Maggie Harrison Dupré (Hacker News, more context): The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quo…
Lees meerTodd Bishop (via Adam Engst): In early 1984, Paul Brainerd and four engineers packed into his old Saab and another car and drove south on Interstate 5 from Seattle. They had been laid off after Kodak bought their employer, Atex, a company whose comp…
Lees meerMarco Arment: I fail using this UI at least once a week. It’s the AirPods Control Center volume pane, where I go to put my AirPods Pro into Adaptive mode (which I have configured a hundred times to be part of the long-press selection, but that alway…
Lees meerHetzner (Hacker News, Reddit): The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price changes will affect both existing products and new orders and will take effect starting on 1 April …
Lees meerAdam Engst: 1Password has announced that prices for its popular password manager will increase for renewals made on or after 27 March 2026. In an email to users, the company said that 1Password Individual will increase from $35.88 per year ($2.99 pe…
Lees meerWaydell D. Carvalho (Hacker News): In cases when regulators demand real enforcement rather than symbolic rules, platforms run into a basic technical problem. The only way to prove that someone is old enough to use a site is to collect personal data …
Lees meerRyan Whitwam (PDF): Late last year, Google and Epic concocted a settlement that would end the long-running antitrust dispute that stemmed from Fortnite fees. The sides have now announced an updated version of the agreement with new changes aimed at …
Lees meerNick Heer: Snell converts the software score to an average letter grade of B to B–. Is Apple satisfied with shipping a consistently B product? I confess the grade I have given has been lower than this average. My experience with Apple’s software for…
Lees meerGus Mueller (Mastodon): In episode 680 of ATP, at about 6:12 in, Marco Arment goes off on watchOS 26’s fitness app and trashes all the changes. And I couldn’t agree more with him. I thought it was just me who hated all the changes, and the slow anim…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: To work out how long you can expect your Mac’s internal SSD to last before it reaches that cycle limit, all you need do is to measure how much data is written to it, and once that is 3,000 times the capacity of the SSD, you should exp…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, it adds support for the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR. Apple has also released a firmware upd…
Lees meerJuli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the update adds support for the new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, and it includes unspecified bug fixes. Previously: Studi…
Lees meerAndrew Liszewski: It was first announced last month without pricing or availability details, but BenQ has now shared all the specs for its new 27-inch 5K display designed for Mac users. The MA270S matches the size and 5,120 x 2,880 resolution of the…
Lees meerRob Griffiths (Hacker News): I have macOS Tahoe on my laptop, but I'm keeping my desktop Mac on macOS Sequoia for now. Which means I have the joy of seeing things like this wonderful notification on a regular basis. Or I did, until I found a way to …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): MacBook Neo starts with a beautiful Apple design, featuring a durable aluminum enclosure in an array of gorgeous colors — blush, indigo, silver, and a fresh new citrus. Its stunning 13-inch Liquid Retina display bring…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, TidBITS, MacRumors, ArsTechnica): Apple today announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max, bringing game-changing performance and AI capabilities to the world’s best pro laptop. […] The new…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, TidBITS, MacRumors): Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with M5, bringing exceptional performance and expanded AI capabilities to the world’s most popular laptop. M5 features a faster CPU and next-generation GPU with a Neu…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): The chips are built using a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture. This innovative design combines two dies into a single system on a chip (SoC), which includes a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, Media Engine, unified mem…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, Reddit, MacRumors): The new Studio Display features a 12MP Center Stage camera, now with improved image quality and support for Desk View; a studio-quality three-microphone array; and an immersive six-speaker sound system with Sp…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): With M4, iPad Air is up to 30 percent faster than iPad Air with M3, and up to 2.3x faster than iPad Air with M1. The new iPad Air also features the latest in Apple silicon connectivity chips, N1 and C1X, delivering fa…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): At the heart of iPhone 17e is the latest-generation A19, which delivers exceptional performance for everything users do. iPhone 17e also features C1X, the latest-generation cellular modem designed by Apple, which is u…
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