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Apple jumps in the hot tub
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones Due to DMA
The bottom line for parents, though, is that the “Apple-approved” messaging around the porn app on iPhone omits the fact that Apple is legally required to approve the app due to the DMA policy,
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Grammarly still bests Writing Tools
Adam Engst: Why Grammarly Beats Apple’s Writing Tools for Serious Writers
Say I want to proofread this paragraph while writing in Lex, which is running in Arc. To invoke Writing Tools, I must select the paragraph, Control-click, and choose Writing Tools > Proofread from the contextual menu. Then, Writing Tools proofreads my text
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El Salvador gives up on Bitcoin
The Tico Times: El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt it in 2021: a complete failed economic bet by
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That’s not for me, but I love that the open web makes it possible
Federico Viticci for MacStories: The Many Purposes of Timeline Apps for the Open Web
But: the beauty of the open web and the approach embraced by Tapestry and Reeder is that there are plenty of potential use cases to satisfy everyone. Crucially, this includes people who are not like me. There is no one-size-
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I'm not crazy about liking Android TV, here's why (members post)
People think I'm joking or something when I say that Android TV is better than you'd think, and that tvOS could learn some things from it. Today's post is a video walk through of Android TV which tries to illustrate why it's compelling to me.
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Quick Reviews is out now!
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The Vision Pro one year later: this product just ain’t for me
If you enjoy your Vision Pro, don't let this post imply that i think you're wrong
This is why people see attacks on DEI as thinly veiled racism
The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and will be an investigation into what went wrong here, but every politician and official who spoke at the White House today explicitly blamed DEI programs for this crash. The message may as well have been, "we'
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Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post)
A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it. Today I try it again.
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The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think)
Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon Valley Is Freaked Out.
Now, R1 has also surpassed ChatGPT's latest o1 model in many of the same tests. This impressive performance at a fraction of the cost of other models, its semi-open-source nature, and
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Show “nobody wanted” was the second-most-watched show on Disney+
Katie Campione writing for Deadline with a very long headline: Broadcast Was “Surprisingly Resilient” in 2024 Amid Production Declines, but Streaming Still Leads the Pack; ‘Fool Me Once’ Led TV Last Year, Luminate Says
big IP franchises were still the best performing series on Disney+, and the solution becomes unclear. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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I think OpenAI’s next app is a web browser
Casey Newton: Hands on With Operator — A Promising but Frustrating New Frontier for Artificial Intelligence
The experience revealed to me one of Operator’s key deficiencies: it can use a web browser, but it cannot use your web browser. This matters a lot, because your browser is already set up for you to use the
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A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's inauguration earlier this week and at one point gave a very distinctive salute. Now look, I'm not calling this billionaire a Nazi, and I'm not telling you whether I think he is or not,
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Web tech rocks
John Siracusa is making a new Mac app and he’s been talking about the development process on ATP for the last few weeks. I got a kick out of his frustrations with using a payment system that delivered a confusing user experience he had no control over, and as a fan of and major
Quick Reviews for iOS is coming soon
I teased this last week for More Birchtree subscribers, and today I'm excited to announce my new app,
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📕 I strongly recommend: Nexus (members post)
