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· Updated 5 min ago- 512 Pixels, byStephen Hackett,1h ago
The iPhone Duo is Expensive to Repair
I’ve been using AppleCare One for a while now, and recently moved to the AppleCare One Family. For my family, it was a good bit cheaper than all five of us having our own AppleCare One accounts…
- Daring Fireball, byJohn Gruber,2h ago
★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2
This is nice, but I don’t think it buys me anything, because my existing Apple TV 4K is paired with 2nd-gen HomePods, and the HomePods each have a “four-microphone design for far-field Siri”…
- Pixel Envy, byNick Heer,2h ago
Meta’s New Business Terms Appear to Supersede Opt-Outs for A.I. Training on Commercial Websites
- Pixel Envy, byNick Heer,2h ago
Evidence Does Not Show Decreased Russian Propaganda After Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Data Centres
- 512 Pixels, byStephen Hackett,3h ago
It’s amazing how many products have run straight into this idea, like a sprinting outfielder who hasn’t slowed down in time to avoid the wall. There are some obvious examples, especially in our AI-crazed day…
- Pixel Envy, byNick Heer,3h ago
- TidBITS, byAdam Engst,4h ago
Fourth-Gen Apple TV 4K Brings Hands-Free Siri AI at a Whopping $299
The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K brings hands-free Siri AI, an easier-to-find Siri Remote, and more home theater support. Pre-orders are open now, with devices arriving on 13 November 2026…
- Kottke, byJason Kottke,6h ago
- Birchtree, byMatt Birchler,6h ago
- Kottke, byJason Kottke,7h ago
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...
- Kottke, byJason Kottke,9h ago
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- The Dent,10h ago
I’m really sorry for yet another Estia post, but I just wanted to post a quick note to let you know that Estia 1.5 is now live in the Mac App Store. This update makes some pretty big changes to the Link Post feature / flow…
- MacStories, byJohn Voorhees,10h ago
Meta just released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal large language model with a mixture-of-experts architecture. It has over 800 billion parameters in total, with 40 billion active per token, and it can run on the latest Mac Studios…
- Schneier on Security, byBruce Schneier,11h ago
- Daring Fireball, byJohn Gruber,11h ago
- Seth’s Blog, bySeth Godin,12h ago
- The Dent,13h ago
After a few months of wrestling Xcode, and iCloud, with help, Quest Journal 1.0 is officially available on the App Store!…
- Don’t Worry About the Vase, byZvi Mowshowitz,15h ago
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