Apple Newsroom:
Now available in space black and silver finishes, the 14-inch
MacBook Pro includes the blazing-fast performance of M4 and three
Thunderbolt 4 ports, starting with 16GB of memory, all at just
$1,599. The 14- and 16-inch models with M4 Pro and M4 Max offer
...
Joshua Nelken-Zitser, Business Insider:
A legal dispute between Google and Russia over suspended YouTube
accounts has led to a fine so large that it exceeds all the money
on Earth. Ivan Morozov, a Moscow-based lawyer, told the state-run
TASS newswire that a Russian court...
Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple today in its new MacBook Pro press release announced
that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM, up from
8GB previously. This change applies to the 13-inch model with the
M2 chip, the 13-inch model with the M3 ch...
Ellen Cushing, in a well-meaning piece for The Atlantic:
NPR, citing internal Post correspondence, reported that “more than
1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four
hours after the news broke.”
It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why...
Apple Newsroom:
With M4 Pro, it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales
them up to tackle even more demanding workloads. For more
convenient connectivity, it features front and back ports, and for
the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for faster data transfer
sp...
Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:
The 2021 and 2023 iMacs have now been discontinued by Apple and
prices at third-party resellers are falling. As such, some
customers may be weighing up whether to pick up a 2021 or 2023
iMac instead of the latest model, while some existing iM...
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Jay Peters, The Verge, “Apple Put the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port on the Bottom Again”:
Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has
the charging port on the bottom. While Apple could have used the
launch as an opportunity to move the charging port from the
u...
Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in his Washington Post:
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two
requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must
believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement
is distinct from and just as important ...
David Folkenflik, reporting for NPR:
The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of
cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of
resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the
fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement ...
Apple Newsroom, in the first of what I expect to be a few days’ worth of M4 Mac updates:
The new iMac is available in an array of beautiful new colors, and
the 24-inch 4.5K Retina display offers a new nano-texture glass
option. iMac features a new 12MP Center Stage camer...
Nice rundown of the first wave of Apple Intelligence features from Apple Newsroom. As I wrote last week, my favorite thus far is the notification summaries. The key is not to think of them as a replacement for actually reading the messages — they just serve the same purpose ...
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Sewell Chan, writing for Columbia Journalism Review on Wednesday, “Los Angeles Times Editorials Editor Resigns After Owner Blocks Presidential Endorsement”:
Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times,
resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner bl...
Mac (😉) your calendars! We have an exciting week of announcements
ahead, starting on Monday morning. Stay tuned…
Presumably these will include M4 refreshes of the MacBook Pro lineup (as foretold by those bizarre leaks to Russian YouTubers two weeks ago), iMac, and Mac Mini. And the Mac Mini, reports Mark Gurman, is set to sport an all-new, much-smaller form factor.
Reuters:
Apple convinced a federal jury on Friday that early versions of
health monitoring tech company Masimo’s smartwatches infringe two
of its design patents as part of a broader intellectual property
dispute between the companies. The jury, in Delaware, agreed with
A...
Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — here’s Techmeme’s roundup of summaries and regurgitations), “Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro”:
Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed
reality headset si...
Andrew R. Chow, reporting for Time:
Twenty-four years ago, the surgeon Santiago Horgan performed the
first robotically assisted gastric-bypass surgery in the
world, a major medical breakthrough. Now Horgan is working
with a new tool that he argues could be even more tran...
Chance Miller at 9to5Mac has done the yeoman’s work of providing a full illustrated change log for iOS 18.2 beta 1. Here’s one I wasn’t expecting, but which now that I think about it, isn’t surprising:
iOS 18.2 lets users set default apps for Messaging and Calling
worldw...
Following feedback from the European Commission and from
developers, in these releases developers can develop and test
EU-specific features, such as alternative browser engines,
contactless apps, marketplace installations from web browsers, and
marketplace apps, from anywhere in the world. Developers of apps
that use alternative browser engines can now use WebKit in those
same apps.
I just spent a few minutes trying to figure out how this works, but haven’t found it. If anyone can point me to the answer, let me know. It’s kind of bananas that EU-specific features couldn’t even be tested outside the EU until now.
Juli Clover, MacRumors:
Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 18.2, iPadOS
18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 updates to developers for testing
purposes. The betas have been released while Apple is still
working on iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, up...
Andy McCullough, reporting for The Athletic:
Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican southpaw who became an icon in
Los Angeles during his rookie season with the Los Angeles Dodgers
and remained a vibrant part of the franchise’s fabric for the next
four decades, died Tuesday, t...
Nilay Patel, after interviewing Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi for his Decoder podcast at The Verge:
It’s also not just lobbying: in 2022, a coalition of attorneys
general from all 50 states got Intuit to agree to a $141 million
settlement that required Intuit to refund low-i...
Joanna Stern, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+):
If you’re expecting AI fireworks, prepare for AI … sparklers. Back
in June, at the company’s annual developers conference, executives
showed off do-it-yourself emojis, ChatGPT integration and a Siri
that can reca...
Jeffrey Goldberg, in a must-read, must-share piece for The Atlantic (this is a gift link, which should get you through The Atlantic’s subscriber paywall, and which link I encourage you to share with every potential voter you know):
In their book, The Divider: Trump in th...
Michael S. Schmidt for The New York Times:
He said that, in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a
fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no
understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of
law. [...]
When Mr. Kelly left the White H...
The aforelinked piece on Rudy Giuliani losing his possessions to pay the two Georgia election officials he was convicted of defaming made reference to the dispute regarding his four World Series rings, from the Yankees championships during his time as mayor, in 1996, 1998, 1...
Katelyn Polantz, reporting for CNN:
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Donald Trump attorney
and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable
possessions and his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control
of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia...
Gian Volpicelli and Samuel Stolton, reporting for Bloomberg*:
Under the EU’s Digital Services Act, the bloc can slap online
platforms with fines of as much as 6% of their yearly global
revenue for failing to tackle illegal content and disinformation
or follow transparenc...
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