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<title>Verizon, Formerly Menace Mobile</title>
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<p>Verizon has sprung for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmntndEXWo">a new ad campaign</a> set in the <em>Austin Powers</em> world, with four stars from the cast — Mike Myers, of course, as Dr. Evil; Rob Lowe as Number Two (Robert Wagner is alive but is 96); Seth Green as Evil’s son Scott, and Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina — and director Jay Roach. The premise of the two-minute spot is that Dr. Evil is proposing “Menace Mobile”, a wireless carrier with confusing pricing and plans. Scott pooh-poohs the idea on the grounds that “This isn’t evil. This is just typical phone company stuff.” Then, after some back-and-forth, comes this exchange:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Scott: Diabolical phone companies are why we’re all switching to
Verizon.</p>
<p>Dr. Evil: I thought Verizon was just like the rest of the wireless
organizations.</p>
<p>Scott: Well, they were, but not anymore. They just got rid of
activation and upgrade fees. They’re changing everything.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I don’t think the commercial is particularly funny, alas, but I do find it extraordinary, because of the exchange quoted above. “Well, they were, but not anymore” is one the most extraordinary lines I’ve heard in a commercial. They’re just flat out admitting that, until recently, they ran their business like a scheme from Dr. Evil.</p>
<p>I’ve been on Verizon for a long time. It’s expensive, but so was AT&T, and I’ve always felt like I got better service and better coverage from Verizon (which is why I switched in the first place). But just last year I did the wrong thing when I bought my iPhone 17 Pro. I should have bought it unlocked, but instead I bought it as a device upgrade tied to my Verizon account, and the bastards nicked me for a $30 upgrade fee. I’d like to think that will never happen again because they’re actually dropping all of their bullshit fees, but I’ll believe it when I see it.</p>
<p><em><a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/austin-powers-international-man-of-mystery/">Austin Powers</a></em>, by the way, came out in 1997. In the film, Powers was frozen since 1967. That means next year, we’ll be as far removed from the debut of the movie as unfrozen Austin Powers was from the groovy 60s in the film.</p>
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<title>Cotypist – Smart Autocomplete Utility for Mac</title>
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<p>Usually when I link to a new app, it’s something that I find useful personally. <a href="https://cotypist.app/">Cotypist</a> is something else. It’s an AI-powered autocomplete utility for the Mac, using on-device models and processing, by developer Daniel Gräfe of Accelerated Thought. It is very well-designed, and remarkably Mac-assed (right down to <a href="https://cotypist.app/uninstall">where it stores</a> its local data and AI models). It respects your privacy and all the best conventions of MacOS. Cotypist suggests a few words ahead of your insertion point at a time, and you can accept them by hitting Tab; if you want to ignore them, you just keep typing. The autocomplete suggestions appear inline, in whatever app you’re typing in, using your current font. I wasn’t even aware that was possible, but it is via MacOS’s rich accessibility APIs. Cotypist’s suggestions are eerily good. It’s even got a great name.</p>
<p>Personally, I can’t stand using it.</p>
<p>For me, it’s actually worse that the suggestions are so good, and so often on-point for what I intend to write. That’s why I can’t stand it. It’s like having a voice in my ear whispering my own thoughts before I think them. But are they my thoughts, or are they just <em>close</em> to my thoughts? They’re so close I can’t tell. And thus the experience of seeing these words appear before I’ve typed them feels more like a curse than a blessing, and a never-ending distraction. I’d find Cotypist far less distracting if its suggestions weren’t as good — but in that case it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting or useful, and I wouldn’t be writing about it at all.</p>
<p>But I’m a writer. I enjoy writing. Writing is probably the most satisfying and fulfilling thing I do in life. I enjoy picking every word as I get to it. I find a blinking insertion point in the middle of a good but half-written sentence to be thrilling. But you might feel otherwise. Perhaps you find all writing to be a laborious chore, like washing dishes. Or you might have a job that requires answering a lot of repetitive emails. I’ve done email technical support in the past, and I would have killed for Cotypist then. I would imagine Cotypist is simply marvelous for someone who writes English as a second language.</p>
<p>It’s absolutely worth trying if you think you might want to use it, and probably worth trying just to see it in action even if, like me, you don’t want something like this. Trying it out might change your mind. There’s a free tier for casual use (100 completed words per day), <a href="https://cotypist.app/pricing">and Plus and Pro paid tiers</a> for $6 and $9 per month. New installations get a 30-day free trial of the Pro tier.</p>
<p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npxlJdxSv4A">Quinn “Snazzy Labs” Nelson’s review on YouTube</a>.</p>
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<title>New Domain for Sign In With Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T17:13:48Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T18:55:03Z</updated>
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<p>Apple Developer:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign
in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared
domain: <code>private.icloud.com</code>.</p>
<p>New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the
new domain. For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on
<code>privaterelay.appleid.com</code>, will be issued on
<code>private.icloud.com</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses, previously issued on
<code>icloud.com</code>, will be issued on <code>private.icloud.com</code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and
forward mail to users without interruption.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless/">Initial reaction</a> to this change is that it <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/17/new-hide-my-email-domain-makes-it-easier-to-block/">might render “Hide My Email” ineffective</a>, because shitbird services will simply ban the domain, trying to force you to use your primary email address. It seems inevitable that <em>some</em> number of services will do this. But my retort is that a service that won’t accept these email addresses is one that I probably don’t want to have anything to do with. The only reason <em>not</em> to accept <code>private.icloud.com</code> email addresses is if you want to do something invasive with users’ actual email addresses.</p>
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<entry>
<title>NetNewsWire Status</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T16:59:08Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T16:59:09Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Brent Simmons, writing at Inessential:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on
<a href="https://netnewswire.com/">NetNewsWire</a>.</p>
<p>A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt
pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the
foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding
new rooms.</p>
<p>Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 commits in
the past year.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>NetNewsWire was already one of my favorite, most-used, most indispensable apps. Now it’s much better and improving steadily at a rapid clip. You love to see it.</p>
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<title>SpaceX, Newly Public, to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in SpaceX Funny-Money Stock</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T16:49:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T20:55:22Z</updated>
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<p>CNBC, two days ago:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized
revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also
ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The
$60 billion in class A common stock that SpaceX has agreed to pay
to acquire Cursor represented a 3.4% dilution at the aerospace and
tech conglomerate’s IPO valuation.</p>
<p>Shares of SpaceX gained roughly 16% on Tuesday, topping Amazon and
Microsoft by market cap and making it the fourth most valuable
company in the U.S.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>SpaceX is an amazing company but this valuation is insane. The idea that it’s even close to as valuable as Microsoft or Amazon is bananas. SpaceX still isn’t even profitable, so its price-to-earnings ratio is literally infinity. It’s halfway through Thursday as I post this and SpaceX is down ~10 percent on the day, so a touch of sanity is being restored, at least at the moment.</p>
<p>Cursor, with $1 billion in sales, certainly isn’t worth 60× revenue — especially in a business where it too isn’t profitable. But who cares when you’re paying with funny-money stock?</p>
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<title>Tim Cook, in Interview With WSJ: ‘Unfortunately, Price Increases Are Unavoidable’</title>
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<p>Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging
costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said
in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. “We’re
doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being
passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from
the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable.”</p>
<p>Cook declined to offer details on the timing or scale of the
planned price increases, nor which products would be affected.
