It was clear that Apple didn’t want to be a part of this. For years now, the company has resisted using the phrase Artificial Intelligence to describe what it does.…
Lees meerOne of the more contentious announcements from Apple this week is that it trained its foundation models used as the basis for its forthcoming Apple Intelligence features via, among other content, the open web.…
Lees meerThis week I got a chance to spend a little time with my pal Casey Liss, and he regaled me (and Stephen Hackett, since we are the three big college football fans in our larger tech nerd friend group) with the story of what he’s been up to this summer…
Lees meerEditing the Home View in Bora Bora. I’m just back from Cupertino, and there’s an awful lot to think about. But before all that, I thought I’d cover what absolutely everyone is talking about: visionOS 2.…
Lees meerOur favorite features of Apple Intelligence, the biggest missed opportunity at WWDC 2024, our most anticipated iOS 18 feature announced, and our reactions to the lackluster iPadOS announcements.…
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Lees meerArs Technica’s Andrew Cunningham catches a nice small detail from amongst the WWDC developer announcements: As long as your host operating system is macOS 15 or newer and your guest operating system is macOS 15 or newer, VMs will now be able to s…
Lees meerApple, as a company, has always extolled the value of putting the “personal” in “personal computer.” From its earliest days pushing back at the monolith of IBM and beige boxes that all looked like one another to its more recent extremely personal de…
Lees meerLive from Cupertino, Jason has his in-person reactions to Apple’s big WWDC announcements. And in London, Myke processes his feelings about some controversial Apple choices.…
Lees meerWe’re on the verge, maybe, of something big. Apple broke ground with its voice-driven Siri assistant back in 2011, but over the years, Siri’s trajectory has been meandering and frustrating.…
Lees meerHoward Oakley says that there will be very little hype for a major change that will alter the fabric of apps on Apple’s platforms: Don’t be caught by the marketing hype in Apple’s long list of new features coming in macOS 15.…
Lees meerWhat we’re excited about at WWDC, the oldest tech we have in use, how we store our digital photos, and whether we journal.…
Lees meerPut the D back in WWDC.…
Lees meerCharles Stross writes a refreshingly skeptical column about AI hype, how Apple has been ahead of the game for a while now, and why Microsoft seems to be courting disaster by enabling its Recall feature: Recall is already attracting the attention …
Lees meerNo, not Meta’s social networking platform: Thread, the smart home radio chip.1 You know, the one Apple quietly put in its HomePods, iPhone 15 models and, *ahem* some Apple TVs.…
Lees meerThe Wall Street Journal‘s Joanna Stern describes how Apple’s Screen Time parental controls has a simple security vulnerability that allows unfettered web access: I tried a number of Apple devices.…
Lees meerTom Warren at the Verge has a nice summary of the security problems inherent in the new Windows feature Recall, which records everything you do (what could go wrong?)…
Lees meerJuli Clover of MacRumors reports that venerable Mac utility Bartender has apparently been sold by longtime developer Ben Surtees, and that the new owner recently re-signed the app but otherwise hasn’t notified customers about the change: The tran…
Lees meerIt’s time for our ninth annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! What will be announced? Will it be all AI, all the time?…
Lees meerOnline privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.…
Lees meerNick Heer, linking to a Jeff Johnson post about Apple’s onerous policies regarding replacing a MacBook battery, points out the fundamental truth of mobile devices: …batteries eventually need replacing on all devices.…
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