Tower 15: This update introduces Automatic Branch Management, making it easier than ever to keep your repository tidy and clutter-free. We’ve also added significant improvements to the “History” view for better visualization of your work 😎 Tower 16: Tower 16 for Mac is now in beta, and it introduces AI Commits, allowing you to generate […]

Nick Heer (Mac Power Users Talk): Apple’s next iCloud tier is a generous 6 TB, but it costs another $324 per year. I could buy a new 6 TB hard disk annually for that kind of money. […] A better solution is to recognize I do not need instant access to all 95,000 photos in […]

Doug Brown (Slashdot): I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. […] The “secret ROM image” text in particular seemed like it could be related to the picture shown above. I decided to dive deeper to see if I […]

Max Seelemann: There are only three ways to create a concurrently running operation from the standard library, Task being the first. The other two are async let and TaskGroups — which happen to be the structured ones. […] In my words, it’s a direct, inescapable dependency relationship. You can always start a task and forget […]

Glenn Fleishman: Note that this remains an iPhone-only feature, even though an iPad could be exploited the same way. I have to infer either that Apple has had almost no reports of exploitation via iPad passcode theft, or that they are balancing the needs of the average iPad user who is out and about with […]

Brent Simmons: The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync. NetNewsWire: We’ve added a new weekly background iCloud storage cleanup. This happens automatically, but there’s also a […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the software updates contain unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Apple also released iOS 18.7.8 for older iPhones that are not updated to iOS 26. Juli Clover (Hacker News): A flaw with notification services allowed notifications that were supposed to be […]

Connor Jones (Hacker News, Reddit): A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode. […] This is because iOS 18 was the last operating system version that allowed iPhone users to enter the special character – in this […]

Christian Bender: I decided to use eBPF for traffic interception at kernel level. It’s high performance and much more portable than kernel extensions. The main application code is in Rust, a language I’ve wanted to explore for quite a while. And the user interface was built as a web application. That last choice might seem […]

AppleVis: Our survey results indicate that across almost all categories, satisfaction with Apple’s accessibility offerings for blind, DeafBlind, and low vision users decreased when compared to 2024. (You can see all 2025 ratings in the “Ratings At-a-Glance” section below, as well as in the sections for each category.) Many categories saw their lowest individual ratings […]

Apple (Hacker News, CNBC, MacRumors, ArsTechnica): Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026. […] As executive chairman, Cook will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers […]

M.G. Siegler: The music fades as Jobs walks up, looking a bit tired but healthy. He is just 44 years old. Yes, a new video of Jobs has been unearthed. And yes, it simply must be written about. […] And it seems like perfect timing for this video to surface given that Apple has just […]

Ken Walters (via Hacker News): The bottom edge of the MacBook is very sharp. Indeed, the industrial designers at Apple chose an aluminum unibody partly for the fact that it can handle such a geometry. But, it is uncomfortable on my wrists, and I believe strongly in customizing one's tools, so I filed it off. […]

Tey Bannerman (Hacker News): A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things. Apps, features, platforms, a keyboard key, an entire category of laptops - and a tool for building more Copilots. All named ‘Copilot’. Zac […]

Charlie Sorrel: Apple’s MacBooks haven’t always been monolithic, barely repairable slabs of aluminum, glass, and glue. They used to be almost delightful in their repairable features, from their batteries to their Wi-Fi cards. Powerbooks, iBooks, and especially early MacBooks showed what happens when Apple applies its design skills directly to repairability and maintenance, instead of […]

Max Seelemann: The parameters are documented, but the optimal combination is not. Here’s what I learned:kCGImageSourceCreateThumbnailFromImageAlways: While this seems optional for correct functionality, without it there will be error logged for images that might include embedded thumbnails (like JPEG or HEIC), but don’t. There’s a FromImageIfAbsent variant, but it did not silence these logs in […]

Caleb Jacobs (via Hacker News): While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who participated in a class action lawsuit. Specifically, that money is available to those involved who paid John Deere’s authorized […]

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Amazon and Globalstar have announced a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire the satellite operator. […] Alongside the acquisition, Amazon and Apple have signed a separate agreement for Amazon’s Leo satellite network to power existing iPhone and Apple Watch satellite features, including Emergency SOS, Messages via satellite, Find My, […]

OpenAI (Hacker News): Codex can now operate your computer alongside you, work with more of the tools and apps you use everyday, generate images, remember your preferences, learn from previous actions, and take on ongoing and repeatable work. The Codex app also now includes deeper support for developer workflows, like reviewing PRs, viewing multiple files […]

Perplexity: Personal Computer brings the multi-model orchestration of Computer to your machine. It can work across your local files, native applications, connectors, and the web to complete complex and even continuous workflows. Personal Computer makes Perplexity Computer a more personal orchestrator, elegantly hybridizing the local and server environments for maximum security and productivity. Juli Clover: […]

Apple (xip, downloads): Fixed crash for MetricKit apps built with Xcode 26.4 due to missing symbols when running on iOS, macOS, and visionOS versions below 26.4. […] Fixed stack-allocation bugs in async functions that caused “freed pointer was not the last allocation” crashes, particularly in swift_asyncLet_finish. These long-standing issues became more frequent in Swift 6.2 […]

Michael Friedman (via Abner Li): Today, we’re bringing the Gemini app to macOS as a native desktop experience, designed to live right where you work. It’s always just a keyboard shortcut away, so you can quickly get the help you need without losing your focus. […] With our new native desktop experience, you can share […]

Jeff Johnson: First, Virus Protection for Phone is back in the App Store! The App Store URL is the same, and the developer is the same, Virtual Advisors Limited. The app version history shows a large gap, with version 1.8 released in February 2025, before my blog post, and version 1.9 released just a few […]

Nicolas Magand: I wonder what will happen with millions of extra Mac users. Will the Neo help the Mac become a proper gaming platform? […] Will the popularity of the MacBook Neo be an opportunity for Apple to mobilise more third-party developers to build apps for MacOS, now that the potential user base can be […]

Reading about the Pebble Index motivated to keep looking for a better way to dictate reminders using my Apple Watch. Ideally, I would press a button, immediately begin speaking, and the literal text of what I said would appear in OmniFocus. This should work when offline. My watch doesn’t have an action button, so the […]

Matt Birchler (pre-Neo): I think Apple is going to discontinue iPadOS. I know, I know, it’s a big swing, but put the pitchforks away and hear me out. iPadOS, as it exists now, is being stretched too thin. The idea of having one operating system, with the same features, that spans from a small, 8" […]

John Gruber: If I had my druthers, Apple would make a new svelte ultralight MacBook. Not instead of the Neo, but in addition to the Neo. Apple’s inconsistent use of the name “Air” makes this complicated, but the MacBook Neo is obviously akin to the iPhone 17e; the MacBook Air is akin to the iPhone […]

Marcin Wichary: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom, and then turn on “Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.” […] I’d also recommend turning off “Smooth images” under “Advanced…” so you see individual pixels better[…] Over the years, I found this feature very useful to inspect various misalignments, to check visual details, and […]

Marcin Wichary: Why is there a short wait if you press a button on your headphone remote or your AirPods to pause the music? Because the interface has to let a bit of time pass to figure out if you’re going to press the button again, making it a double press (advance to next track) […]

SpamSieve 3.3 is an update of my Mac e-mail spam filter that includes lots of changes to improve the filtering accuracy: Much of this is automatic: SpamSieve is better at analyzing the message structure, HTML, and URLs within messages. The other part is helping customers help themselves. If SpamSieve is continually letting spam messages through, […]