Apple’s next major product launch is likely to be in September
when it releases the iPhone 18 lineup, expected to include a new
foldable iPhone. [...]</p>
<p>Cook said Apple wouldn’t use its cash and silicon expertise to
build its own memory and storage factories. “We can’t do
everything,” said Cook. “We know what we’re good at.” [...] Cook
said during his time working in the electronics supply chain, from
IBM to Compaq to Apple, he had never seen a commodity price swing
like the one from the past six months. “This is a hundred-year
flood,” said Cook. “I’ve never seen anything like it in any area
in over 40 years.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Apple, to my recollection, has never before issued a warning about price increases. Keep in mind that Apple deals with prices in a very different way from its competitors. For Apple, prices are part of a product’s brand, so they don’t fluctuate with component costs. The trash can Mac Pro held its $3000 starting price for six years, despite its specs remaining effectively unchanged in that span.</p>
<p>So when Apple raises prices on the iPhone 18 Pro models this September (and, presumably, launches the folding iPhone “Ultra” with an eye-watering price), expect those prices to stick. And if Apple expects RAM and SSD component pricing to continue rising through 2027 — which is what many anticipate — they might build that into the pricing now. Raise prices by (say) $200 now rather than $100 this year and another $100 next year.</p>
<p>Also, credit to Tim Cook for taking this one personally, months ahead of the iPhone 18 launch, rather than leaving it to John Ternus to serve up a surprise shit sandwich in his first keynote as CEO.</p>
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<title>Snap Unveils Specs, Its $2,200 AR Glasses, and They’re Fugly</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T01:33:15Z</published>
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<p>Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs,
which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into
see-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can
preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable
deposit, and Snap says they’re expected to ship “this fall” in the
US, UK, and France. [...]</p>
<p>The company says that Specs are “fully standalone, with no puck
and no tether.” (Which is perhaps a jab at Apple’s Vision Pro,
which is tethered to a separate battery pack.) They’ll be offered
in two sizes, a 47mm model weighing 132g and a 52mm model weighing
136g, and will have removable inserts that Snap says will support
“a wide range of prescriptions.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Unlike Vision Pro, Snap is presenting Specs as eyeglasses that users will wear out and about in their daily lives. Viewed perfectly straight-on and photographed by a professional fashion photographer — <a href="https://www.specs.com/">as presented on the Specs website</a> — they’re a bold look. Viewed from any other angle and captured normally, they look like goggles, not glasses. The frames look orthopedic and the lenses are not even close to clear. They make you look like you forgot to take off your goggles leaving the theater after a 3D movie — goggles that are big enough to wear over regular glasses.</p>
<p>Maybe Specs are useful enough to justify looking so orthopedic, but I doubt it.</p>
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<title>Vehicle Motion Cues — a.k.a. Apple’s Weird Anti-Nausea Dots</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T01:15:27Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T01:15:27Z</updated>
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<p>Thomas Ricker, writing for The Verge:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>I’ll just work from the car</em>, I thought. But after a few minutes
of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel
the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that
sweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but
nothing helped... until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.</p>
<p>Introduced in 2024, Apple’s <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios">Vehicle Motion Cues</a> promise to
tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or,
in my case, even <em>eliminate</em> the motion sickness felt when trying
to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>My son has suffered from motion sickness in cars his whole life, and Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues work like a charm for him too. What a great feature.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Yours Truly on MacBreak Weekly: Is the New Siri AI Good?</title>
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<published>2026-06-17T15:41:54Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-17T16:03:29Z</updated>
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<p>MacBreak Weekly:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel
this week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. Why
Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU
initially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra’s launch be
delayed this year?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It’s fun to be the guest, not the host, of a podcast. I took Jason Snell’s usual panelist spot this week, alongside Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren. Lots to cover, including a week of real-life experience using the new Siri AI. (It’s really good!)</p>
<p>Also, sometimes you just know what the episode title of a podcast is going to be, the moment a phrase is uttered. This was one of those episodes, with “<a href="https://intimatefunctionalities.com/">Intimate Functionalities</a>”.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘# the **Epic** Story of Markdown’</title>
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<published>2026-06-17T15:37:42Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-17T15:38:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>David Pierce, host of The Vergecast:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John
joins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where
Markdown came from and <a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/">how it took over the world</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Markdown has been growing steadily for years, but it’s seen a step change in popularity now that it’s been embraced as the lingua franca of LLM agentic systems. I had an interesting all-too-brief chat last week in Cupertino with some people from Apple’s developer tools team about how it feels to see Markdown spread everywhere — <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/apple-developer-%E2%80%98markdown%E2%80%99-WWDC-2026.png">including WWDC</a>. In a word, gratifying.</p>
<p>But the biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions for formatting plain text. If everyone agrees to the same basic conventions, plain text can be significantly more expressive than a string of unformatted characters.</p>
<p>That’s it. So what I find gratifying isn’t that my “language” continues to thrive, because it’s not a language. It’s that the way I like to format plain text when I’m writing, and the way I like to see plain text formatted when I’m reading, has so thoroughly won the world’s mindshare battle. “Ha-ha”, I say, to people who want *this* to mean bold, not italic. (And to Slack and WhatsApp, I say “Fuck you.”)</p>
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<entry>
<title>Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift</title>
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<published>2026-06-17T00:50:18Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-17T00:51:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhone
Mirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare I
say, quite fun. Should we judge how much fun each side of the
continental divide is having by how much fun they theoretically
<em>could</em> be having, or by how much fun they <em>are</em> having?</p>
<p>As it stands, the fun side is not the EU. But hope springs
eternal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Here we are two years later and I think the answer is more clear than ever which side of the continental divide is more fun. It’s not the EU. EU users still don’t have iPhone Mirroring and until and unless the European Commission changes its interpretation of the DMA, they likely never will. It’s a great feature.</p>
