‘Lengthy Memoranda and Gobbledygook Language’
Mon 11:59pm By John GruberMaury Maverick, chairman and general manager of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, in a company-wide memo back in 1944:…[Sponsor] WorkOS
Mon 11:59pm By Daring Fireball Department of CommerceWorkOS is a modern identity and user management platform that enables B2B SaaS companies to accelerate enterprise adoption. Free up to 1 million MAUs, WorkOS brings a modular approach to B2B Auth with enterprise-ready features like SSO, SCIM, and User…Apple Is Working on the ‘Viral Hit’ Problem With the Core Technology Fee
Mon 11:59pm By John GruberSteven Troughton-Smith posted this great clip from today’s Apple DMA compliance workshop held by the European Commission. AltStore founder Riley Testut — who is apparently ready to go with a launch of the AltStore as an app marketplace in the…European Commission Holds ‘Apple DMA Compliance Workshop’
Mon 11:58pm By John GruberThis was an opportunity for critics of Apple’s DMA compliance plans to address questions to representatives from Apple. There’s video of the 9-hour workshop, but it’s locked behind a password (insert joke about the EC’s support for openness here). I…Debugging the Voyager 1 From a Light Day Away
Mon 8:02pm By John GruberDenise Hill, writing on NASA’s The Sun Spot blog:…★ My 2023 Apple Report Card
Mon 7:50pm By John GruberMy (admittedly belated) remarks on Apple’s year.Is Apple Out of the Generative AI Game?
Mon 4:53pm By John GruberDare Obasanjo, on Mastodon:…Apple Researchers Publish ‘Breakthrough’ Paper on Multimodal LLMs
Mon 4:48pm By John GruberMichael Nuñez, reporting for VentureBeat:…Gurman: ‘Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini’
Mon 3:17pm By John GruberMark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg:…Nick Heer on the MacOS 14 Sonoma Typography Palette
Mon 2:55pm By John GruberNick Heer, Pixel Envy:…CloudSLAW
Sun 6:33pm By John GruberMy thanks to Rich Mogull for sponsoring DF last week to promote CloudSLAW — Cloud Security Lab a Week. He wants to make cloud security knowledge accessible to anyone, with or without security or cloud experience, for free. CloudSLAW delivers a 15-30…Using ASCII Art to Work Around Content Restrictions in the Top 5 AI Chatbots
Sun 6:29pm By John GruberDan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica:…Why Mickey Mouse Is So Famous
Sat 6:57pm By John Gruber10-minute video by Phil Edwards positing that Mickey Mouse is a singularly famous character because of a technology breakthrough: synchronized sound. ★★ Quickly Toggling Closed Captions on Apple TV (But Not in Netflix)
Fri 6:30pm By John GruberTwo shortcuts for toggling closed captions in tvOS apps that support accessibility features.‘The Gentlemen’ on Netflix
Fri 6:05pm By John GruberNew series on Netflix created by Guy Ritchie (who directed the first two episodes as well). I’ve been a fan of Ritchie’s zany, violent crime movies ever since 1998’s Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and The Gentlemen scratches the same itch.…The Wedge-Shaped M1 MacBook Air Lives On: At Walmart, Starting at $700
Fri 5:04pm By John GruberWalmart:…Privacy-Conscious EU Now Requires Developers to Include Mailing Address and Phone Number on App…
Fri 4:39pm By John GruberApple Developer, “Manage European Union digital services act compliance information”:…’Objectified’ Turns 15, Streaming Free Through March 17
Thu 7:30pm By John GruberObjectified (2009, 75 minutes) is a documentary film about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround…Masimo Proves New Apple Watch Series 9 Units Still Have the Blood Oxygen Sensor
Thu 6:08pm By John GruberFlorian Mueller, writing at IP Fray:…Speedometer 3.0 Browser Benchmark
Thu 5:58pm By John GruberRyosuke Niwa, writing on the WebKit blog:…★ Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk),…
Wed 11:43pm By John GruberI suspect Apple was ready to go from the start with web downloads — they knew the EC *might* demand it — and so they opened their hand January 25 with the compliance plan they hoped would fly, and are ratcheting out, piecemeal, with additional…House Passes Bill That Requires ByteDance to Sell TikTok or Face Ban in the U.S.
Wed 9:15pm By John GruberCristiano Lima-Strong, Jacob Bogage, and Mariana Alfaro, reporting for The Washington Post:…The DMA Has Crippled Google Search in the EU
Wed 9:02pm By John GruberOliver Bethel, legal director at Google, back in January, on changes to search results in the EU:…Google’s EU Choice Screens for Android, for Default Browser and Default Search Within Chrome, Only…
Wed 8:22pm By John GruberGoogle:…Over 15,000 Hacked Roku Accounts Sold for 50 Cents Apiece
Wed 3:29pm By John GruberBill Toulas, writing for BleepingComputer:…Don Lemon Is Shocked — Shocked — That the Face-Eating Leopard Ate His Face
Wed 3:13pm By John GruberBack on January 10, Twitter/X and former CNN host Don Lemon announced a deal for Lemon to host a new show on the platform.…Help Sarah Perez
Wed 3:00pm By John GruberGoFundMe drive to help longtime (and oft-cited here at DF) TechCrunch reporter Sarah Perez and her daughter:…iPulse for iOS
Wed 2:54pm By John GruberCraig Hockenberry, writing at The Iconfactory blog:…Steven Sinofsky: ‘Building Under Regulation’
Mar 12, 2024, 9:53 pm By John GruberSteven Sinofsky, back on January 27 (two days after Apple announced the first draft of their DMA compliance plans):…App Store WTF of the Week: DealMachine for Real Estate
Mar 12, 2024, 3:11 pm By John GruberMessage from a DF reader:…
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