FeedCity: Daring Fireball

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: Figma CEO Dylan Field says the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature that was said to be ripping off the designs of Apple’s own Weather app. The problem was first spotted by Andy Allen, the founder of NotBoring Software, w...

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02 Jul 2024 • John Gruber

Figma AI Is a Rip-Off Engine

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Andy Allen: Figma AI looks rather heavily trained on existing apps. This is a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature and the results are basically Apple’s Weather app (left). Tried three times, same results. This is even more disgraceful than a human rip-off...

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01 Jul 2024 • John Gruber

The Talk Show: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’

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John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.

WorkOS

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My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months.

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27 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

European Commission Launches Investigation Against Microsoft for Integrating Teams With Office

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The European Commission: In particular, the Commission is concerned that Microsoft may have granted Teams a distribution advantage by not giving customers the choice whether or not to acquire access to Teams when they subscribe to their SaaS productivity applications. Th...

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27 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and the Talk Show, Summer 2024 Edition

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Yours truly back in March: After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment — including this upcoming week. Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling t...

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27 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

The Talk Show: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/06/26/ep-403

Quinn Nelson, esteemed host of Snazzy Labs, returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.

Wavelength Is Shutting Down at the End of July

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Wavelength: We’re sad to announce that we’re shutting down Wavelength. We’re so grateful to our users and community — you’ve been amazing. On July 31st we’ll turn off our servers, which means that you’ll no longer be able to sign in, create a group, or send messages. Yo...

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25 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

Microsoft Edge Has an ‘Enhanced Security’ Mode That Disables the JIT

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Sergiu Gatlan, writing for Bleeping Computer in 2021 (thanks to Kevin van Haaren): Microsoft has announced that the Edge Vulnerability Research team is experimenting with a new feature dubbed “Super Duper Secure Mode” and designed to bring security improvements without s...

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25 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

Reuters: Amazon Is Considering $5 Monthly Charge for Improved Alexa

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Greg Bensinger, reporting for Reuters: Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, accordi...

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25 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

Gurman Just Pantsed the WSJ on Their Report About Apple and Meta Working on an AI Deal

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-24/apple-spurned-idea-of-iphone-ai-partnership-with-meta-months-ago

Salvador Rodriguez, Aaron Tilley, Miles Kruppa, reporting for The Wall Street Journal Sunday morning (News+): In its hustle to catch up on AI, Apple has been talking with a longtime rival: Meta. Facebook’s parent has held discussions with Apple about integrating Meta Pla...

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24 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

★ Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted

Last week I mentioned Apple’s prohibition on JITs — just-in-time compilers — in the context of their rejection of UTM SE, an open source PC emulator. Apple’s prohibition on JITs, on security grounds, is a side issue regarding UTM SE, because UTM SE is the version of UTM that...

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23 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

★ WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence

An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud — Steve Jobs invited Dropbox cofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to Cupertino to pitch them on selling the company to Apple. Dropbox, Jobs told them, was “...

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22 Jun 2024 • John Gruber

★ Training Large Language Models on the Public Web

Yesterday, quoting Anthropic’s announcement of their impressive new model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I wrote: Also, from the bottom of the post, this interesting nugget: One of the core constitutional principles that guides our AI model development is privacy. We do not tra...