My thanks to Nomorobo for sponsoring this week at DF. It’s perfect timing, especially if, like me, you live in an election swing state. The one thing all voters (and, now that I think about it, surely non-voters alike) agree on is annoyance at political robocalls and robotex...
The Des Moines Register:
Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa — a startling
reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written
off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory.
A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice P...
Reflecting on the state of border security at the end of his
tenure, Mr. Trump said he regretted ever leaving office.
“I shouldn’t have left, I mean, honestly,” Mr. Trump said, adding,
“we did so well, we had such a great — ” and then cut himself
off. He then immediately noted “so now, every polling booth has
hundreds of lawyers standing there.”
I wish he wouldn’t have left the White House on his own (which he did like the complete turd that he is, refusing to attend his successor’s inauguration). Biden was prepared for that, and we’d have all gotten to enjoy seeing him marched out by the military after watching Biden take the oath of office.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, on CNN today:
My version of being a man is like, hey, I like rib-eyes, I like
Motörhead, and I’m never going to pick on trans kids and gay kids.
[…] It doesn’t make you tough. It doesn’t make you a man to pick
on trans or gay kids. It just makes you an asshole.
My thanks to Nomorobo for sponsoring this week at DF. It’s perfect timing, especially if, like me, you live in an election swing state. The one thing all voters (and, now that I think about it, surely non-voters alike) agree on is annoyance at political robocalls and robotex...
Flexibits:
We’ve spent the last 4 years making Fantastical better than ever
across Apple devices, and with version 4.0 we decided to go even
bigger by finally bringing the world’s best calendar app to a
Windows PC near you. [...]
The best news is that Fantastical for Wi...
The Pixelmator blog:
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team
plans to join Apple. [...]
Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple,
subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes
to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmato...
Isaac Schorr, reporting for Mediaite (with video, in case you don’t believe the following was claimed in all seriousness, which it was):
Asked by his interlocutor, John Heers, if he thought “the
presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the
good?” Carlson a...
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge:
Claude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, now has a desktop app.
You can download the Mac and Windows versions of the app from
Anthropic’s website for free.
Sebastiaan de With, on X:
Big miss from Anthropic releasing a super clun...
While it’s true that after this week’s Mac announcements, every new Mac Apple sells now comes with at least 16 GB of RAM, Nick Heer reminds us that there remains a new Mac available with just 8 GB: the rather remarkableWalmart-exclusive $650 M1 MacBook Air.
Apple:
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6
percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share
of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year
over year when excluding the one-time charge recognized during the
fourt...
Both teams had stretches of greatness on both sides of the game. Home runs. Clutch hitting in late innings. Freddie Fucking Freeman. Innings of unhittable pitching. There’s no question in my mind these are the two most talented teams in baseball. But one team made a bunch of...
Apple Newsroom:
Now available in space black and silver finishes, the 14-inch
MacBook Pro includes the blazing-fast performance of M4 and three
Thunderbolt 4 ports, starting with 16GB of memory, all at just
$1,599. The 14- and 16-inch models with M4 Pro and M4 Max offer
...
Joshua Nelken-Zitser, Business Insider:
A legal dispute between Google and Russia over suspended YouTube
accounts has led to a fine so large that it exceeds all the money
on Earth. Ivan Morozov, a Moscow-based lawyer, told the state-run
TASS newswire that a Russian court...
Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple today in its new MacBook Pro press release announced
that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM, up from
8GB previously. This change applies to the 13-inch model with the
M2 chip, the 13-inch model with the M3 ch...
Ellen Cushing, in a well-meaning piece for The Atlantic:
NPR, citing internal Post correspondence, reported that “more than
1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four
hours after the news broke.”
It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why...
Apple Newsroom:
With M4 Pro, it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales
them up to tackle even more demanding workloads. For more
convenient connectivity, it features front and back ports, and for
the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for faster data transfer
sp...
Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:
The 2021 and 2023 iMacs have now been discontinued by Apple and
prices at third-party resellers are falling. As such, some
customers may be weighing up whether to pick up a 2021 or 2023
iMac instead of the latest model, while some existing iM...
Whether you are red, blue, or in between, there’s one thing we can all agree on: no one likes political robocalls or texts. Every year they just seem to get worse.
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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 ...
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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...
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