<p>Apple Intelligence, as we knew it until last week, eventually <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/01/apple-intelligence-is-now-fully-supported-in-the-eu-with-ios-18-4/">came to the EU</a>, about six months after it shipped for the rest of us. One can reasonably argue that EU iPhone and iPad users didn’t miss much during those six months. And that there hasn’t been that much to enjoy since Apple Intelligence debuted in the EU in iOS 18.4. That changed last week with the introduction of the first beta release of iOS 27. Siri AI is really good, truly useful, and genuinely <em>fun</em>. And it is not on pace to come to the EU six months after iOS 27 ships this fall. It is currently on pace to come to the EU <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly">never</a>.</p>
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<entry>
<title>New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations</title>
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<published>2026-06-16T16:12:31Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-16T23:09:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This week, Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-expands-app-store-capabilities-to-help-developers-grow-and-reach-new-users/">announced</a> a series of discovery features
that will personalize app recommendations based on users’
interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have
their app discovered.</p>
<p>At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone
maker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which
will showcase recommendations tailored to the individual. These
will also include new “App Notes” that explain why the specific
apps were recommended to you. Starting this week, you’ll find
these new personalized suggestions in various places in the App
Store, including the Apps or Games tab or on the Search tab.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Security research critics Mysk, posting <a href="https://x.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888">on Twitter/X</a> (<a href="https://xcancel.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888">XCancel link</a>), report that the App Store app seemingly sends analytics usage data to Apple with everything you do in the App Store app, including exactly what you type, character-by-character — and that this isn’t for search suggestions, but for analytics. (<a href="https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/12/app-store-personalized-recommendations-and-keylogging/">Via Michael Tsai</a>.)</p>
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<title>The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly</title>
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<published>2026-06-16T02:20:30Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-16T15:22:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>The Washington Post editorial board yesterday (<a href="https://apple.news/AxhcCCGY8SS6bHY5xCvwhQA">News+ link</a>), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Brussels insists the decision is “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/09/siri-ai-europe-apple/19fab4a2-6401-11f1-bdd4-805ebb99a693_story.html">Apple’s and Apple’s only</a>” and
that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the
launch. That’s technically true and wholly beside the point.</p>
<p>The law requires that the moment Siri AI ships in Europe, any
rival AI agent must get the same sweeping access to a user’s
messages, files and chat history. Apple proposed putting in a
software security layer to make that safe and offered a phased
rollout to build it. According to Apple, the European Commission
<a href="https://apple.news/AqSYonAtHQfCs_AOO4-n44w">rejected the proposal</a>.</p>
<p>The DMA was supposed to <a href="https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en">open markets</a>. But its legal logic was
born in the era of browsers, app stores and messaging apps. These
components can be swapped like batteries.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The DMA effectively demands everything to be swappable/interchangeable. So while the European Commission is correct that the DMA does not forbid Apple from launching <em>a</em> version of Siri AI, it clearly forbids Apple from launching the version of Siri AI they actually built.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Behind all this lies the dream that Europe could be a “<a href="https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/232/">regulatory
superpower</a>.” It wanted to create a market too big to skip that
would, by virtue of its heft, end up exporting its rules to the
rest of the world. That hasn’t worked out.</p>
<p>When adapting a product for Europe costs more than European market
access is worth, companies no longer comply. They simply leave out
the feature.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That’s the folly of the DMA, or at least the maximal interpretation of the DMA that the European Commission is pursuing. It only makes sense under the assumption that the EU is too big a market to ignore, and the EU’s market might is such that systems will be designed to meet their compliance standards, regardless of whether the makers of these systems support the regulations or not. (And in the case of Apple with iOS and Google with Android, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/">the two companies are in lockstep</a> in their opposition to the EU’s regulations on system-level AI interoperability.)</p>
<p>First, the EU is big but it isn’t <em>that</em> big. The best estimate I’ve seen is that <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue">the EU accounts for about 7% of Apple’s worldwide revenue</a>. Plus, because of the DMA, the cost of doing business in the EU is now significantly higher for Apple and Google, because they need to engineer DMA-compliant versions of various features and systems. Unless, that is, they stop bringing (a long and <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/19/iphone-mirroring-eu-numerama">ever-growing</a> list of) new features to the EU.</p>
<p>Which brings me to my second point. What exactly is the motivation for Apple and Google to engineer entirely separate systems for the EU to bring new features into compliance with the Commission’s broad interpretation of the DMA? Because if Apple doesn’t engineer a DMA-compliant version of Siri AI, iOS users in the EU will ... switch to Android, whose system-level AI was deemed noncompliant by the Commission a few months ago?</p>
<p>This doesn’t directly hurt Apple. It doesn’t force Apple to design, engineer, and ship a compliant EU-exclusive version of Siri AI that supports plug-and-play LLM back ends. It only hurts iPhone <em>users</em> who live in the EU, who are stuck with the old dumb version of Siri for the foreseeable future. The European Commission is either stupid or insane.</p>
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<entry>
<title>The European Commission Ruled Months Ago That Google’s Integration of Gemini in Android Violates the DMA</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/europe-could-force-google-to-open-android-to-other-ai-assistants/"/>
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<published>2026-06-15T18:58:22Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-15T23:31:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way
AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is
straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked
system-wide via hot words or button presses. This might also
include allowing AI tools to view screen context when the user
opens them. Context also extends to allowing alternative AI
systems to access local data to generate proactive suggestions and
summaries. The report actually describes something that sounds
like Google’s Magic Cue, which relies on Gemini to offer
suggestions based on your activity.</p>
<p>Google has also started experimenting with allowing AI to control
certain apps. As we saw when this feature <a href="https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2026/03/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-review-private-and-performant/">debuted on the Galaxy
S26</a>, Gemini is currently pretty bad at using apps on your behalf.
