Posts Tagged as "Links"

Bun is joining Anthropic

TLDR: Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Windsurf's New Chapter

Cognition, a San Francisco–based AI company, has finalised an agreement to acquire Windsurf, including its IP, product, trademark, and remaining workforce.

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.

The Curious Case of Apple and Perplexity: Do They Need Each Other?

According to Mark Gurman, Apple executives are in the early stages of mulling an acquisition of Perplexity.

A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web

The goal of FAIR is not to fork WordPress. We’re still using the same core software. We’re not building a separate platform. We are adding a new distribution layer and putting our own governance on top of it. It’s a new path within WordPress, not outside it.

Wake up, Remix!

Remix v2 had become such a thin wrapper around React Router that an artificial separation developed between the two projects.

Claude 4

Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions.

MG Siegler, Predicting Epic’s Win in the Fight to Get Fortnite Back in the App Store

Again, Sweeney is not a moron, he has to know all of this. But why simply sit quietly when you have an excuse to poke the bear again and raise hell for your cause? So that’s what he’s doing. He wasn’t going to win the legal fight, but he could win the political one. And now he’s not going to win this legal fight, but he can win the pressure campaign. Especially important in the weeks leading up to WWDC...

Mozilla is killing Pocket

"We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey over the years—we're proud of the impact Pocket has had for our users and communities.
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Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about $1 billion

Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it is buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion.

Apple Seeks to Pause 'Extraordinary' App Store Ruling in Epic Games Battle

Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically changes how the App Store operates, following a contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games.

Epic says Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US

Following a court order that blocks Apple from taking a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says on X that the company plans to bring Fortnite back to iOS in the US “next week.”

OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to AI coding rival Windsurf

Before entering into talks to acquire artificial intelligence code-writing startup Windsurf, OpenAI looked at buying another option: Cursor.

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf for $3B, with news expected later this week

Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion

Humane’s AI Pin is dead, as HP buys startup’s assets for $116M

Humane announced on Tuesday that most of its assets have been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its $499 AI Pins. Humane alerted customers who have already purchased the Pin that their devices will stop functioning before the end of the month — at 12 p.m. PST on February 28, 2025, according to a blog post.

Wordpress Is In Trouble

Things have gone off the rails...

M.G. Siegler on AI Bot Podcasts

"Like everyone else, I had heard all the hype around NotebookLM, the new AI product from Google in which you give it content to ingest and it spits out a... podcast."

Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi in Hollywood backlot

Over time, Musk claimed the operating costs of his Cybercab would be 20 cents per mile, “and yes you’ll be able to buy one,” he told the crowd to excited shrieks. “We expect the cost to be below $30,000,” Musk said, before expounding on a business model where instead of the company owning and operating these allegedly revenue-generating assets itself, they are instead owned by private individuals who each give Tesla its regular cut.

WordPress vs WP Engine battle gets seriously stupid, with new login requirement

You may be aware of a bizarre feud between WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and website hosting platform WP Engine.

Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’

Over the past several weeks, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg has made one thing exceedingly clear: he’s in charge of WordPress’ future.

WordPress Vs. WP Engine

The world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. The core issue is the fight between WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress.

Disney gives up on trying to use Disney Plus excuse to settle a wrongful death lawsuit

Disney tried to force the case into arbitration by citing the agreement on the widower’s Disney Plus trial account.

U.S. Said to Consider a Breakup of Google to Address Search Monopoly

Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off parts of Google, such as its Chrome browser or Android smartphone operating system, two of the people said.

Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales

Between May and August, more AI Pins were returned than purchased, according to internal sales data obtained by The Verge. By June, only around 8,000 units hadn’t been returned, a source with direct knowledge of sales and return data told me. As of today, the number of units still in customer hands had fallen closer to 7,000, a source with direct knowledge said.

Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search

Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI has officially become more complicated.

Google Chrome is no longer ‘deprecating third-party cookies’

In a rather stark turnaround, Google is no longer ending support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.

Apple Approves First Retro PC Emulator for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro

Apple this weekend approved free PC emulator “UTM SE” for the App Store on iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. The app allows users to emulate old versions of Windows OS, macOS, Linux, and more to fire up classic software and games on Apple devices.

M.G Siegler: "Meta being in talks for 'Apple Intelligence' isn't a huge shock"

Has AI frozen the gates of hell?

Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case

Humane is telling AI Pin owners today that they should “immediately” stop using the charging case that came with its AI gadget. There are issues with a third-party battery cell that “may pose a fire safety risk,” the company wrote in an email to customers.

Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut

Humane, the startup behind the poorly-reviewed AI Pin wearable computer, is already hunting for a potential buyer for its business. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg, which says the company — led by former longtime Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno — is “seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion.”

