Proton (PDF): We believe that Apple’s conduct, as detailed in the complaint we filed, constitutes further violations of US antitrust law. Without this case, Apple could get away with behavior in the US that is already outlawed in the European Union.…
Lees meerAdi Robertson: Age verification is perhaps the hottest battleground for online speech, and the Supreme Court just settled a pivotal question: does using it to gate adult content violate the First Amendment in the US? For roughly the past 20 years th…
Lees meerRiccardo Mori: I’ve been trying to make sense of Apple’s latest user-interface redesign — Apple calls it Liquid Glass — that will affect all their platforms in the next iteration of their respective OS versions. But it’s hard to make sense of it whe…
Lees meerZhenyi Tan (via Kyle Howells): A few months ago, I posted this image on Mastodon, because the Apple documentation website sometimes feel… err, underwhelming. Many people have already pointed this out, so I won’t repeat their complaints. When people …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, MacStories, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, ArsTechnica): Today, we’re introducing updated terms that let developers with apps in the European Union storefronts of the App Store communicate and promote offers for purchase of di…
Lees meerAlex Grebenyuk: I’ve been using Claude chats for a while, but tools like Cursor never clicked for me. I just didn’t want to introduce a separate IDE into my workflow, and I didn’t feel they offered enough value for an experienced engineer. That chan…
Lees meerMarcus Mendes: Almost exactly two years after abruptly pulling the plug on its Apple TV app, Vimeo is making a comeback on the platform with a brand-new experience built from the ground up.[…]For longtime users, this update marks a pretty big revers…
Lees meerRon Elemans: News Explorer 2.1 brings support for Bluesky feeds based on the official API, a large collection of Shortcuts actions, sharing to Readwise, and some other useful features and improvements. Previously: News Explorer 2.0
Lees meerY Combinator (transcript, slides, via Duncan Davidson, Hacker News): Drawing on his work at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Andrej [Karpathy] sees a shift underway. Software is changing, again. We’ve entered the era of “Software 3.0,” where natural lan…
Lees meerMarcus Mendes: A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the 2021 Open App Markets Act, a bill aimed at curbing the gatekeeper power that Apple and Google hold over the so-called “mobile app economy.” Here’s what they’re going for.If passed, t…
Lees meerBrian Croll, quoted by John Gruber: Paula was an employee who you are not going to see profiled in any books on the history of Apple or Steve Jobs. She worked closely with the ops team to ensure CDs and then DVDs shipped on time and correctly packag…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple says that Adaptive Power Mode can make “small performance adjustments” when necessary to extend an iPhone’s battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to “take a little longer.”[…
Lees meerNick Heer: App icons across Apple’s three most popular operating systems share a similar rounded square mask, and it is a downgrade. Simon B. Støvring correctly calls out the “expressive, varied app icons, a case of character over conformity” as a h…
Lees meerApple (download): Added a new setting that dictates how function names are displayed in C++ frames: plugin.cplusplus.display.function-name-format[…]The span property of UTF8View does not support the small string representation in beta 1, and traps f…
Lees meerMarko Zivkovic (via Ric Ford, Reddit): Apple announced its plans for a new opt-in Apple Intelligence training program. In essence, users can let Apple use content from their iPhone to train AI models. The training itself happens entirely on-device, …
Lees meerJason Snell: It’s probably worth explaining why this feature has so many podcasters and other creators in a bit of a tizzy. Many podcasts record remotely, with people all over the world, and they usually use some sort of app to have that real-time c…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Wait, what? macOS Tahoe beta 2 automatically enabled FileVault and uploaded a recovery key to iCloud. I did not have a choice in the matter. First, they silently enable iCloud Keychain, then they upload your FileVault key to it without…
Lees meerAndrew Cunningham: We are not highlighting this second round of developer betas because we think you should go out and install them on the Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches that you use daily. These are still early versions, and they’re likely…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple provided developers with the second beta of iOS 26, introducing the first changes and refinements to the new operating system since it debuted after the WWDC keynote. Because we’re early in the beta testing process, there are quit…
Lees meerCasey Liss: 🤮 In case you forgot after F1 got multiple sections of the keynote at Apple’s developer conference. Marco Arment: This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platfo…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today shared The Parent Presentation, which explains why a Mac is a useful tool in college. The customizable 81-slide presentation is available in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides formats. After downloading the template on…
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