EveryMac: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched. Thirty years is a long time -- and a great deal has changed since then -- but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much […]

Joseph Cox (MacRumors, Hacker News): A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, according to a security researcher and 404 Media’s own tests. […] “Apple […]

Apple (MacRumors): Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com. New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. […] Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and forward mail […]

Hartley Charlton: Apple today announced that it has rebuilt the search infrastructure that powers key features like Spotlight, Photos, and Mail across all of its major next-generation software platforms. LLM search using Core Spotlight: Level up basic search into a retrieval-augmented system using SpotlightSearchTool and LanguageModelSession. Explore Core Spotlight integration, delegate-based hydration patterns, and how […]

Brent Simmons: The Current Activity window shows what the app is doing right now The Activity Log window shows what the app did recently The Account Stats window shows per-account article and status counts and database sizes, and it includes a Vacuum Databases button which can help with database size and performance The Dinosaurs window […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 includes security fixes for the Mac. Howard Oakley: This addresses a total of about 29 vulnerabilities, including three in the kernel and a whole slew in WebKit. None are believed to have […]

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): Apple told Reuters that it released the updates earlier than planned due to concerns about AI-assisted hacks. Previously: iOS 26.5.1 iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5

Cecilia Kang, Ryan Mac, and Eli Tan (March, Hacker News): The social media company Meta and the video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found on Wednesday, a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits […]

Amy Howe: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant” – a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific time period – to obtain evidence used to convict a Virginia man of a 2019 bank […]

Erik Schamper: ASIF takes a lot of inspiration from existing virtual disk formats. Practically, that means it’s another sparse virtual disk format, and functions very similar to sparse VMDK, VHDX or QCOW2 files (for the uninitiated, it allow you to store a large disk, or file, in a smaller, “sparse” manner). Shortly before the release […]

Hartley Charlton: A group of 48 China-based iOS developers have filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the country’s market regulator over the App Store’s commission rates, the South China Morning Post reports. The developers sent an open letter to China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), alleging that Apple failed to deliver on a […]

Amanda Silberling (May 2025): The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been reintroduced into Congress. If passed into law, this bill could impose some of the most significant legislative changes that the internet has seen in the U.S. since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. As it currently stands, KOSA would be […]

Tim Hardwick: The British government will introduce a ban on social media access for all users under 16 years of age, set to take effect in 2027. […] The plan goes further than a similar ban introduced in Australia. It will cover major platforms Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. An exhaustive list has […]

Howard Oakley: Hot Macs have their own paradox: open Activity Monitor, select the CPU view, and at the top of the CPU % list will be kernel_task hogging the CPU cores with 100% or more, rather than its usual 4% or so. Kerb any temptation to kill it and hope it goes away, as it […]

Basic Apple Guy: But what exactly is a Mavericks? Where is Sonoma? And how many Mac users could point to where Ventura or Tahoe on a map? I decided to trace the history and real-world locations behind every California-inspired macOS release and the wallpapers used to market the them to the world. Enjoy. Previously: macOS […]

Zac Hall: Last year, Notion expanded its productivity suite to include Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client. Today, the company announced that it’s shutting down the Notion Mail inbox service this fall. […] Today, more than half of Notion Mail users manage emails without ever opening their inbox. So, we’re going all in on using […]

Anthropic (tweet, Hacker News): The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable […]

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.6 includes Swift 6.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5. Xcode 26.6 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26.6 requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.2 or later. […] Google […]

Our phones stopped working this morning, or perhaps last night, but everything looked fine on Boom’s Web site. I contacted their support, and as always they got back right away, but this time with bad news: I’m deeply sorry to share that after careful consideration, we’ve made the very difficult decision to restructure through Chapter […]

Ryan Merket (Hacker News, Wikipedia): Om Malik (@Om), the journalist, GigaOm founder, photographer and True Ventures partner whose work tracked the commercial internet from dial-up optimism to AI saturation, died on June 24 at Stanford Hospital after what his family described as a long health journey with his heart, according to a post on On […]

Jason Snell, on The Talk Show: [… Apple] decides to do a big feature. The circus comes to town, they build the feature, they launch it, they leave town, and that feature sits there. And the problem is, there’s bugs, things are broken, and in Year Two, you’re like, “You’re going to fix all the […]

Chris Lattner: I’m excited to share that Qualcomm is acquiring Modular: this will accelerate our path to unifying accelerated compute with an open platform. This will also mark a new era in open software development for Qualcomm. […] This will accelerate our progress and path, and their vision is expansive: [spanning] edge to cloud, CPU, […]

Osmond Chia (Hacker News, 9To5Mac, Engadget): Apple plans to raise the prices of its products as the cost of the memory chips it uses has surged, the technology giant’s boss has said. Tim Cook, Apple’s outgoing chief executive, told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that price increases were “unavoidable” as the situation around memory chips […]

Raymond Chen: Tony Krueger is remembered in Wikipedia as the person who ported the game Chip’s Challenge to Windows for the Windows Entertainment Pack. But that’s probably not the code he wrote that touched the most people. Tony worked on Word 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, then on Word for OS/2 and Word for Mac, then returned […]

John Gruber (Mastodon): In most Mac apps, since the dawn of time, if there is nothing selected to be copied, the Edit → Copy (and Cut) commands are disabled. If you invoke the ⌘C shortcut while the Copy command is disabled, you hear an alert sound, letting you know that whatever you thought you were […]

Apple: You manage all the devices that appear in Xcode as run destinations using Device Hub. Run your app on simulated devices in Device Hub to quickly evaluate new features and fix bugs, and to see how your interface works on devices that you don’t have physical access to. Run your app on physical devices […]

Ted Kremenek, Dave Verwer, and Sven A. Schmidt (Hacker News): Bringing Swift Package Index to Apple allows us to build on its strong foundations while preserving its vision and expertise. Together, we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs. […] Swift Package Index will continue to operate as it does […]

Swift 6.4 is now available in beta form with Xcode 27. The Swift Evolution proposals are listed here. What’s new in Swift: Discover the latest language advancements, including updates for everyday ergonomics, improved concurrency, and safer high-performance code. Explore workflow and language interoperability improvements and updates in embedded Swift. Build real-time apps and services with […]

Holly Borla and Joe Heck (Hacker News): Swift 6.3 introduces the @c attribute, which lets you expose Swift functions and enums to C code in your project. […] @c also works together with @implementation. This lets you provide a Swift implementation for a function declared in a C header[…] […] Swift 6.3 introduces module selectors […]

Hartley Charlton: To use the feature, users must turn the device off, then hold the side button to power it on. The Apple logo appears as it would during a normal boot, but holding the button for an extended duration brings up a progress bar, and the device then launches into the new recovery environment […]