Apple: Inspired by the depth and dimensionality of visionOS, the new design takes advantage of Apple’s powerful advances in hardware, silicon, and graphics technologies. The new material, Liquid Glass, is translucent and behaves like glass in the real world. Its colour is informe … | Continue reading
Dan Moren ended his “Stay Foolish” column at Macworld with a tremendous essay about what it means to be a “fan” of Apple or its products in 2025: Over the years, those in the Apple community have long been called everything from the liturgical “Apple faithful” to the insipid “iSh … | Continue reading
Speaking of the Analysis Group, here is a press release from 2022: Analysis Group was acknowledged at the GCR [Global Competition Review] awards ceremony for its work on Epic Games v. Apple, which was awarded “Matter of the Year” and “Litigation of the Year – non-cartel defence.” … | Continue reading
Apple: Apple today announced the global App Store ecosystem facilitated $1.3 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2024, according to a new study by economists Professor Andrey Fradkin from Boston University Questrom School of Business and Dr. Jessica Burley from Analysis G … | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance, and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers, and annoyances — del … | Continue reading
With just a few days to go until WWDC, Stephen Hackett chronicled the history of the mythical 3 GHz Power Mac G5, previewed at the conference over twenty years ago: The heat generated by the G5 would become an issue later on, but first we need to talk about Steve Jobs broke a fun … | Continue reading
I, like millions of people, spend a good chunk of my Mondays through Fridays in Microsoft 365 (formerly Office) applications, many of which I partly or wholly access through a browser. For years, I could just type portal.office.com in my browser and get links to Word, Excel, Outl … | Continue reading
Richard Lawler, the Verge: Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 – 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools availa … | Continue reading
Michael Geist: The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding the border. Yet buried toward the end of the bill are lawful acc … | Continue reading
Dan Sinker: Hanif Abdurraqib, in one of his excellent Instagram mini-essays the other week, wrote about the rise of content that’s designed to be consumed while doing something else. In Hanif’s case, he was writing about Time Machine, his incredible 90 minute deep dive into The F … | Continue reading
I am a daily user of a V60, so this new James Hoffmann video scratched an itch I did not know I had. Not to spoil it, but the V60 does not make a significant appearance until the last four minutes, but the journey is worth the wait. The discussion of the mid-2000s specialty coffe … | Continue reading
Aniketh Girish, et al.: We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports … | Continue reading
This, from Adam Newbold, is a perfect encapsulation of a bunch of ethical problems related to artificial intelligence. The prompt: Generate an image for a Calvin & Hobbes strip. Four panels. Calvin and Hobbes are walking through the woods, talking to each other, both holding smar … | Continue reading
Adam Engst, TidBits: To distinguish these tools [Perplexity and ChatGPT’s web search] from traditional search engines like Google and Bing, I’m calling them “answer engines.” Although they are performing live Web searches for you, the focus is on answering your question rather th … | Continue reading
Online 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. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. … | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale: Now, while I’m here let me tackle a somewhat related issue I’ve been thinking about lately and that is the idea that AI is going to become the default layer between users and the web. We all yelled and screamed because the web has too many gatekeepers, we all lame … | Continue reading
Bruce Schneier and Arun Vishwanath, Dark Reading: There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people — you, me, everyone — should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to dow … | Continue reading
Drew DeVault: Now it’s LLMs. If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality. These bots crawl everything they can find, robots.txt be damned, including expensive endpoints like git blame, every page of every git … | Continue reading
Federico Viticci, MacStories: For the past two weeks, I’ve been able to use Sky, the new app from the people behind Shortcuts who left Apple two years ago. As soon as I saw a demo, I felt the same way I did about Editorial, Workflow, and Shortcuts: I knew Sky was going to fundame … | Continue reading
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Mike Scarcella, Reuters: Alphabet’s Google has persuaded a federal judge in California to reject a lawsuit from video platform Rumble accusing the technology giant of illegally monopolizing the online video-sharing market. In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gil … | Continue reading
John Herrman, New York magazine: But I also don’t want to assume Google knows exactly how this stuff will play out for Google, much less what it will actually mean for millions of websites, and their visitors, if Google stops sending as many people beyond its results pages. Googl … | Continue reading
Ciro Santilli: This article is about covert agent communication channel websites used by the CIA in many countries from the late 2000s until the early 2010s, when they were uncovered by counter intelligence of the targeted countries circa 2010-2013. This is a pretty clever scheme … | Continue reading
Apple issued a news release today touting the safety of the App Store, dutifully covered without context by outlets like 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and MacRumors. This has become an annual tradition in trying to convince people — specifically, developers and regulators — of the wisdo … | Continue reading
Nicholas Chrastil, the Guardian: State officials have praised Butler Snow for its experience in defending prison cases – and specifically William Lunsford, head of the constitutional and civil rights litigation practice group at the firm. But now the firm is facing sanctions by t … | Continue reading