It’s not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use

"I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Next.js DX was just... bad."

The Sound of Software

Sound is an outcast in Software Design. We may embrace the aesthetics of animation and visuals, but sound is different. It’s intrusive. Unlike visuals on a screen, you can’t look away or ignore it. It’s enough to make you rip the batteries out of a toy or frisbee an iPad across the room (speaking from experience).

Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its annual I/O developer conference

Ahead of Google’s annual I/O developer conference in May, the tech giant has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart, Python and others, according to reports from affected employees shared on social media. Google confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch, but not the specific teams, roles or how many people were let go.

What IBM’s Deal For HashiCorp Means For The Cloud Infra Battle

In a move that has broad implications for the cloud infrastructure technology market, IBM announced on its earnings call on April 24th that it is buying cloud technology firm HashiCorp for $35 a share, or $6.4 billion.

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal

Tesla has issued a recall for effectively every Cybertruck it’s delivered to customers due to a fault that’s causing the vehicle’s accelerator pedal to get stuck.

Autocode Shutting Down on April 26, 2024

"Autocode is shutting down..."

How Should We Define ‘Open’ AI?

The term "open" has no agreed-upon definition in the context of AI, and is applied to widely divergent offerings with little reference to a stable meaning.

Stability AI CEO resigns because you’re "not going to beat centralized AI with more centralized AI"

Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque has stepped down from the top role and the unicorn startup‘s board, the buzzy firm said Friday night, making it the second hot AI startup to go through major changes this week.

Jason Snell on Us V. Apple

For me, the most unexpected part of the document was the DoJ’s explanation that Apple’s success as a company largely stems from… the DoJ itself. It points out that Apple’s resurgence early in this century was due to the release of the iPod, which only became a hit when it arrived on Windows. The DoJ argues that the iPod’s presence on Windows was only due to Microsoft being under a consent decree from the DoJ for monopolistic behavior.

Rivian’s CEO talks R2 and R3 launch, and why he has ‘complete certainty’ EVs will win

In a packed theater in Laguna Beach on Thursday morning, Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe opened his presentation to resounding whoops from the audience, well before the company unveiled its three buzzy new vehicles, the Rivian R2, R3, and R3X.

Nintendo wins $2.4M in Switch emulator lawsuit, Yuzu to shut down

Makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu owe Nintendo $2.4 million after reaching a settlement with the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developer, following a lawsuit over the open-source emulator just last week.

Microsoft partners with Mistral

Microsoft has entered into a multi-year partnership with Mistral AI, a French startup specializing in artificial intelligence.

Apple cancels its autonomous electric car project and is laying off some workers

Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running effort to build an autonomous electric car, executives announced in a short meeting with the team Tuesday morning. The company is likely cutting hundreds of employees from the team and all work on the project has stopped, TechCrunch has learned.

Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget

Engadget, which is operated by Yahoo, will lay off 10 employees, according to people with knowledge of the situation who say staff were “blindsided” by the decision. In addition to cutting staff, the editorial team will split into two sections: “news and features” and “reviews and buying advice.” The news teams will focus on traffic growth, while the reviews teams will report to commerce leaders.

Apple Says Spotify Wants 'Limitless Access' to App Store Tools Without Paying

Amid rumors that the European Commission will soon fine Apple 500 million euros for breaking EU law over access to streaming music services, Apple today commented on its relationship with Apple Music competitor Spotify and the ongoing complaints that Spotify has made to the EC to attempt to get the App Store rules changed.

Disney Buys Partial Stake in Epic Games for $1.5 Billion

The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games will collaborate on an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the reach of beloved Disney stories and experiences. Disney will also invest $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games alongside the multiyear project. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.

Microsoft’s next big AI push is here after a year of Bing

A year ago today, Microsoft unveiled its ambitious plans for an AI-powered Bing search engine. It was the biggest launch in the history of Bing, helped push AI usage even further into the mainstream, and spurred a wave of dreams and panic about what AI could impact next. The launch was even successful enough to rattle Google, which was quickly seen as falling behind on artificial intelligence.

Adam Neumann is trying to buy WeWork

Adam Neumann wants to buy real estate company WeWork, the company he co-founded in 2010 that ousted him nine years later, out of bankruptcy citing the support of “well-known capital sources” including Dan Loeb’s Third Point.

Mark Zuckerberg calls Apple’s DMA rules ‘so onerous’ he doubts any developer will opt in

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added his voice to those criticizing Apple’s compliance with the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulation, which forces Apple to open up its App Store and allow developers to use their own payment systems, among other things. During Meta’s Q4 earnings call this afternoon, Zuckerberg responded to an investor question asking for Meta’s thoughts on the DMA by saying Apple’s new rules were “so onerous” that he would be surprised if any developer adopted them.

