438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries
mjtsai,
Graham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had […]
Coding Font Selection Tournament
Jason Snell: Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site Coding Font, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it’s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, but if you’ve ever been curious about switching up your terminal font, it’s […]
Why the MAGA Fight Over H-1B Visas Is Crossing Party Lines
The New Yorker,
Critics from the left and the right say Big Tech companies are exploiting the visa system for high-skilled workers to reduce labor costs and boost profits.
iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1
Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 18.2.1 addresses important bugs, and it is recommended for all users.Apple is also testing iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, updates that we expect to see launch sometime in late January. Adam Engst: Without release notes or the […]
Sonuby 1.7.1
Michael Burkhardt: Sonuby is a different kind of weather app, designed for users who often partake in outdoor activities. For example, if you often snowboard, you can have a weather forecast that places snow conditions front and center. Weather needs can be very individualistic, which is why Sonuby allows you to tailor the app to […]
25 Years of the Dock and Aqua
James Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes around the icons, and an actual “Dock” folder in your user’s […]
OpenAI Failed to Deliver Opt-out Tool
Kyle Wiggers (Hacker News): Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day.Called Media Manager, the tool would […]
Apple Settles Siri Spying Lawsuit
Adi Robertson (Hacker News): Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloomberg, could pay many US-based Apple product owners up to $20 per device for up to five Siri-enabled devices. It […]