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Siri AI Expands to More Languages in OS 27.2

nr.apple.com/Du9G9W8Nq1

Apple Newsroom yesterday:

With the 27.2 software updates released today, Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal — is expanding to more people around the world, with availability now in the French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish languages. [...]

Siri AI is currently unavailable in the EU in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Apple is working constructively with the EU in an attempt to find a path forward.

Don’t hold your breath. (Or if you prefer, N’y comptez pas trop.)

Link: nr.apple.com/Du9G9W8Nq1

Daring Fireball
22:03 • John Gruber

Apple Creator Studio Updated With a Slew of AI Features, Along With a New Open JSON File Format for Keynote

apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-creator-studio-adds-powerful-new-ai-features-and-even-more-creative-tools/

Apple Newsroom, with software news for Apple’s “Pro and Tell” week: Apple today introduced transformative updates to Apple Creator Studio, the powerful collection of creative apps designed to put studio-grade tools into the hands of modern creators across Mac, iPad, and...

Simone Giertz
27 Oct 21:36

We hid so many details in this puzzle

Daring Fireball
21:33 • John Gruber

★ Prestructured WYSIWYG

One of the many small pleasures of my job is when someone else writes a good take on a subject that I have been meaning to write myself. Occasionally this stings, because it was something I really wanted to write myself. But usually it’s just awesome, because it’s an article...

Longreads
21:06 • Carolyn Wells

How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest

"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."

kottke.org
20:51 • Jason Kottke

“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...

“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
27 Oct 20:37

How I Survived Late-Stage Cancer (A Fun Story)

Discover Odoo 👉 https://www.odoo.com/r/EgUR The first app is free for life. Thanks to Odoo for sponsoring this video! Support another year of kurzgesagt with a brand new 12,027 Human Era Calendar: https://shop.kgs.link/calendar27 You get twelve months of human-made artwork...

Simon Willison's Weblog
20:06

Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year, the conference badge is a full-blown color screen computer.

I've been hacking around with it again, and then I ran into with Steve Francia... who worked with Gemini to get a full NES emulator working on it, and then went a step further and deployed an emulator for both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.

Which means, if you can obtain the ROM, you can run The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on your conference badge!

A neat feature of the badge is that you can turn it upside down and then use game controller touch buttons that are built into the badge body.

Tags: games, github, hardware-hacking, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, steve-francia

kottke.org
19:57 • Jason Kottke

John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...

John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right (redundant).

Colossal
19:57 • Kate Mothes

Playfully Vibrant Abstract Murals by Zebu Enliven Urban Walls

The Berlin-based duo draw on their background in illustration and graphic design to create eye-popping compositions.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Playfully Vibrant Abstract Murals by Zebu Enliven Urban Walls appeared first on Colossal.

Longreads
19:06 • Brendan Fitzgerald

The Ledger and the Blade

"The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization."

kottke.org
18:48 • Jason Kottke

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of African-American artists in the 1920s and 30s. In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves threw a party in Duke Ellington’s apartment for some surviving members of the movement and recorded the whole thing. The foo...

Daring Fireball
18:18 • John Gruber

What’s Left for ‘Pro and Tell’ Week: Touch-Enabled OLED MacBooks

macrumors.com/2026/10/27/macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-tomorrow/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple on Wednesday will announce 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring touch-enabled OLED displays with thinner bezels, a Dynamic Island instead of a notch, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and a lighter and slightly thinner design, Bloomberg...

kottke.org
17:57 • Jason Kottke

Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod...

Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod simulator.

Colossal
17:57 • Grace Ebert

Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition

There's no question we need to move away from fossil fuels. But who bears the cost of the green transition?

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition appeared first on Colossal.

kottke.org
17:09 • Jason Kottke

Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and...

Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and Lego, including a forthcoming Lego set based on this fan-submitted entry.

Daring Fireball
17:06 • John Gruber

Apple Also Announces iMac With M6

apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-new-imac-with-m6/

Just a speed bump, but speed bumps are good. Pricing and configurations: M6 with 2 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1500 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB +200 SSD: 256 GB +0 512 GB +200 1 TB +500 M6 with 4 Thunder...

Work Chronicles
16:33 • Work Chronicles

(comic) Undue praise

Daring Fireball
16:12 • Daring Fireball Department of Commerce

[Sponsor] WorkOS: Let Agents Sign Up for Your App Without a Browser

workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q42026

An agent can’t click through a signup page built for humans, so give it something it can read instead. Publish an auth.md file and agents register themselves without ever touching a browser login, and the user never gets pulled out of what they were doing.

With WorkOS auth.md, enroll in the dashboard and AuthKit publishes the file. Agents read it, register, and get scoped, short-lived credentials you control.

Make your app agent-ready →

Link: workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium…

Daring Fireball
16:12 • John Gruber

Apple Introduces New Base MacBook Pro With M6, 14-Inch-Only

apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/

Apple Newsroom’s “Pro and Tell” announcement week continues: Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, delivering even more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity for college students, business users, creators, and more....