Bill Gates Interviews Sam Altman about OpenAI

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has started a podcast, and earlier this month he posted an interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Here’s the new Apple tax every developer is going to hate

Apple is finally opening the iPhone to third-party app stores in the European Union, kicking off a potentially vibrant, unwieldy, and eclectic new era for its app ecosystem. At least, it might, depending on how developers respond to a hurdle that is at once tiny and immense: a €0.50 fee.

Apple Watch redesigned without blood oxygen monitoring to avoid import ban

Apple has developed a backup plan for if the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 are import banned again. As it currently appeals the US International Trade Commission’s (ITC’s) ruling that its watches violate a patent owned by Masimo, Apple has come up with a software workaround that strips its current smartwatches of their controversial blood oxygen monitoring capabilities.

Tim Sweeney on the Supreme Court Ruling

The Supreme Court denied both sides’ appeals of the Epic v. Apple antitrust case. The court battle to open iOS to competing stores and payments is lost in the United States. A sad outcome for all developers.

Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app

Artifact, the news app created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is shutting down just a year after launch. The app used an AI-driven approach to suggest news that users might like to read, but it seems it didn’t catch on with enough people for the Artifact team to continue making the app.

John Gruber on Beeper’s Last Hoorah

What I had been seeing during the week before Christmas is that Beeper Mini half-worked: messages from Beeper Mini on Android would go through to Messages on an Apple device, but from any Apple device, you could get one message through to an Android device running Beeper, but only one. After that, messages sent from an iMessage user on an Apple device to a user running Beeper Mini would silently fail.

Sam Altman: "What I Wish Someone Had Told Me"

16 handy things to keep in mind from Sam Altman.

Adobe explains why it abandoned the Figma deal

Adobe just abandoned its $20 billion deal to buy Figma, and now we know why. In an interview on the Decoder podcast with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, Adobe general counsel Dana Rao said that the company couldn’t prove to European regulators that the acquisition wouldn’t harm competition in the future — that is, that Adobe or Figma wouldn’t eventually do more to compete with one another.

Jason Lengstorf: "Why I'll choose Astro (almost) every time in 2024"

Astro has become my JavaScript framework of choice for web projects going into 2024. I always found myself struggling with feeling like I had a whole bunch of complexity I didn't need with frameworks like Next.js, but not enough power or flexibility with pure static site generators like Hugo. Astro's "just in time" approach to handling dynamic web apps — from a singly dynamic component to full-blown server-side rendering — has me convinced that it's the right default choice for most new web projects today.

Figma Adobe deal officially dead

Fifteen months into the regulatory review process, Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of our proposed acquisition.

Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 sales in the US this week

The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will no longer be available to purchase from Apple starting later this week.

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly.

Apple Discontinuing the Standalone Itunes Movies and Tv Shows Apps in Tvos 17.2

As first reported in October, Apple will discontinue the standalone iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows apps on the Apple TV box, starting with tvOS 17.2 The warning message seen above has started appearing in the release candidate version of tvOS 17.2 beta, released yesterday.

Sam Altman Interview on being fired and rehired by OpenAI

When OpenAI’s board asked Sam Altman to return a day after they fired him, he initially felt defiant, hurt, and angry.

Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI

Hell freezes over – Apple Plans to support RCS messages from Android phones next year

RCS or Rich Communication Services, a communications standard developed by the GSM Association and adopted by much of the Android ecosystem, is designed to universally elevate messaging communication across mobile devices. Even though Apple has been working with the group, it has until this moment steadfastly refused to add RCS support to iPhones. Now, however, Apple is changing its tune.

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven criminal fraud counts

A jury has found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of all seven criminal counts against him. The FTX founder faces a maximum sentence of 115 years in prison.

Effective Immediately, John Riccitiello is out at Unity

Unity, the company behind the game development engine of the same name, has just announced that its president, CEO, and chairman John Riccitiello “will retire” effective immediately.

Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Replacement

Executives from Microsoft met with Apple’s services chief, Eddy Cue, who brokered the current search engine relationship with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, to discuss the possibility of acquiring Bing.

Writers Strike end

Hollywood heaves a sigh of relief. The WGA and major studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that promises to end the 146-day strike that has taken a heavy toll across the content industry.

Unity announces its revamped pricing model after outcry

A little more than a week after announcing a disastrous new pricing model that infuriated developers, Unity has introduced its revamped version.

