My thanks to Upgraded for sponsoring last week at DF. Upgraded’s basic premise is simple: it’s like Apple’s iPhone upgrade program, but for MacBooks. Through Upgraded, you can get a new MacBook every two years with low monthly payments, AppleCare+ coverage, and effortless up...
Leah Nylen and Josh Sisco, reporting for Bloomberg:
Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a
judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome
browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the
biggest tech companies in the wor...
Dominic Patten, reporting for Deadline Friday night:
Netflix’s much hyped and much delayed live fight tonight between
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is taking some hits even before the
former heavyweight champion and the YouTuber turned boxer have
climbed in the ring.
From ne...
Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO, in an op-ed for The Onion:
Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to
manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members
of society — values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global
Tetrah...
Brandy Zadrozny and Erik Ortiz, NBC News:
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed
conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for
control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the
far-right, conspiracy-minded website that...
Bill Atkinson, on Facebook, “Request for Prayers”:
On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because
of vascular involvement, surgery is not possible. I am taking
weekly chemo treatments to shrink the tumor before surgical
resection. I am tolerating the c...
Some Big Tech CEOs, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Disney’s Bob
Iger, and TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew didn’t post a message for Trump.
Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos also didn’t comment.
Here’s the Apple support page listing the devices compatible with iOS 18. They’re listed in chronological order, oldest to newest, and the list begins with the iPhone XR and iPhone XS from 2018. But on this support page, Apple styles the “R” and “S” suffixes as small caps. S...
Apple Newsroom:
Apple has introduced Share Item Location, a new iOS feature that
helps users locate and recover misplaced items by easily and
securely sharing the location of an AirTag or Find My network
accessory with third parties such as airlines. Share Item Location
...
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac:
iOS 18.2 beta 3 adds another new toggle for
personalizing the iPhone 16’s Camera Control. Now, you can open
the Camera app with a single press of the Camera Control even if
your display is off.
If your iPhone 16’s display is off, the default beha...
John Geleynse, Apple’s longtime head of developer evangelism, on LinkedIn:
Doing anything for 25 years is a pretty big deal. Being a part of
Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a
lifetime.
My last day at Apple was exactly a week ago today. I’d al...
MacRumors:
With the wide display option, there’s enough screen real estate to
use four apps at once without compromising on window size.
Ultrawide bumps up the available space even more, and it’s almost
too much display space.
Using the ultrawide setting is like having ...
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...
My mom died at the end of June this year.
I know, and I’m sorry — that’s a hell of a way to open a piece ostensibly about a depressing, worrisome, frightening election result. But here’s the thing I want to emphasize right up front: my mom’s death was OK. It really was. She...
Hunter S. Thompson, writing in September 1972, a little over one month ahead of Nixon’s landslide reelection:
The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority
of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states.
Well … maybe so. This may be the...
Jeff Bezos, yesterday at 10:29am on X:
Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an
extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation
has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in
leading and uniting the America we all l...
Taegan Goddard, Political Wire:
After last night, it became clear it was a mistake to dismiss
Trump’s true political strength. He will win the 2024 election
with at least 51% of the popular vote.
His win will not be the result of a constitutional quirk. It was
not even ...
Bill Kristol, at The Bulwark:
The American people have made a disastrous choice. And they have
done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open.
Donald J. Trump will be our next president, elected with a
majority of the popular vote, likely winning both more votes and
...
Tom Nichols, for The Atlantic:
Paradoxically, however, Trump’s reckless venality is a reason for
hope. Trump has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a
disordered child. He will likely be surrounded by terrible but
incompetent people. All of them can be beaten: in court...
Josh Marshall, signing off for the night:
If Harris loses, that is obviously a crushing result. There’s no way around that. It’s different from 2016 in that it’s not a shock. We all knew or should have known this was a very possible result. The polls and models were abou...
Jason Kottke, going meta on that one-paragraph hypertext editorial from the NYT that I linked to yesterday:
What makes this piece so effective is its plain language and its
information density. This density is a real strength of hypertext
that is often overlooked and tak...
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch:
It’s Election Day in the U.S., which means you’re likely glued to
the latest news about which presidential candidate is currently in
the lead. To help with this, Apple has released a Live Activities
widget within its Apple News app that will offe...
We recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco — security’s biggest event of the year — and we were struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems. On some level that’s not surprising — tech is constantly d...
The New York Times editorial board, making deft use of good old-fashioned hypertext, has published a powerful endorsement on the eve of the election that covers so much ground, yet fits entirely in a single concise paragraph. In its entirety:
You already know Donald Trum...
The truth is this. Kamala Harris will protect your right to
disagree with her. About policies, or ideas. And then, as we
have done for centuries, we’ll debate them. We’ll work on them
together. And we’ll move forward. The other guy? He demands
unquestioning loyalty. Says he wants revenge.
I’m Harrison Ford, I’ve got one vote, same as everyone else — and I’m going to use it to move forward. I’m going to vote for
Kamala Harris.
Ford’s message is a powerful framing of the authoritarian, anti-democracy dynamic in this election. Short, gruff, and to the point. Worth sharing to anyone you think might still be on the fence.
Nilay Patel, endorsing Kamala Harris at The Verge:
But look beyond the locked-in message discipline to her approach
to campaigning, and it is clear Harris is deeply, meaningfully
committed to solving collective action problems. She has
assembled a politically diverse gro...
Bill Kristol, writing last month for The Bulwark:
The Democratic polling and messaging firm Blueprint recently
tested the effectiveness of several closing messages for
the Harris campaign. (This was before Kelly’s new remarks.) Here’s
one message the group put before vot...
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