Halo Fund, a new $1 billion growth fund founded by Ryan Smith and Ryan Sweeney, today announced a strategic secondary investment in 1Password, a leader in identity security and pioneer of Extended Access Management. Halo Fund is joined in this investment by legendary technology leaders, including Flume Ventures with Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy and former Zscaler Chief Strategy Officer Manoj Apte. This transaction underscores strong demand from innovators and investors to join 1Password’s journey.
Well I’m sure this will halt 1Password’s descent into enterprise/cross-platform shittiness.
Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and
blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find
it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its
effects and make your interface more usable. Although the relevant
Accessibility settings are quite similar across macOS, iOS,
watchOS, and tvOS, I separate them because they offer different
levels of utility in each.
Comprehensive, illustrated overview of the various Accessibility settings (and, on MacOS 26 Tahoe, hidden command-line defaults settings) that let you adjust the transparency and contrast of Liquid Glass across the various Apple OS 26 interfaces. A useful guide for today — and, I bet, a useful look back at the first versions of Liquid Glass for the future.
Jason Snell, at Six Colors:
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provide interactive options. The whole point of streaming TV,
especially sports, should be that you can leave the flat...
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At the bottom of Apple’s press release announcing that F1 The Movie will be available for streaming on December 12:
Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity.
Ahead of its global streaming debut on Apple TV, the film
continues to be available for purc...
The president of the United States, yesterday on his blog:
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If
this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed
big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT
No president, of course, can be expected to remember everything that happened during his four-year term. But Trump, of course, was still president on January 6, and the events that day were — to say the least — historically significant. The entire point of the January 6 insurrection — for his role in which, Trump was impeached — was to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president on January 20.
Brian Krebs:
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a
majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things
(IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast
and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy
con...
Apple Support:
The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be
available for download for new users as of October 10, 2025. You
can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 or earlier.
Clips is such an interesting story. It really was a great app. ...
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Nellie Andreeva, reporting for Deadline back on September 23:
The release of Apple TV+’s The Savant has been put on hold. The
decision comes three days before the thriller starring Jessica
Chastain was slated to premiere on the streamer Sept. 26. No new
date has been set...
Clyde Haberman, The New York Times:
Saul Zabar, who across more than seven decades as a principal
owner of the Upper West Side food emporium bearing his family name
kept New Yorkers amply fortified with smoked fish, earthy bread
and tangy cheese, not to mention pungent c...
Garth Franklin, writing at Dark Horizons:
Amazon has quietly walked back new James Bond thumbnail artwork on
its Prime Video service following controversy over digital
alterations to the original art. As reported here yesterday,
the art was unveiled on the weekend to coi...
In addition to live games for fans in the Lakers’ regional
broadcast territory — which covers Southern California, Hawaii,
and parts of southern Nevada, including Las Vegas — full game
replays and highlights will be available to Apple Vision Pro users
in select countries and regions from both the SportsNet and NBA
apps. These live games will be captured using the new URSA Cine
Immersive Live camera from Blackmagic Design, a version of the
camera that launched earlier this year to capture Apple Immersive
for Vision Pro, and will be available for purchase next year.
I didn’t catch yesterday that these immersive broadcasts would only be available live within the Lakers’ local broadcast territory, which stinks, but alas, makes sense given how sports broadcasting rights work.
Jacob Krol, writing for Techradar:
We’ve seen a broad range of content, but I’ve been waiting for
something live — specifically, live sports. Seeing that Apple
TV+’s Friday Night Baseball is capturing games with the iPhone
17 Pro and 17 Pro Max gave me some hope, and now...
Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media:
Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news
reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has
learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps
such as ICEBlock which were designed to r...
Pablo Manríquez, reporting for Migrant Insider:
Apple has quietly removed DeICER, a civic-reporting app used to
log immigration enforcement activity, from its App Store after a
law enforcement complaint — invoking a rule normally reserved for
protecting marginalized grou...
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass:
I think that’s the real revelation here. It’s less about
consumption and more about creation. I previously wrote
about how I was an early investor in Vine in part because it felt
like it could be analogous to Instagram. Thanks in large pa...
Me looking at Vibes feed: this is screensaver. So boring. Why
would anyone want it?
Me looking at videos I made of my own face in Sora 2: heheh I love
this it’s funny it’s ME.
My feelings exactly.
I even like staring at screensavers sometimes. But the screensavers I like watching are Apple’s aerial (and occasionally, underwater) screensavers on Apple TV. They’re slow, peaceful, and real. Vibes is chaotic, fast, and phony.
Benoit Berthelot and Gaspard Sebag, reporting for Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. faces an investigation in France over the use of voice
recordings made with its assistant Siri. The probe has been
referred to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, the Paris
prosecutor’s office said ...
The New York Times:
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Sweden for showing that
two properties of quantum mechanics, the physical laws that rule
the subatomic realm, could be observed in a system large...
Alarms and timers are now harder to dismiss thanks to a new
‘Slide to stop’ gesture. Both alarms and timers were
updated in iOS 26 to utilize a new design with much larger
on-screen buttons than before. Now in iOS 26.1 beta 2, Apple has
replaced the ‘Stop’ button with a new sliding gesture that
requires a little more intentionality. This should make accidental
alarm dismissals more rare.
That’s one of several changes that caught my eye. Seems like a great idea. Another notable change: Slide Over returns to iPadOS.
Wiley Hodges, a 22-year veteran of Apple product marketing, who retired in 2022, in an open letter he sent to Tim Cook:
I don’t know where this leaves me as an Apple customer, but I do
know that it upsets me as an Apple shareholder. I am asking you
and your team to more ...
Riley Testut, co-founder of AltStore:
By far our number one request, we’re planning to launch AltStore
PAL in more countries later this year in response to various
regulatory changes around the world. Specifically, we plan to
launch in Japan, Brazil, and Australia before...
MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC:
OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices have reached a deal that could
see Sam Altman’s company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker. AMD
stock skyrocketed more than 30% on Monday following the news.
OpenAI will deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct graph...
My thanks to S&P Global for sponsoring this last week at DF. S&P Global believes that the future of information delivery is AI — and AI thrives on clean, trustworthy metadata. That’s why they’re embracing open web standards to make data more accessible and machine-readable. Explore their open data at dunl.org, their open data portal, and discover rich metadata at S&P’s Metadata Marketplace.
Andrew Liszewski, The Verge:
Lumafield has released the results of a new study of
lithium-ion batteries that “reveals an enormous gap in quality
between brand-name batteries and low-cost cells” that are readily
available through online stores including Amazon and Temu. T...
Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business:
DOJ officials, at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi,
asked Apple to take down ICEBlock, a move that comes as Trump
administration officials have claimed the tool, which allows users
to anonymously report ICE agents’ pr...
John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, uh, last week, regarding Disney’s initial (but brief) caving to Trump’s demands that they suspend or even fire Jimmy Kimmel for his having the temerity to mock the mad king for being a sociopathic ghoul sliding into the depths of dementia:
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