Remix releases V2

We are excited to announce that after nearly 2 years of sustained effort since releasing Remix version 1 — 19 minor releases, over 100 patch releases, and thousands of closed issues and pull requests — we are releasing Remix v2 into the world today.

The MacRumors iOS 17 guide

This comprehensive guide rounds up all of our coverage, making it a great resource for casual users who haven't had a chance to test out ‌iOS 17‌ and those who might not remember all of the new features. Everything is organized by app or feature to make it easy to find what you might be looking for.

Developers fight back against Unity's new pricing model

The game developers affected by Unity’s new pricing model are striking back. A collective of developers across 19 companies, mostly based in Europe and mostly developing mobile games, has put out an open letter urging Unity to reverse course on its recently announced pricing model changes.

Fake Drake won't be eligible as Junos add AI guidelines to prevent robot takeover

The Juno Awards say a controversial "deep fake" song featuring unauthorized sound-alike vocals of Drake and the Weeknd won't be eligible at next year's celebration of Canadian music.

Why Unity's New Install Fees Are Spurring Massive Backlash Among Game Developers

Game developers aren't happy with a new policy from Unity that will cost developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine.

Making Sense of React Server Components

So, here's something that makes me feel old: React celebrated its 10th birthday this year!

DHH on "Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown"

"I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to extol the benefits of their favorite tools!"

Where is Microsoft’s handheld Xbox?

The Steam Deck has kickstarted a wave of handhelds from some of the big names in PC gaming. Asus has its Windows-powered ROG Ally, Lenovo just announced its own Legion Go handheld PC, and Logitech released a cloud-focused handheld. AMD has been quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors, so where is Microsoft’s Xbox handheld?

X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

Horace Dediu on "the value of a customer"

As I remember it, at least 10 years ago, I began to hear anecdotes from developers who built apps for both iOS and Android about their economics.

Cyberpunk 2077’s Only Getting One Expansion Because Its Old Tech Is Being Retired

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red says its upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, will serve as the game’s one and only expansion because of its “technological decision” to move from CDPR’s own REDengine technology to Unreal 5.

Apple May Sell Optional iPhone 15 Pro USB-C Thunderbolt Cable

Jason Snell on the “The evolving world of iPhone marketing”

For the first few years of the iPhone’s existence, Apple introduced a single new model every year. In that time, total iPhone sales shot up from nothing to $100 billion a year. Not bad!

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

"There I was minding my own business in Chrome before tabbing back to a game and wham a pop-up appeared asking me to switch my default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome. Stunningly, Microsoft now thinks it’s ok to shove a pop-up in my face above my apps and games just because I dare to use Chrome instead of Microsoft Edge."

Amazon acquires Fig, a startup building autocomplete for the command line

Amazon has acquired Fig, a Y Combinator (YC) alum that has been setting out to turbo-charge the command line terminal.

Inside the Apple Vision Pro labs

“It was like seeing Fantastical for the first time,” he says. “It felt like I was part of the app.”

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a message to employees who don’t want to return to the office: “It’s not going to work out for you.” That’s according to a report from Insider, which says Jassy made that statement during a meeting earlier this month.

Giving up the iPad-Only Travel Dream

It starts with what devices we need (or can live without) and cascades into charging bricks and cords and anything else that will keep us powered up and not feeling regret about having left an essential device behind.

Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate

As part of Amazon’s aggressive effort to get employees back to the office, the company is going a step further and demanding that some staffers move to a central hub to be with their team. Those who are unwilling or unable to comply are being forced to find work elsewhere, and some are choosing to quit, CNBC has learned.

Microsoft kills Kinect.... (again)

Microsoft is discontinuing the Kinect — again.

To no one’s surprise, Rebranding to X Has Led to Decreased Downloads in App Store and Play Store

Twitter has seen a dramatic decrease in its Top Downloaded chart position across both platforms since the app was renamed to X. Why? The situation presents a fascinating case study at the intersection of brand equity and mobile platform dynamics.

‘The Peripheral’ Canceled at Amazon Despite Season 2 Renewal

The Peripheral has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned.

Techcrunch: “ WeWork goes from $47B valuation to ‘substantial doubts’ about its future”

WeWork is struggling to survive in a post-pandemic world.

MrBeast’s burger company is suing him for $100 million

The lawsuit, filed Monday, is in response to MrBeast’s suit against ghost kitchen company Virtual Dining Concepts. The two partnered to create MrBeast Burger in 2020.

‘Every single’ Amazon team is working on generative AI, says CEO

“Every single one” of Amazon’s businesses has “multiple generative AI initiatives going right now,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s Q2 2023 earnings call on Thursday.

Is Jamstack Officially Finished?

