FSF EU Notarization Complaint

Free Software Foundation Europe (via Hacker News): The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims for a structural reset of power in digital markets, a shift from corporate control toward device neutrality, where users decide what runs on their devices. Fo…

Thanks for Under the Radar

Under the Radar: In our final episode, we reflect on how indie app development has changed over the past decade. Marco Arment: We’re incredibly proud of our ten-year catalog of 30-minute discussions on development, marketing, monetization, work/life…

NetNewsWire 6.2

Brent Simmons (release notes): Long-time Mac users will understand when we say that this is a Snow Leopard release — it fixes a bunch of bugs, makes some things faster, and adds only a couple features. […] Note also that it doesn’t adopt Liquid Glas…

[Sponsor] SaneBox: because your life is busy

I enjoy practicing law, but like many professions, it can consume as much time as you allow. For example, this past Saturday, I worked on an appellate brief to avoid the Monday–Friday distractions of meetings, calls, and emails. I am proud of how th…

Mux: Video API for Developers

Trump Wants Commanders’ New D.C. Stadium Named for Him

Fred Vogelstein on Techmeme’s Enduring Popularity

‘Explaining, at Some Length, Techmeme’s 20 Years of Consistency’

Podcast episode 221: Special Guest Stephen Embry – Meta Spectacles 👓 Approved AI, and the Best Bathroom Breaks on a Plane 🚽

We have a special guest for this week’s episode of the podcast: Stephen Embry of the TechLaw Crossroads website, who you may also know from his frequent contributions to the Above the Law website. We discuss how Steve uses technology to get his job …

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass

Gus Mueller: Acorn 8.3 is out and the big new feature is that it supports Liquid Glass for folks who are running macOS Tahoe (which is over 50% of Acorn 8 users at this point!). […] But the UI was a ton of work! And I made it extra difficult on myse…

White Label Gemini on Private Cloud Compute

Juli Clover (Hacker News): The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intell…

iOS 26.2: App Marketplaces and Browser Choice in Japan

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple on Tuesday released the first beta of iOS 26.2 to developers, and it appears that the software will allow users in Japan to install alternative app marketplaces on their devices when it is released to the …

MainActor.assumeIsolated, Preconcurrency, and Isolated Conformances

Fatbobman: As Swift 6 gradually gains adoption, this problem becomes increasingly prominent: developers want to benefit from the concurrency safety guarantees provided by the Swift compiler, while struggling with how to make their code meet compilat…

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

Tyler Hayes Suggests Trying a Flip-Style Foldable If You Want a Smaller Phone

I Like My Presidents to Care When Someone Faints During a Press Event

Some Flunky Fainted in the Oval Office During a Press Event, and Trump Just Stood There With a Stupid Look on His Face

Some Flunky Fainted in the Oval Office During a Press Event, and Trump Just Stood There With a Stupid Look on His Face

★ Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree

It makes sense in this scenario for neither company to want to publicize a white-label version of Gemini behind Apple Intelligence.

★ Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree

It makes sense in this scenario for neither company to want to publicize a white-label version of Gemini behind Apple Intelligence.