John Sundell: New in Swift 6.4 […] is a warning which is emitted when a nested closure performs a weak capture while the parent closure implicitly captures that object as a strong reference.At first glance, that new diagnostic could be a bit puzzling, since it might seem unnecessary to have to specify such a weak […]

Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad: I don’t appreciate being forced by Xcode 27 to drop support for macOS 10.13-11.0. It’s my decision which OSes I want to support, not Apple’s. Yes, I can keep Xcode 26 around until submissions require Xcode 27, but what then? Originally, Xcode 27 was documented as supporting Big Sur on Intel Macs, but […]

Juli Clover: As Apple Fellow, Schiller continued to oversee the App Store and Apple events, but the role may not have left him with sufficient time for his own endeavors. In 2024, The Wall Street Journal said Schiller was working close to 80 hours a week. […] Schiller is stepping down from overseeing the App […]

Dave Nanian: Recent versions of xOS (that is, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, etc) have Data Protection Classes from A to D that get assigned to files and folders. […] The thing is, though, is that these files and folders are inaccessible unless the user is logged in, and the screen is unlocked. A few seconds after […]

Dustin Bluck: Independent podcast apps are not growing as a category. This is not a particular secret, but perhaps you haven’t seen it stated explicitly. It’s the sort of thing that has to be inferred, but there’s plenty of available data if you look for it. While the podcasting sector has seen growth, this has […]

Howard Oakley: Since High Sierra and APFS snapshots, accounting for purgeable space has been inconsistent and often misleading. I first reported this over eight years ago in Sierra 10.12.6 and High Sierra 10.13.3, and most recently three years ago in Ventura 13.3.1. This article looks at how this is handled now in Tahoe 26.6.2. […] […]

Vlad Fedorov (Hacker News): On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. It disrupted github.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, affecting developers and organizations around the world. […] Neither outage was caused by a code or configuration change. Both incidents were capacity failures at their […]

Marcin Wichary: By default, on a Mac, the initial delay is 500ms, and the key repeat rate 1000ms. […] My suggestion is to make them both as short as possible for testing. […] First, it’s good to test whether your keystrokes behave well when repeated. Occasionally you might want your interface to suppress repeating, or […]

Hartley Charlton: On the new keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps are labeled with glyphs rather than edge text. On the full-size models with a numeric keypad, the change goes further, with the home, page up, page down, end, clear, and enter keys also swapping their text labels for symbols. Four […]

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple today released a new version of its Polishing Cloth on its online store. In the U.S., pricing is now set at $9, down from $19 for the previous version of the cloth. Starry Horizon (via Hartley Charlton): new polishing cloth and comparison with the old one, dimensions are pretty much […]

European Commission: From baby-monitors to smart watches, from apps to computer programs, connectable hardware and software are omnipresent in our daily lives. Less apparent to many users is the security risk such products may present. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to safeguard consumers and businesses buying software or hardware products with digital elements. The […]

Omarchy: Omarchy is an omakase Linux distribution based on Arch, the tiling window manager Hyprland, and the desktop construction-kit Quickshell. It ships with everything a modern, savvy computer user needs to be productive immediately. From Neovim (btw) to Chromium, Obsidian to LibreOffice, and Kdenlive to OBS Studio. Hell, even a retro Winamp-style music player is […]

Richard Speed (Hacker News 3): XCancel’s home page now contains some minimal text stating: “On Monday 24th August at 8 PM EST, we received at [sic] letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.” It says the service has been halted “until further notice.” […] Nitter provided a way for users […]

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Mac Studio with M5 Max features an 18-core CPU, an up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators built into each core, and up to 128GB of unified memory, accelerating complex pro and AI workloads. With the powerful M5 Ultra, Mac Studio scales up to a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU, and […]

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): With M6, Mac mini now delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage and graphics, and 40 percent faster CPU performance. Everything on Mac mini with M6 feels incredibly fast, from everyday productivity tasks to agentic AI workflows. Mac mini with M5 Pro delivers even more pro-level performance to […]

Apple (MacRumors M5 Ultra and M6, Hacker News): M6 is built using cutting-edge 2 nm process technology, packing greater transistor density into a smaller die for a major leap in performance and power efficiency. M6 also introduces a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, providing up to 2x the peak compute over previous generations to make on-device […]

Marco Arment: Unforgetful isn’t a new productivity system to learn. […] This is designed for a small number of short-term tasks. What do you need to do today, tomorrow, this week, or this month? […] If you want tagging, folders, archives, or other ways to organize or file away tasks, this isn’t the app you’re […]

Juli Clover: In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg. Apple is “largely shutting down” the Vision Pro team focused on gaming, and it is paring down the team that makes immersive […]

One of our Macs kept filling up its SSD even though there isn’t supposed to be anything more stored on it. Photos is set to optimize its storage, and Messages is set to only keep messages for a year. It should be pretty much in a steady state, but we kept getting alerts from Mail […]

Joe Rossignol: After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24. The retailer plans to roll out tap-to-pay support to all of its U.S. stores by the end of […]

Rui Carmo: Apple Mail is the first app open every day and the one I find hardest to defend, and I’ve been defending it for twenty years (longer if you remember the original NeXT mail client). The broader story is one of abandonment. […] Apple deprecated that API, replaced it with a (much more restrictive) […]

Microsoft: Exchange Web Services (EWS) is approaching end of service in Exchange Online. We first announced this change was coming in 2018, when we announced that Exchange Web Services (EWS) will no longer receive functionality updates. In 2023, we announced that EWS will be disabled in Exchange Online in October 2026. Today we’re announcing we […]

Modular (tweet, beta, Hacker News): Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant developer community writing their own libraries, tools, and applications on top of it. With Mojo 1.0, developers can now […]

Nicolas Seriot (Hacker News, Reddit): The core Unicode algorithms (normalization, casing, bidi, collation) are deliberately bounded, but UTS #35 transliteration rules, under their natural unbounded semantics, are not. This is a result I haven’t found published before. These rules ship as locale data in ICU, the Unicode library shipped in operating systems, browsers, runtimes, and […]

Nicolas Seriot (Hacker News): Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian’s project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete. Existing claims point vaguely at automation features without exhibiting a reduction. This article supplies a proof, with setup instructions and execution trace. […] Minsky proved this model Turing-complete (1967). Exhibiting it in Jira’s automation language therefore establishes the reduction. Here is […]

Apple (developer, details, Hacker News, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9To5Mac): These changes resolve Apple’s disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution. They also reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business terms. […] The Core Technology Fee, a per-install fee for developers that […]

Joe Rossignol (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS 26.6.2 delivers security fixes that were first made available in the macOS Golden Gate 27 beta. Howard Oakley: There don’t appear to any matching security updates to Sequoia or Sonoma, though. See also: Mr. Macintosh. Previously: iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1 macOS […]

Joe Rossignol (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): Apple today released iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, visionOS 26.6.1, and macOS 26.6.2, with all of the updates containing security fixes. Apple also released iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10 with security fixes. The version numbers are now out of sync with macOS because macOS 26.6.1 fixed […]

Juli Clover (AppleInsider): Apple has again failed to earn a stay for fee calculations in its ongoing legal fight with Epic Games. Apple's case will be heard by the Supreme Court in the term that begins in October, and Apple asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to pause proceedings until […]

Lily Hay Newman (via Ben Lovejoy): As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets’ devices. […]