Flexibits:
Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars
(like work and personal) so that events from one automatically
show up on the other.
The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers
or saved outside of your device.
You can cho...
Anthropic released the first version of the Claude “desktop” app for MacOS in October 2024 — an Electron clunker that did not impress UI designers. When it came out, I wrote:
ChatGPT’s native Mac app, on the other hand, is a truly
native Mac app. It looks like a Mac app ...
Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app):
Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave
footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators
instead putting a focus on releasing mid-band spect...
Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise:
In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the
Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web
developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow
faster and mo...
EveryMac:
Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since
then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been
there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the
original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your
support ...
Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-ran similar tests on m...
After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social other than Trump himself....
Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire:
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost
too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency.
He promised a quick, cheap fix.
Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned to more
than $14 millio...
Anthropic:
On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to
our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This
required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether
inside or outside the United States. Because the order took effect
immedia...
Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly, is a Substack blog):
The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus
on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that
Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplac...
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass:
Yes, that’s right, for a third time in as many years, I’ve been
banned by Meta. What for? Do you really have to ask? Nobody
knows. My suspicion is that it’s directly tied to the
claiming of usernames on WhatsApp, which Meta opened up
yest...
Jason Koebler, a month ago at 404 Media:
Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security
researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and
screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared
to be shockingly easy. One video shows a hacke...
Marko Zivkovic, reporting for AppleInsider regarding some of the data revealed by Tata Electronics’s massive data breach:
For the U.S. variant of the iPhone 18 Pro, which will feature
mmWave compatibility, Apple seemingly plans to use Qualcomm modem
hardware. Multiple Qu...
Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of ...
Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link):
While this might seem like an easy solution, it doesn’t align with
our beliefs about how healthy ecosystems are built. If...
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta.
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Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media:
404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability
because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media
verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses.
“Apple Hide My Email is leaking email add...
Gnome is a deceptively clever animated GIF app by Lex Friedman:
The truest thing about animated GIFs is that they are a critical
pillar of modern human communication, and yet getting one into a
Slack message or an iMessage thread or an email reply usually
requires openin...
Speaking of the Supreme Court’s end-of-term rulings, they today agreed to grant certiorari to Apple’s petition from last month, ordering:
APPLE INC. V. EPIC GAMES, INC.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
Q...
Josh Marshall, writing at TPM (gift link):
As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of
birthright citizenship by a 6 — or perhaps 5½ — vote margin.
See Kate Riga’s report on the majority decision and Josh
Kovensky’s piece on the dissenters’ goal of ...
Amy Howe, writing at the ever-excellent SCOTUSblog:
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement
officials used a “geofence warrant” — a warrant that instructed
Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near
a particular place during a s...
‘Steering’ — the ability for developers to engage with customers
about off‑platform options — is currently banned by Apple and
restricted by Google in the UK. Lifting these constraints would
allow developers to bypass mandatory fees set by platforms.
The CMA’s consultation includes principles to ensure that the fees
Apple and Google charge for steering are fair and reasonable.
Using an evidence-based framework, the CMA would expect steering
fees to be lower than current app store charges, with savings
passed onto UK customers or invested back into the developers’
businesses to support future innovation.
Sam Tabahriti, reporting for Reuters:
Britain’s competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app
developers to steer users to alternative payment options outside
Apple and Alphabet’s Google app stores to cut fees and boost
competition. The Competition and Markets ...
Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, and Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters:
Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files
posted on the dark web by the ransomware group that stole data
from the U.S. fir...
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My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. (Who’d have thunk that I’d be getting paid to promote new uses for Markdown 22 years after releasing it?)
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. It’s a single Markdown file you host at your domain that tells agents how to register your users, which flows you support, what scopes you expose, and how credentials get issued. It’s like robots.txt but for agent registration.
Cloudflare, Firecrawl, and Resend have already adopted it.
Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog:
It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen
lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of
his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden
la...
Matt Mullenweg:
Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast
“regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he
would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and
people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just
...
Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link):
Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst,
leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism
start-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard and
Inside.com. He was among...
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