Tim Sweeney on X, with what can only be described as a weird take on Find My:
This feature is super creepy surveillance tech and shouldn’t
exist. Years ago, a kid stole a Mac laptop out of my car. Years
later, I was checking out Find My and it showed a map with the
house...
Interesting new site, offering AI-powered answers to WWDC-related developer questions. Ask a question, it tries to answer (some answers seem great, some not), and offers links to relevant WWDC sessions.
The small print at the bottom of the page disclaims “Ask WWDC is not affiliated with Apple Inc.” Instead it’s the work of developer Matt Spear, using a new tool he’s building that aims to allow anyone to build a similar “ask site”.
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors:
Not all features, as I said, will be available to try out in this
release. Among those included are the systemwide Writing Tools
features to help proofread and rewrite text; inbox prioritization,
summaries, and smart reply in Mail; the n...
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 ...
Apple Newsroom, last week:
Today, Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta,
allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their
browser.
Now, users can get driving and walking directions; find great
places and useful information including photos,...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, writing for TechCrunch:
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of
computers with a botched update all over the world last
week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an
apology, according to several people...
Mark Zuckerberg, in an essay extolling the virtues of Meta’s open source approach to AI development:
People often ask if I’m worried about giving up a technical
advantage by open sourcing Llama, but I think this misses the big
picture for a few reasons:
First, to ensure...
Emanuel Maiberg, reporting for 404 Media:
If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other
alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing
and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any
results from the last week. DuckDuckGo is...
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...
Marco Arment, introducing the 10th-anniversary re-write of Overcast:
Most of Overcast’s core code was 10 years old, which made it
cumbersome or impossible to easily move with the times, adopt new
iOS functionality, or add new features, especially as one person.
That’s w...
Margi Murphy and Katrina Manson, reporting for Bloomberg:
The local FBI bureau in Pittsburgh held a license for Cellebrite
software, which lets law enforcement identify or bypass a phone’s
passcode. But it didn’t work with Crooks’ device, according to the
people, who sai...
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.
Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.
For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.
Joe Biden, in a letter to the nation (same post, on Instagram):
It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your
President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection,
I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country
for me to stand d...
Sara Fischer, reporting this week for Axios:
Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with Apple to power native
advertising within the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps,
Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda told Axios. The deal
provides new validation for Taboola’s busin...
Sumit Chandel and Eldhose Mathokkil Babu, writing for the Google Developers blog:
In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google
URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes
we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the
...
Ina Fried, reporting for Axios:
“We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months,
but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European
regulatory environment,” Meta said in a statement to Axios.
Apple similarly said last month that it won’t ...
Tom Warren, The Verge:
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of
Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV
broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A
faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike ...
I don’t post many affiliate links but here’s a great one: Amazon has second-gen AirPods Pro for just $169 for Prime Day, discounted a full third from the usual price of $249. AirPods Pro are not just my favorite earbuds ever, they’re one of my favorite products ever, full stop. Buy through this link and I’ll get rich.
Here’s a hot take: last week’s news of a massive AT&T breach revealing the phone call and text messaging records of all AT&T customers for six months in 2022 exemplifies why RCS is a terrible protocol that ought not exist, and why it’s a mistake that Apple is adding ...
Pete Wells:
The first thing you learn as a restaurant critic is that nobody
wants to hear you complain. The work of going out to eat every
night with hand-chosen groups of friends and family sounds
suspiciously like what other people do on vacation. If you happen
to work...
With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed in minutes instead of months.
Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.
For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.
Apple Newsroom:
Today, Apple introduced HomePod mini in midnight, made with 100
percent recycled mesh fabric. At just 3.3 inches tall, HomePod
mini offers big sound in an impressively compact design. With a
seamless, acoustically transparent mesh exterior and a backlit
t...
Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple this weekend approved free PC emulator “UTM SE” for the App
Store on iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. The app allows users to
emulate old versions of Windows OS, macOS, Linux, and more to fire
up classic software and games on App...
My thanks to Dabba for sponsoring last week at DF. (You may recall them sponsoring previously.) Dabba is a low-cost broadband internet service provider in India owned and powered by engineers and startup founders from around the world. Relative to its population, India lags ...
Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo:
Political violence and especially electoral violence strike at the
heart of the open, free and democratic choice-making upon which
our civic democratic system and the legitimacy of its choices are
based. We must condemn it i...
Brian Krebs:
In a written statement shared with KrebsOnSecurity, the FBI
confirmed that it asked AT&T to delay notifying affected
customers.
“Shortly after identifying a potential breach to customer data and
before making its materiality decision, AT&T contacted...
Luca Casonato:
So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to
system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives
access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging
backchannel.
This API is not exposed to other sites - only to...
Matt Egan and Sean Lyngaas, reporting for CNN:
The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of
millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers
were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company
revealed Friday. AT&T...
I’ve seen a few people arguing that Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra, though clearly inspired by Apple Watch Ultra, isn’t a rip-off, per se, because it’s not an exact clone. Ben Thompson even tried to argue such with me on Dithering this week.
Here, for example, is a literal cl...
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