Carlton Reid, writing for Wired:
The use of Apple smartphones as the principal camera system on 28
Years Later was subsequently confirmed to Wired by several people
connected with the movie, detailing that the particular model used
to shoot was the iPhone 15 Pro Max. [.....
Austin Mann:
Over the past week we’ve traveled over a thousand kilometers
across Kenya, capturing more than 10,000 photos and logging over
3TB of ProRes footage with the new iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro
Max cameras. Along the way, we’ve gained valuable insights into
t...
Los Angeles Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani entered last night’s game in Miami with 49 stolen bases and 48 home runs for the season. Only five other players in MLB history have ever hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a season. No player had ever achieved a 50-50 season.
Ohtan...
Speaking of “Leon” Musk, here’s Victor Tangermann, writing for The Byte:
In March, the US government accused the founder of
Moscow-based company Social Design Agency of orchestrating a
“persistent foreign malign influence campaign” on behalf of the
Kremlin. The propagand...
We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15
to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from
racist billionaire Donald Trump’s very stupid wall.
Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire — Elon
Musk — snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land
with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.
Just look at it! He fucked it.
How did this happen? Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space
thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump his shit all over
our gorgeous plot of land without asking. After we caught him,
SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for
less than half our land’s value. We said, “Go fuck yourself, Elon
Musk. We’ll see you in court.”
The European Commission yesterday:
Today, the European Commission has started two specification
proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability
obligations under the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’). [...] Pursuant
to Article 8(2) of the DMA, the Commission...
One of the many memorable moments in Steve Jobs’s 2007 introduction of the original iPhone was this slide showing four of the then-leading smartphones on the market. Jobs explained:
Now, why do we need a revolutionary user interface? Here’s four
smartphones, right? Motor...
Allison Johnson, The Verge:
Apple Intelligence’s list of forthcoming supported languages just
got a little longer. After an October launch in US English, Apple
says its AI feature set will be available in German, Italian,
Korean, Portuguese, Vietnamese, “and others” in t...
Ashley Strickland, reporting for CNN:
Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters
Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep
the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from
billions of miles away. [...]
As a resu...
Sheera Frenkel and Ronen Bergman, reporting for The New York Times:
Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by
hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made
pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other
officials bri...
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Jason Snell:
Ten years sure seems like a long time.
Ten years ago the iPhone got physically big for the first time.
(In the ensuing decade, iPhone revenue has doubled.) Ten years ago
Apple announced the Apple Watch.
Ten years ago I found myself without a job for the fi...
Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple released watchOS 11 today following months of beta testing.
A key new health-related feature included in the software update
is sleep apnea detection, which is available starting today on the
Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watc...
Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote
Back in July 2007, I contributed this photo to a Flickr group called, self-describingly, “The Items We Carry”:
17 years later, I’ve consolidated. 2007 was so long ago that Field Notes hadn’t yet bee...
Back in July 2007, I contributed this photo to a Flickr group called, self-describingly, “The Items We Carry”:
17 years later, I’ve consolidated. 2007 was so long ago that Field Notes hadn’t yet been created; my back-pocket notebooks are much slimmer now than that hardcov...
Thierry Breton, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission:
On 24 July, you wrote to Member States asking them to nominate
candidates for the 2024-2029 College of Commissioner, specifying
that Member States that intend to suggest the incumb...
My thanks to Tiptop for sponsoring DF last week. Tiptop is a completely new way to pay that makes everything you buy more affordable with trade-in at checkout. It’s incredibly easy. At checkout, you simply select any item you own that you want to trade in from Tiptop’s catal...
I’m still collecting my thoughts on this week’s “It’s Glowtime” Apple event, and where Apple stands in general. But this episode of Dithering that dropped Friday morning captures my high-level thoughts well. We haven’t done this in a while, but we’re making it free for ev...
Kylie Robison, reporting for The Verge:
OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned
series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more
complex questions, faster than a human can. It’s being released
alongside o1-mini, a smaller, chea...
Brian Heater, reporting for TechCrunch:
The iPhone 16 took center stage at Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event,
but the most interesting tidbit came from a different line
entirely. Indeed, among a sea of new hardware came an intriguing
software update to one already on the mar...
Taylor Swift, in a post late last night on Instagram:
I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice. Your research is
all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make. I also want to
say, especially to first time voters: Remember that in order to
vote, you have to be re...
BBC News:
Apple has been ordered to pay Ireland €13bn (£11bn; $14bn) in unpaid taxes by Europe’s top court, putting an end to an eight-year row.
The European Commission accused Ireland of giving Apple illegal tax advantages in 2016, but Ireland has consistently argued a...
Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple today discontinued its ill-received FineWoven material, introducing no new cases that use the leather replacement. The company has also removed existing FineWoven iPhone cases for older devices from its website, though FineWove...
My iPhones 16 briefing yesterday was at this new building. It is very nice. A little cozy — it’s not that big. Great light, and from the main room, a splendid view of the main building. Restroom doors are like bank vault doors.
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My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired longtime DF sponsor Kolide — for sponsoring last week at DF. When the EU enacted GDPR in 2018, executives and security professionals waited anxiously to see how the law would be enforced. And then they kept waiting ...
There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Gangster Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and two of his goon friends are in a nightclub in the Tangiers casino resort (a fictionalized version of the old Stardust), which is run by Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). Santoro and Rothstein, ...
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge last week:
Spotify users on iPhone will no longer be able to control the
volume on connected devices using their physical volume buttons.
In an update to its support page, Spotify said Apple
“discontinued” this technology, forcing iPhon...
At the end of August, Apple announced several more DMA compliance changes. They are worth examining in detail.
Changes to the Mandatory Browser Choice Screen
Developers of browsers offered in the browser choice screen in the
EU will have additional information about the...
