Juli Clover: Mobile networks determine location based on the cellular towers that a device connects to, but with the setting enabled, some of the data typically made available to mobile networks is being restricted. Rather than being able to see loc…
Lees meerProton’s Tech Fines Tracker (via Ben Lovejoy): While $7.8 billion in fines sounds substantial, it represents little more than a rounding error for Big Tech. Based on free cash flow, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Amazon could collectively pay off all 20…
Lees meerApple (transcript, MacRumors, CNBC, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.84, up 19 percent year over year. […] “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven …
Lees meerRichard Lawler (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple’s biggest acquisition ever is still its $3 billion Beats buy in 2014, but now the second biggest deal is bringing in Q.ai, a four-year-old AI audio startup. Apple did not disclose the terms, b…
Lees meerSebastiaan de With (Bluesky, MacRumors, The Verge): Some big personal news: I’ve joined the Design Team at Apple. So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products. ✌️ Great news. I wish they’d also hire Mario Guzmán. A…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky: Typical photo-preset apps simply swap a photo’s color palette. Halide’s Looks are capable of much more, virtue of being part of the camera itself. When you select a look, it changes the way the camera captures a photo and interprets t…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (Hacker News): Two months ago, I hacked together a weekend project. What started as “WhatsApp Relay” now has over 100,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week. Today, I’m excited to announce our new name: OpenC…
Lees meerSarah Perez (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Creator platform Patreon is taking issue with Apple’s new mandate that forces all creators to move to a subscription billing model, which now has a new transition deadline of November 1, 2026. […] The …
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: It appears that each time tethering is enabled or disabled on the iPhone, it disconnects Image Capture. […] Thankfully the workaround is simple – disable tethering, or enable Airplane mode, while you’re using Image Capture. Previousl…
Lees meerConnor Jones (Hacker News): The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use. […] The Bill will bring communications from IoT device…
Lees meerJade (Hacker News): Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn’t, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn’t do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secu…
Lees meerConnor Jones: Would you be comfortable handing the keys to your identity kingdom over to a bot, one that might be exposed to the open internet? […] Jamieson O’Reilly, founder of red-teaming company Dvuln, was among the first to draw attention to the…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer): iOS 26.2.1 adds support for the next-generation AirTag that Apple introduced today. […] The update also includes unspecified bug fixes, according to Apple’s release notes. Juli C…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer): Today’s update enables Precision Finding for the new AirTag 2 on the Apple Watch Series 9 and later and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. Prior to now, Precision Finding for the AirTag has …
Lees meerBen Cohen: A sequence provides access to its elements through an Iterator, and an iterator’s next() operation returns an Element?. For a sequence of noncopyable elements, this operation could only be implemented by consuming the elements of the iter…
Lees meerJan Tångring (Hacker News): “AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown”, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip — the same chip found in the iPhone 17 lineup, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11 — powers the new AirTag, making it easier to locate than ever bef…
Lees meerCindy Harper (via Hacker News): The UK House of Lords has voted to extend “age assurance” requirements, effectively age verification mandates, to virtual private networks (VPNs) and a wide range of online platforms under the Children’s Wellbeing and…
Lees meerZac Bowden (via Hacker News): Microsoft has confirmed in a statement to Forbes that the company will provide the FBI access to BitLocker encryption keys if a valid legal order is requested. These keys enable the ability to decrypt and access the dat…
Lees meerDoug Gregor: The Swift code above has a very “C” feel to it. It has global function calls with prefixed names like wgpuInstanceCreateSurface and global integer constants like WGPUStatus_Error. It pervasively uses unsafe pointers, some of which are m…
Lees meerDavid McCabe and Emmett Lindner (MacRumors, The Verge): TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok, concluding a six-year legal saga that saw the app…
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