There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it. That purpose is part of what makes this place extraordinary. Apple helps nurture it, but I believe it lived within each of you long before you arrived here. It is what
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There is something truly special about Apple. I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it. That purpose is part of what makes this place extraordinary. Apple helps nurture it, but I believe it lived within each of you long before you arrived here. It is what
9to5MacRead Tim Cook's full memo to Apple employees on his last day as CEO - 9to5MacToday is Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mark his...
In today’s filing, Apple says that Liu’s lawyers recently handed over his MacBook that he used after leaving Apple. According to Apple, an “initial forensic analysis” of that MacBook revealed four things, quoted from Apple’s filing:
- Mr. Liu not only downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic but also used it in his work at OpenAI;
- Far from his unauthorized access to Apple’s third-party cloud storage being unknown to him, Mr. Liu and others at OpenAI were
9to5MacApple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit - 9to5MacApple has filed a new document in its ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI as it continues to push for expedited discovery....
Relay keeps the credential at WorkOS. Your agent names the user, WorkOS attaches that token, refreshes it, and releases it only to allowlisted hosts. A hijacked agent session is a live
workos.comHow to let AI agents act on behalf of users without handing them access tokens — WorkOSAgents that call third-party APIs on behalf of users normally hold the OAuth access token. Here is where that token leaks, and how to get delegated access without it.
I didn’t mind the reduced pace of the NBA broadcast, which toggled between cameras under each basket, but Stratechery’s Ben Thompsonfelt strongly that the best option would’ve been a single camera at mid-court, to completely
Daring FireballThoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red SoxIt felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.
Here are the full details on the price increases:
- Apple TV (monthly): $14.99 (up from $12.99)
- Apple TV (annual): $119 (up from $99)
- Apple One Individual: $21.95 (up from $19.95)
9to5MacApple announces price increase for Apple TV and Apple One subscriptions - 9to5MacJust weeks after announcing price increases for Apple Music, Apple today announced that Apple TV is also getting more expensive....
People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, and run everything through these enormous machines so the computer can absorb every sentence ever written and use it to create some fairly compelling LinkedIn posts. But then, boy oh boy, the wheeled cart carrying those decimated remains comes to me. That is where the human touch enters the process, assuming you count industrial shredders
McSweeney's Internet TendencyI’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform“One minute, they are a treasured record of human thought. The next, they are twelve searchable megabytes and a manageable quantity of mixed paper strips goi...
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But it’s not so obscure in Ireland, where they use it in an idiom: to make a hames of something is to make a mess of it. With that in mind, it’s hard to say which is more apt for
Daring FireballTrump Declares That Lake Ontario Is Now ‘Lake America’Link to: https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/lake-america-ontario-canada-trade-war-trump-executive-order-rename
This will be an unpopular opinion on the Right but I think this is kind of dumb, even as a troll. Lake Ontario was given that name on maps by European explorers long
X (formerly Twitter)Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) on XThis will be an unpopular opinion on the Right but I think this is kind of dumb, even as a troll. Lake Ontario was given that name on maps by European explorers long before the Canadian province of Ontario was named. There are several cities in America called Ontario -- at least
The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t.
I’m starting to worry how well that’s going to hold up.
And it’s not like “Gulf of Mexico” was on a list of “debatable or controversial names” until he created this controversy out of
Daring FireballGolfo del Gringo LocoMuch serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jabat Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countries escalates.
The president said the name change was “effective immediately” during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. The executive order directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum
NOTUSTrump Is Actually Going Through With His ‘Lake America’ Name Change“We have a Gulf, and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean,” he said, floating another name change for the Atlantic or Pacific ocean.
A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal court alleges that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority when he designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk, a label the government can apply to companies that expose military systems to potential infiltration or
Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved fussy configuration of Mac OS emulators or vintage hardware. Even then, no single emulator or vintage computer can faithfully run every module: some animate too
morphing.cloudAfterglow — classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOSRun classic After Dark screen saver modules — Flying Toasters, Fish!, Starry Skyline, and more — natively on macOS.
GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words they are written with rather than by anything they were told to look for: eight ways of writing, and every description belongs to one of them. One of the eight was 1.0% of the corpus at the start of 2025 and is 45% of it by the middle of 2026.
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louisabraham.github.ioThe load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — each of which have or are expected to receive massive rebates from the Trump Administration for tariffs paid last year — to provide refunds to customers.
“I urge you to pass
Senator Elizabeth WarrenWarren Pushes Giant Corporations to Give Billions in Tariff Refunds Back to ConsumersWarren Pushes Giant Corporations to Give Billions in Tariff Refunds Back to Consumers - Senator Elizabeth Warren
“There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We tried absorbing the cost for a while, but that was financially difficult for a small company like ours. We made the tariff a very obvious and clearly labeled line item on checkout for any customer affected.”
