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Friday June 20, 2025. 01:50 AM
The first macOS Tahoe beta appears to drop support for legacy FireWire 400 and 800, making it impossible to sync or mount older iPods and external drives that rely on the standard. MacRumors reports: Unlike on macOS Sequoia and earlier versions, the first macOS Tahoe beta...
Thursday June 19, 2025. 06:40 PM
Apple software chief Craig Federighi has ruled out bringing macOS to the iPad, amusingly using a kitchen utensil analogy to explain the company's design philosophy. 'We don't want to create a boat car or, you know, a spork,' Federighi said in an interview. 'Someone said, 'If ...
iPhone sales jumped 15% year-over-year in April and May 2025, 'signaling Apple's strongest two-month performance for the period since the pandemic,' reports MacRumors, citing preliminary data from Counterpoint Research. From the report: The growth was driven mainly by the...
Monday June 16, 2025. 08:58 PM
A Dutch court on Monday confirmed a 2021 consumer watchdog's ruling saying that Apple had abused its dominant position by imposing unfair conditions on providers of dating apps in the App Store. From a report: The Rotterdam District Court ruled that the Dutch Authority for...
Sunday June 15, 2025. 11:29 PM
Meta and AWS have used Rust, and Netflix uses Go,reports the programming news site InfoQ. But using another language, Apple recently 'migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput, and significantly reducing memory ...
Saturday June 14, 2025. 05:34 PM
Earlier this week looters who stole iPhones 'got an unexpected message from Apple,' reports the Economic Times. 'Please return to Apple Tower Theatre. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.' Stolen phones 'were remotely locked...
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...
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