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These damn consumers won't update their phones fast enough
Kevin Williams writing for CNBC: Americans Are Holding Onto Devices Longer Than Ever and It's Costing the Economy
While squeezing as much life out of your device as possible may save money in the short run, especially amid widespread fears about the strength of the consumer and job market, it might cost the
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👏🏻 Arc 👏🏻 was 👏🏻 massively 👏🏻 influential 👏🏻
Yesterday, OpenAI pushed an update to their new ChatGPT Atlas browser that added a few nice features, most notably vertical tabs on the side of the browser window. And of course they would, right? This was technically a thing in some highly-customizable browsers like Vivaldi for years before, but Arc really made them mainstream
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AI as an accelerant, not a replacement
Christopher Butler: What AI Is Really For
My experience with AI in the design context tends to reflect what I think is generally true about AI in the workplace: the smaller the use case, the larger the gain. The larger the use case, the larger the expense. Most of the larger use cases that I
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Mastodon’s leadership change
Eugen Rochko: My next chapter with Mastodon
Mastodon is bigger than me, and though the technology we develop on is itself decentralized—with heaps of alternative fediverse projects demonstrating that participation in this ecosystem is possible without our involvement
Rochko seems like a good guy and I thank him for all he’s done leading
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The F1 game is taking a year off
Electronic Arts: EA Sports F1® Franchise Announcement
Today, EA SPORTS™ confirms future plans for F1® 25, with the game set to represent both the 2025 and 2026 FIA Formula One World Championships. This news drops alongside an announcement for the future of EA SPORTS F1® as 2027 will see the series return and mark the
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My favorite M5 iPad Pro review
Riley Hill is one of my favorite writers focused on the iPad, and he just reviewed the new M5 iPad Pro on his SlatePad blog. It's absolutely worth a read, but as a lapsed iPad fanatic myself, I couldn't resist remarking on a couple things.
Alongside high refresh rate support comes
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Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads after the hype
Casey Newton: The Bluesky Exodus, One Year Later
Bluesky's ingenuity in reimagining feeds and moderation tools has been a boon to social networks, which have happily adopted some of its best ideas. (You can now find "starter packs" on both Threads and Mastodon.) Ultimately, though, it has the same shape and
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If the KKK loves what you're saying, you might be the baddies
John Ganz writing in 2023: The Preppie in Decline
His father, Don Black, was a Klan wizard and the founder of the website Stormfront. Here’s what he told me: “From the perspective of my family, he’s making the same points they’ve been trying to make their entire lives, but much better; he’
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0Password
Evan Sandhu on the 1Password blog: A Simpler, Faster Way to Unlock 1Password
The new unlock with device setting lets 1Password open right alongside your Mac or PC. It unlocks as soon as you pass your device's own lock screen using a secure authentication method, whether that's Face ID, Touch ID,
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I just won’t buy one
John Voorhees writing for MacStories: Apple and ISSEY MIYAKE Introduce a Limited-Edition iPhone Pocket
The iPhone Pocket will be available starting Friday, November 14, for $149.95 for the short strap version and $229.95 for the long strap version from Apple’s online store and ten retail stores worldwide
The impression I’ve
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Leveling up the "spend more to get less" iPhone
Juli Clover writing for MacRumors, linking to a post on The Information: iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version
Apple initially planned to release a new iPhone Air in fall 2026, but now that's not going to happen.
Now that The Information is reporting on
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Another example of babying your phone for minimal advantage
The findings were basically that after 500 charge cycles, the slow-charged iPhones dropped 11.8% in battery capacity, while the fast-charged iPhones dropped 12.3%.
I think a lot of people still see their phones as dumb PC terminals from 1995. "If an app isn't "closed" then it&
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LLM memory: either the best or worst thing about chatbots
This video brings up some salient points on the security concerns of using a browser that has an agent capable of doing things. New technology tends to bring new security concerns that need to be tackled, and prompt injection is undoubtedly one we have for LLMs.
One thing I found really interesting in his complaints
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The App Store is now on the web
John Voorhees: Apple Recreated the App Store on the Web With No Way to Download or Buy Apps
An even bigger difference from the native App Stores is that you can’t buy anything on the web. That’s right: there’s no way to log into your Apple account to download or buy anything.
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iOS 26 gets another glass slider
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: iOS 26.2 Lock Screen Gets Liquid Glass Slider
When you select the "Glass" option, you can use the new slider to make the time look almost entirely clear, or give it a more frosted, solid look.
Honestly, it's a nice change, and it makes a lot
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All of Trump sheep's least favorite things happened when Trump was President
Tim Cushing: Trump Continues to Attack Biden for All the Stuff Trump Officials Did While Trump Was Still President
If there was anyone with any spine, honesty, or morality in the Trump administration, these astounding gaffes would have been headed off. But there’s no one left with any of these traits in the White
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Basically every PC game works on Linux
This post came across my radar, which shows Windows game support on Linux is at a new all-time high.
You can see that the area in red has been constantly shrinking, at a steady pace, and this past month is no exception with this category getting very close to just 10%. This means that
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Pixelmator update when?
Joe Rosensteel: Creative Neglect: What About the Apps in Apple?
While the acquisition was announced almost a year ago in