Panic also
Game DeveloperPlaydate maker Panic is refunding tariff fees to customersPanic is refunding customers who purchased a Playdate device and paid a 19 percent fee imposed by the now-rescinded US tariffs.
Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days. And it will continue ramping in the weeks ahead to all users.
There are two places you’ll find ads in the Maps app:
1. Before searching: Suggested Places in the search screen will feature an ad.
2. After searching: Ads will appear in search results when relevant.
Before searching, I saw an ad for an HVAC contractor 12 miles away in “Suggested Places”. Knock on wood but I currently
9to5MacApple Maps launches ads on iPhone, here’s what’s new - 9to5MacApple has officially launched ads in Apple Maps, with the rollout ramping up in the coming weeks. Here are the details.
Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts working from spare rooms, garages, and tiny workshops.
Some earn a living from their products. Some sell only a handful of boards each year. Others build ten units simply because they created something useful and want to
lectronz.comHow Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneursEuropean Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk.
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultantStafford Beer, who stated that there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”. It is used in systems theory, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can or should be read from the intentions of those who design, operate,
en.wikipedia.orgThe purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
Not to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, Apple today has also released an updated version of its Polishing Cloth. In an age of everything getting more expensive, the new Polishing Cloth is cheaper than before at $9 (down from $19). [...]
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9to5MacApple releases new Polishing Cloth for $9 - 9to5MacNot to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, Apple today has also released an updated version...
Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads “Surprise and shine,” and the invitation features a glowing Apple logo with a sun shining through.
Apple generally prefers Tuesdays, but on years when Labor Day falls in the second week of September, they move it to Wednesday.
9to5MacApple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: 'Surprise and shine' - 9to5MacApple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first...
On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.
I didn’t want to jinx them, but this obvious threat hanging over their head was the main reason I never linked only to XCancel rather than directly to tweets
Her death was announced in a video posted on social media by her nephew Bryan Seaver. No cause was provided. Concerns about Ms. Parton’s health were raised last year as she postponedand later canceled a Las Vegas residency, and intensified to the point that she took to social media in October to announce, “I ain’t dead yet.”
The GPDR went into effect 10 years ago. By their inaction, they obviously think it’s working just fine. I think they look at the situation and realize that every time any website presents a
Daring FireballWhat Is the Point of the DMA?If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the web from apps distributed on the App Store, and that Apple will collect a 5 percent Core Technology Commission even for apps distributed on third-party app marketplaces, using third-party payment processing.
Daring FireballMemory and Storage Configurations and Pricing for the New Mac Minis (M6/M5 Pro) and Mac Studios (M5 Max/M5 Ultra)Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see which storage and memory options are available for each chip, and how much they cost.
Apple today debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities. M6, Apple’s first state-of-the-art 2-nanometer chip, advances every compute block, delivering gains across every dimension of performance. The chip features a larger 12-core CPU complex with the world’s fastest CPU core, a larger 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, and up to 170GB/s of unified memory
Apple NewsroomApple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI computeApple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
The rebuilt Timeline lets you pencil tasks into your day, and Apple Pencil gets special powers to sketch the plan in seconds.
There’s tons more, brewed over four months
FinalistFinalistYour app for finishing things, for iOS, macOS and visionOS.
Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on
privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued onprivate.icloud.com. Existing addresses onprivaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on
icloud.com.Back in June, Apple announced
developer.apple.comUpdate: New domain for Sign in with Apple - Latest News - Apple DeveloperStarting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com. What you need to do Developers with apps or websites that use Sign in with Apple should ensure that their account systems, email validation logic, and allowlists accept addresses on the new private.icloud.com domain in addition to the existing privaterelay.appleid.com domain.Learn more about Sign in with Apple Communicating using the Private Email Relay Service
A report from Irish Independent detailed the European Commission’s response to Apple’s new business terms for the EU. They share that they welcome the changes and will monitor Apple’s
Daring FireballWhat Is the Point of the DMA?If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the web from apps distributed on the App Store, and that Apple will collect a 5 percent Core Technology Commission even for apps distributed on third-party app marketplaces, using third-party payment processing.
Gorgeous, unbelievably faithful one-bit camera app for iPhone done in the style of the original Mac. A lovely tribute to Bill Atkinson’s remarkable dithering algorithm. “Catnip for old-school Mac users,” says John Siracusa. Check out
bitcam-app.comBitCam: 1-bit camera app & editor for iPhone/iPad/Mac
This week Anthropic announced that in order to identify AI from human-generated content it would be watermarking all text it generates by subtly altering the randomness at which its models picked the next word. While this might seem
sixcolors.comThis Week in Apple: Let’s fight – Six Colors
The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked away, calling the U.S. proposal “a bad deal.”
“We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed,” Mr. Carney said. “We recognize that sometimes, its signature is written in pencil.”
“We cannot accept what they offered and we will not give
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision reviewed by Reuters.