Earlier this week, Netlify officially killed The Jamstack Community Discord. It was a rather abrupt end, with little more than a week’s notice.

15-Inch MacBook Air Demand Reportedly 'Weaker Than Expected' So Far

The new 15-inch MacBook Air has been widely praised, but one new report claims that sales of it are so low that manufacturing is being cut.

Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent

Twitter is still spending more money than it’s making, according to Elon Musk. In the early hours of Saturday morning, the billionaire tweeted the company was suffering from an ongoing negative cash flow issue due to an approximately 50 percent drop in advertising revenue and heavy debt burden. “Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” Musk said.

Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’

xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.

Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake

Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life.

Robot pizza startup Zume shuts down

A robot pizza delivery startup, which raised nearly $500 million, has shut down due to technological setbacks. The company, founded in 2015, initially aimed to develop a mobile pizza-making machine, but pivoted to sustainable packaging in 2020.

The Vision Pro’s biggest advantage isn’t Apple’s hardware

Apple used the Vision Pro’s $3,499 price tag to give the headset every advantage over the competition. It has dual 4K displays, runs one of the best laptop chips in the business, and comes with sophisticated eye- and hand-tracking technologies. But it also has one advantage money can’t buy: Apple’s developer ecosystem. Perhaps the headset’s single biggest advantage will be the ability for iPhone and iPad developers to easily plug their existing apps into the device’s operating system using familiar tools and frameworks.

What Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro

Mark Zuckerberg dismissed Apple's Vision Pro as lacking major technological breakthroughs and criticized its vision for usage in a meeting with Meta employees. He highlighted Meta's upcoming Quest 3 headset, priced at $499 compared to the Vision Pro's $3,499, as a more affordable option for a wider user base.

John Gruber: “First Impressions of the Vision Pro and VisonOS”

“I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” building Apple constructed specifically for this experience. This was a one-on-one guided tour with someone from the Vision product marketing team, with the ground rules that I’m allowed to talk about everything I experienced, but photos and videos were not permitted.”

WordPress Turns 20

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. None of us knew what we were getting into when it started, but we had a shared conviction that the four freedoms of the GPL combined with a mission to democratize publishing was something worth spending our time on.

Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is having a moment

Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social network, isn’t publicly available yet but it’s already become one of the buzziest Twitter alternatives. Scoring an invite to the service, which has been in a closed beta for barely two months, has become a sought-after status symbol with invite codes selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay.

Amazon shuts down Halo division and discontinues all devices

The Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise are no longer available on Amazon.

CNBC: “Apple declares resounding victory after decision reached in Epic Games appeal”

An appeals court on Monday mostly sided with Apple over its App Store rules in a suit with Epic Games. The decision signals that Apple’s control over the App Store and the fees it charges likely won’t significantly change as a result of an ongoing legal challenge by Epic Games.

The end of the BuzzFeed era in news

Buzzfeed News, which began in 2012 announced they're shutting down as part of company-wide layoffs.

"How to continue making kerosene lamps on the eve of electricity"

The recent and rapid advance of AI has rightfully giving many in software real doubts about the future of their profession. I'd probably still wager that the fears are overstated – that we also got prematurely euphoric about the imminent prospects of self-driving cars – and that AI generating code is different from it evolving existing systems. But I wouldn't want to bet the house on it. This might just be The Big One.

The End of Computer Magazines in America

The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines, both of which date to 1996 (and were originally known, respectively, as Boot and MacAddict). Starting with their next editions, both publications will be available in digital form only.

Apple’s Tim Cook says AR and VR are for "connection" and "communication"

At some point in the near future, Apple’s going to launch a mixed reality headset. That seems all but certain. The exact when and what and how much? All very up in the air. But one thing hasn’t changed: Tim Cook’s vision for AR and VR. For almost a decade, Apple’s CEO has been banging the drum that AR is more important than VR and that AR is fundamentally about bringing people together. And he’s still at it.

GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help

General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle’s infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles.

Some Apple Employees Seriously Concerned About Mixed-Reality Headset as Announcement Draws Closer

The first-generation headset is purportedly seen as a bridge to future products that require technological breakthroughs, but many employees are said to have worries about the device's $3,000 price point, utility, and unproven market. Skeptics have questioned if the device is "a solution in search of a problem," unlike the iPod and iPhone. The headset has apparently not been "driven by the same clarity" as Apple's other products.

Etsy is delaying seller payouts following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse

Etsy says some sellers won’t receive their payments on time due to the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. In an email sent out to impacted shop owners, the company says it used the shuttered institution to send out deposits to “some sellers” and that they may not get their scheduled payments as a result, leaving shop owners worried about the future of their stores.

