android devices has reached $2 billion in global consumer spending, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. That figure is approximately 30x the combine…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is known to h…
Lees meermacOS 14.7.8 (full installer, security): [Not yet listed, but presumably:] This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 13.7.8 (full installer, security): [Not yet listed, but presumably:] This update provide…
Lees meerEagleFiler 1.9.18 is a maintenance release of my digital filing cabinet and e-mail archiving app. This version adds support for macOS Tahoe 26, amongst other enhancements and fixes. Some interesting issues were: A new Liquid Glass icon is in the wor…
Lees meerApple (downloads, releases): Xcode 26 beta 6 includes SDKs for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and visionOS 26.[…]Fixed: The coding assistant can be disabled via device management in Xcode 26 Beta 6 by setting CodingAssistant…
Lees meerVictor Wynne (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performan…
Lees meerJames Cridland: Running the Mac OS 26 beta (I know, I know), but running out of hard drive space. Turns out the reason is that half of my drive is full of “System Data”.Internet searches are not very helpful in terms of how to reclaim this space. I’…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the seventh beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the sixth beta. The release notes are still titled “beta 6” and don’t call out any changes since beta 5. X…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the seventh betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the sixth betas. The release notes are still titled “beta 6” and don’t call out any c…
Lees meerBitrig (tweet): Turn your ideas into apps in seconds, just by chatting with AI. No programming languages to learn, no complex tools to set up.[…]Bitrig speaks Swift and SwiftUI. Your apps are built with the same technologies Apple uses, and can tap …
Lees meerCBS (via John Gruber): Steve Wozniak, who helped introduce new technologies by inventing the earliest Apple computers, is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He talks with correspondent John…
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