Nostr notes by Daring Fireball

Apple Reveals Forensic Evidence From Chang Liu’s MacBook in ...

2026-09-01T17:42:02Z

Apple Reveals Forensic Evidence From Chang Liu’s MacBook in OpenAI Lawsuit
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/01/apple-reveals-change-liu-evidence-openai-lawsuit

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB ...

2026-08-29T17:59:02Z

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/thoughts_and_observations_apple_immersive_mlb_broadcast

Dutch Regulator Fines Uber $1 Billion Suspending Dishonest ...

2026-08-22T14:18:03Z

Dutch Regulator Fines Uber $1 Billion Suspending Dishonest Drivers
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/22/dutch-regular-uber-fine

Bluesky Is Full of Anti-AI Zealots ...

2026-08-21T15:39:04Z

Bluesky Is Full of Anti-AI Zealots
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/21/bluesky-is-full-of-anti-ai-zealots

★ Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is ...

2026-08-16T19:32:02Z

★ Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing

★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in ...

2026-08-09T03:22:02Z

★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One ...

2026-08-06T20:29:02Z

Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/06/do-it-14000-times-slower

StopTheScript Is a Dickover Killer ...

2026-08-06T16:01:02Z

StopTheScript Is a Dickover Killer
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/06/stopthescript-is-a-dickover-killer

BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ ...

2026-08-06T15:24:02Z

BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ Cars
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/06/bmw-spider-man-ad

‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’ ...

2026-07-25T18:21:02Z

‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/25/ai-mania-nikhil-suresh

EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, ...

2026-07-25T17:50:03Z

EU Fines Google $1 Billion for DMA Competition Violations, Including Making Search Results More Useful
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/25/eu-fines-google-1b

★ Exactly Like Om Malik ...

2026-07-11T19:49:02Z

★ Exactly Like Om Malik
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/exactly_like_om_malik

‘No Interest’ ...

2026-07-11T03:46:02Z

‘No Interest’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/10/openai-pusateri-statement

Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple’s Version 27 OSes ...

2026-07-06T20:44:01Z

Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple’s Version 27 OSes
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/06/markdown-uti-os-27

Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, ...

2026-07-06T17:10:02Z

Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/06/maestral-retired

‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’ ...

2026-07-02T17:15:03Z

‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/02/orosz-meta-engineering-culture

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From ...

2026-06-27T22:21:02Z

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/27/microsoft-raises-xbox-prices

★ Om https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

2026-06-26T23:28:02Z

★ Om
https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift ...

2026-06-17T00:56:02Z

Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/16/checking-in-on-the-ios-continental-fun-gap-drift

From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI ...

2026-06-09T01:43:02Z

From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/08/gurman-siri-ai-extensions

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop ...

2026-05-16T19:33:02Z

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/16/arxiv-anti-slop-rule

★ Nextpad++ https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/nextpad

2026-05-13T02:28:02Z

★ Nextpad++
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/nextpad

Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral. Why Can’t You Buy One Right Now? ...

2026-04-18T16:54:02Z

Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral. Why Can’t You Buy One Right Now? - WSJ
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/18/mac-mini-and-mac-studio-supply

★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought ...

2026-04-15T15:45:03Z

★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/piece_android_iphone_apps

FT: ‘Meta Builds AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Interact With ...

2026-04-13T17:02:02Z

FT: ‘Meta Builds AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Interact With Staff’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/13/ft-meta-zuckbot

Sam Altman, in a Video Released by OpenAI, Apparently Thinks AGI ...

2026-04-07T22:29:02Z

Sam Altman, in a Video Released by OpenAI, Apparently Thinks AGI Is Going to Hit Society Like a Once-a-Century Pandemic
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/07/altman-covid

The Data Drop: Every iPhone ...

2026-04-07T16:40:02Z

The Data Drop: Every iPhone
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/07/data-drop-iphones

New York Post: ‘Trump Considers Renaming Strait of Hormuz’ ...

2026-03-28T15:08:02Z

New York Post: ‘Trump Considers Renaming Strait of Hormuz’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/28/strait-of-trump

Half a Gigabyte of Ads ...

