Lorne Michaels on SNL ‘Best Cast’ Nostalgia

Cheap Third-Party ‘Lightning’ Headphones Are Often Cheap Bluetooth Headphones

What’s Next for Apple’s Journal App?

Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles As an AirTag

Brian Krebs: Both Apple and Google operate their own Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPS) that obtain certain hardware identifiers from all wireless access points that come within range of their mobile devices. Both record the Media Access Control …

Unwanted Tracking Alerts in iOS and Android

Apple (Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple and Google have worked together to create an industry specification — Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers — for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both iOS and Android if suc…

‘Guilty’

iPhones Pause MagSafe Charging During Continuity Camera, and Might Not Charge Via USB Either

Cheap Third-Party ‘Lightning’ Headphones Are Often Cheap Bluetooth Headphones

Cheap Third-Party ‘Lightning’ Headphones Are Often Cheap Bluetooth Headphones

Kino 1.0

Lorne Michaels on SNL ‘Best Cast’ Nostalgia

Gurman: ‘iOS 18 Siri AI Update Will Let Users Control Features in Apps With Voice’

The Information: ‘OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Cements Control as He Secures Apple Deal’

Gurman: ‘iOS 18 Siri AI Update Will Let Users Control Features in Apps With Voice’

The Information: ‘OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Cements Control as He Secures Apple Deal’

Apple Silicon MacBook Pro Battery Replacement

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Yesterday I took the M1 MacBook Pro to my local Apple-authorized service provider that I’ve been going to for many years, who performed all of the work on my Intel MacBook Pro, including the battery replacements and a Staing…

YouTube Playables

Juli Clover: YouTube is the latest company to introduce mobile games that are available outside of the App Store, today announcing the official launch of “Playables” in the YouTube app.[…]YouTube is focusing on “lightweight, entertaining games,” so …

iOS Retro Console Game Emulators

OatmealDome (via Steve Troughton-Smith): Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store. This week, Delta, a multi-system emulator that was previously only available via AltStore, was released on the App Sto…

App Store Apps Can Be Translocated

Howard Oakley: This article demonstrates that the last of those isn’t necessarily true, and what happens when an App Store app ends up being translocated. The combination of an App Store app with a quarantine xattr is a particular problem for users,…

CloudKit Throttles and Debugging

TN3162: The CloudKit infrastructure is shared by all apps and services. The resources are finite, and so high utilization from one app can negatively affect others. To avoid this kind of impact and optimize the overall experience, CloudKit implement…

Can Anyone But a Tech Giant Build the Next Big Thing?

Jason Snell (Mastodon): I’m sad about the Ai Pin because it—and a similar AI hardware product, the Rabbit R1—shows just how much potential innovation is strangled by the presence of enormously powerful tech companies, most notably the Android-iPhone…