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The mythical iOS 18.4
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features
It feels
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Netflix accidentally gave us something nice
Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake
Considering the trajectory
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New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought
Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use?
A commonly-cited claim is that powering
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Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac
Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac
[The Mac is] satisfying
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It’s time to engage
Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web
To get the web we had at its
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Development is going through a real change
Thomas Ricouard: Is Software Engineering Over as We Know It?
Writing code has always been a means to an end,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far
This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a
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The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to
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The best app for gaming on the Vision Pro will soon be Safari
Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New Devices and AAA
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A lot changed for LLMs in 2024
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024
This increase in