Jeff Johnson: You may already be aware that for a number of years, Safari has asked your permission every time you click on a link, such as an RSS feed, that opens in an app other than Safari[…][…]The permission prompt now has an option to “Always A…
Lees meerRyan Christoffel (AppleInsider): The problem is, Apple “intelligently” decides which files can remain stored in local cache, and will make decisions to remove certain downloads without telling you. So when you need to access a given file—say, on an …
Lees meerMark Sullivan: The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wiredinvestigation revealing that the startup has been crawling content from websites that don’t want to be crawled.[…]“Perplexity is not ignoring the Robot Exclusions …
Lees meerAdam Engst: Pirate Ship is a shipping platform with an elegant interface that allows users to access discounted shipping rates from USPS and UPS with no subscription fee. I’ve used it a handful of times for mailing packages, and it has been brillian…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News, ArsTechnica): Apple today said that European customers will not get access to the Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing features that are coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac this September due t…
Lees meerIlya Sutskever et al. (via Hacker News): Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. We have started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. […
Lees meerDave Nanian: We’re happy to announce Beta 2 of SuperDuper! v3.9, our initial cut at a Sequoia compatible release.[…]SuperDuper v3.9 includes Dark Mode support, and banishes our old textured window to the land of shadows.[…][W]e’ve turned on our abil…
Lees meerMatt Evans (via Hacker News): A Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller (on a Pico board), driving monochrome VGA video and taking USB keyboard/mouse input, emulating a Macintosh 128K computer and disc storage. The RP2040 has easily enough RAM to house …
Lees meerAinsley Bourque Olson (release notes): Focus Filters, configurable in the Focus section of the Settings app, allow you to customize what app data is displayed when a Focus mode is enabled on your device. With OmniFocus 4.3, you can now set device Fo…
Lees meerApple: In the following overview, we will detail how two of these models — a ~3 billion parameter on-device language model, and a larger server-based language model available with Private Cloud Compute and running on Apple silicon servers — have bee…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: In iOS 18, when you invoke Control Center with a swipe down from the top-right of your iPhone’s screen, you can continuously swipe to get to more control center screens. There’s a new controls gallery that lets you customize the contro…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: In iPadOS 18, Apple has redesigned the tab bar experience for many apps like Podcasts, Apple TV, and Apple Music. Previously in these apps, tabs sat at the bottom of the interface. When in portrait orientation however, tab bars now sit…
Lees meerAdam Zewe (via Hacker News): A prolific researcher who led the Computation Structures Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Arvind served on the MIT faculty for nearly five decades. […] As a scientist, Arvind …
Lees meerLitchie (Reddit): Initially they rejected the submission because it was same as iDOS 2, but after I explained to them that I can not continue under iDOS2 [because Apple had blocklisted it], then they rejected again as “Design spam” on the basis that…
Lees meerJay Peters: OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US Army and a former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors, the company announced on Thursday. Nakasone, who was nominated to lead the NSA by…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple intends to slim down the MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, and iPhone, with the new ultra-thin M4 iPad Pro a sign of the company’s new design trajectory, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.[…]Writing in the latest edition of his Power …
Lees meerFTC (PDF, via Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against software maker Adobe and two of its executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, for deceiving consumers by hiding the early termination fee for its most popular s…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: The European Commission plans to charge Apple for violating the Digital Markets Act after determining that the iPhone maker is not complying with obligations to allow app developers to “steer” users to offers outside of the App Store …
Lees meerRyohei Yasoshima and Riho Nagao (Hacker News): Legislation slated to be sent to the parliament in 2024 would restrict moves by platform operators to keep users in the operators’ own ecosystems and shut out rivals, focusing mainly on four areas: app …
Lees meerGeneral: Keynote (YouTube, Hacker News, Lobsters, MacRumors, TidBITS, Mac Power Users Talk, The Verge) Sessions (Spreadsheet, via Daniel Jalkut) Videos Unofficial WWDC App (Rename Videos By Title in EagleFiler) Beta OS Downloads (Requirements, Insta…
Lees meerApple (via Ivan Krstić, ArsTechnica): Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that brings powerful generative models to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. For advanced features that need to reason over complex data with larger foundation models, …
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