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...
My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.
Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.
If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful big theater and tickets are still available.
You can also watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the Theater app from Sandwich Vision on Vision Pro. A purchase of the ticket to the live show, the Theater app for $12.99, is also good for replay forever — with surprise bonus features included. It’s a fun, truly immersive way to experience the show.
Hope to see you there tonight, one way or the other.
Julie Bort, TechCrunch:
But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was
how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple
Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand,
pressing buttons or using voice commands in real time, while
anot...
Apple Newsroom yesterday:
This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing
Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find
what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and
more. For example, users can ask Siri to find ...
Apple Newsroom:
These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple
Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and
its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence
experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers
us...
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services?
Enter auth.md. 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.
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.
Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago:
Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence
assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI
platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a
Siri overha...
Paulo Andrade, last month, “Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026”:
I recently launched the macOS version of Shopie, an app I first
released on the iOS App Store late last year. Shopie helps you
keep track of products you’re interested in by letting you create
w...
Alberto Romero:
AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or
you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody
believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually
religious.” If God exists, the only coherent response is to
reo...
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Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog:
After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog
photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the
limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how
freeing it felt. It felt so much better ...
Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff obtained by The New York Times (gift links):
We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes.
We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan,
strong leaders who ...
Josh Marshall:
In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East
Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a
judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of
Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer,
Yaako...
Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April:
I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18
large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes +
comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have
paywalls: Bloo...
Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X:
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came
across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that
h...
I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company
like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources
are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels
more like something Perplexity would be seeding than one that
Apple executives would be leaking.
Perplexity is still occasionally in the news (often not in good ways), but it seems to me they’ve slipped into the “afterthought” tier of AI startups — which is exactly why they started leaning into clownish stunts last year. Everyone who previously suggested Apple should — or even might — buy them has gone silent.
Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:
And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the
rules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and
torched his ow...
Location: The California Theatre, San Jose Showtime: Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 7pm PT (Doors open 6pm) Special Guest(s): For sure Price: $45
The annual live audience episode of The Talk Show during the week of WWDC. If you can make it, you should come. You’ll even enjoy the prelude, mingling with fellow DF readers and listeners.
All this Sturm und Drang surrounding 60 Minutes has me thinking about a re-watch of The Insider, Michael Mann’s great 1999 movie. Letterboxd’s synopsis:
“A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.” It’s a great movie, and feels apt AF at the moment. Here’s the original segment on 60 Minutes, which ran an entire half hour.
What’s going on today is like if — instead of getting shady, threatening, and litigious — the tobacco companies had just purchased CBS, purged the staff at 60 Minutes, and hired a bunch of pro-cigarette stooges to replace them.
Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link):
This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée
posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at
developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella said ons...
Peter Borg:
Lingon makes scheduling apps, scripts, shortcuts, and commands
feel simple. Create a task in minutes, run it on a schedule, and
stay in control.
Lingon helps you run whatever you want whenever you want without
living in Terminal. Schedule apps, scripts, shor...
Loren Brichter, back in 2020:
Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on
your computer, which is bizarrely correlated to massive
unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process)[1], and
made my whole computer slow even when Chrome wasn’t ru...
Two months ago Google launched a new native Mac app for Gemini. I’ve been trying it, on and off, since. It’s ... not bad. Certainly better than Claude’s Electron shitbox. But the Gemini app isn’t all that good, either. I’m sticking with ChatGPT, which remains far and away th...
Jason Snell at Six Colors, looking ahead to WWDC next week:
These days, I’m getting emails pitching me for an endless stream
of new Mac apps. It’s quite remarkable because there was a
period five or ten years ago when it seemed like all app
development on Apple’s platfor...
I look forward to pseudoscience like this finally getting some airtime on 60 Minutes. For 58 long years the program has been hopelessly biased toward actual science.
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