llama.ttf

Søren Fuglede Jørgensen (via Hacker News): llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.[…]The font shaping engine HarfBuzz, used in applications such as Firefox and Chrome, comes with a Wasm s…

visionOS Throttles CPU Based on Microphones

Shiny Quagsire (via Hacker News): visionOS 2 (or RealityKit) seems to have gotten way more aggressive about power throttling (or my battery/cable are having issues idk), so ALVR seems to throttle to 45Hz at much lower PPDs despite being totally fine…

Lightroom Classic 13.3 and 13.4

Agen Schmitz: Adobe has released Lightroom Classic 13.3, enabling you to erase unwanted objects and imperfections in your photos using the Generative Remove tool (powered by Adobe Firefly generative AI). This requires a new catalog database format. …

MarsEdit 5.2.1

MarsEdit 5.2: The “Search” field in the main window now features a filter selection to toggle between searching everything or searching just the current selection. Inline “Find” support is now available in the rendered versions of posts in the Previ…

European Commission Dings Apple Over Anti-Steering Provisions in App Store, and Opens New Investigations Into Core Technology Fee, Sideloading Protections, and the Eligibility Requirements to Offer an Alternative Marketplace

Microsoft Edge Has an ‘Enhanced Security’ Mode That Disables the JIT

Reuters: Amazon Is Considering $5 Monthly Charge for Improved Alexa

Gurman Just Pantsed the WSJ on Their Report About Apple and Meta Working on an AI Deal

Gurman Just Pantsed the WSJ on Their Report About Apple and Meta Working on an AI Deal

European Commission Dings Apple Over Anti-Steering Provisions in App Store, and Opens New Investigations Into Core Technology Fee, Sideloading Protections, and the Eligibility Requirements to Offer an Alternative Marketplace

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European Commission Dings Apple Over Anti-Steering Provisions in App Store, and Opens New Investigations Into Core Technology Fee, Sideloading Protections, and the Eligibility Requirements to Offer an Alternative Marketplace

★ Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted

To put it in Steven Sinofsky’s terms, gatekeeping is a fundamental aspect of Apple’s brand promise with iOS.

★ WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence

Apple is focusing on what it can do that no one else can on Apple devices, and not really even trying to compete against ChatGPT *et al.* for world-knowledge context. They’re focusing on unique differentiation, and eschewing commoditization.

Kolide by 1Password

Eurpopean Commission Dings Apple Over Anti-Steering Provisions in App Store, and Opens New Investigations Into Core Technology Fee, Sideloading Protections, and the Eligibility Requirements to Offer an Alternative Marketplace

★ Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted

To put it in Steven Sinofsky’s terms, gatekeeping is a fundamental aspect of Apple’s brand promise with iOS.

★ Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted

To put it in Steven Sinofsky’s terms, gatekeeping is a fundamental aspect of Apple’s brand promise with iOS.

Apple Found in Breach of DMA

Lisa O’Carroll (via Hacker News, New York Times, Slashdot): Apple has been found to be in breach of sweeping new EU laws designed to allow smaller companies to compete and allow consumers to find cheaper and alternative apps in the tech business’s a…

SwiftData vs. Realm Performance Comparison

Jacob Bartlett: The Realm DB engine was written from the ground-up in C++ to minimise this overhead. […] Therefore, it’s not unreasonable to describe SwiftData as a wrapper over a wrapper over a wrapper.[…]These show that the SwiftData objects took …

Always Allow Safari Bookmarklets

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…