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Apple Gives iPhone 14 Users an Extra Year of Emergency SOS Via Satellite
Gizmodo,
Good news, iPhone users. A year after introducing the feature to its walled garden, Apple has extended free access to Emergency SOS via satellite to the iPhone 14/14 Pro for another year. Now you get three years of Emergency SOS via satellite services instead of two. Read more...
Lisa Kudrow rounds out the Friends cast with her own Matthew Perry tribute
AV Club,
Over the past few days, the main cast of Friends have all posted individual tributes to late actor Matthew Perry, which have ranged from hilarious to heartbreaking and everything in between. These heartfelt messages come after a short silence while the cast “[took] a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable… Read more...
An Ex–Condé Nast Employee Says He Was Fired for Stealing Oatmeal
The Cut,
He alleges that the company was retaliating against him for complaining about racist treatment.
Begun, the AI Chip Wars Have
Microsoft will now make its own chips to power Azure, Copilot, and ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference Wednesday. The Maia 100 can be used to train AI models and will start rolling out into Azure data centers early next year, reducing the company’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs. Read more...
Search Suggestion Menus in AppKit
mjtsai,
John Brayton: Even though Safari, Mail, and Finder implement search suggestion menus, there is no standard AppKit mechanism for providing them in AppKit. Popping up an NSMenu does not work because the search field cannot receive keystrokes while the menu is displayed. Interestingly there is a good mechanism for providing search suggestion menus in SwiftUI, […]
Xcode 15 Logs nil As an Empty String
Jeff Johnson: [The] functions os_log and NSLog now log nil as an empty string. The previous behavior, going back forever as far as I remember, was to log nil as (null).[…]I don’t know whether this is a bug or intended behavior, but it makes debugging our apps markedly worse, because now there’s no easy way […]
Kindle for Mac 7.0
Filipe Espósito: Amazon launched an official Kindle app for macOS more than eight years ago, allowing Mac users to download and read their ebooks from Amazon’s platform on their computer. […] On Tuesday, the official Kindle app available on the Mac App Store was updated to version 1.40.2. But while the release notes mention that […]
Beloved Hollywood Genius David Zaslav Admits Writers Were Right 49 Days After Strike Ends
The current Warner Bros. Discovery regime is making headlines with its take-backsies on the James Gunn-produced Looney Tunes feature Coyote vs. Acme, which was briefly shelved before thankfully getting shopped around instead. As the WB strips away its legacy in its 100th year, head honcho David Zaslav is out… Read more...