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...
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
Spotify claims Apple may again be in violation of European
regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires
interoperability from big technology companies dubbed
“gatekeepers.” This time, the issue isn’t about in-app purchase...
Annie Karni, reporting for The New York Times:
During an event at Duke University, Ms. Cheney told students
that it was not enough for her to simply oppose the former
president, if she intended to do whatever was necessary to
prevent Mr. Trump from winning the White Hous...
Alex Isenstadt, writing for Politico:
“Save America,” a Trump-authored coffee table book being
released Sept. 3, includes an undated photograph of Trump meeting
with Zuckerberg in the White House. Under the photo, Trump writes
that Zuckerberg “would come to the Oval Offi...
Last year Nolen Royalty made a website called One Million Checkboxes, which presented to the user exactly what it claimed on the tin. The gimmick was that the million checkboxes were shared globally. If I toggled checkbox 206,028 in my browser, you’d see checkbox 206,028 fli...
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 ... and waiting ... but the Great European Privacy Crackdown never came. For a while it seemed like the only way you’d ge...
Benj Edwards:
On Thursday, ABC announced an upcoming TV special titled, “AI
and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special.” The one-hour
show, set to air on September 12, aims to explore AI’s impact on
daily life and will feature interviews with figures in the tech
indu...
Apple Newsroom:
With iOS 18 and watchOS 11, the Apple Sports app will offer Live
Activities for all teams and leagues available in the app for the
first time ever, delivering live scores and play-by-play at a
quick glance to a user’s iPhone and Apple Watch Lock Screens.
...
“Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.”
Both the font (by Helena Zhang) and website (by Tobias Fried) are fantastic. Freely available, too.
Jay Peters, The Verge:
X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a
Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to
Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves.
“Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on
Bluesky!” the of...
Paul Graham:
The theme of Brian’s talk was that the conventional wisdom about
how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew,
well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in
a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could be
optimistically su...
Apple Original Films had originally promised writer-director Jon Watts and co-stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt a wide theatrical release for their upcoming (and seemingly well-reviewed) movie Wolfs. But, pretty much at the last minute, Apple canceled those plans, and inste...
My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired frequent DF sponsor Kolide — for sponsoring last week at DF. Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8,000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available...
I really dug this interview by Zach Baron for GQ with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, who are co-stars in the upcoming Apple feature film Wolfs:
Clooney: We’re lucky too. We’re in a profession that doesn’t force
you into retirement.
Baron: Well, there’s two sides of that ...
Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.
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Editor-in-chief Ryan Smith:
It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest
news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over
27 years of covering the wide — and wild — word of computing
hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publicat...
Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn.
Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available in first class.
Your sense of outraged injustice would probably be something like what IT and security professionals fe...
Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple’s DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.
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From Apple’s own documentation for the “Delete and Report Junk” feature in Messages:
The sender’s information and the message are sent to Apple, and
the message is permanently deleted from your iPhone.
If you accidentally report and delete messages, you can
recover them...
New Mac app that turns rewriting Git history entries from a chore into a breeze. Scroll down a bit on their home page to see just how much simpler Retcon makes edits compared to the Git CLI or other Git clients. Scroll down even more for the cleverly-named “cheatsheet you won’t need”.
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors:
Sharing a little of my own data here: I’ve self-published my own
short stories across most major ebook market places. Amazon
makes up the bulk of those downloads and sales — 53 percent and
66 percent, respectively. Apple comes in a solid...
Casey Newton, writing at Platformer:
Telegram is often described as an “encrypted” messenger. But as
Ben Thompson explains today, Telegram is not end-to-end
encrypted, as rivals WhatsApp and Signal are. (Its “secret chat”
feature is end-to-end encrypted, but it is not en...
Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri
will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will
continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including
information systems and technology, information security, and real
estate and development, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. As part
of a planned succession, Kevan Parekh, Apple’s Vice President of
Financial Planning and Analysis, will become Chief Financial
Officer and join the executive team.
Matthew Ball has written an excellent deep-dive into Roblox:
Compared to its most similar competitors — the social virtual
world platforms, Minecraft and Fortnite — Roblox has about 5× and
2.25× as many monthly players. For non-gamers, Roblox has about
two thirds as many...
Chris Welch, in a thread on Threads:
The “Reimagine” feature on Google’s new Pixel 9 lineup is
incredible. It’s so impressive that testing it has left me feeling
uneasy on multiple occasions.
With a simple prompt, you can add things to photos that were never
there. And ...
Jay Peters, writing for The Verge last week:
If you want the old Sonos app back, it’s not coming. In a Reddit
AMA response posted Tuesday, Sonos CEO Spence says that he
was hopeful “until very recently” that the company could
rerelease the app, confirming a report from T...
My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired frequent DF sponsor Kolide — for sponsoring last week at DF. The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that “the human element” (accidental breaches caused by human error, or victimization in p...
Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max. No gimbal, extra lens or filter is
used. I shot all the footage using the stock camera app to an
external drive in ProRes format. Edited in Final Cut Pro X. I put
this video together from over 1000 video clips I shot between
September 2023 and August 2024.
A lovely little 3-minute film on its own, and a great source of inspiration showing how good footage can look from a modern iPhone.
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, writing for The New York Times:
This summer, I agreed to a literary experiment with Times Opinion:
What is the difference between a story written by a human and a
story written by artificial intelligence?
We decided to hold a contest between ...
Apple today announced plans to hold its annual iPhone-centric
event on Monday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in
Cupertino, California. The event is set to start at 10:00 a.m.,
and select members of the media have been invited to attend.
Looking at my notes, I don’t think Apple’s ever before held a September iPhone event on a Monday. Sometimes Wednesdays, but usually Tuesdays. Update: The first (and currently the only scheduled) debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is on Tuesday 10 September — I’ll bet Apple set this one for Monday to give them a better chance at leading the news during the 24 hours after the event.
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