The commission wants to explore allowing other AI services to
autonomously control installed apps and system features on Android
phones. Maybe someone else could do better?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Maybe! But also maybe it’s a bad idea for complex system architecture design to come from non-technical government bureaucrats. One of these maybes strikes me as a lot more likely than the other.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Many of the Gemini AI features in Android, including Magic Cue,
rely on running local models, and Google has been slow to allow
third parties the system access to make that work effectively. So
the EU is also suggesting a mandate that would ensure developers
have the necessary hardware access to run local models “with high
levels of performance, availability and responsiveness.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/">What</a> could go wrong?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Finally, Google may be required under the DMA to create new APIs
and offer technical assistance to other AI makers who want to plug
into Android. The commission also specifies that these tools must
be made available free of charge.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Of course, it’s not free of charge to provide technical assistance to one’s competitors. It’s actually a great expense.</p>
<p>Here’s the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_887">European Commission, announcing these “preliminary findings”</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The proposed measures aim to ensure that competing AI services can
effectively interact with applications on users’ Android devices
and execute tasks accordingly, such as sending an email using the
user’s preferred email app, ordering food or sharing a photo with
friends. Currently, Google largely reserves these capabilities for
use by its own AI offerings on Android phones and tablets. For
example, the measures would allow competing AI services to be
easily activated by users, using a custom ‘wake word’, a phrase
that the user can speak to activate an AI service.</p>
<p>The proposed measures will also enable competing providers of AI
services to innovate and offer deeply integrated AI experiences to
users on Android phones and tablets, along with Alphabet’s own AI
services, such as Gemini. Opening up access to these capabilities
will provide Android users across the EU with a wider choice of AI
services.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The difference between Google and Apple on this front is that Google just blazed ahead and shipped Gemini integrated into Android in the EU, and is now facing compliance problems after shipping. (Ask forgiveness.) Apple isn’t shipping Siri AI in the EU in iOS 27, knowing that it’s going to be deemed non-compliant. (Ask permission.)</p>
<p>The EC presumes that these measures “will also enable competing providers of AI services to innovate and offer deeply integrated AI experiences to users on Android phones and tablets”. Again: maybe! But really all they can enforce is that “competing providers of AI services” will have the same level of system-level integration that Google’s AI services have. The easiest way for Google to achieve that is by withdrawing Gemini integration in Android from the EU, not by building APIs and privacy protection mechanisms to enable the capabilities for third-party providers that the EC is demanding.</p>
<p>Google is learning the lesson Apple learned the hard way with all the existing features of iOS that were deemed noncompliant with the DMA when it went into effect. The “ship it first and ask forgiveness / hope it’s deemed compliant” strategy is not a good one in the EU.</p>
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<title>WorkOS Launches Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration</title>
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<published>2026-06-15T17:53:50Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-15T17:53:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration.</p>
<p>Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.</p>
<p>Markdown, baby. Who’d have thunk it?</p>
<p>With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application. Read the <a href="https://workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q22026">Auth.md docs</a>, and watch its on-stage introduction <a href="https://youtu.be/Dqp_b8GHLXU?t=1074">at the MCP Night: Agent Night keynote</a>.</p>
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<entry>
<title>‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’</title>
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<published>2026-06-15T17:18:46Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-15T17:18:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to
help its competitors; on the other hand, what should be
blisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone
else other than them should even be making frontier LLMs.</p>
<p>What makes this policy all the more remarkable is the fact that it
was enacted only two months after Anthropic had that dispute with
the Department of War: the latter wanted to use Claude for any
legal use, while the former wanted more stringent controls around
surveillance and autonomous weapons. What this degradation
represented was both the capability and willingness of Anthropic
to silently alter its models to achieve its policy preferences. In
other words, Anthropic willfully validated some of its critics’
worst fears in terms of being a supply chain risk.</p>
<p>The broader takeaway from that previous episode, however, is that
Anthropic believes that they are the ones who should have final
say over how Anthropic is used; given that they think only they
should be developing leading edge AI, they by extension think that
only they should have final say over AI generally. When you
further combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements
about AI’s ability to conduct all economic activity, you realize
that Anthropic’s leadership effectively wants to have power over
everything and everyone.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Anthropic is best seen as a religious organization. Their employees are true believers in a cause, and on a mission. Perhaps every successful company has a religious aspect at its core — like, maybe, Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit. These companies tend to attract employees who believe in the company’s core mission, and the employees who believe tend to be the ones who thrive and rise within the companies’ ranks to positions of influence.</p>
<p>But Anthropic feels more like a real religion, where the core tenets must be taken on faith, and the priests (Anthropic employees) have a conviction about them. A religious fervor. If Apple gets too taken away by its cultural fervor for design, they do something silly like make a <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2014/09/apple_watch">$20,000 solid gold Apple Watch</a>. So what? If Microsoft or Google get taken away by their shared fervor for market share at all costs, they face antitrust remedies. A stifled market and abusive behavior from a monopolist isn’t good, but doesn’t end the world.</p>
<p>A religious fervor that believes the company is building god-like “super intelligence” that will dwarf human intelligence — and that only the company’s priesthood can be trusted to define, create, control, and gate access to it — is something else entirely. I tend to think the Anthropic true believers are all wet — that LLMs, amazing though they are, are not a path toward “super intelligence”. But, they used to be clearly behind OpenAI in technical capability, then caught up, and now with Mythos/Fable, they are clearly ahead. I still think they’re wrong about where this is heading, but I don’t think we can say we <em>know</em> they’re wrong.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Trump’s Name (Set in the Wrong Font, of Course) Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center</title>
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<published>2026-06-13T17:34:15Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-13T17:34:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.</p>
<p>Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the
front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the
center missed <a href="https://apple.news/A7OCrODYuS32yuG7E19AjDg">a federal judge’s two-week deadline</a> to do so.