2026-03-22T17:09:02Z

Half a Gigabyte of Ads
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/22/half-a-gigabyte-of-ads

Tim Cook Wrote a Memo on the ‘Events in Minneapolis’ ...

2026-01-28T19:19:02Z

Tim Cook Wrote a Memo on the ‘Events in Minneapolis’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/28/tim-cook-memo

★ Why It Is Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe ...

2026-01-12T16:33:02Z

★ Why It Is Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resizing_windows_macos_26

ICEBlock App Sues Trump Administration for Censorship ...

2025-12-30T19:50:02Z

ICEBlock App Sues Trump Administration for Censorship
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/30/iceblock-app-sues-trump-administration-for-censorship

★ The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State ...

2025-12-10T23:59:02Z

★ The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/full_text_of_marco_rubio_state_dept_directive_times_new_roman

Alan Dye Comments on His Career Move in an Instagram Story ...

2025-12-04T16:37:03Z

Alan Dye Comments on His Career Move in an Instagram Story
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/04/alan-dye-instagram-story

Simple Rule of Thumb: AI Systems Shouldn’t Pretend to Be Human ...

2025-11-25T02:23:02Z

Simple Rule of Thumb: AI Systems Shouldn’t Pretend to Be Human
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/24/winer-ai-pseudo-humans

Gurman Says Apple Has No Plans to Update the Mac Pro ...

2025-11-18T18:33:02Z

Gurman Says Apple Has No Plans to Update the Mac Pro
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/18/gurman-mac-pro

Just for Fun, Some Vintage 2014 John Dvorak Claim Chowder ...

2025-11-05T16:08:02Z

Just for Fun, Some Vintage 2014 John Dvorak Claim Chowder
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/05/dvorak-itime

Loss of Trust in U.S. Prompts International Criminal Court to ...

2025-10-31T19:02:03Z

Loss of Trust in U.S. Prompts International Criminal Court to Ditch Microsoft 365 for Open Source Alternative
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/31/icc-ditches-microsoft

CarPlay Seems Essential for Rental Fleets ...

2025-10-30T14:38:02Z

CarPlay Seems Essential for Rental Fleets
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/30/rosensteel-carplay-gm

Gurman Reports That Apple Is Ready to Sell Ads in Maps Starting ...

2025-10-27T16:05:02Z

Gurman Reports That Apple Is Ready to Sell Ads in Maps Starting in 2026
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/27/gurman-ads-apple-maps

Amazon Hamfistedly Removed the Guns From Prime’s James Bond ...

2025-10-11T14:02:02Z

Amazon Hamfistedly Removed the Guns From Prime’s James Bond Movie Posters
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/11/bond-poster-guns

★ Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple ...

2025-10-03T21:02:02Z

★ Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/iceblock_removed_from_app_store

Lawsuit Alleges That Meta Pirated and Seeded Massives Amounts of ...

2025-08-06T00:13:02Z

Lawsuit Alleges That Meta Pirated and Seeded Massives Amounts of Porno for Years to Train AI
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/05/meta-porno-bittorrent

Apple Wallet Sends Push Notification Ad Pushing ‘F1 The ...

2025-06-26T20:32:02Z

Apple Wallet Sends Push Notification Ad Pushing ‘F1 The Movie’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/26/apple-wallet-sends-push-notification-ad-pushing-f1-the-movie

★ Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog ...

2025-06-06T22:04:02Z

★ Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/truth_social_is_just_trumps_blog

Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With ...

2025-05-28T22:38:02Z

Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/28/gurman-version-years

CarPlay Ultra, the Next Generation of CarPlay, Is Now Available ...

2025-05-15T15:50:02Z

CarPlay Ultra, the Next Generation of CarPlay, Is Now Available in New Aston Martins
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/15/carplay-ultra-aston-martin

That Stupid Apple Notes ‘a’ ...

2025-05-12T17:35:02Z

That Stupid Apple Notes ‘a’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/12/that-stupid-apple-notes-a

Polygon Gutted by Large-Scale Layoffs After Sale to Sweatshop ...

2025-05-07T16:44:02Z

Polygon Gutted by Large-Scale Layoffs After Sale to Sweatshop Aggregator Valnet
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/07/polygon-sold-gutted-by-layoffs

★ Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to ...

