Hartley Charlton: Apple today announced that it has rebuilt the search infrastructure that powers key features like Spotlight, Photos, and Mail across all of its major next-generation software platforms. LLM search using Core Spotlight: Level up bas…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com. New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new doma…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (MacRumors, Hacker News): A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, accordi…
Lees meerEveryMac: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched. Thirty years is a long time -- and a great deal has changed since then -- but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original…
Lees meerCecilia Kang, Ryan Mac, and Eli Tan (March, Hacker News): The social media company Meta and the video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found on Wedne…
Lees meerJuli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): Apple told Reuters that it released the updates earlier than planned due to concerns about AI-assisted hacks. Previously: iOS 26.5.1 iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 includes security fixes for the Mac. Howard Oakley: This addresses a total of about 29 vu…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: The Current Activity window shows what the app is doing right now The Activity Log window shows what the app did recently The Account Stats window shows per-account article and status counts and database sizes, and it includes a Vacuu…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: The British government will introduce a ban on social media access for all users under 16 years of age, set to take effect in 2027. […] The plan goes further than a similar ban introduced in Australia. It will cover major platforms Sna…
Lees meerAmanda Silberling (May 2025): The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been reintroduced into Congress. If passed into law, this bill could impose some of the most significant legislative changes that the internet has seen in the U.S. since the Childre…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: A group of 48 China-based iOS developers have filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the country’s market regulator over the App Store’s commission rates, the South China Morning Post reports. The developers sent an open l…
Lees meerErik Schamper: ASIF takes a lot of inspiration from existing virtual disk formats. Practically, that means it’s another sparse virtual disk format, and functions very similar to sparse VMDK, VHDX or QCOW2 files (for the uninitiated, it allow you to …
Lees meerAmy Howe: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant” – a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific time period …
Lees meerAnthropic (tweet, Hacker News): The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, inclu…
Lees meerZac Hall: Last year, Notion expanded its productivity suite to include Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client. Today, the company announced that it’s shutting down the Notion Mail inbox service this fall. […] Today, more than half of Notion Mail us…
Lees meerBasic Apple Guy: But what exactly is a Mavericks? Where is Sonoma? And how many Mac users could point to where Ventura or Tahoe on a map? I decided to trace the history and real-world locations behind every California-inspired macOS release and the …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Hot Macs have their own paradox: open Activity Monitor, select the CPU view, and at the top of the CPU % list will be kernel_task hogging the CPU cores with 100% or more, rather than its usual 4% or so. Kerb any temptation to kill it …
Lees meerChris Lattner: I’m excited to share that Qualcomm is acquiring Modular: this will accelerate our path to unifying accelerated compute with an open platform. This will also mark a new era in open software development for Qualcomm. […] This will accel…
Lees meerJason Snell, on The Talk Show: [… Apple] decides to do a big feature. The circus comes to town, they build the feature, they launch it, they leave town, and that feature sits there. And the problem is, there’s bugs, things are broken, and in Year Tw…
Lees meerRyan Merket (Hacker News, Wikipedia): Om Malik (@Om), the journalist, GigaOm founder, photographer and True Ventures partner whose work tracked the commercial internet from dial-up optimism to AI saturation, died on June 24 at Stanford Hospital afte…
Lees meerOur phones stopped working this morning, or perhaps last night, but everything looked fine on Boom’s Web site. I contacted their support, and as always they got back right away, but this time with bad news: I’m deeply sorry to share that after caref…
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