Marc Rubinstein on The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank

“When you’re not working, what do you do to de-stress?”

The definition of overwhelm

“ The definition of “overwhelm” is pretty intense”

New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter

On Wednesday, Twitter employees had the tech equivalent of a snow day: the company’s Slack instance was down for “routine maintenance,” they were told, and the company was implementing a deployment freeze as a result.

What is going on with Fitbit?

These days, Fitbit users seem to be asking each other the same question: is it me, or is the app down for everybody else, too? Between frequent server outages and a recent decision to shutter popular social features, frustrated Fitbit customers say they’re weighing their options.

Microsoft Announces New AI-Powered Bing Search and Edge Web Browser

“ To empower people to unlock the joy of discovery, feel the wonder of creation and better harness the world’s knowledge, today we’re improving how the world benefits from the web by reinventing the tools billions of people use every day, the search engine and the browser.”

Back to the SSR

When servers were in Swiss basements, all they had to serve was static HTML. Maybe, if you were lucky, you got an image.

Microsoft shutting down AltSpaceVR on March 10th

AltspaceVR, a social VR platform founded in 2013 and acquired by Microsoft in 2017, has just announced that it will be closing permanently.

TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Let Their Employees Make Anyone Go Viral

For years, TikTok has describedits powerful For You Page as a personalized feed ranked by an algorithm that predicts your interests based on your behavior in the app.

Twitterrific: End of an Era

Twitterrific has been discontinued.

Watch out for these Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives on Amazon

If you see a 16 terabyte portable SSD on Amazon for $100 or less, don't buy it. Such a drive would cost thousands of dollars. These are nothing more than a scam, and don't work well at all. We bought one and got a glorified 64GB hard drive.

Craig Hockenberry on “ The Shit Show” that is Twitter

What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.

AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit

A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.

Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs

Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party Twitter clients.

Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support

Google is launching its final Stadia game today and is promising to release a tool next week to enable Bluetooth connections on its Stadia Controller. The last Stadia game to launch on the service is Worm Game, a test game that was technically available on Stadia before Stadia launched publicly in November 2019. Developers at Google have decided to release the game just before the streaming service disappears next week.

Eddie Cue on Apple's year of original content

“2022 was a groundbreaking year for entertainment. At some point over the past year, you probably discovered a new app, a new song, a new TV show or movie, or game. An experience that made you laugh, taught you something new, or helped you see the world in a new way — and moved you to share it with others.”

Apple Shuts Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky'

The calendar has turned to January 1 and Apple has shut down popular weather app Dark Sky. The popular weather app had already been removed from the App Store in September and it stopped functioning for existing users starting today.

Twitter’s landlord in San Francisco is suing the company for not paying rent.

The landlord, which owns the Hartford Building that houses Twitter’s headquarters, claims the company owes $136,250 in unpaid rent. It allegedly notified Twitter on December 16th that it would default on its lease if it doesn’t receive payment, but Twitter never complied.

Twitter “abruptly” bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors

The platform will still allow the paid promotion of these banned social platforms, however.

Twitter Shutting Down Revue

From January 18, 2023, it will no longer be possible to access your Revue account. On that date, Revue will shut down and all data will be deleted.

Jason Snell on Answering the burning questions about Apple’s reported App Store plans

What’s the world going to look like after this happens?

Microsoft sued by FTC over Activision Blizzard buyout

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Microsoft over its planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that the deal “would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business.”

How Amazon Shopping Ads Are Disguised as Real Results

Amazon is the first app many of us think about to buy things online. But is it actually a good place to go shopping?

Elon Musk tries to blame ‘activists’ for his Twitter moderation council lie

Elon Musk is trying to explain why he let Donald Trump and others back onto Twitter, even after he promised that decision would be left up to a content moderation council made up of people with “widely diverse viewpoints.”

John Gruber: “Twitter Tumult”

If you had told me three weeks ago that Twitter, as a company, would today be embroiled in turmoil — perhaps outright existential crisis — over a company-wide email from Elon Musk centered around the phrase “extremely hardcore”

9 to 5 Mac: “How to take screenshots on your iPad using gestures with iPadOS 16”

What some people don’t know is that there are two other ways to take screenshots on the iPad without pressing any buttons.

Emergency SOS via satellite available today on the iPhone 14 lineup in the US and Canada

Every model in the iPhone 14 lineup — iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max — can connect directly to a satellite through a combination of custom-designed components and deeply integrated software

Eli Lilly Stock Dipped after a Verified Twitter Imposter Claimed Insulin Would Now Be Free

Eli Lilly’s stock dipped Friday morning after someone paid $8 to verify a Twitter handle resembling that of the pharmaceutical giant and posted: “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.”

