Europe’s Digital Markets Act continues to be the gift that keeps on giving—a gift Apple probably wishes it could return. The European Commission today announced that it was opening a slew of investigations into big tech companies over their non-comp…
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Lees meerArs Technica’s Dan Goodin has an excellent (if technical) rundown of a recently unearthed security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series processors. Basically there’s a system that tries to predict what memory addresses are going to be used in order to …
Lees meerThe U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday. While I am not a lawyer, I’ve written extensively about Apple for 30 years and just read all 88 pages of the full complaint.…
Lees meerWhen I wrote about Apple’s new Sports app, I heard from several people who pointed out that maybe Eddy Cue had done his job a little too well.…
Lees meerHow we search online, our tips for minimizing vehicle data tracking, the GenAI features we’d like to see added to Apple’s platforms, and what features we’d want to see in a future iPad.…
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Lees meerJason recently reviewed the new M3 MacBook Air, and a key feature of the new models is Wi-Fi 6E support. Wi-Fi 6E is a big deal because it adds the 6GHz spectrum to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands we’re all used to.…
Lees meerAfter years of the market complaining that Apple is “behind” on artificial intelligence, the company is poised to make a big push in the technology with its platform updates this year.…
Lees meerDeveloper Steve Troughton-Smith watched all of today’s workshop between Apple and the EU on the Digital Markets Act and posted some highlights on Mastodon. Of particular interest was an exchange between Apple’s representatives and Riley Testut, the …
Lees meerQuite a scoop from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would…
Lees meerIs Apple working with Google on its A.I. strategy? We break down what that might mean for the future of Apple’s platforms—and why it might make a lot of sense.…
Lees meerHugo Barra, former head of Oculus at Meta, has a lengthy review of his Vision Pro experience that’s well worth reading. Don’t let the somewhat inflammatorty first headline (of four?!)…
Lees meerSticky scrolling through a Python project in Nova, complete with a terminal tab and an SFTP sidebar. I’ve been writing scripts in Python for a few years now, and it’s taken over a lot of my remote automation.…
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Lees meerThe Europe-mandated tech changes we’d like to see in the US, circular vs. square smart watches, how often we completely reset our devices, and the extent of our home automation pursuits.…
Lees meerIf Apple had its way, it would never open the App Store to competition, never offer sideloading of apps, never allow app developers to link to outside websites, and probably never reduce its cut of all App Store purchases from the original 30 percen…
Lees meerIt’s been a seismic few weeks for Apple in the European Union, and the company’s approach to distributing iOS apps continues to evolve. On Tuesday, Apple announced a few further changes to its rules, all of which stand to make significant changes to…
Lees meerWe discuss Apple’s latest embarrassing and unnecessary policy stumble in Europe, and then explain how Jason’s full review of the M3 MacBook Air managed to kill his home network.…
Lees meerMy workspace is what is apparently called an “unconditioned space,” in that it’s a lighly insulated garage with no access to my home’s central heating system.…
Lees meerThis week has been a heck of a roller coaster for Epic. After the game-maker’s Sweden branch reportedly had its developer account restored so that the company could launch its alternative app marketplace in Europe, the company was subsequently banne…
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