Howard Oakley: When Apple introduced Fusion Drives back in late 2012, they were an attractive option for many iMacs and Mac minis. At a time when SSDs of 1 TB and greater size were expensive, the Fusion Drive seemed to offer the best of both worlds, with a capacious hard disk and … | Continue reading
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openelm/README-pretraining.md Apple released something big three hours ago, and I'm still trying to get my head around exactly what it is. The parent project is called CoreNet, described as "A library for training deep neural networks". Part of the release is a new LLM called Ope … | Continue reading
Every single iPhone and Mac has come with a calculator app, but not the iPad. | Continue reading
Reports point to a new OLED iPad Pro with M3 and a big-screened iPad Air. | Continue reading
I think it’s finally iPad time: The event is scheduled for 7 AM Pacific. | Continue reading
Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: This one is way too close to home. News started to spread this morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog, and Tom Bridge’s site about how our friend and Take Control author Charles Edge died suddenly and unexpectedly on 19 Ap … | Continue reading
Apple’s Vision Pro debuted just two months ago, drawing crowds of people to sign up for demos and almost immediately selling out. Since then, interest in Apple’s premiere mixed reality headset has plummeted and sales are grinding to a halt at some retail stores, Bloomberg reports … | Continue reading
DolphiniOS dev says barring just-in-time compilation prevents playable performance. | Continue reading
Fixing a 13 year old iMac with a 8 year old operating system. | Continue reading
Hartley Charlton, writing at MacRumors: Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessories, according to the Apple leaker and prototype collector known as “Kosutami.” In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Kosutami explained that Apple has stopped production of FineWoven accessori … | Continue reading
Apple removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post Friday. Officially, the apps were already banned in China but could still be accessed by users with a VPN. Read more... | Continue reading
Why you can’t build another Apple with VC bucks. The post Don’t bring venture capital to a knife fight appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
New "Splitscreen" app works around the limitations, but it's not perfect. | Continue reading
iGBA seems to have taken unauthorized code from earlier GBA4iOS project. | Continue reading
Sure, Apple may already have its M3 chip, one it dropped a little more than a year after the M2 saw the light of day. Sure, the company’s M-series silicon line has already proved a standout among computer processors, but even that wasn’t enough. According to the latest rumblings … | Continue reading
The next rendition of iOS 17 is right around the corner, and it’s bearing gifts we want and a few better left on the drawing-room table. The latest iOS 17.5 beta includes a hidden game for Apple News+ subscribers called Quartiles. The game features word snippets in five-by-five t … | Continue reading
Announcement arrives as Colorado's Senate hears a bill banning parts pairing. | Continue reading
Apple dropped the term “state-sponsored” from threat notifications sent to users, first reported by Reuters Thursday. Instead, Apple warned iPhone users in India and 91 countries on Wednesday that they were potential victims of a “mercenary spyware attack,” a term that less direc … | Continue reading
Apple has been notifying iPhone users in 92 countries about a "mercenary spyware attack" attempting to remotely compromise their device. [...] | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Today Apple announced an upcoming enhancement to existing repair processes that will enable customers and independent repair providers to utilize used Apple parts in repairs. Beginning with select iPhone models this fall, the new process is designed to maintain an … | Continue reading
Swap the batteries, tips, charging case, shell, or even just individual buds. | Continue reading
Tesla has settled a lawsuit with the surviving family members of an Apple engineer who died in a crash in 2018, according to a report from CNN. The engineer’s family blamed Tesla’s Autopilot technology for the deadly crash, a charge Tesla denied. Read more... | Continue reading
Pegatron may sell India iPhone plant to TataMunsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra, reporting for Reuters: Pegatron, opens new tab is in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group, said two sources with direct knowledge, ma … | Continue reading
It's probably not the Wild West of game emulation you're hoping for. Here's why. | Continue reading
Apple decided to stop building cars and smartwatch displays in-house so it laid off 600 employees, according to a report from Bloomberg Thursday. The layoffs, which occurred in Feb. and March, affected 87 employees working at a secret Apple facility working on smartwatch screens, … | Continue reading