Twitter, cut in half

Eight days into Musk’s ownership of Twitter, many pundits have begun to predict that this is the beginning of the end.

Jony Ive on Life After Apple

“ One of the first employees hired by Ive was a full-time writer. (There are now more than 30 employees, many of whom worked with him at Apple.)”

Remix Joining Shopify

Remix adoption is growing at an incredible rate, and we regularly have conversations with many smart, passionate folks in the industry who are creating amazing experiences with Remix. You’ll hear about them in the coming months. They love how Remix encourages progressive enhancement and leverages web standards to help them build fast, resilient websites.

Prioritise content over components

Visually, components are unique, flexible units to compose complete layouts. For content, they can trap reusable data into single-use decorations.

Kent C. Dodds: The Web’s Next Transition

The web is made up of technologies that got their start over 25 years ago. HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JS were all first standardized in the mid-nineties.

3 Ways Database as a Service Can Speed Applications

“Database as a Service (DBaaS) is often seen as a way to lift and shift the responsibility of on-premise databases, but it can also be a pathway to address frontend development challenges — such as web and application speed.”

Meta Quest Pro

Meta Quest Pro is the first entry in our new high-end line of devices, and it’s packed with innovative features like high-res sensors for robust mixed reality experiences, crisp LCD displays for sharp visuals, a completely new and sleeker design, plus eye tracking and Natural Facial Expressions to help your avatar reflect you more naturally in VR.

Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to the Meta Quest

Microsoft is bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to Meta’s Quest VR platform. The two companies announced the partnership at Meta’s Connect event on Tuesday but didn’t announce a release date.

Apple Executive Responds to Annoying iOS 16 Copy and Paste Prompt: 'Absolutely Not Expected Behavior'

As user annoyance with the behavior boils high, Apple has finally responded, saying the constant pop-up is not how the feature is intended to work. MacRumors reader Kieran sent an email to Craig Federighi and Tim Cook, complaining about the constant prompt and advocating for Apple to treat access to the clipboard the same way iOS treats third-party access to location, camera, microphone, and more.

Adobe to Acquire Figma for $20 Billion

Today, Adobe announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma, a leading web-first collaborative design platform, for approximately $20 billion in cash and stock. The combination of Adobe and Figma will usher in a new era of collaborative creativity.

Patreon Lays Off Its Entire Security Team

Patreon has reportedly laid off its entire security team.

Apple’s Emergency SOS link puts it into the satellite fight with SpaceX and more

After Apple’s announcement that the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro can send messages via satellite in emergency situations, it’s becoming clear that the company hasn’t just introduced a new feature. In typical fashion, it’s also practically overnight become a key player in a new industry by getting heavily involved with satellite communications by adding Emergency SOS via satellite.

The Verge: “As The iPhone turns 15, a visual history of every model to date”

Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs introduced the very first iPhone. He described it as three devices in one: a “widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device.”

Heroku's Next Chapter means Dropping Free Plans

"Our product, engineering, and security teams are spending an extraordinary amount of effort to manage fraud and abuse of the Heroku free product plans. In order to focus our resources on delivering mission-critical capabilities for customers, we will be phasing out our free plan for Heroku Dynos, free plan for Heroku Postgres, and free plan for Heroku Data for Redis®, as well as deleting inactive accounts."

Clip Studio Paint announces subscription plan, angering the online artist community

Celsys announced version 2.0 of Clip Studio Paint, its popular digital illustration and animation software, alongside plans to move over to a monthly subscription for updates to the service when it launches. It’s left some longtime fans who praised it for its one-time purchase model feeling very betrayed.

Deno Sets out to Challenge Node.js

If Deno is the answer to Node.js's problems, then why hasn't it caught fire yet?

The Quiet Times

"About two years into working at BuzzFeed, I reached a moment one summer when I looked around and realized I had very little to do."

Samsung's All Alone at the Foldable Party

Samsung is throwing itself a party tomorrow with a couple of guests of honor: its foldable phones. We'll likely see some updated watches and earbuds, but really, it's a birthday party for the Z Fold and the Z Flip. They've been around for years now, but last August was when they really hit their stride with the most mainstream models yet.

Netflix rolling out external subscription button for iOS users

Earlier this year, Apple began allowing “reader” apps to provide external links for customers so they can log in and pay for a subscription from outside the App Store. Now Netflix is rolling out an option in its iOS app that takes users to its website in order to finish a new Netflix subscription.

Loader vs Route Cache Headers in Remix

Useful post from Sergio Xalambrí on loader vs route cache headers in Remix, this was something I had to dig into when I did the migration of this site to Remix with Strapi acting Headlessly so wanted to share it.

