Ben Stiller, in a delightful piece for The New York Times on working up the gumption to tell Gene Hackman — with whom he was working in Wes Anderson’s excellent The Royal Tenenbaums, his favorite Hackman movie:
“ … but I have to say for me, there is one movie you made th...
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors:
The most consequential part of the Air’s update — perhaps the
only real update — is the M3 processor, which brings with it
GPU-based capabilities like hardware-accelerated ray tracing and
video encoding and decoding for ProRes and ProRes...
Apple:
Apple is committed to being transparent about government requests
for customer data and how we respond. We publish a Transparency
Report twice a year disclosing the number of government requests
for customer data Apple receives globally.
Apple’s most recent repo...
Elizabeth Chamberlain, writing for iFixit:
But it’s still missing MagSafe, for no obvious reason other than
making the phone less appealing to consumers than the rest of the
16 lineup. Wireless charging without the perfect alignment that
MagSafe allows is troubling.
I’...
President Donald Trump, on his very popular bespoke social network (random capitalization and various typos sic):
All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or
University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be
imprisoned/or permanently sent back to t...
Hartley Charlton, writing for MacRumors in October 2022:
The fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch LCD
display and a “notch” cutout at the top of the display, according
to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young.
Good call on the size a...
Chance Miller, writing last week at 9to5Mac:
Dark Noise developer Charlie Chapman is out with a new Mac
utility called “Framous.” The app aims to be the best way
to add device frames to screenshots. [...]
Here are the ways Framous aims to streamline this process:
Auto...
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors:
In a whitepaper posted to Apple’s developer site entitled
“Helping Protect Kids Online”, the company details
several improvements it’s rolling out in upcoming software
updates, including making it easier to set up child accounts,
providi...
Jeremy Keith, writing at Adactio:
Ask anyone about their experience of using websites on their
mobile device. They’ll tell you plenty of stories of how badly
it sucks.
It doesn’t matter that the web is the perfect medium for
just-in-time delivery of information. It does...
John Cassidy, writing for The New Yorker (requires a free account to read, annoyingly):
Of course, these calculations can’t be taken literally. Even Musk
has said that he wants to protect essential workers. If the entire
federal workforce were eliminated, there’d be no o...
Jason Snell, writing last week at Six Colors:
While a lot of us have gotten excited about the potential of
Apple’s immersive video format, the truth is that the Vision Pro
is also a great viewer of more traditional 3-D video content. And
Apple has built a new visionOS ap...
Like any great caricature, Myers’s Elon Musk conveys a better sense of Musk than watching Musk himself does. A cruel and infinitely self-satisfied know-it-all, whose utter self-confidence runs counter to the fact that he’s unfathomably awkward, as uncoordinated socially as he is physically. Just an utter and total spaz, who believes no one’s jokes are funnier than his own. The sort of person no one likes but who has nevertheless parlayed tremendous wealth into great power, forcing his influence upon the world.
Ming-Chi Kuo, back on Sunday September 15:
Based on my latest supply chain survey and pre-order results
from Apple’s official websites, I’ve compiled key data on iPhone
16’s first-weekend pre-orders for each model, including
pre-order sales, average delivery times, and s...
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Does your app get fake signups, throwaway emails, or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bots attacks and brute force attempts?
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TMZ:
Seems Elon Musk is truly going to colonize Mars ... even if he has to do it himself, ’cause the tech mogul just welcomed his 14 child! Elon helped break the news Friday along with Shivon Zilis, with whom the billionaire already had three children.
You know what yo...
Nora Deligter, writing for Screen Slate in June 2023, “Elegy for the Screenshot”:
About five years ago, Catherine Pearson started taking screenshots
of every bouquet featured on The Nanny (1993–1999), the
six-season CBS sitcom that was then streaming on Netflix. She was
...
Matthew Green:
If you install WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger,
Signal, Snap or even Telegram(please
don’t!) you’ll encounter a simple feature that addresses
this problem. It’s usually called “disappearing messages”,
but sometimes goes by other names.
I’m almost embarrassed...
Meghan Bobrowsky and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:
Meta apologized Wednesday night for what it said was an “error”
that led to graphic and violent videos flooding the feeds of a
vast number of Instagram users, including minors. The videos,
which we...
Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft:
In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings
so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring
Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern
c...
Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
Meta has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential
information outside the company,” according to a spokesperson.
“We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer
periodic reminders, that it is against our poli...
Founder Nirav Patel, writing this week on Framework’s company blog:
We went live this morning at the Framework (2nd Gen) Event with
our biggest set of announcements yet: Framework Desktop,
Framework Laptop 12, and the new Ryzen AI 300 Series
Framework Laptop 13. You can ...
Ben Domenech interviewed President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office, after Trump’s meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Spectator has published the entire transcript, and I read it so you don’t have to, to get the part about Apple and the UK’s encryption backdo...
Hamilton Nolan, in a 2021 piece for The Columbia Journalism Review, under the headline “Bezos Has Been Hands-Off. What if That Changes?”:
Bezos has given the paper the resources to be bigger and better,
and, by most accounts, pretty much stayed out of the newsroom’s
hair...
Jeff Bezos, in a memo he shared publicly on X:
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our
opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two
pillars: personal li...
Loved this remembrance by Manohla Dargis in The New York Times:
When Clint Eastwood needed a performer who could persuasively go
boot-toe to boot-toe with him in his brutal 1992 western
Unforgiven, he needed an actor who was his towering equal
onscreen. Eastwood needed a...
I’ve spent the last six days using the iPhone 16e, and the experience has been a throwback. In many ways, the iPhone 16e both looks and feels like the modern-day progeny of the early Steve Jobs era iPhones. Early iPhones like the plastic 3G and 3GS, and the glass-back/metal-...
Joseph Menn, reporting for The Washington Post:
The U.S. Justice Department told Congress in November there were
no major disputes with the United Kingdom over how the two allies
seek data from each other’s communication companies.
But at that time, officials knew Briti...
Zac Hall, reporting for 9to5Mac:
According to a letter seen by 9to5Mac, the Trump Administration
is investigating whether the UK may have broken a bilateral
agreement when secretly demanding that Apple build a global
backdoor into iCloud.
Trump’s Director of National In...
I referenced Downie twice earlier today — once in my item linking to Charlie Monroe (developer of Downie) writing about the indie app business, and earlier in my post about using Downie to download the MP3 from Jony Ive’s interview on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs.
I someho...
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