The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of
trustees to rename it was illegal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Third-Party Developers</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://developer.apple.com/private-cloud-compute/"/>
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<published>2026-06-13T17:20:59Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-13T17:39:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>From Apple’s Developer site:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as
accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business
Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads
will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running on Private
Cloud Compute (PCC) with no cloud API cost. The model provides
access to frontier level intelligence with unparalleled privacy
protections. This makes it easy for small developers to get
started building intelligent app experiences without upfront
infrastructure costs.</p>
<p><strong>Eligibility requirements</strong></p>
<p>Access to PCC is available to developers who meet the following
criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li>Are enrolled in the <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/">App Store Small Business Program</a>.</li>
<li>Have fewer than 2 million <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/#app-downloads">first-time app downloads</a> from
any of their apps on the App Store.</li>
<li>Have the Private Cloud Compute entitlement <a href="https://developer.apple.com/help/account/capabilities/capability-requests">assigned to their
account</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Where Apple Intelligence is available, eligible developers can use
PCC in their apps distributed on the App Store, and test PCC
features via TestFlight or ad hoc distribution. Installs during
testing are not counted as first-time app downloads.</p>
<p>If any app subsequently exceeds the 2 million first-time downloads
threshold, or the developer is no longer enrolled in the App Store
Small Business Program, the developer will be notified and must
migrate to an alternative solution within 6 months. Information
about first-time downloads is available in <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/#app-downloads">Analytics in App Store
Connect</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>These strict limits don’t seem to be getting as much attention as they should. It’s nice that for small developers who meet the above criteria, access to PCC has no cost. But there’s no way (yet?) to buy your way out of these limits. There are no paid API tiers for larger developers who exceed the above limits, or for developers who qualify now but release a hit app that grows to exceed them. (Users who pay for iCloud+ don’t have any extra quotas for PCC usage in third-party apps either.)</p>
<p>The “fewer than 2 million first-time app downloads from any of their apps” restriction is particularly notable. It’s not 2 million installations for apps that are using PCC, but 2 million downloads for <em>any app the developer has ever released</em>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@_inside/116742529849306484">Developer Gui Rambo writes</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>So uhhhh… Apple should really rethink the Private Cloud Compute
developer access limitation. I do happen to have an app that’s had
more than 2 million downloads. That app is ChibiStudio, an app
that’s been in the App Store for over 10 years. It’s not like I’m
getting a million new users every year nowadays. And I’m also not
making any real money with it 🥲</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The bottom line is that — for the OS 27 cycle at least — PCC is primarily a feature for Apple itself to use in Siri AI. Granting access to PCC to any third-party developers at all is better than nothing, but this 2-million-download cap cuts off many developers who are in the Small Business Program. Apple should reconsider that. And I know there are a lot of developers who exceed the eligibility for the Small Business Program who would love to have access to the PCC APIs, even if access was paid. The lack of paid tiers says to me that Apple is worried enough about meeting demand from Siri AI users alone.</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access"/>
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<published>2026-06-13T17:02:29Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-15T16:44:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Anthropic:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The US government, citing national security authorities, has
issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable
5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside
the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.</p>
<p>We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm
(ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national
security concern. Our understanding is that the government
believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or
“jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this
specific technique being used to identify a small number of
previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all
appear relatively simple, and we have found that other
publicly-available models are able to discover them as well
without requiring a bypass.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5">Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were announced on Tuesday</a> — that post has detailed comparisons, from Anthropic, on the models’ capabilities.</p>
<p>Having the access ban extend all the way to “foreign national Anthropic employees” is, to say the least, aggressive. Whether that degree of restriction is truly warranted, I don’t think we, on the outside, can say. The Trump administration lacks credibility, to say the least, when it comes to foreign nationals. But it’s Anthropic itself that repeatedly compares the power of frontier models to nuclear weapons. Here’s CEO Dario Amodei, <a href="https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential">in an essay published just this month</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>There may come a time, perhaps relatively soon, when we need to go
beyond this, when the most powerful AI systems look less like
airplanes or automobiles and more like weaponizable nuclear
materials — a threat to humanity rather than “just” a threat to
public safety. If that occurs, we may need more aggressive
regulatory measures than those I have laid out.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>If that occurs — or if it already <em>has</em> occurred — it’s obviously not the place of Anthropic (or OpenAI or Google) to render that judgment. <a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/">Ben Thompson wrote about this presciently</a> back in March, and linking to his post, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/02/anthropic-and-alignment">I wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Nilay Patel, quoting the same section of Thompson’s column I
quoted above, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/reckless.bsky.social/post/3mg3qayzjlc2m">sees it as</a> “Ben Thompson making a
full-throated case for fascism”. I see it as the case against
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy">corporatocracy</a>. Who sets our defense policies? Our
