Hartley Charlton: The flagship Alexa Tablet 12 Pro starts at $499.99 with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, aiming to rival the iPad Pro at a significantly lower price point. It features a MediaTek Dimensity 8400 chip, a 12-inch display with an adaptive refresh rate of up to 120Hz and a 3:2 aspect ratio, […]

Jeff Benjamin: A drawback of using an HDR-ready third-party monitor on macOS 26 Tahoe was the inability to activate High Dynamic Range at the common 2560 x 1440 scaled resolution. Fortunately, the newest macOS release resolves this problem. Alexander Cohen: Symptom: scrolling is choppy on the Studio Display XDR at 120Hz or Adaptive (47–120Hz). At […]

OpenAI: Starting today, API customers globally will be able to opt in to text watermarking for select models. Text watermarking will remain off by default in the API. Over the coming weeks, we will add an invisible watermark to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union. […] More details about how textGrain […]

John Voorhees: Earlier this week, I was at OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference where it launched Dots, a personal agent that lives inside the ChatGPT app. […] Dots are persistent, cloud-based agents that use the plugins and other tools you’ve connected to ChatGPT, after you allow them to do so. Your Dot has its own virtual […]

Janine Liberty (Hacker News, NYT, WSJ): Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90. A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline. […] […]

Adam Engst: Apple has significantly improved dictation in iOS 27 by adding a few capabilities for editing text from the Voice Control system. In other words, Apple has finally done some of the things I requested in “How iOS and macOS Dictation Can Learn from Voice Control’s Dictation” (31 August 2020). Remember, dictation is what […]

Tower 18: But something has changed: thanks to AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, even the most devoted GUI fans are now spending more and more time in the terminal. You kick off a task, the agent does its thing… and then you want to actually see what happened. That’s where Tower shines, […]

Alexis King (tweet): The type systems provided by mainstream languages have grown vastly more sophisticated, but how much value does that complexity actually provide programmers in practice? I would like to make the case that it is somewhat less than one might think. While at times convenient, invariants can be captured in the type system […]

Jeff Johnson (June): This new RSS rate limiting was perhaps foreshadowed by an r/modnews post a couple of weeks ago[…] judy-funnie (September, via Jeff Johnson): Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it […]

Chance Miller: Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service. Apple released software and carrier updates to prevent the issue from affecting additional users, but the company tells 9to5Mac that devices that have already lost service will require a hardware replacement. John […]

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, Lobsters, TidBITS-Talk): Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function properly on the Mac. Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing history—without users’ full knowledge […]

Amazon (Hacker News, Slashdot): The all-new 6-inch Kindle is the most pocket-sized Kindle we’ve ever made. With 16GB of storage, up to 6 weeks of battery life, and 30% faster book opening than the previous release, it is lighter and features a new seamless flush-front design. This required rethinking how the display, front light, and […]

Howard Oakley: In Golden Gate there are currently three sources of records of AI transactions. Those handled entirely on-device appear only to be recorded by Unified log entries, while interactions with Siri are provided in a detailed transcript in the new Siri app. […] Although that transcript includes external references implying that an off-device model […]

anonymoussingh: We maintain a macOS product whose installer uses custom InstallerSection plugin bundles to show configuration panes during install. Starting with macOS 27 beta 6, all of our plugins stopped loading in Installer.app — the panes never appear and the install fails because our preinstall step depends on data the panes collect. HirohikoKihara (via Ric […]

EagleFiler 1.9.22 is a maintenance release of my Mac file/note organizer and e-mail archiving app. This version works around various bugs in macOS 27, adds capture support for the Thorium Web browser, and improves importing from Mariner Paperless. macOS 27 broke several things with drag and drop out of Apple Mail. Simply trying to read […]

David Bushell (Mastodon, Hacker News): I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off. […] And today I discovered that Apple had [in macOS 27] removed the “no” switch. […] Digging through macOS 27 settings I […]

Bob Gendler: Since macOS 26.4, there’s been an issue with the keychain hiding in plain sight and that issue is it’ll take ANY password. Say what? The story behind CVE-2026–43728. […] Where this is a bit more of a kicker…you can reset the keychain password without even knowing the real one. […] Now did Apple […]

John Gruber: “Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software Update screen. It just takes you […]

Dave DeLong: I can improve the process of removing backwards compatibility shims by using conditional compilation to remind me when they’re no longer necessary! […] This does mean that the first time we change our deployment target, we’ll get a bunch of compilation errors. But given the nature of how Backport is implemented, this should […]

Joe Rossignol: Apple recently considered laying off about 5,000 support employees [to replace them with AI], but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. […] Last month, we reported that customers who call the AppleCare phone number (1-800-APL-CARE) from the U.S. or Canada are now routed to an AI-powered […]

Lex Friedman (Mastodon): Though allegedly focused on benefiting users (through better safety and compliance), App Store review in its current form mostly frustrates the people it claims to protect. […] Those are all scammy apps that got through. Apple’s review capacity isn’t infinite. Every hour a reviewer spends poring over a bug-fix update to an […]

Blake Brittain (PDF, patent 1, patent 2, Hacker News, 9To5Mac): A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction ​more than $5.7 billion for using its patented technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple said it would ​appeal the country’s largest such verdict to ​date. […] Apple denied the […]

Nicolas Seriot: // "<a>" in UTF-16 LE + a single dangling byte const UInt8 bytes[] = {'<', 0, 'a', 0, '>', 0, 'X'}; […] The whole bug is a confusion between bytes left versus UTF-16 characters left. The result is repeated buffer doubling until allocation fails, and a local process crash if the exception is […]

Juli Clover (release notes, no security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): Apple says macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1 fixes unspecified bugs. See also: Mr. Macintosh and Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 27 Golden Gate

macOS 26.7.1 (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer): This update provides bug fixes and security updates for your Mac. macOS 15.8.1 (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer): This update provides bug fixes and security updates for your Mac. Though not called out in the release notes, macOS 15.8.1 fixes the regression with RAW […]

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, iOS/iPadOS enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 27.0.1 addresses an issue that could cause Face ID not to work properly on the iPhone 18 Pro. Some iPhone 18 Pro users have complained that authentication can fail to work for things like unlocking a locked app. […]

Jeff Johnson: The Muse from Meta app description says at the beginning, “Muse is your personal AI agent that gets things done, always working on what matters to you.” The Muse AI app description says at the beginning, “Muse is your professional AI agent that gets work done, always helping move important tasks forward.” Near […]

Zac Hall: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit and SwiftUI shell with WebKit for richer chat content. In other words, this is not an […]

SpaceXAI (MacRumors): Grok Bot is in beta and available today for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, and SuperGrok Heavy; Cursor Pro, Pro+, and Ultra; and Cursor Teams Standard and Premium subscribers on desktop and iOS. Grok Bot comes with its own usage, separate from your Grok and Cursor plans, so anything you hand off to a Bot […]

Juli Clover: OpenClaw for iOS can be used alongside an existing gateway as a secure node for chat, voice approvals, sharing, and device-aware automation. The iOS app replaces iPhone and iPad workarounds that involved using Telegram or WhatsApp for on-the-go access. Hannes Rudolph (Hacker News): This update touches every part of OpenClaw, including installation, messaging, […]