Ben 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 the results. For the best results, you should pick the final look at […]

Peter 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: OpenClaw. […] I’d like to thank all security folks for their hard work in […]

Sarah 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 company said it would switch creators to subscription billing in November 2024, and creators could […]

Wade 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. Previously: Remaining Issues in Big Sur Remaining Issues New in Catalina Update (2026-02-02): Jamie Cuevas: This is not […]

Connor 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 devices, email services, and electronic messaging platforms into scope, “whether encrypted or not.” In a similar way to how […]

Jade (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 secure and interoperable. Instead it’s littered with ‘TODO: Check authorisation’ and similar. […] […]

Connor 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 issue, saying that he saw hundreds of Clawdbot instances exposed to the […]

Juli 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 Clover: The iOS 26.2.1 update that Apple released today further addresses an issue preventing some older mobile phones from […]

Juli 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 been limited to the iPhone. It is not yet clear if […]

Ben 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 iterated sequence, with the for loop taking ownership of the elements individually. While consuming iteration is sometimes […]

Jan 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. Therefore, cURL is terminating the bounty payouts as of the end of […]

Apple (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 before. Using haptic, visual, and audio feedback, Precision Finding guides users to their […]

Cindy 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 Schools Bill. The decision deepens the reach of the already-controversial Online Safety Act, linking child safety goals […]

Zac 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 data on a computer running Windows, giving law enforcement the means to break […]

Doug 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 managed with explicit reference counting, where the user provides calls to wpuXYZAddRef and wgpuXYZRelease functions. It works, […]

David 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 banned by Congress and ensnared in politicking between two global superpowers. Investors including […]

Daniel Kennett (BasicAppleGuy): An exception to that, however, is Apple’s Aperture. I’m still grumpy that Apple discontinued it back in 2015, and I’m not alone. Start spending time in the online photography sphere and you’ll start to notice a small but undeniable undercurrent of lament of its loss to this day. Find an article about […]

Nick Hodulik (via Hacker News): You need to find an email. You type in the sender’s name. Nothing. You try the subject line. Nothing. You try a unique word you know was in the email. Nothing. […] You type a word. Autocorrect changes it. You delete it and type what you meant. Autocorrect changes it […]

Jason Snell: There was a time when QuickTime was more than just a playback utility; I used it frequently to perform simple video edits, like removing commercials from an off-air recording or tacking the contents of one file on the end of another. Since those days ended with the deprecation of classic QuickTime, I’ve never […]

Clawdbot (Twitter, Showcase, Documentation, GitHub): Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. Federico Viticci: To say that Clawdbot has fundamentally altered my perspective of what it means to have an intelligent, personal AI assistant in 2026 would be […]

Mike Swanson (via Brent Simmons): And yet, this is how a lot of modern software behaves. Not because it’s broken, but because we’ve normalized an interruption model that would be unacceptable almost anywhere else. I’ve started to think of this as backseat software: the slow shift from software as a tool you operate to software […]

Addy Osmani (via Hacker News): User obsession means spending time in support tickets, talking to users, watching users struggle, asking “why” until you hit bedrock. I wonder how much this happens at Google and Apple these days. The quest for perfection is paralyzing. I’ve watched engineers spend weeks debating the ideal architecture for something they’ve […]

Chance Miller (Hacker News): Walmart doesn’t accept any form of NFC payment in the United States. It’s not just a limitation on Apple Pay. The retailer doesn’t take Google Pay, Samsung Pay, or even let you tap your contactless physical card to pay. […] When you use Walmart Pay, it’s incredibly easy for Walmart to […]

Olof Hellman: My AppleScriptable macOS app is recordable. Occasionally, I have a UI action performed by the user that I handle internally, and I send a corresponding AppleEvent with the SendOptions flag .dontExecute (was kAEDontExecute) so that AppleScript recording will see the action and record it. With Sequoia 15.7.3 and Tahoe 26.1, I am seeing […]

Jonathan Borichevskiy (via Peter Steinberger, Hacker News): In the four months I’ve had it I’ve told at least a dozen people about it, and I’m gonna keep telling people. Being able to take my entire computing environment to places without being worried about glare has expanded the range of environments I can create in. It […]

Howard Oakley: This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Apple’s announcement of the introduction of code signing, although it wasn’t unleashed until Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard the following year (2007). […] Apple had long maintained that users would remain able to run unsigned code in macOS, but that changed in November 2020 with the […]

Benjamin Mayo (Hacker News): Apple is testing a new design for App Store search ads on iPhone. Some users on iOS 26.3 are noticing that the blue background around sponsored results is no longer shown, blurring the line between what paid ad results look like and the real search results that follow. This means the […]

I’d been anticipating the Apple Watch SE 3 for a while because I wanted: A faster watch—I was happy with the original SE’s functionality, but it always felt slow. Longer battery life—I had started to need Low Power Mode to get through longer days. The ability to run newer software—the original SE was stuck at […]

Tim Hardwick: The service will officially cease operating on February 16, 2026. Setapp Mobile launched in open beta in September 2024. In a support page, MacPaw said Setapp Mobile is being closed because of app marketplaces’ “still-evolving and complex business terms that don’t fit Setapp’s current business model,” suggesting it was not profitable for the […]

Jeff Johnson: At the bottom of each column is a resizing widget that you can use to change the width of the columns. Or rather, you could use it to change the width of the columns. On macOS Tahoe, the horizontal scroller covers the resizing widget and prevents it from being clicked! Compare with macOS […]