Michael Tsai

Apple (video, MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple today announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering the most advanced pro camera system in an iPhone, and huge leaps in battery life and performance.

Zac Hall (July): Apple just updated TestFlight for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more.

James Calligeros (Hacker News, Phoronix): Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC!

John Brayton: NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem adds a white band over the top of the leading split view panes when in full screen mode on macOS 27 [beta 3].

Natalia Panferova: I thought it would be useful to have a single reference for the different ways we can style the toolbar in SwiftUI on macOS 26.

Amy Worrall (Mastodon): McKinley is an all-in-one studio for drawing and annotating SF Symbols.

Mark Gurman (tweet, John Gruber, Mastodon, 9To5Mac): The Schiller exit is a bit more notable.

Ian Gillespie (2025): Banktivity has traditionally been what’s known as a document-based app.

Neil Fraser (via Hacker News): Nearly twenty-five years ago I registered neil.fraser.name to provide a stable presence on the Internet.

Chris Barajas: To spread the word, we announced SoundSource 6 on our blog and sent a mass mailing to our customer list.

Reuters: Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers over its app tracking rules, with the iPhone maker accused of abusing its power to unfairly impose greater restrictions on third parties. […] Lawyers b…

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple has agreed to make changes to its App Tracking Transparency feature in Germany, according to the country’s competition regulator. […] In Germany, Apple has agreed to remove “possibly discouraging symbols and wording” from

Howard Oakley: As those new models start shipping on 22 September, the window for the first public release of Golden Gate has narrowed to 15-22 September, with greatest likelihood on the same day as the arrival of those new Macs. […] At the same time as t…

Ryan Whitwam: A US federal judge has sided with Google, ruling that the company will not have to sell its online advertising exchange (previously known as AdX).

Ryan Whitwam (Slashdot): The settlement between Google and Epic that aimed to put to rest the companies’ long-running antitrust battle is being withdrawn, and that means third-party app stores are coming to the Play Store. […] While Apple suffered little…

Juli Clover (Hacker News): Liu downloaded the circuit schematic from Apple in March, two months after he left the company.

Adam Engst: So I was quite surprised earlier this year when I started to receive personalized pitches from indie developers, a few at first, and now several per week.

Craig Hockenberry: Then, when you look at the sample code, it’s all SwiftUI.

Joe Rossignol: Apple’s former hardware engineering chief John Ternus officially became CEO of the company today, with the change now reflected on Apple’s leadership page. […] Tim Cook is now executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors, after a 15-year

John Sundell: New in Swift 6.4 […] is a warning which is emitted when a nested closure performs a weak capture while the parent closure implicitly captures that object as a strong reference.

Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad: I don’t appreciate being forced by Xcode 27 to drop support for macOS 10.13-11.0.

Juli Clover: As Apple Fellow, Schiller continued to oversee the App Store and Apple events, but the role may not have left him with sufficient time for his own endeavors.

Dave Nanian: Recent versions of xOS (that is, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, etc) have Data Protection Classes from A to D that get assigned to files and folders. […] The thing is, though, is that these files and folders are inaccessible unless the user is logged in,

Dustin Bluck: Independent podcast apps are not growing as a category.

Howard Oakley: Since High Sierra and APFS snapshots, accounting for purgeable space has been inconsistent and often misleading.

Vlad Fedorov (Hacker News): On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes.

Marcin Wichary: By default, on a Mac, the initial delay is 500ms, and the key repeat rate 1000ms. […] My suggestion is to make them both as short as possible for testing. […] First, it’s good to test whether your keystrokes behave well when repeated.

Hartley Charlton: On the new keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps are labeled with glyphs rather than edge text.

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple today released a new version of its Polishing Cloth on its online store.

European Commission: From baby-monitors to smart watches, from apps to computer programs, connectable hardware and software are omnipresent in our daily lives.

Omarchy: Omarchy is an omakase Linux distribution based on Arch, the tiling window manager Hyprland, and the desktop construction-kit Quickshell.

Richard Speed (Hacker News 3): XCancel’s home page now contains some minimal text stating: “On Monday 24th August at 8 PM EST, we received at [sic] letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.”

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Mac Studio with M5 Max features an 18-core CPU, an up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators built into each core, and up to 128GB of unified memory, accelerating complex pro and AI workloads.

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): With M6, Mac mini now delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage and graphics, and 40 percent faster CPU performance.

Apple (MacRumors M5 Ultra and M6, Hacker News): M6 is built using cutting-edge 2 nm process technology, packing greater transistor density into a smaller die for a major leap in performance and power efficiency.

Marco Arment: Unforgetful isn’t a new productivity system to learn. […] This is designed for a small number of short-term tasks.

Juli Clover: In addition to cutting dozens of Vision Pro employees who worked on features like immersive video and gaming, Apple is laying off people who worked on Siri and AI, reports Bloomberg.

One of our Macs kept filling up its SSD even though there isn’t supposed to be anything more stored on it.

Joe Rossignol: After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24.

Rui Carmo: Apple Mail is the first app open every day and the one I find hardest to defend, and I’ve been defending it for twenty years (longer if you remember the original NeXT mail client).

Microsoft: Exchange Web Services (EWS) is approaching end of service in Exchange Online.

Modular (tweet, beta, Hacker News): Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023.

Nicolas Seriot (Hacker News, Reddit): The core Unicode algorithms (normalization, casing, bidi, collation) are deliberately bounded, but UTS #35 transliteration rules, under their natural unbounded semantics, are not.

Nicolas Seriot (Hacker News): Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian’s project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete.

Apple (developer, details, Hacker News, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9To5Mac): These changes resolve Apple’s disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution.

Joe Rossignol (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS 26.6.2 delivers security fixes that were first made available in the macOS Golden Gate 27 beta.

Joe Rossignol (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): Apple today released iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, visionOS 26.6.1, and macOS 26.6.2, with all of the updates containing security fixes.

Juli Clover (AppleInsider): Apple has again failed to earn a stay for fee calculations in its ongoing legal fight with Epic Games.

Lily Hay Newman (via Ben Lovejoy): As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing v…

Jeff Johnson: Despite my history of uncovering App Store frauds, I rarely go looking for these things intentionally!