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Breaking Down Why Apple TVs Are Privacy Advocates’ Go-To Streaming Device

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-do-and-mostly-dont-track-you/

Scharon Harding, writing at Ars Technica: “Just disconnect your TV from the Internet and use an Apple TV box.” That’s the common guidance you’ll hear from Ars readers for those seeking the joys of streaming without giving up too much privacy. Based on our research and t...

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An Eve of WWDC Spitball Theory on the Rumored New ‘Games’ App

9to5mac.com/2024/10/22/apple-new-app-store-like-app-games/

Filipe Espósito, in a scoop for 9to5Mac all the way back in October: 9to5Mac has learned details about the new project from reliable sources familiar with the matter. The new app combines functionality from the App Store and Game Center in one place. The gaming app is no...

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Apple Researchers Publish Paper on the Limits of Reasoning Models (Showing That They’re Not Really ‘Reasoning’ at All)

machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad Farajtabar, from Apple’s Machine Learning Research team: Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking...

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★ Gurman Says New UI Is Named ‘Liquid Glass’ (and Makes a Terrible Analogy Regarding Apple’s Risk With Falling Behind on AI)

Mark Gurman, in his eve-of-WWDC Power On column at Bloomberg: The Liquid Glass interface is going to be the most exciting part of this year’s developer conference. It will also be a bit of a distraction from the reality facing Apple: The company is behind in artificial i...

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★ Gurman Says New UI Is Named ‘Liquid Glass’ (and Makes a Terrible Analogy Regarding Apple’s Risk With Falling Behind on AI)

Mark Gurman, in his eve-of-WWDC Power On column at Bloomberg: The Liquid Glass interface is going to be the most exciting part of this year’s developer conference. It will also be a bit of a distraction from the reality facing Apple: The company is behind in artificial i...

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Qwen3 Embedding

Qwen3 Embedding New family of embedding models from Qwen, in three sizes: 0.6B, 4B, 8B - and two categories: Text Embedding and Text Reranking. The full collection can be browsed on Hugging Face. The smallest available model is the 0.6B Q8 one, which is available as a 639MB ...

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Comma v0.1 1T and 2T - 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text

It's been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and a half years ago: "an 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling". It's been used as the basis ...

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Swift 6 Productivity in the Sudden Age of LLM-Assisted Programming

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Kyle Hughes, in a brief thread on Mastodon last week: At work I’m developing a new iOS app on a small team alongside a small Android team doing the same. We are getting lapped to an unfathomable degree because of how productive they are with Kotlin, Compose, and Cursor. ...

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Quoting Lila Shapiro

For [Natasha] Lyonne, the draw of AI isn’t speed or scale — it’s independence. “I’m not trying to run a tech company,” she told me. “It’s more that I’m a filmmaker who doesn’t want the tech people deciding the future of the medium.” She imagines a future in which indie film...

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Thomas Ptacek: ‘My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts’

fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/?ueid=4b93173967d7dc762529a10418e85007

Thomas Ptacek: LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google. They look things up themselves. Most importantly, they do...

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A Long Lost Never-Published DF Post From 2014

daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/01/lefsetz

I don’t use the web interface to Movable Type, my moribund-but-works-just-great CMS, very often. But I was using it today and noticed something odd. Next to the small-text metadata that says I’ve written 35,086 entries in total, it said I had one draft. One. I don’t use the ...

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WorkOS

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My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Modern authentication should be seamless and secure. WorkOS makes it easy to integrate features like MFA, SSO, and RBAC. Whether you’re replacing passwords, stopping fraud, or adding enterprise auth, WorkOS can help you build frictionless auth that scales.

New features they launched just last month include:

  • WorkOS Connect — “Sign in with [Your App]”
  • WorkOS Vault — Encryption Key Management (EKM) and Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK)
  • AuthKit Integrations — Native support for several new identity providers including LinkedIn, Slack, GitLab, BitBucket, Intuit, and more.

Future-proof your authentication stack with the identity layer trusted by OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, and Vercel.

Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm…

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Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74

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From his family, on Atkinson’s Facebook page: We regret to write that our beloved husband, father, and stepfather Bill Atkinson passed away on the night of Thursday, June 5th, 2025, due to pancreatic cancer. He was at home in Portola Valley in his bed, surrounded by fami...

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Turns Out, Since 2023, You Can Use WhatsApp Across Multiple Phones

blog.whatsapp.com/one-whatsapp-account-now-across-multiple-phones

WhatsApp, on their official blog back in April 2023: Last year, we introduced the ability for users globally to message seamlessly across all their devices, while maintaining the same level of privacy and security. Today, we’re improving our multi-device offering furthe...

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You Can Recharge Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack Without a Lightning Cable

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-iphone-air-battery-case-or-pack

A brief follow-up to my love letter to Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack this week. I wrote: They’re the only Lightning devices left in my life and they’re so good I’m happy to still keep one Lightning cable in my travel bag to use them. Among its other unique ...

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Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my favorite sculpture, Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina. A masterpiece. The photos both do and do not do it justice — so grateful to get to see it in person. Tags: art · Bernini · Rome · sculpture · travel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

The installation of the pipes on the inside of the insulation can be challenging, especially when the neighbor could come home at any minute.

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Take That CIRP Survey on Apple Customer Device Ownership With a Giant Grain of Salt

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/06/cirp-survey-ipad-popularity#update

I posted this update a bit ago, but it’s worth making a separate post so you don’t miss it if you read the original post before I added the update:

It goes without saying that any consumer survey is only as good as the surveyor. But CIRP, in particular, has posted some dubious ones, to say the least. Jeff Johnson pointed out on Mastodon that back in 2023, CIRP published a survey that claimed the Mac Pro accounted for 43 percent of all Mac desktop sales, with the Mac Mini and Mac Studio each accounting for only 4 percent each. That’s just bananas. That’s not like maybe wrong, that’s not gotta be a little wrong, that’s how could anyone publish this? wrong. It’s hard to believe anything from CIRP after they published that.

Link: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/06/cirp-survey-ipad…

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Markdown Support in Windows Notepad

theverge.com/news/677474/microsoft-windows-notepad-bold-italic-text-formatting-markdown-support?ueid=4b93173967d7dc762529a10418e85007

Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: “The experience supports Markdown style input and files for users who prefer to work directly with the lightweight markup language,” explains Dave Grochocki, principal product manager lead for Microsoft’s Windows inbox apps. “You can sw...

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Gurman’s Mega-Spoiler Report on Monday’s WWDC Keynote

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/apple-wwdc-2025-preview-ios-26-macos-26-new-ai-features-ipados-26-redesigns

I think it’s become tradition for Mark Gurman to run a mega spoiler report on the WWDC keynote the Friday before. Don’t read it if you don’t want to see a lot of genuine spoilers. But here are a few non-spoilers: The AI changes will be surprisingly minor and are unlikely...