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...
So while I don’t think it’s good news that Apple is partnering with Taboola, I don’t expect it to make any discernible difference in the ad quality or frequency.
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.
SMS wasn’t dying, but it was slowly fading away, and should have been left for things like automated “your table is ready” notifications from restaurants. RCS is just going to give carrier-based messaging new legs that it shouldn’t have gotten.
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.
One of the all-time great talk show guests.
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 ...
Make them all say, as Trump himself did after a school shooting massacre in Iowa this year, that we “have to get over it, we have to move forward.”
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...
I guess the European Commission hasn’t taken off for their months-long summer vacation quite yet:
[T]he Commission has issued preliminary findings of non-compliance
on three grievances:
First, X designs and operates its interface for the “verified
accounts” with the...
Camilla Hodgson and George Hammond, reporting for The Financial Times:
Microsoft has given up its seat as an observer on the board of
OpenAI while Apple will not take up a similar position, amid
growing scrutiny by global regulators of Big Tech’s investments in
AI start-...
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
Walmart+ members have early access to the deal as of 12 p.m.
Eastern Time today, and it will be available to all Walmart
customers starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Time today.
Walmart first began selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip for
$699 in M...
I’ve been a big fan of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro since his term as our attorney general. He was absolutely fantastic in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump attempted to steal Pennsylvania.
But as of this week he might be my favorite politician in the entire country. He accomplished what I had long ago given up hope of ever seeing: replacing PA’s fugly-as-sin license plates with a new design that’s among the best I’ve ever seen. Good typography, great colors, and a new slogan and icon that exemplify Pennsylvania’s role as the birthplace of the longest-standing democracy the world has ever seen: the Liberty Bell.
Bravo.
(Next job: Apply this same design language to our god-awful driver’s licenses.)
Update: Design credit for both the new plates and welcome signage goes to Robyn Kanner.
Quinn Nelson on X:
Watch Ultra is the most shameless copy of an Apple product in
ages — and it’s hideous
Wait, it gets more shameless — Buds3 and Buds3 Pro are clones
of AirPods
It’s sad to see Samsung — who once was a leader in design and
innovation — start knocking ...
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