democratically elected leaders, or the CEOs of corporate defense
contractors?</p>
</blockquote>
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</div>
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</entry>
<entry>
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<published>2026-06-12T23:36:15Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-16T22:48:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<summary type="text">Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.</summary>
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<p>Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.</p>
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<p><strong>Audio-only version:</strong> <a href="https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/06/14/ep-449">In the usual place</a>, and wherever you get your podcasts.</p>
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<p>Watch on a big screen if you can (real, or virtual). All credit and thanks for the video production go to my friends at <a href="https://sandwich.co/">Sandwich</a>, who, as ever, are nothing short of a joy to work with.</p>
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<title>★ The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026</title>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The WWDC 2026 Keynote and State of the Union on YouTube</title>
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<published>2026-06-12T17:28:19Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-12T17:28:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, <em>except</em> the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can <a href="https://software.charliemonroe.net/downie/">grab it</a> from YouTube.</p>
<p>Speaking of the State of the Union, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2jsIoMfDU">the full version</a> runs just over an hour, but Apple cut together <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM8krtCkEmQ">a 4.5-minute recap</a>. If you haven’t watched the full thing you should at least watch that recap.</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>The European Commission Response to Siri AI and the DMA</title>
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2026:/linked//6.43113</id>
<published>2026-06-12T17:02:45Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-13T02:11:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Thomas Regnier, <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/about/contact/press-services/press-contacts/commissions-spokespersons-service_en">spokesperson</a> for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out
“Siri AI” in the EU?</p>
<p>This decision is Apple’s and Apple’s only.</p>
<p>Because absolutely nothing in the DMA prohibits Apple from rolling
out new features in the EU.</p>
<p>Yes, the European Commission and Apple had a few contacts on
“Siri AI”.</p>
<p>But instead of offering a compliant solution, Apple asked to be
exempted from its interoperability obligations under the DMA — and this for 18 months.</p>
<p>That’s not an option. EU rules are non negotiable.</p>
<p>And it would mean that no AI agent other than “Siri AI” could be
chosen by EU consumers.</p>
<p>Apple, like any other gatekeeper, cannot close the market. The DMA
is very clear about that.</p>
<p>Our developers have the right to compete. And our consumers the
right to choose.</p>
<p>Those who want to keep using Apple products in their current form
can of course do it.</p>
<p>But for those who want to use another AI agent, the DMA will give
them the possibility to do so.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why this was posted to LinkedIn and not on the EC’s own <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en">press website</a> is as inexplicable as Regnier’s bizarre choice to spread 14 short sentences across 10 paragraphs. I quoted the entirety of the statement nonetheless, to give the EC their full say. I’ll let it speak for itself in this post, but this does not contradict <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/11/apple-dma-siri-ai">Apple’s position</a> or statements in any way.</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/"/>
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<published>2026-06-11T21:58:49Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-11T22:00:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI
system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the
ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s
ongoing visibility and control. That includes the ability to read
and send messages, make purchases, access files, and execute
actions across any app. Security researchers have already shown
that AI systems can be hijacked to steal personal data — like
passwords and photos — and to permanently alter files and
account settings without a user’s consent. As AI systems gain
more capabilities, these risks are quickly increasing in
frequency and scope.</p>
<p>Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called
Trusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual
assistants to safely access the same features and capabilities as
Siri AI for devices in the EU. Apple also shared a plan to launch
Siri AI in the EU while gradually rolling out this new solution
over an 18-month period. The European Commission said no. In fact,
the European Commission did not agree to any of Apple’s proposals.</p>
<p>Apple will continue working to bring these features to the
European Union as safely as possible. However, given the clear
dangers to EU users and the regulators’ failure to acknowledge
these risks, there is currently no timeline for Siri AI’s
availability in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There’s a lot to unpack here, including more background information — and on-the-record statements — from a briefing Apple held Tuesday that I was invited to at Apple Park. But the bottom line is that Apple’s public statements regarding the DMA and the European Commission have never been this strident before. In its public statements, Apple has always been <em>diplomatic</em>. That’s the word.</p>
<p>Now, they’re a bit more on war footing. There’s a massive gulf between what Apple is willing to do with Siri AI in the EU and what the Commission is demanding from Apple for DMA compliance. As things stand there’s no middle ground. Apple’s offers for compromise have been rejected. Unless one side changes its mind and concedes its current position, Siri AI will <em>never</em> come to the EU, and what Apple is saying here is that they’re unwilling to create the open-access-to-user-data system that the EC is demanding.</p>
<p>And from what I’ve seen so far in a day of testing Siri AI, EU iOS users are going to miss out on something really good.</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spielberg on Being Repeatedly Turned Down to Direct a James Bond Film</title>
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<published>2026-06-11T20:38:09Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-11T23:46:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I approached Cubby Broccoli after <em>Jaws</em> was a big hit. I’d always
wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw <em>Dr. No</em>, so I
called Cubby after <em>Jaws</em> and volunteered. I said, “If you need a
director, I would love to direct one.” And he said no. And he
moved on.</p>
<p>And then Cubby called me again after <em>Close Encounters</em> came out.
