Daring Fireball

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism:…

Paul Kafasis:…

Josh Marshal, writing at Talking Points Memo:…

Maggie Miller and Dana Nickel, reporting for Politico:…

NPR:…

Thomas Barrabi, reporting for The New York Post:…

Foo Yun Chee, reporting for Reuters under the headline “Exclusive: Apple Set to Stave Off EU Fine Into Browser Options, Sources Say”:…

Apple Newsroom:…

Bluesky is what Twitter of yore aspired to be.

Jon Passantino, writing at Status:…

Bryan Irace:…

Lex.Games is an iOS app (and website) for playing eight daily word games.…

Apple Newsroom:…

Andrew Rossignol:…

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 be consumed in an afternoon or a few evenings. I finished it with…

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic (News+ link):…

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about the drama surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence.…

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 the writing (and talking) I’ve been doing, I’m also working on filling up open weeks on…

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, you should check out their Launch Week page just to look at it — it’s…

Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest download/upload bandwidth testing app:…

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.

Emma Roth, The Verge:…

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 free account, sorry):…

Jill Goldsmith, Deadline:…

Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors last week:…

Ina Fried, reporting for Axios:…

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.  ★ 

Mark Gurman, with a blockbuster scoop for Bloomberg:…

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:…

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 the M1 MacBook Air. But mid-March it was announced that Walmart would begin selling the M1…