Tripp Mickle, of the New York Times, wrote another one of those articles exploring the feasibility of iPhone manufacturing in the United States. There is basically nothing new here; the only reason it seems to have been published is because the U.S. president farted out yet anoth … | Continue reading
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was on the Verge’s “Decoder” podcast with Nilay Patel, and was asked about Route Share: I read this press release announcing Route Share, and I had this very mid-2010s reaction, which was what if Uber just invented a bus. Did you just invent a bus? I th … | Continue reading
Greg Storey begins this piece with a well-known quote from Plato’s “Phaedrus”, in which the invention of writing is decried as “an elixir not of memory, but of reminding”. Storey compares this to a criticism of large language models, and writes: Even though Plato thought writing … | Continue reading
Ryan Francis Bradley, New York Times Magazine: Only — what if we did know exactly how he did the thing, and why? Before the previous installment of the franchise, “Dead Reckoning,” Paramount released a nine-minute featurette titled “The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History.” It was a … | Continue reading
Rolfe Winkler, Amrith Ramkumar, and Meghan Bobrowsky, Wall Street Journal: Apple stepped up efforts in recent weeks to fight Texas legislation that would require the iPhone-maker to verify ages of device users, even drafting Chief Executive Tim Cook into the fight. The CEO called … | Continue reading
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Remember how, in 2023, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a report acknowledging mass stockpiling of third-party data it had purchased? It turns out there is so much private information about people it is creating a big headache for the intelligenc … | Continue reading
Berber Jin, Wall Street Journal: Altman and Ive offered a few hints at the secret project they have been working on [at a staff meeting]. The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on on … | Continue reading
Jessica Conditt, Engadget: A group of GeoGuessr map creators have pulled their contributions from the game to protest its participation in the Esports World Cup 2025, calling the tournament “a sportswashing tool used by the government of Saudi Arabia to distract from and conceal … | Continue reading
Thinking about the energy “footprint” of artificial intelligence products makes it a good time to re-link to Mark Kaufman’s excellent 2020 Mashable article in which he explores the idea of a carbon footprint: The genius of the “carbon footprint” is that it gives us something to o … | Continue reading
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review: Today, new analysis by MIT Technology Review provides an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses — down to a single query — to trace where its carbon footprint stands now, and where it’s headed, as AI ba … | Continue reading
Last month, the Information reported OpenAI was considering buying io Products — unfortunate capitalization theirs — for around $500 million. The company, founded by Jony Ive and employing several ex-Apple designers and engineers, was already known to be working with OpenAI, but … | Continue reading
Albert Burneko, Defector: Over this past weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer’s weekend editions included identical huge “Best of Summer” inserts; in the Inquirer’s digital edition the insert runs 54 pages, while the entire rest of the paper occupies 36. Befor … | Continue reading
Katie Razzall, BBC News: When the increasingly expensive contracts to provide broadcast channels and digital terrestrial services like Freeview come to an end, the UK’s broadcasters are likely to pivot to offering digital-only video on demand. (However this won’t happen without a … | Continue reading
Tim Higgins, Wall Street Journal: Each company is accused of being overly aggressive in holding back internal documents under special legal standing — known as privilege — that should have, in fact, been turned over to the government or lawyers suing on behalf of Epic. The videog … | Continue reading
Joseph Cox, 404 Media: Flock’s new product, called Nova, will supplement license plate data with a wealth of personal information sourced from other companies and the wider web, according to the material obtained by 404 Media. “You’re going to be able to access data and jump from … | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett, of Bloomberg, published a lengthy examination of Apple’s fumbling history of artificial intelligence features. It is surprisingly warm to John Giannandrea, who is portrayed as someone who tried hard to build talent and resources at … | Continue reading
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Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch: Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities — one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive every day. This is a bus. A worse, le … | Continue reading
Jacob Eiting, of RevenueCat: Turns out, in-app purchases are good for conversion rates. In fact, at least 30% better. That’s one of the things we found while running the first large-scale, side-by-side test of in-app vs web purchases in history. […] The initial conversion rate fo … | Continue reading
Austin Carr and Dina Bass, in a largely glowing profile of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Bloomberg: Working out of offices in London and Mountain View, California, Suleyman’s employees set about creating a version of Copilot designed for life away from the office. As they’d done … | Continue reading
Viktor Maric: first time seeing this. Apple will punish the apps with external payment system Maric includes a screenshot of an App Store listing for Instacar, which features a exclamation mark-decorated banner at the top reading “This app does not support the App Store’s private … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: The company is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19, an iPhone software update due in September, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The enhancement will analyze how a person uses their device and make adjustments to cons … | Continue reading