I’m still collecting my thoughts on this week’s “It’s Glowtime” Apple event, and where Apple stands in general. But this episode of Dithering that dropped Friday morning captures my high-level thoughts well. We haven’t done this in a while, but we’re making it free for ev...
Kylie Robison, reporting for The Verge:
OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned
series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more
complex questions, faster than a human can. It’s being released
alongside o1-mini, a smaller, chea...
Brian Heater, reporting for TechCrunch:
The iPhone 16 took center stage at Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event,
but the most interesting tidbit came from a different line
entirely. Indeed, among a sea of new hardware came an intriguing
software update to one already on the mar...
Taylor Swift, in a post late last night on Instagram:
I’ve done my research, and I’ve made my choice. Your research is
all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make. I also want to
say, especially to first time voters: Remember that in order to
vote, you have to be re...
BBC News:
Apple has been ordered to pay Ireland €13bn (£11bn; $14bn) in unpaid taxes by Europe’s top court, putting an end to an eight-year row.
The European Commission accused Ireland of giving Apple illegal tax advantages in 2016, but Ireland has consistently argued a...
Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple today discontinued its ill-received FineWoven material, introducing no new cases that use the leather replacement. The company has also removed existing FineWoven iPhone cases for older devices from its website, though FineWove...
My iPhones 16 briefing yesterday was at this new building. It is very nice. A little cozy — it’s not that big. Great light, and from the main room, a splendid view of the main building. Restroom doors are like bank vault doors.
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My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired longtime DF sponsor Kolide — for sponsoring last week at DF. 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 ...
There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Gangster Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and two of his goon friends are in a nightclub in the Tangiers casino resort (a fictionalized version of the old Stardust), which is run by Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). Santoro and Rothstein, ...
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge last week:
Spotify users on iPhone will no longer be able to control the
volume on connected devices using their physical volume buttons.
In an update to its support page, Spotify said Apple
“discontinued” this technology, forcing iPhon...
At the end of August, Apple announced several more DMA compliance changes. They are worth examining in detail.
Changes to the Mandatory Browser Choice Screen
Developers of browsers offered in the browser choice screen in the
EU will have additional information about the...
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
Spotify claims Apple may again be in violation of European
regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires
interoperability from big technology companies dubbed
“gatekeepers.” This time, the issue isn’t about in-app purchase...
Annie Karni, reporting for The New York Times:
During an event at Duke University, Ms. Cheney told students
that it was not enough for her to simply oppose the former
president, if she intended to do whatever was necessary to
prevent Mr. Trump from winning the White Hous...
Alex Isenstadt, writing for Politico:
“Save America,” a Trump-authored coffee table book being
released Sept. 3, includes an undated photograph of Trump meeting
with Zuckerberg in the White House. Under the photo, Trump writes
that Zuckerberg “would come to the Oval Offi...
Last year Nolen Royalty made a website called One Million Checkboxes, which presented to the user exactly what it claimed on the tin. The gimmick was that the million checkboxes were shared globally. If I toggled checkbox 206,028 in my browser, you’d see checkbox 206,028 fli...
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...
Benj Edwards:
On Thursday, ABC announced an upcoming TV special titled, “AI
and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special.” The one-hour
show, set to air on September 12, aims to explore AI’s impact on
daily life and will feature interviews with figures in the tech
indu...
Apple Newsroom:
With iOS 18 and watchOS 11, the Apple Sports app will offer Live
Activities for all teams and leagues available in the app for the
first time ever, delivering live scores and play-by-play at a
quick glance to a user’s iPhone and Apple Watch Lock Screens.
...
“Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television.”
Both the font (by Helena Zhang) and website (by Tobias Fried) are fantastic. Freely available, too.
Jay Peters, The Verge:
X is currently banned in Brazil following an order from a
Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to
Bluesky, an alternate social network, in droves.
“Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on
Bluesky!” the of...
Paul Graham:
The theme of Brian’s talk was that the conventional wisdom about
how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew,
well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in
a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could be
optimistically su...
Apple Original Films had originally promised writer-director Jon Watts and co-stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt a wide theatrical release for their upcoming (and seemingly well-reviewed) movie Wolfs. But, pretty much at the last minute, Apple canceled those plans, and inste...
My thanks to 1Password — which, earlier this year, acquired frequent DF sponsor Kolide — for sponsoring last week at DF. Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8,000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available...
I really dug this interview by Zach Baron for GQ with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, who are co-stars in the upcoming Apple feature film Wolfs:
Clooney: We’re lucky too. We’re in a profession that doesn’t force
you into retirement.
Baron: Well, there’s two sides of that ...
Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.
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Editor-in-chief Ryan Smith:
It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest
news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over
27 years of covering the wide — and wild — word of computing
hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publicat...
Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn.
Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available in first class.
Your sense of outraged injustice would probably be something like what IT and security professionals fe...
Chance Miller, ace reporter (and editor-in-chief) for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple’s DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more.
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From Apple’s own documentation for the “Delete and Report Junk” feature in Messages:
The sender’s information and the message are sent to Apple, and
the message is permanently deleted from your iPhone.
If you accidentally report and delete messages, you can
recover them...
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