And that was a big hit. And Cubby called me a few years after
<em>Close Encounters</em> and said, “We’d like to use the five notes in
<em>Moonraker</em>.” And I said, “I’ll make you a deal. I’ll give you
permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond
film.” And he said “Nope.” But I gave him the five notes anyway.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In <em>Moonraker</em>, the iconic <em>Close Encounters</em> notes are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZci4tZ-Wfk">the passcode to the locked door of a secret lab</a> that Bond (Roger Moore) needs to enter. Probably not so secure to play the passcode digits audible, but it’s a fun Easter egg. I always presumed that EON used it as fair-use homage, without bothering to ask Spielberg or Columbia Pictures for permission.</p>
<p>Spielberg, in his interview with The Rest Is Entertainment, goes on to explain the oft-repeated story that his disappointment over his rejection by Broccoli led to his collaboration with George Lucas to make <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark</em>, which I put on my short list for best movie ever made. The whole opening sequence of <em>Temple of Doom</em> — where Indiana Jones is wearing a dinner jacket and chaos erupts at a nightclub while Jones chases a vial of poison antidote while the other characters chase a diamond being kicked around the floor — is more Bond-like than most Bond films. (Oh, and that Shanghai nightclub’s name: Club Obi Wan. No need to ask permission for that one.)</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage</title>
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<published>2026-06-11T00:48:52Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-11T00:48:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC
keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to
talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk,
Federighi shared more details about Apple’s collaboration with
Google. Federighi was joined by Amar Subramanya (vice president
of AI), Mike Rockwell (Siri lead), and Sebastien Marineau-Mes
(software VP).</p>
<p>On the Google collaboration, Federighi explained:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none
of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these
models, we use none of the models that Google deploys to their
customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which
they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to
the knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or
anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope
that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.</p>
<p>So let’s talk about what we do use, or how our system is built.</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>This “Tech Talk” was good. It was detailed and technical, and there were live on-stage demos of Siri AI in action from Mike Rockwell. I don’t think Apple is ever going to go back to live on-stage major keynotes, but I do think the company is returning to more live events, including demos. There was a big live Siri AI/Apple Intelligence session for developers Tuesday morning in Steve Jobs Theater, which also had live demos. More like this, please.</p>
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<updated>2026-06-11T01:59:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<summary type="text">This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.</summary>
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<p>Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus">Jim Nielsen writing about it</a>, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon in platforms like Google Docs and Windows. You will also recall <a href="https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/">Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov writing about it</a>, illustrating that the bad idea wasn’t even implemented well, with different Apple apps using entirely different icons for the same menu items. You will also recall <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus">my linking to Nielsen</a> (“I can tolerate being angry about UI changes Apple makes to the Mac. But I can’t tolerate being heartbroken.”) and <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/05/hard-to-justify-tahoe-icons">to Prokopov</a> (“The fact that Tahoe’s menu item icons are glaringly inconsistent and often utterly inscrutable is the fudge icing on a shit cake, but the real embarrassment is that the idea ever got past the proposal stage. No real UI <em>or</em> icon designers think this is a good idea. None.”)</p>
<p>Top third-party developers rightly <a href="https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/01/10/removing-tahoes-unwanted-menu-icons/">rejected the design</a>, adopting <a href="https://indieweb.social/@brentsimmons/115846213935605782">open source code from Brent Simmons</a> to disable the default “icons in all standard menu items” behavior.</p>
<p>Wonderful news in MacOS 27 Golden Gate: the icons are gone. It’s like Tahoe’s menu item icons never happened. <a href="https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116720790550648158">Prokopov noted it on Mastodon</a> with before and after screenshots, and mentions that <a href="https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/menus">Apple has updated the Human Interface Guidelines accordingly</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Use menu item icons sparingly and with purpose.</b> Icons allow
people to find menu items more quickly, and help clarify what
selecting an item does. Use an icon to highlight the most common
actions and key features of your app, file system locations,
connected devices, visual concepts like rotating or flipping an
image, and user-generated content like folders and documents.
Don’t display an icon if you can’t find one that clearly
represents the menu item.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This updated advice in the HIG is perfect. Screenshot:</p>
<p><a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/hig-menu-item-icons.png" class="noborder">
<img
src = "https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/hig-menu-item-icons.png"
alt = "Screenshot from the updated HIG, with illustrations of menus with and without unnecessary icons."
width = 525
/></a></p>
<p>MacOS 26 Tahoe — across every Apple app on the system — is a living example of the updated HIG’s “what not to do” example illustrations (including the second section about groups within a menu). If you’re stuck using Tahoe until Golden Gate arrives, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/what_to_do_about_those_menu_item_icons_in_macos_26_tahoe">recall this tip</a> to alleviate the problem to some extent.</p>
<p>This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team. I don’t know if all the untalented hacks are gone, but the untalented magazine-designer hacks with clout and influence all left with Alan Dye. I’ve chatted with a few people from Apple’s design team this week and they’re all loving the work they’re doing and the direction they’re taking Apple’s platforms. Backtracking on these idiotic menu item icons was a necessary first step.</p>
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<title>★ Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items</title>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apple OS 27: The Small Things</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T21:29:57Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T21:33:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
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<p>Rishi Ó:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.</p>
<p>Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That’s a lot of bullet points.</p>
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<entry>
<title>The Talk Show Live From WWDC: Tonight, In-Person and Streaming</title>
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2026:/linked//6.43106</id>
<published>2026-06-09T18:53:47Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-11T00:09:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
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<p>If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful <em>big</em> theater and tickets <a href="https://ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2026">are still available</a>.</p>
<p>You can <em>also</em> watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/theater-cinema-events/id6502666560">Theater app from Sandwich Vision</a> on Vision Pro. A purchase of the ticket to the live show, the Theater app for $12.99, is also good for replay forever — with surprise bonus features included. It’s a fun, truly immersive way to experience the show.</p>
<p>Hope to see you there tonight, one way or the other.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Apple WWDC 2026 Keynote</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T17:42:32Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:42:32Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>A brisk 76 minutes, including the post-credits Easter egg music video. The past few years ran about a half hour longer.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Apple’s WWDC AI Demos Were Real and in Real Time</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T17:38:21Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:38:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Julie Bort, TechCrunch:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was