The penalty would be the second-largest issued yet under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. It is behind only a €1.2 billion fine imposed on Meta by Ireland in 2023 for unlawfully transferring European Facebook users’
When we think about convenience, we think about a lot of things, but making shopping feel simpler and more seamless from start to finish is a big part. And one of the moments where that matters most is at checkout.
We want customers and members to have choice in how they pay, so they can check out in the way that works best for them. Now, beginning Aug. 24, we will be adding Tap to Pay to our payment options at select Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations, with plans to roll it out
corporate.walmart.comMore Ways to Pay: Tap to Pay Is Coming to Walmart and Sam’s ClubBeginning Aug. 24, we will be adding Tap to Pay to our payment options at select Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations, with plans to roll it out to all U.S. stores and clubs by the end of 2026 and to fuel stations by mid-2027.
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Earlier this week, a developer version of a Mac computer software update accidentally included references to several upcoming Apple products, including a video of the AirPods with cameras in action. [...]
But the product challenges are still being resolved, and the camera AirPods remain off the company’s 2026 release schedule. Apple continues to believe the earbuds will launch in 2027, said the people, who asked not to be identified when discussing unannounced
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. These changes resolve Apple’s disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution. They also reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business
Daring FireballApple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very LittleThanks to the DMA’s sprawling scope, complexity, and overreach, Apple came out of this conceding only 4 percent of the App Store’s 30 percent commission, and no reduction at all to the 15 percent for subscriptions after the first year.
Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. But now, nearly two years later, the social network and would-be X competitor is struggling to hold on to its momentum.
According to data from digital intelligence
TechCrunchBluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunchOver a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.
I wouldn’t bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either “I’d spend more
Bluesky SocialMike Masnick (@masnick.com)So I get that there's (yet again) a big debate going on about AI on Bluesky. I am turning off replies to this post because I don't want to have notifications flooded one way or the other on this one. I just want to share what I've heard multiple times in just the past two weeks.
Sometimes a small change can make a big impact. That’s especially true for Apple’s latest TestFlight update for users with a lot of pre-release software.
Apple just updated TestFlight for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more. The new version, 4.3, introduces “a search field to quickly find apps.”
A quick comparison to version 4.2.2. shows just that: TestFlight now
Daring FireballApple Screwed Up the TestFlight App’s Sort Order a Month Ago, and It’s Still Screwed Up, but the More I Think About It, the More Clear It Is They Started Screwing This Up 15 Years AgoIt’s 2026 and an important, much-used app from Apple doesn’t offer basic list sorting controls that would have been a glaring omission 40 years ago. This was a completely solved problem decades ago, when computer RAM was measured in *kilo*bytes.
Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with NBC News to exclusively power all of its programmatic, or automated, display advertising sales, CEO Adam Singolda tells Axios.
Worked out great for Apple with Apple News. They struck a deal with Taboola two years ago and the ads in Apple News today are super premium and
WorkOS Agent Registration turns that traffic into signups. Enroll via the dashboard and AuthKit publishes an auth.md file agents read to register for scoped, short-lived credentials you control.
auth.mdauth.md — Open Protocol for Agent Registrationauth.md standardizes how AI agents register with apps, discover supported flows, request scopes, and receive secure user-scoped credentials.
Walt Disney’s ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an effort to quash speech the Trump administration finds objectionable.
In a suit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, ABC said, “Again and again, the Administration has attacked ABC’s speech — the stories its journalists report
Back in July Apple won a big discovery ruling
9to5MacApple: DOJ’s latest challenge in antitrust case ‘fails at every level’ - 9to5MacApple is pushing back against the DOJ’s bid to overturn a court decision allowing the company to seek documents from 14 federal agencies.
The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to Pachuca, who says he learned about the thefts from law enforcement authorities. Each truck was tailed by private security professionals driving unmarked escort vehicles, which were supposed to ensure the
WIRED‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI HardwareExperts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers.
The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user”. Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the
the GuardianDickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscapeThere are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now
I don’t come often to GMail [sic] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around the top right corner.
I mean, he’s right about Google’s zero-taste just-keep-cramming-shit-in approach to Gmail, but it’s almost hard to believe he could post this without any self-awareness that it’s the exact same approach his Codex team has
X (formerly Twitter)Tibo (@thsottiaux) on XI don't come often to GMail (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around the top right corner.
macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X systems with more detail in each button.
Nice. But these changes can’t improve fast enough for me — I am impatient. The MacOS user interface had been in a slow, steady, sad, no-fun decline for years, and then, a year ago, the bottom fell out with the disaster of 26 Tahoe.
But all the changes in 27 Golden Gate are in the right direction. Golden Gate is
9to5MacmacOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 features redesigned traffic light window controls - 9to5MacmacOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X...
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MacRumorsApple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in ActionApple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. "With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later," says the voiceover text.