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Saturday June 14, 2025. 12:10 AM
Apple's macOS 26 'Tahoe' introduces a new disk image format called ASIF, designed to dramatically improve performance over previous formats like UDRW and sparse bundles -- achieving near-native read/write speeds for virtual machines and general disk image use. The Eclectic...
Friday June 13, 2025. 09:30 PM
At WWDC 2024, Apple showed off a dramatically improved Siri that could handle complex contextual queries like 'when is my mom's flight landing?' The demo was heavily edited due to latency issues and couldn't be shown in a single take. Multiple Apple engineers reportedly...
During this week's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled a secure import/export feature for passkeys that addresses one of their biggest limitations: lack of interoperability across platforms and credential managers. The feature, built in collaboration with the...
Thursday June 12, 2025. 01:20 AM
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Apple has released a new developer tool on GitHub called Container, offering a fresh approach to running Linux containers directly on macOS. Unlike Docker or Podman, this tool is designed to feel at home in the Apple ecosystem and ...
Wednesday June 11, 2025. 04:04 PM
Apple executives defended the company's AI strategy this week after acknowledging that major Siri features announced at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference remain undelivered and were quietly pulled from development plans. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice...
Tuesday June 10, 2025. 06:46 PM
Apple's latest AI models continue to lag behind competitors, according to the company's own benchmark testing it disclosed this week. The tech giant's newest 'Apple On-Device' model, which runs locally on iPhones and other devices, performed only 'comparably' to...
Apple announced that macOS 26 'Tahoe' will be the final version to support Intel-based Macs, with future macOS releases running exclusively on Apple Silicon devices (that is, 2020 M1 models and newer). They will, however, continue to receive security updates for a few more...
Monday June 9, 2025. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Apple is launching what it calls the Foundation Models framework, which the company says will let developers tap into its AI models in an offline, on-device fashion. Onstage at WWDC 2025 on Monday, Apple VP of software...
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced a new dedicated Games app coming to Mac, iPhone, and iPad with features like leaderboards, matchmaking, and integration with Apple Arcade. Engadget's Jessica Conditt describes it as 'a revamp of Game Center' that behaves 'more like a modern...
Apple unveiled iPadOS 26 at its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, introducing what appears to be the most significant productivity overhaul in the tablet operating system's history. The update brings dynamically resizable windows that users can drag by their corners, ...
Apple today introduced Liquid Glass, a new design language that brings transparency and glass shine effects across macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and its other software platforms. Alan Dye, Apple's VP of human interface, described the update as the company's 'broadest design update,...
Apple researchers have found that state-of-the-art 'reasoning' AI models like OpenAI's o3-mini, Gemini (with thinking mode-enabled), Claude 3.7, DeepSeek-R1 face complete performance collapse [PDF] beyond certain complexity thresholds when tested on controllable puzzle...
Sunday June 8, 2025. 03:34 AM
AppleInsider reports: The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. 'Bill' Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer... Atkinson, who built a post-Apple career as a noted ...
Saturday June 7, 2025. 09:00 AM
Apple has urged Australia not to follow the European Union in mandating iPhone app sideloading, warning that such policies pose serious privacy and security risks. 'This communication comes as the Australian federal government considers new rules that could force Apple to...
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 25 (WWDC) kicks off next week, June 9th, showcasing the company's latest software and new technologies. That includes the next version of iOS, which is rumored to have the most significant design overhaul since the introduction of iOS...
Friday June 6, 2025. 06:40 PM
Apple will lose the ability to collect commissions on external iOS purchases in Europe starting June 23, following a European Commission ruling that hinges on the grammatical interpretation of a single comma in the Digital Markets Act. The dispute centers on Article 5.4,...
Thursday June 5, 2025. 11:40 PM
According to 9to5Mac, 'Apple is working on supporting the ability to export notes in Markdown from Apple notes, which is something third-party apps have supported for years.' Apple enthusiast and co-creator of the Markdown markup language, John Gruber, is not a fan. From a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, classic computer collector Joe Strosnider announced the availability of a new 3D-printer filament that replicates the iconic 'Platinum' color scheme used in classic Macintosh computers from the late 1980s...
Apple's emergency request to pause a court order forcing it to ease App Store restrictions was denied by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing new compliance rules to take effect while Apple continues to appeal. 9to5Mac reports: Apple had asked the appeals court to ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target's specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content like the...
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