Jason Koebler: Right to repair legislation has now been introduced in all 50 states, a milestone that, despite not all passing, shows the power of the grassroots political movement. Thursday, Wisconsin became the final state in the country to introd…
Lees meerFabien Perigaud (tweet): This time, we will dynamically resolve and use strcmp(). […] Instead of a nice log indicating that the two strings are not the same, our application crashed... […] What just happened? Why is the pointer incorrectly signed? W…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: What happens with an Apple silicon VM is a bit more complicated, and harder to observe. This time the virtualisation app should create the disk image inside the VM bundle as a sparse file to begin with, then copy into that what’s need…
Lees meerTaylor Blau: Exactly twenty years ago, on April 7, 2005, Linus Torvalds made the very first commit to a new version control system called Git. Torvalds famously wrote Git in just 10 days after Linux kernel developers lost access to their proprietary…
Lees meerYuxi Liu (via Hacker News): The legendary Cyc project, Douglas Lenat’s 40-year quest to build artificial general intelligence by scaling symbolic logic, has failed. Based on extensive archival research, this essay brings to light its secret history …
Lees meerAlberto Romero (via Hacker News): I’d been holding off on writing about Gemini 2.5. Focusing on the AI model didn’t feel like enough to tell the full story of Google’s comeback. Gemini 2.5 is only a piece—albeit a big one—of something much larger. B…
Lees meerJordan Novet (2024, via Hacker News): OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said in a Monday X post that he would leave the Microsoft-backed company and join Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup with funding from Amazon.The move comes less than t…
Lees meerKylie Robison (via Hacker News, Slashdot): Over the weekend, Meta dropped two new Llama 4 models: a smaller model named Scout, and Maverick, a mid-size model that the company claims can beat GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash “across a broad range of widel…
Lees meerI thought I was out of the woods in setting up new Apple Silicon test macOS systems, after finally working around a Sequoia bug to get old versions of macOS to install on an external drive. Then Apple released the first beta for macOS 15.5, and I fo…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: App extensions, appexes, have become plentiful and widely used by macOS and third-party software, yet discovering and controlling them is patchy and limited. The most coherent access is in System Settings > General > Login Items & Ext…
Lees meerAtilla (via Chris Turner, Reddit): A Bauhaus-inspired clock screensaver for Mac, designed to be present even when you’re not. Watch precision meets digital aesthetics, enhancing your workspace even when you’re away. $19 for lifetime upgrades.
Lees meerJen Simmons: Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.[…]Now, the web has the ability to evaluate the whole passage of text when figuring out where be…
Lees meerTomáš Kafka: So, this is the first time I am filling a bug report against a whole WWDC talk asking for its retraction for misleading info and describing unimplemented features. It’s the “Efficiency awaits: Background tasks in SwiftUI”. Well, they di…
Lees meerWayne Ma (article): Apple’s decision to delay new AI features in Siri came after years of dysfunction and clashes between the AI/ML and software engineering groups. Many blame Siri’s poor leadership for its slow progress. Hartley Charlton: Apple app…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: Thinking back to Apple’s statement to John Gruber boasting about Siri product knowledge, and Gruber rightfully pointing out on Mastodon that product knowledge isn’t very accurate, or helpful. I figured this was a time where I should …
Lees meerAwkward_One_9772: MacOS 15.4 (Sequoia) cannot send email, but it receives email eMail. Using 3 different accounts in apple email it fails for all three. […] When I click “send” on an email created in apple mail or as a draft in apple mail, apple eMa…
Lees meerIbrahim Diallo (via Hacker News): A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes up to 20 minutes…
Lees meerMatthew Bickham (Hacker News): Once upon a time, developing for Apple was an exciting, rewarding challenge. Apple built world-class hardware and software, and developers created incredible apps that made those devices indispensable. It was a win-win…
Lees meerIan Hickson (2023, via Hacker News): I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior engineer all the way to the C-suite, were genuinely good pe…
Lees meerChris McGee: Today we’re delighted to introduce the first stable release of swiftly, a Swift version manager that takes the pain out of installing, managing and updating your Swift toolchain.The latest version of Swift is bundled with Xcode for writ…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: [The ksdiff] command (called ksp in earlier versions) captures the output from any LLDB command and sends it to Kaleidoscope. Key features include:Designed for repeated use to compare debugger output over timeAutomatically groups r…
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