Re: my post on Verizon flat-out admitting their business practices have resembled a scheme from Dr. Evil, Domino’s did something similar regarding their pizza a while back. This 2021 story for Inc. by Jeff Haden describes the turnaround.
Verizon has sprung for a new ad campaign set in the Austin Powers world, with four stars from the cast — Mike Myers, of course, as Dr. Evil; Rob Lowe as Number Two (Robert Wagner is alive but is 96); Seth Green as Evil’s son Scott, and Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina — and...
Usually when I link to a new app, it’s something that I find useful personally. Cotypist is something else. It’s an AI-powered autocomplete utility for the Mac, using on-device models and processing, by developer Daniel Gräfe of Accelerated Thought. It is very well-designed,...
Apple Developer:
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. For example:
Sign...
My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on
NetNewsWire.
A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt
pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the
foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding
new rooms.
Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 commits in
the past year.
NetNewsWire was already one of my favorite, most-used, most indispensable apps. Now it’s much better and improving steadily at a rapid clip. You love to see it.
CNBC, two days ago:
In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized
revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also
ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The
$60 billion in class A common stock that SpaceX has agreed to ...
Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging
costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said
in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“Unfortunately, p...
Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link):
Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs,
which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into
see-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can
preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with ...
I’ll just work from the car, I thought. But after a few minutes
of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel
the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that
sweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but
nothing helped... until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.
Introduced in 2024, Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues promise to
tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or,
in my case, even eliminate the motion sickness felt when trying
to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.
My son has suffered from motion sickness in cars his whole life, and Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues work like a charm for him too. What a great feature.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel
this week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. Why
Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU
initially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra’s launch be
delayed this year?
It’s fun to be the guest, not the host, of a podcast. I took Jason Snell’s usual panelist spot this week, alongside Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren. Lots to cover, including a week of real-life experience using the new Siri AI. (It’s really good!)
Also, sometimes you just know what the episode title of a podcast is going to be, the moment a phrase is uttered. This was one of those episodes, with “Intimate Functionalities”.
David Pierce, host of The Vergecast:
So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John
joins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where
Markdown came from and how it took over the world.
Markdown has been growing steadily for years, but it...
Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”:
Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhone
Mirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare I
say, quite fun. Should we judge how much fun ea...
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features
that will personalize app recommendations based on users’
interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have
their app discovered.
At Apple’s Worldwide Develop...
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The Washington Post editorial board yesterday (News+ link), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”:
Brussels insists the decision is “Apple’s and Apple’s only” and
that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the
launch. That’s technically true and wholly besid...
Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April:
European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way
AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is
straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked
system-wide via hot words or but...
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration.
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.
Markdown, baby. Who’d have thunk it?
With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application. Read the Auth.md docs, and watch its on-stage introduction at the MCP Night: Agent Night keynote.
Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery:
On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to
help its competitors; on the other hand, what should be
blisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone
else other than them should eve...
Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:
President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.
Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the
front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the
center missed a federal judge’s two-week deadline to do so.
The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of
trustees to rename it was illegal.
From Apple’s Developer site:
To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as
accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business
Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads
will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running...
Anthropic:
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.
...
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.
Immersive 3D video with spatial audio: Coming soon, exclusively i...
Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, except the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can grab it from YouTube.
Speaking of the State of the Union, the full version runs just over an hour, but Apple cut together a 4.5-minute recap. If you haven’t watched the full thing you should at least watch that recap.
Thomas Regnier, spokesperson for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud):
What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out
“Siri AI” in the EU?
This decision is Apple’s and...
Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday:
According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI
system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the
ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s
ongoing visibility and contro...
Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube:
I approached Cubby Broccoli after Jaws was a big hit. I’d always
wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No, so I
called Cubby after Jaws and volunteered. I said, “If you need a
director, I would ...
Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday:
Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC
keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to
talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk,
Federighi shared more details about Apple’s collaborat...
Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall Jim Nielsen writing about it, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon...
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