Widespread Problem Has Locked Many Out of Their Apple IDs
45m By John GruberChance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac:…Microsoft Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0
45m By John GruberScott Hanselman and Jeff Wilcox, on Microsoft’s Open Source Blog:…Brian Heater on the Rabbit R1 Launch Event
54m By John GruberBrian Heater, writing for TechCrunch:…[Sponsor] WorkOS
Thu 9:34pm By Daring Fireball Department of CommerceWorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, supporting SSO, SCIM, user management, and RBAC.…Horse : Content :: Carriage : Ads
Thu 7:40pm By John GruberWhile I’m on a follow-up kick today, my item yesterday regarding Ed Zitron’s compelling essay on the corruption of Google Search quality by putting it in the hands of Prabhakar Raghavan, formerly head of ads at Google, reminded me of this oft-cited quote…More on Keycap Shine
Thu 7:20pm By John GruberAnother follow-up post, this one regarding my post yesterday regarding how “greasy”-looking keyboard keys are not, in fact, in need of cleaning, but instead are worn away because they’re made from soft ABS plastic, not hard PBT plastic. DF reader Brian…★ Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices
Thu 5:14pm By John GruberIt’s downright bizarre to think that come this fall, all iPhone 16 models will sport as much RAM as base model Macs.Dumbphones in 2024
Wed 7:56pm By John GruberKyle Chayka, writing for The New Yorker:…Ed Zitron on ‘The Man Who Killed Google Search’
Wed 6:55pm By John GruberAbsolutely scathing dissection of what’s gone wrong at Google Search, by Ed Zitron for his newsletter/blog:…Why Your Most-Used Keyboard Keys Get Shiny
Wed 6:26pm By John GruberJeff Gamet on Mastodon:…Senate Passes Bill to Force Sale of TikTok
Tue 10:36pm By John GruberCristiano Lima-Strong, reporting for The Washington Post:…Apple Renews ‘For All Mankind’ and Announces New Spinoff Series ‘Star City’
Tue 9:32pm By John GruberApple Newsroom:…Bertrand Serlet: ‘Why LLMs Work’
Tue 5:12pm By John GruberBertrand Serlet — who was Apple’s SVP of software engineering from 2003–2011 and a staple during WWDC keynotes during that era — is now a YouTuber. Great 30-minute lecture explaining how LLMs and AI in general actually work. ★FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Tue 5:00pm By John GruberThe FTC:…NASA Engineers Successfully Debugged Voyager 1 From a Light-Day Away
Tue 4:02pm By John GruberHappy ending to this saga. Remarkable engineering. ★Charles Edge Dies
Tue 3:58pm By John GruberAdam Engst, writing at TidBITS:…Inside TSMC’s Expansion Struggles in Arizona
Tue 3:49pm By John GruberViola Zhou, reporting for Rest of World on TSMC’s massive, but now much-delayed, chip fabrication campus outside Phoenix:…Sonar Is Now Taska
Tue 3:19pm By John GruberMade by Windmill recently launched a fantastic Mac App for GitHub and GitLab issues. When it launched two months ago (and sponsored DF), it was named Sonar. They’ve changed the name to Taska, but it’s the same great app from the same great team. As I wrote…Apple Announces ‘Let Loose’ Event on May 7, Presumably to Announce New iPad Lineup
Tue 2:26pm By John GruberJoe Rossignol, MacRumors:…‘The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped’
Mon 6:09pm By John GruberStephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels:…Meta to Start Licensing Quest’s Horizon OS to Third-Party OEMs
Mon 4:21pm By John GruberAlex Heath, The Verge:…‘LLM in a Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference With Limited Memory’ (PDF)
Mon 3:58pm By John GruberRe: my previous item on LLMs being RAM-hungry while iPhones are relatively low on RAM, this certainly isn’t news to Apple. Back in December, a team of eight researchers from Apple published this paper, which states in its abstract:…On-Device AI Craves RAM
Mon 3:04pm By John GruberRon Amadeo, writing for Ars Technica on a purported leak of a trio of Pixel 9 phones:…Kolide
Sun 9:16pm By John GruberMy thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. The September 2023 MGM hack is one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent years. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to report on the broken slot machines, angry hotel guests, and the…★ Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News
Sun 9:15pm By John Gruber“*The entire Mac product line is set for annual speed-bump Apple silicon updates*” is, as far I can tell, the actual story. Not “*Mac sales are in the tank and Apple is overhauling the whole product line to change its focus to AI.*”★ Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition
Apr 19, 2024, 8:53 pm By John GruberTo sum up my stance: Tracking is wrong when it’s done without consent, and when users have no idea what’s being tracked or how it’s being used. Tracking is fine when it’s done with consent, and users know what’s being tracked and how it’s being used.Might Meta Go Pay-Only in the EU?
Apr 19, 2024, 6:10 pm By John GruberEric Seufert, writing at Mobile Dev Memo, spitballing how Meta might respond if the EU accepts the recommendation from the EDPB that their “Pay or OK” model is illegal:…Twitter Alternative Post News Is Shutting Down
Apr 19, 2024, 5:30 pm By John GruberNoam Bardin:…China Orders Apple to Remove WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram From Chinese App Store
Apr 19, 2024, 5:13 pm By John GruberAaron Tilley, Liza Lin, and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+):…The Best Simple USB-C Microphone: Audio-Technica’s ATR2100x-USB
Apr 19, 2024, 12:28 pm By John GruberJoe Fabisevich asked a common question on Threads:…
- Visit Daring Fireball at daringfireball.net
- gruber on Twitter
- Bookmark and Share
MacHash is your up to the minute Apple news source. It's a content discovery engine that continuously delivers the latest Apple, Mac and iOS headlines from the web's best sources.
- 148Apps
- 512 Pixels
- 9to5Mac
- AppAdvice
- Apple Gazette
- Apple Newsroom
- AppleInsider
- Ars Technica
- Asymco
- BGR
- Cult of Mac
- Daring Fireball
- iClarified
- iDownload Blog
- iLounge
- iMore
- Insanely Great Mac
- iOS Hacker
- Lifehacker
- Mac Observer
- Mac360
- MacDailyNews
- MacMost
- MacRumors
- MacSparky
- MacStories
- MacTrast
- Macworld
- ModMyi
- OS X Daily
- PowerPage
- Shawn Blanc
- Six Colors
- Slashdot: Apple
- Slide To Play
- Stratechery
- The Loop
- The Verge
- TidBITS
- Touch Arcade