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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 ...
My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring the 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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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...
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.
Did Nintendo try to kill GoldenEye 007 before it was completed?
Why did Shigeru Miyamoto keep telling the development team to tone
down the violence? And why did the famous multiplayer aspect of
the game almost not happen? It’s slappers-only on Rad History,
because we’re diving into the history of THE game of the late
1990s, GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64.
Had a blast talking about one of my very favorite video games ever. My main link here is to the YouTube version of the episode, but it’s also available as an audio episode for all podcast players, including Overcast and Apple Podcasts.
The New York Yankees are back in the World Series for the first time since 2009, and for the 41st time in franchise history. Their opponent: the Los Angeles Dodgers, who will appear for the 22nd time. This will be the 12th time the two teams have met in the World Series, but the first since 1981. (The Yankees won 8 of the previous 11.) A star-studded matchup with incredible history, to say the least. May the best team win.
My thanks to Weather Up for sponsoring this week at DF. If you’re even a semi-regular reader, you know I’m an aficionado of weather apps. There are a bunch of really good ones — including Apple’s own — but there’s an incredible degree of variety and originality in their info...
Here’s an interesting bit of follow-up. Last month, when linking to the European Commission’s announcement of “two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act”, I wrote a sidenote on the EC’s seem...
Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors:
The FIDO Alliance is developing new specifications to enable
secure transfer of passkeys between different password managers
and platforms. Announced on Monday, the initiative is the result
of collaboration among members of the FIDO...
Speaking of passwords, Ricky Mondello — who has long been a leading member of Apple’s “Authentication Experience” team — has an interesting blog post describing the algorithm Apple uses when it suggests new strong passwords:
To make these passwords easier to type on subo...
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