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Safari’s Autofill Feature May Be Distorting Time
Thomas Claburn: The autofill feature of Apple’s Safari browser appears to be suffering from a date handling error that occasionally leads it to supply an incorrect credit card expiration date when filling out forms. The supposed issue has been a sore spot for Apple customers dating back at least to…
Goodbye, Salon
Salon (via John Gruber, Hacker News): The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years. After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable. We know this news will be deeply…
Castro Sold Yet Again
Dustin Bluck: I’ve decided to sell the app to Maple Media. Maple Media is a mobile media and technology company that owns and runs category-leading entertainment, productivity and podcasting apps, including Player FM. Previously: Indie Podcast Apps Not Growing Castro’s Customer Support Lessons…
Unable to Export Mac Passwords
I create periodic CSV password backups on the Macs that I manage. After the recent 1Password story, I was feeling good that at least I shouldn’t have to worry about the Passwords app not launching. But it turns out that, today, Apple’s app didn’t work, either. After telling it to export everything…
Switch to Safari
Chance Miller (Hacker News): Apple is kicking off a new campaign today to promote Safari’s benefits over Chrome. With a new “Switch to Safari” page on its website and a pair of new YouTube videos, Apple wants everyone to know Safari is “a more powerful and private browser than Chrome.” Apple…
Quarantined Safari .webloc Files
Jeff Johnson (Reddit): Opening a webloc file, for example by double-clicking in Finder, now triggers a Gatekeeper alert in the latest versions of macOS Golden Gate and Tahoe, 27.2 and 26.7.2 respectively, though oddly not in macOS Sequoia 15.8.2. […] I could not find anything relevant in the macOS…
Safari 27.3: Adaptive Dark Mode
Simon Fraser et al. (Hacker News): When enabled by a user, Safari adapts light websites and presents them as dark. […] At the core of Adaptive Dark Mode is the transformation of color. Sometimes colors are simply decorative, while other times they have semantic meaning. Adaptive Dark Mode…
Safari 27.3: Vertical Tabs
Jason Snell (MacRumors): In recent years, numerous browsers have experimented with re-orienting the traditional top-of-the-page tab bar into a vertical stack, and now Safari is joining the parade. (It makes sense, when you think about it, because most of our screens are much wider than they are…
Binance Heist
Rafael Nam: The massive $6.3 billion cyber heist suffered by crypto exchange Binance last week may have taken place in only about twenty minutes — but the attacks were months in the making. That’s according an initial assessment released by Binance on Tuesday about how it suffered the world’s…
mSecure Breach
Carly Page (Reddit): Password manager mSecure has warned customers to change their passwords, reset two-factor authentication, and potentially remove their passkeys after detecting suspicious activity, but it has not explained what happened or whether anyone’s secrets were exposed. […] For anyone…
Apple’s Q4 2026 Results
Joe Rossignol: John Ternus will participate in his first Apple earnings call as the company’s CEO today Apple (transcript, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 47.9 percent, including a favorable impact of…
Microsoft Workforce Buyouts Amid Record Revenue
Satya Nadella: Fiscal year 2026 was another record year for the company. Revenue was $331.8 billion, up 18 percent year-over-year. Microsoft Cloud revenue was $214.4 billion, up 27 percent year-over-year. Azure grew 41 percent year-over-year and surpassed $100 billion for the first time, while…
Amazon Changing AI Strategy
Eugene Kim: Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy to compete at the frontier, according to people familiar with the matter. The changes follow layoffs in Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence, or…
Lost Access to 1Password Mac Apps
Charles C Counselman III: About 15 seconds after it was launched, it would quit because, it said, I had done nothing for 60 minutes. After this had happened several times, consistently, l went to 1Password’s Support website. I read all the info and advice there, but I found nothing relevant, so I…
Golden Gate Does Not Actually Support CoreStorage
Wade Tregaskis: macOS 15 Sequoia had a hard time with CoreStorage and HFS+ volumes, since it deprecated both technologies and callously crippled some important tools for working with them, but nonetheless it mostly still worked. […] Not only does Golden Gate just not support CoreStorage or HFS+…
Missing Logger Symbol on macOS 15
Jeongki Park: The SDK marks Logger.isEnabled(type:) as available since macOS 11, but macOS 15.6.1’s libswiftos doesn’t have it. […] For four days [my app] quit at launch on macOS 15, and I didn’t know. […] OSLog has its own isEnabled(type:), which goes to the C function os_log_type_enabled, there…
Anthropic S-1
Carly Page (SEC, Hacker News): Anthropic has filed for an IPO that could rank among Wall Street’s biggest ever, revealing an $80.7 billion half-year loss, a startlingly complex governance structure, and warnings that its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or create “existential…
Ed Zitron’s AI Predictions
Tommy Craggs: In his day job, Ed Zitron runs a boutique public relations firm called EZPR. This might surprise anyone who has come to know Zitron through his podcast or his social media or the newsletter in which he writes two-fisted stuff like “Sam Altman is full of shit” and “Mark Zuckerberg is a…
Xcode 27.2
Apple (xip, downloads, Xcode Releases): Xcode 27.2 includes Swift 6.4 and SDKs for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, and visionOS 27.2. Xcode 27.2 supports on-device debugging in iOS 17 and later, tvOS 17 and later, watchOS 10 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 27.2 requires a…
South Korea Fines Apple Over App Store
Marcus Mendes: South Korea’s Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC) announced today a series of fines and corrective orders against Apple and Google over violations of the country’s Telecommunications Business Act. Specifically for Apple, the KMCC imposed a fine of 20.81 billion won…
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