I just spent some time playing with spatial Personas with Jason Snell, and I have to say, having Personas free from their floating boxes makes the whole thing much more personal. When you join a call, the other person is directly in front of you. You can see their Personas and ha … | Continue reading
No intro, let’s just get into it! More icons It’s not the most important thing in the world, but I’d love to see iOS 18 bring with it the ability to create a tighter grid of icons on my iPhone’s home screen. | Continue reading
From its heart rate monitors to its car crash detection, the Apple Watch has a multitude of features that have helped save lives. Now, Apple wants to add another feature to the smartwatch that can warn you about going to the deep end of the pool. Read more... | Continue reading
Today, Apple is launching spatial Personas to users of the Vision Pro. In short, this allows a caller’s Persona to break free of a singular box during a FaceTime call and puts them directly into the space of the person on the other end of the call. This should give a much better … | Continue reading
Jon Stewart interviewed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, alongside a segment on how artificial intelligence is taking jobs. Stewart says Apple wouldn’t let him do either on his Apple TV show The Problem with Jon Stewart, which … | Continue reading
John Gruber: More on the EU’s Market Might: If they follow through with a demand that Photos be completely un-installable (not just hidable from the Home Screen, as it is now), this would constitute another way that the EC is standing in as the designer of how operating systems s … | Continue reading
Next-gen iPads will be Apple's first new tablets since late 2022. | Continue reading
If there’s any company obsessed with perfection, it’s Apple. So, of course, it makes complete sense that the company would create a new device capable of wirelessly updating iPhones that are still in their boxes with the newest Apple software. The funny thing is that this new gro … | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan talk about how tiny nations are making huge money from their domain names, the US government’s antitrust case against Apple, the implications of a four-day work week, Reddit’s IPO, and more. | Continue reading
Major League Soccer highlight reel is the first Immersive Video since launch. | Continue reading
Apple filed a lawsuit earlier this month against former software engineer Andrew Aude, alleging he leaked info about products he wanted to “kill” to a journalist saved in his phone as “Homeboy.” The secret projects included Apple’s new Journal app and the Vision Pro, first report … | Continue reading
Apple has announced that new immersive video is coming to Apple Vision Pro users today at 6 p.m. Pacific. Jason Snell has more: I’m excited to see the finished product — all of Apple’s immersive videos have been pretty amazing — but I have to point out that this five-minute highl … | Continue reading
Apple wants to rid the iPhone-buying process of the post-unboxing update. | Continue reading
It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. By loading the contents into the CPU cach … | Continue reading
Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software pairing checks. | Continue reading
Apple users are being targeted by an elaborate and annoying phishing scam that aims to change their password and lock them out of their devices, according to a new report from Krebs on Security. In some cases, the scammers have even called individuals and pretended to be Apple Su … | Continue reading
Rapid-fire prompts sometimes followed with spoofed calls from "Apple support." | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 10 through 14, 2024. Developers and students will have the opportunity to celebrate in person at a special event at Apple Park on opening day. Free for all develo … | Continue reading
The 14.4 release introduced a number of problems the new update claims to fix. | Continue reading
The newest version of macOS includes fixes for: USB hubs connected to external displays may not be recognized Copy protected Audio Unit plug-ins designed for professional music apps may not open or pass validation Apps that include Java may quit unexpectedly As of this writing, A … | Continue reading
Unlike most of us Apple Bloggers, John Voorhees actually went to law school. Like David Sparks, he left the law to become a writer and podcaster, so his article on the DOJ’s suit against Apple is the one I’ve been waiting for. Over on MacStories, he has broken down the complaint … | Continue reading
From 1995 through to about 2008, I made my living from technology journalism (we called it “computer journalism” then, because technology really was computer). That means my career almost exactly spans the period of the biggest technology antitrust trials of the lot: United State … | Continue reading