2025-04-28T17:51:02Z

★ Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi

Trump Administration Calls E.U. Fines on Apple and Meta ...

2025-04-24T01:32:02Z

Trump Administration Calls E.U. Fines on Apple and Meta ‘Economic Extortion’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/23/trump-administration-calls-eu-fines-on-apple-and-meta-economic-extortion

Larry David: ‘My Dinner With Adolf’ ...

2025-04-21T22:20:02Z

Larry David: ‘My Dinner With Adolf’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/21/larry-david-dinner-with-adolf

Why Do AI Company Logos Look Like Buttholes? ...

2025-04-21T16:34:02Z

Why Do AI Company Logos Look Like Buttholes?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/21/why-do-ai-company-logos-look-like-buttholes

Bill Maher on His Dinner at the White House With Donald Trump ...

2025-04-13T19:35:02Z

Bill Maher on His Dinner at the White House With Donald Trump
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/13/bill-maher-on-his-dinner-at-the-white-house-with-donald-trump

Wayne Ma at The Information: ‘How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI ...

2025-04-10T22:04:02Z

Wayne Ma at The Information: ‘How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/10/wayne-ma-the-information-apple-siri-fumble

Perhaps the E.U. Took Mercy on Apple and Meta (and Investors) ...

2025-04-05T21:45:02Z

Perhaps the E.U. Took Mercy on Apple and Meta (and Investors) This Week
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/05/no-eu-fines-this-week

Trump Claims to Extend TikTok Deadline for Another 75 Days ...

2025-04-04T20:49:02Z

Trump Claims to Extend TikTok Deadline for Another 75 Days
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/04/trump-claims-to-extend-tiktok-deadline-for-another-75-days

OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part of ‘SignalGate’ ...

2025-03-25T20:43:03Z

OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part of ‘SignalGate’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/25/opsec-not-the-worst-of-it

The Trump Administration Accidentally Included Jeffrey Goldberg, ...

2025-03-24T18:20:02Z

The Trump Administration Accidentally Included Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic, in a Signal Group Chat That Revealed War Plans for Yemen
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/24/trump-admin-included-goldberg-in-yemen-war-plan-signal-group

★ A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s ...

2025-03-16T14:32:02Z

★ A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/a_postscript_on_the_singular_nature_of_mark_gurmans_reporting

★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino ...

2025-03-12T23:43:02Z

★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino

Apple Adds Disclaimers Regarding Delayed AI Siri Features ...

2025-03-12T14:47:03Z

Apple Adds Disclaimers Regarding Delayed AI Siri Features
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/12/apple-adds-disclaimers-regarding-delayed-ai-siri-features

Apple Pulls Bella Ramsey Ad That Promoted Vaporware Personalized ...

2025-03-08T20:07:02Z

Apple Pulls Bella Ramsey Ad That Promoted Vaporware Personalized Siri Feature
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/08/apple-pulls-bella-ramsey-ad-that-promoted-vaporware-personalized-siri-feature

[Updated with a new closing paragraph. Surely just a ...

2025-02-03T23:38:24Z

[Updated with a new closing paragraph. Surely just a coincidence.]
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113941315721981516

★ Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, ...

2025-01-28T21:40:02Z

★ Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr
https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/openvibe

★ ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto ...

2025-01-24T18:34:02Z

★ ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War
https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/ice_raids_are_an_escalation_of_a_de_facto_cold_civil_war

Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring ...

2025-01-18T15:57:02Z

Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring JavaScript
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/18/google-search-javascript

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor ...

2025-01-13T18:08:02Z

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/13/meta-pixelfed-links

★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit ...

2024-12-06T18:19:02Z

★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/dont_throw_the_baby_out_with_the_generative_ai_bullshit_bathwater

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Forced Out by Board ...

2024-12-02T17:22:03Z

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Forced Out by Board
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/02/intel-gelsinger-forced-out

Apple TV’s Hardware Situation Is Fine ...

2024-11-26T01:24:02Z

Apple TV’s Hardware Situation Is Fine
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/25/apple-tvs-hardware-situation-is-fine

‘The Blurred Line Between X and the Trump Administration’ ...