TikTok's security chief steps down as company moves US data to Oracle servers

TikTok's global chief security officer (CSO), Roland Cloutier, is stepping down as the company transitions to using Oracle's US-based servers to store Americans' data.

Meet Bun

Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime like Node or Deno. It was built from scratch to focus on three main things

U.S. FCC commissioner wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores

There is no bar

There is no bar for the quality of a blog post. Allow me to be an example.

50 years of Atari

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Atari, Benj Edwards interviewed founder Nolan Bushnell for How-To Geek

Apple retail workers vote to unionize a store in Maryland

Workers at Apple's Towson Town Center store in Maryland have voted to unionize, with 65 yeses and 33 nos. Around 110 employees were eligible to vote in the election.

GitHub Sunsetting Atom

"We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022."

Ryan Broderick on VR "Real Estate"

There are plenty of ways to make money in the metaverse — custom avatars, cool maps, unique digital experiences, ad-supported livestreamed playthrough videos — but the folks trying to convince you to buy a digital mansion or a virtual yacht aren't going to be part of that new economy.

Lee Rob and The Story of Heroku

"Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers. Why did Heroku become so popular? What can we learn from their incredible developer experience? How is Heroku shaping the next generation of serverless?"

8 short rules for being a creator

Just 8 short and simple rules for being a creator.

Marco Arment on redesigning Overcast

Overcast's latest update brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements.

Apple: "An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking"

Apple Newsroom's update on AirTags and malicious tracking: Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID.

Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm: "faker.js" and "colors.js" that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless.

Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay

Eight Things Apple Could Do to Prove It Actually Cares about App Store Users

When you spend money in Apple's App Store, the company generally takes a 30 percent cut, one that adds up to an estimated $19 billion per year.

Drew Devault: "In praise of PostgreSQL"

Drew Devault: After 25 years of persistence, and a better logo design, Postgres stands today as one of the most significant pillars of profound achievement in free software, alongside the likes of Linux and Firefox.

Is Heroku Still Relevant?

Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, while others see it as akin to a magical fallen civilization with a limited future.

The Mess at Medium

Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform...

Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That's Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem

Clubhouse was sort of perfectly made for the pandemic. People aren't going out, and they're desperately searching for social connections and entertainment.

Google killing Tilt Brush VR painting app but…

Tilt Brush, Google’s virtual reality painting application, has collaborated with amazing creators over the years, many of whom were part of our Artist in Residence Program.

Apple is astonishingly confident in its new M1 Mac processors

Apple’s big Mac event delivered three new computers — a new MacBook Air, a new entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, and a new Mac mini.

Why you can no longer install Fortnite on iOS

Fortnite disappeared from the App Store last month as part of developer Epic Games’ big legal and regulatory showdown with Apple, but the battle royale hit was not gone entirely — at least not for a little while.

John Gruber: 16-inch MacBook Pro First Impressions

Apple today is releasing its much-rumored new 16-inch MacBook Pro. It is full of good news.

How the heart became the centre of the Apple Watch

Earlier this year, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook commented on the importance of health to the company. In a statement that has been widely quoted, he said, “I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’

iPad Pro USB-C Hubs: The Best, Worst, and Weirdest Options

Chris Welch, writing for The Verge: The iPad Pro’s single USB Type-C port is one of my main frustrations about an otherwise truly stellar piece of technology.

Don’t Fuck with a Nasa Engineer

Mark Rober: Someone stole a package from me. Police wouldn’t do anything about it so I spent the last 6 months engineering up some vigilante justice. Revenge is a dish best served fabulously.

Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had lost its luster, failing or trailing in the markets of the future like mobile, search, online advertising and cloud computing.

Jason Snell on the New Ipad Pros: “a Computer, Not a Pc”

Jason Snell, writing for Six Colors: With the iPad Pro and improvements to iOS and various iOS apps, I reached a point where I could do most or all of my required work on the road without bringing a Mac along.

Remembering Stan Lee

If Stan Lee revolutionized the comic book world in the 1960s, which he did, he left as big a stamp — maybe bigger — on the even wider pop culture landscape of today. Think of “Spider-Man,” the blockbuster movie franchise and Broadway spectacle.

Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Harry McCracken, writing for Time: It was huge news among the small number of people who could be called computer nerds at the time — people like Paul Allen, who was working as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston.

IBM’s Acquisition of Canadian-founded Red Hat One of the Largest Ever

Open source software company Red Hat is being acquired by IBM for $34 billion USD. Depending on who you ask, it is either the second or third-largest tech acquisition of all time.