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‘On Tyranny’ by Timothy Snyder
I read Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny after the election. A collection of 20 essays — each relatively brief, some exceptionally brief — it’s more booklet than book, and can easily...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Included Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic, in a Signal Group Chat That Revealed War Plans for Yemen
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic (News+ link): The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi...
The Talk Show: ‘Podcasting Technology Cadence’
MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to...
Weekly Sponsorships Here at Daring Fireball
How has your week been? My week was ... busy. That includes a new episode of The Talk Show recorded yesterday, dropping in your favorite podcast app soon. Amidst all...
WorkOS: Launch Week
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF, once again, this last week. This has been WorkOS’s Launch Week, and they’ve got a slew of new features to show. Honestly, though,...
Ookla: ‘A First Look at How Apple’s C1 Modem Performs With Early Adopters’
Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest download/upload bandwidth testing app: Although it’s early in the adoption curve for the iPhone 16e, we analyzed the performance of the new device from...
★ Keyboard Maestro Hack of the Week: Don’t Paste Images
I keep meaning to write more about Keyboard Maestro, and so I’m just going to start documenting all the little use cases I find for it. Here’s one from today.
Yahoo Sold TechCrunch
Emma Roth, The Verge: TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an...
Matthew Belloni on the ‘Apple TV+ Experiment’
Matthew Belloni has a very good take on Apple TV+ at Puck (that’s a gift link that should get you through their paywall — but which requires you creating a...
Is Apple’s Spending on TV+ Content a ‘Loss’ or a ‘Cost’?
Jill Goldsmith, Deadline: Apple is losing more than $1 billion a year on streamer Apple TV+, according to a report in the Information that cited two people familiar with the...
iOS 18 Software Updates Keep Re-Enabling Apple Intelligence for Users Who Had Turned It Off
Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors last week: With new iOS software updates, Apple has been automatically turning Apple Intelligence on again even for users who have disabled it, a decision...
Apple Sued for False Advertising Over Apple Intelligence
Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, seeks class action status and unspecified financial damages on behalf of those who purchased...
The Seneca
This is beautiful and crazy, and no, I’m not going to buy one, but damn I’m tempted and I’d sure like to try one. I’m glad it exists. ★
Gurman: Tim Cook Has Put Mike Rockwell in Charge of Siri, Reporting to Craig Federighi
Mark Gurman, with a blockbuster scoop for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after...
HealthKit as a Model for an Open Semantic Index From Apple
Here’s an update I just appended to my post yesterday, after linking to Gus Mueller’s suggestion that Apple open up a semantic index to third-party AI apps: HealthKit already works...
The M1 MacBook Air Lives on at Walmart, Now Just $650
Last March, when Apple introduced the then new M3 MacBook Airs, they moved the base model 13-inch M2 MacBook Air into the magic $999 spot in their own lineup, replacing...
‘Hey Siri, What Month Is It?’
Whole Reddit thread examining this simple question: “What month is it?” and Siri’s “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” response (which I just reproduced on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS...
Apple Intelligence Is Coming to iOS in the EU in April
News from Apple that I let slip by a few weeks ago, but that seems apt again today: Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that delivers helpful and relevant intelligence,...
EU Adopts New ‘Interoperability’ Requirements for Apple Under DMA
The European Commission, today: Today, the European Commission adopted two decisions under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) specifying the measures that Apple has to take to comply with certain aspects...
Sebastiaan de With’s iPhone 16e Camera Review: ‘The Essentials’
Sebastiaan de With: You can speculate what the ‘e’ in ‘16e’ stands for, but in my head it stands for ‘essential’. Some things that I consider particularly essential to the...