Mike Wuerthele: Hours after the new Mac mini hit customers’ desks, some users started complaining that when they hooked up a hard drive or SSD to the unit, they’d see Wi-Fi speeds drop, or be cut entirely. The reports were almost always followed up …
Lees meerMark Tyson: Louis Rossmann has shared a new video encapsulating his surprise, and disappointment, that Brother has morphed into an “anti-consumer printer company.” More information about Brother’s embrace of the dark side are shared on Rossmann’s wi…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (via Dare Obasanjo): As reported by Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico (via O Globo), a federal judge in Brazil ruled on Wednesday that Apple will have to open up the iOS ecosystem to third-party apps in Brazil just like the company…
Lees meerReuters (YouTube): Digg founder Kevin Rose has teamed up with former rival Alexis Ohanian to buy the once-popular content aggregator as they bet on an artificial intelligence-powered revival of the platform that once drew around 40 million monthly v…
Lees meerCarly Page: Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. […] Lasso co-founder Ophir Dror told TechCrunc…
Lees meerIna Fried: Amazon on Wednesday showed off Alexa+, a generative AI version of its digital voice assistant that draws on a variety of models and works with many of the company’s older Echo devices.[…]Alexa+ will be available in late March and cost $19…
Lees meerAdobe: The Adaptive profiles help with image-adaptive adjustments in color, tone, and contrast of raw images.[…]The Lightroom Classic 14.2 update introduces substantial performance improvements for interactive editing tasks, delivering a smoother, f…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: This story starts in 2019 when Google detailed its plans to improve extensions’ security and privacy features with a project it called Manifest V3 (MV3) that changes the way extensions use various APIs. MV3 is currently being rolled …
Lees meerJoe Brockmeier (via Hacker News): Ladybird is an open-source project aimed at building an independent web browser, rather than yet another browser based on Chrome. It is written in C++ and licensed under a two-clause BSD license. The effort began as…
Lees meerApple: Mac Studio with M4 Max is up to 3.5x faster than Mac Studio with M1 Max, and is up to 6.1x faster than the most powerful Intel-based 27-inch iMac.[…]Mac Studio with M3 Ultra pushes demanding workflows to a whole new level. It delivers nearly …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): M3 Ultra is built using Apple’s innovative UltraFusion packaging architecture, which links two M3 Max dies over 10,000 high-speed connections that offer low latency and high bandwidth. This allows the system to treat …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, ArsTechnica): Apple today announced the new MacBook Air, featuring the blazing-fast performance of the M4 chip, up to 18 hours of battery life, a new 12MP Center Stage camera, and a lower starting price. It also offers…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: Taska is a beautiful and versatile Mac native app for issue tracking. Since working on issues typically is a team effort, it’s not an isolated or proprietary app. Instead, it acts as a frontend to the popular services GitHub and Gi…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): iPad Air with M3 empowers users to be productive and creative wherever they are, from aspiring creatives using demanding apps and working with large files, to travelers editing content on the go. The powerful M3 chip offers a nu…
Lees meerApple: Apple today also updated iPad with double the starting storage and the A16 chip, bringing even more value to customers. The A16 chip provides a jump in performance for everyday tasks and experiences in iPadOS, while still providing all-day ba…
Lees meerEliseo Martelli (via Hacker News, Reddit): As a long-time Apple user, I’ve always appreciated the integration of hardware and software, signature of the Apple ecosystem. However, recent experiences with my iPad Air 11" M2 has left me questioning whe…
Lees meerLinus Tech Tips: Linus takes a long-overdue trip back into the iOS ecosystem. Will daily-driving a shiny new iPhone 16 Plus for an entire month convert him into Apple’s newest fan?[…]“I started to look a little differently at the Apple users in my l…
Lees meerDoloresz Katanich: An error almost led to a Citigroup account being credited with $81tn (€77.8tn) - an amount that is about 5 times the total wealth of the UK, which was estimated at €14.7tn in 2023 by ONS. […] The erroneous internal transfer, which…
Lees meerMishal Shah: This post describes the release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 6.1. Donny Wals: The Xcode 16.3 beta is out, which includes a new version of Swift. Swift 6.1 is a relatively small release that comes with bug fixes, quality of …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: There’s now a Safari web extension version of Noir specifically for Safari web apps, in addition to the Safari app extension version of Noir for Safari. Of course, this solution is non-ideal, because it’s confusing to users, and you’ll…
Lees meerAppleVis: Overall, survey participants expressed satisfaction with the VoiceOver features available on iOS. Several participants expressed a desire for deeper AI integration for functionality like image description, photo labeling, voices, and scree…
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