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Apple Platform Security Guide: MacBook Neo combines system software and dedicated silicon elements within A18 Pro to provide additional security for the camera feed. The architecture is designed to prevent any untrusted software — even with root or kernel privileges in m...

Alex Weprin, reporting for The Hollywood Reporter:

In a sign of strength for the streaming platform, Apple’s senior VP of services Eddy Cue tells The Hollywood Reporter that viewership for last week’s Australian Grand Prix was up year over year compared to the 2025 race, which aired on ESPN.

“The 2026 Formula 1 season on Apple TV is off to a strong start, with fans responding positively and viewership up year over year for the first weekend, exceeding both F1 and Apple expectations,” Cue says.

As is typical for Apple, the company declined to give any specific numbers, though last year’s Australian GP averaged 1.1 million viewers for ESPN.

So we don’t know the viewership number, but we know it’s higher than 1.1 million. That’s like a semi-Bezos number.

Tim Cook (MacRumors): Fifty years ago in a small garage, a big idea was born. Apple was founded on the simple notion that technology should be personal, and that belief — radical at the time — changed everything. […] At Apple, we’re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. But we couldn’t let this […]

Drew McCormack (February): Had my Core Data sync framework, Ensembles, pretty much in maintenance mode. With Apple moving on to SwiftData, didn’t seem any point to modernizing the 15 year old ObjC codebase. But I had the thought to give Claude a shot at it, and in 2 days I’ve got a complete port: Swift […]

Wade Tregaskis: Nobody else has even tried to make a bright 6k display – in fact, every non-Apple 6k display is outright dim by modern display standards – they’re barely brighter than the original 5k display in the 2015 iMac! […] For the price of one Apple Pro Display XDR you can get four Asus […]

John Gruber: By default, the MacOS accent color in System Settings → Appearance defaults to a color that matches the Neo’s hardware — a fun trick Apple has been using for decades. David Deller: This is the first I’m learning that System Settings sometimes has a special accent color only available to a Mac with a particular […]

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Try entering this into Claude or ChatGPT: "debugging an app that uses wordpress rss feeds and noticed that guids are http but other addresses in the feed are https. this causes trouble." A while back Matt was giving me grief, in a friendly way, about how scripting.com still uses http addresses, the reason apparently is the same one that keeps them from using https in the guids in their feeds. It would break a lot of things that I don't want to break. I'm not suggesting they change it, but somewhere in my codebase somehow the http addresses are getting converted to https, and I haven't (yet) been able to track it down.

Here's a screen shot of the Claude response.

Tech Re-Nu, on YouTube: That leaves us with a fully disassembled laptop. We’ve done this in less than 10 minutes, which is absolutely amazing for an Apple laptop. I can’t say we’ve ever had a Mac that looks as repairable and as modular as this one. No sticky tape, no tri...

Greg Knauss: What I am talking about is being replaced, about becoming expendable, about machines gaining the ability to adequately perform a very specific function that was previously the exclusive domain of skull meat. What I’m talking about is that nothing I do matters. That nothing I can do matters. In just the past few […]

Fatbobman (Mastoson): This library is designed to simplify and enhance Core Data’s handling of multithreading, drawing inspiration from SwiftData’s @ModelActor feature, enabling efficient, safe, and scalable operations. […] Custom Executors for Core Data Actors CoreDataEvolution provides custom executors that ensure all operations on managed objects are performed on the appropriate thread associated with their managed […]

Tomas Kafka: Multiple locations — the most-requested Weathergraph feature — is finally here. Save home, work, your favourite trails, or your next destination. Switch between them instantly with a single tap. Finally. This is still my favorite weather app. As with the forecast provider toggle, the location toggle works on the main graph (and retains […]

Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. […] We enjoyed our time at Apple. So why did we leave to start another weather company? It’s simple: when looking at the landscape of the countless weather apps out there, many of them lovely, we found ourselves feeling unsatisfied. […] […]

Maggie Harrison Dupré (Hacker News, more context): The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed. Earlier this month, Ars retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes […]

Todd Bishop (via Adam Engst): In early 1984, Paul Brainerd and four engineers packed into his old Saab and another car and drove south on Interstate 5 from Seattle. They had been laid off after Kodak bought their employer, Atex, a company whose computerized text-processing systems let newspaper reporters and editors write and edit stories […]

Thinking of AI and how it relates to software development, I'm working in the old mode and the new mode. The old mode is I build a project over a few years. I try to bury bits of functionality behind interfaces, either APIs or UIs, and hope I can forget how they work and just...

Marcin Wichary:

There are fun things you can do in software when it is aware of the dimensions and features of its hardware. [...]

The rule here would be, perhaps, a version of “show, don’t tell.” We could call it “point to, don’t describe.” (Describing what to do means cognitive effort to read the words and understand them. An arrow pointing to something should be easier to process.)

I just learned the word proprioception a few weeks ago, in the context of how you can close your eyes and put your fingertip on the tip of your nose. Perfect word for this sort of hardware/software integration too.

If you’re thinking about applying for a Swedish island, first of all, I’m jealous (as a Swede, I’m not eligible), and second, I highly recommend going for island #1: Tjuvholmen. It’s a charming little island, not far from the cabin where I spent my summers as a kid. I’ll come visit if you win!

Also, I love this bit from the FAQ:

Is the initiative open to everyone?
The competition is open to all international travellers (except billionaires) aged 18 and above.

Billionaires not welcome. 😋

Just added Daring Fireball to my blogroll. What a huge oversight. Glad to get this fixed.

I just released a new version of Silverleaf, my new RSS reader that’s built around Inkwell syncing. It’s free, so check it out!

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