2024-11-21T17:22:02Z

‘The Blurred Line Between X and the Trump Administration’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/21/masnick-x-files

★ I Wonder https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/i_wonder

2024-11-07T17:26:02Z

★ I Wonder
https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/i_wonder

Pixelmator Acquired by Apple; Future of Their Apps Uncertain ...

2024-11-01T16:22:02Z

Pixelmator Acquired by Apple; Future of Their Apps Uncertain
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/01/pixelmator-apple

The Washington Post Has Lost Over 200,000 Subscribers (and ...

2024-10-28T22:27:01Z

The Washington Post Has Lost Over 200,000 Subscribers (and Counting) After Trump Bootlicker Jeff Bezos Blocked Endorsement of Kamala Harris
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/28/washington-post-lost-subscribers

Apple Intelligence Is Available Today, With the Release of iOS ...

2024-10-28T16:57:02Z

Apple Intelligence Is Available Today, With the Release of iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/28/apple-intelligence-today

Today’s New iOS and MacOS Developer Betas Allow Developers ...

2024-10-24T01:30:02Z

Today’s New iOS and MacOS Developer Betas Allow Developers Worldwide to Test EU-Specific Features
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/23/ios-18-2-macos-15-2-allow-eu-features-to-be-tested-worldwide

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 Was Released 30 Years Ago Today ...

2024-10-13T16:13:02Z

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 Was Released 30 Years Ago Today
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/13/netscape-released

Why Are News Organizations Giving Any Credence to Elon Musk’s ...

2024-10-11T16:49:02Z

Why Are News Organizations Giving Any Credence to Elon Musk’s Claims About Tesla’s Previewed Self-Driving Taxi and Bus?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/11/musk-credence-cybertaxi

‘Meta and Apple: Same Game, Different Rules’ ...

2024-09-29T18:24:01Z

‘Meta and Apple: Same Game, Different Rules’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/29/meta-apple-same-game-different-rules

Hidden Pref to Restore Slow-Motion Dock Minimizing on MacOS ...

2024-09-28T22:10:02Z

Hidden Pref to Restore Slow-Motion Dock Minimizing on MacOS
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/28/hidden-pref-to-restore-slow-motion-dock-minimizing-on-macos

WSJ: ‘Apple Is No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment ...

2024-09-28T18:52:02Z

WSJ: ‘Apple Is No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/28/wsj-openai-apple

iA Writer’s Android App Is Frozen in Carbonite ...

2024-09-27T16:54:02Z

iA Writer’s Android App Is Frozen in Carbonite
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/27/ia-writer-android

Tripp Mickle Profiles Jony Ive and LoveFrom, Confirms OpenAI ...

2024-09-23T17:18:02Z

Tripp Mickle Profiles Jony Ive and LoveFrom, Confirms OpenAI Partnership for Device
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/23/mickle-ive-lovefrom

★ The Things They Carried ...

2024-09-16T19:25:02Z

★ The Things They Carried

https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_things_they_carried

★ The iOS Continental Drift Widens ...

2024-09-06T16:02:02Z

★ The iOS Continental Drift Widens
https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_ios_continental_drift_widens

Retcon 1.0 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/28/retcon

2024-08-28T17:47:02Z

Retcon 1.0
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/28/retcon

Dan Moren on Apple Books ...

2024-08-28T16:17:02Z

Dan Moren on Apple Books
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/28/moren-apple-books

GM Lays Off More Than 1,000 Salaried Software and Services ...

2024-08-20T18:58:02Z

GM Lays Off More Than 1,000 Salaried Software and Services Employees
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/20/gm-software-layoffs

New Distraction Control Safari Feature Is Now Available in the ...

2024-08-14T01:59:02Z

New Distraction Control Safari Feature Is Now Available in the iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Betas
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/13/safari-distraction-control

Creator Platforms Should Be a Special Category on the App Store ...

2024-08-13T18:50:02Z

Creator Platforms Should Be a Special Category on the App Store
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/13/creator-platforms-should-be-a-special-category-on-the-app-store

Apple Announces New Fee Structure and Updated Guidelines for Apps ...

2024-08-09T02:44:02Z

Apple Announces New Fee Structure and Updated Guidelines for Apps in the EU That Link Out to the Web for Purchases
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/08/apple-eu-new-fee-for-apps-that-link-out