how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple
Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand,
pressing buttons or using voice commands in real time, while
another camera showed off the phone’s response.</p>
<p>These weren’t live onstage, anything-could-go wrong demos; they
were pre-taped. But they looked far more like proof of working
features than what Apple showed at WWDC 2024, when the company
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/13/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/">unveiled Apple Intelligence and a new Siri</a> to the world
through slickly produced videos that turned out to be more promise
than product.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The demos were all shot in single takes, with no editing. In fact, I think most of them were single takes of multiple demos back-to-back. That’s the way it should be, even when they feel a little slow. When a demo feels slow, the solution isn’t to edit the video — it’s to make the feature work faster.</p>
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<title>Apple Introduces Siri AI</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T17:23:29Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:46:12Z</updated>
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<p>Apple Newsroom yesterday:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing
Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find
what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and
more. For example, users can ask Siri to find a restaurant
recommendation a friend messaged them about, surface a hotel
confirmation number from an old email, or pull up photos with
friends and family from a recent trip. And personal context
understanding extends to third-party apps when developers
integrate with Spotlight.</p>
<p>With even more systemwide app actions, Siri AI lets users get
things done across apps, like drafting an email from scratch, or
editing and sharing a set of photos. Using onscreen awareness,
Siri AI can answer questions related to the content on a user’s
screen. For example, if a user gets a text about a potluck with
friends, they can brainstorm with Siri on what to bring and then
add a recipe to the Notes app.</p>
<p>In addition, Siri AI can use broad world knowledge to get
up-to-date information from the web on virtually any topic and
generate a helpful answer, such as when and where to see the next
solar eclipse, or when a musician is coming to town. Users can
extend almost any response from Siri into a rich conversation and
ask follow-up questions.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I like the name “Siri AI”. “New Siri” wouldn’t have legs because eventually this won’t be new. This should be the dividing line between Siri as we know it and Siri as it should be. The demos I’ve seen so far (I still don’t have access on my iOS 27 testing device) are impressive. Well, impressive compared to old Siri. They’re table stakes for generative AI. But Siri AI is the only system that can draw upon your personal data in the apps on your devices, <em>and</em> perform actions based on the app intents supported by the apps on your devices. It is in some ways less capable than ChatGPT or Claude, but in other ways has more potential. It’s a very different approach and I think it’s the right one for Apple.</p>
<p>They need to execute, they need to prove this can scale, and most of all, they need to get third-party apps on board with <a href="https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/345">App Intents</a> and <a href="https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/240">App Schemas</a>. But it seems like they’re doing all of that. This is not a done deal but it is very realistic.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Apple’s WWDC Announcement of the New Apple Intelligence System</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T16:50:33Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:45:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Apple Newsroom:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple
Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and
its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence
experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers
using Private Cloud Compute.</p>
<p>Every facet of the new Apple Intelligence architecture is built
privacy-first, from the latest Apple Foundation Models to the core
operating system technologies that integrate these models deep
into Apple’s platforms. Apple Intelligence uses on-device
processing and Private Cloud Compute to help protect users’
privacy. Private Cloud Compute gives users access to
frontier-level intelligence, while extending the privacy and
security of iPhone into the cloud.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What’s confusing about this Apple-Google partnership is that Google pretty much calls all things AI “Gemini”. The models are “Gemini”, the assistant is “Gemini”, and the feature integrations are “Gemini”. So Apple is taking pains to emphasize that they’re building atop the Gemini <em>models</em>, not the Gemini <em>assistant</em>.</p>
<p>One way to think about it is this. Let’s say you’re a Google Gemini app user. That’s the assistant. Now you start using the new Apple Intelligence (that builds atop the Gemini models) and the new Siri AI (that builds atop the new Apple Intelligence). When you go back to the Google Gemini app, <em>nothing you did</em> using Apple Intelligence and Siri AI is visible to the Gemini app. And nothing you continue to do in the Google Gemini app is visible to Apple Intelligence or Siri AI.</p>
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<entry>
<title>From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T01:37:27Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T04:29:43Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence
assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI
platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a
Siri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update,
according to people with knowledge of the matter. The assistant
can already tap into ChatGPT through a partnership with OpenAI,
but Apple will now allow competing services to do the same.</p>
<p>The company is developing new tools to allow AI chatbot apps
installed via the App Store to integrate with the Siri assistant,
said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans
haven’t been announced. The chatbots will also work with an
upcoming Siri app and other features in the Apple Intelligence
platform.</p>
<p>That means, for instance, if users have Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Gemini or Anthropic PBC’s Claude installed, they’d be able to send
queries to those services from within the Siri voice assistant,
just like they have been able to with ChatGPT since Apple
Intelligence launched in 2024.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Maybe Apple ran out of time today, and will announce this tomorrow? Maybe they forgot to announce it? Maybe they scrapped the next-generation Siri that existed two months ago and in the last month rebuilt another entirely new next-generation Siri? I’ll bet something like that is what happened.</p>
<p>I mean, people had knowledge of the matter.</p>
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<title>Mux — Video for Developers</title>
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<updated>2026-06-08T01:47:09Z</updated>
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<published>2026-06-08T01:30:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T01:40:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
<summary type="text">Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is now seven years old.</summary>
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<p>Paulo Andrade, last month, “<a href="https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/">Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026</a>”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I recently launched the macOS version of <a href="https://shopie.io/">Shopie</a>, an app I first
released on the iOS App Store late last year. Shopie helps you
keep track of products you’re interested in by letting you create
wishlists and notifying you whenever a product’s price,
availability, and other details change.</p>
<p>Unlike my other apps, where I typically blend AppKit (or UIKit)
with SwiftUI, Shopie is built entirely in SwiftUI. I wanted to
keep it that way to maximize code reuse across iOS, iPadOS, and
now macOS. This post explores how far SwiftUI can take you on the
Mac in 2026, especially if your goal is to build an app that feels
truly native to the platform. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive
review of SwiftUI on macOS. It’s simply a collection of recipes
and issues I ran into while porting <a href="https://shopie.io/">Shopie</a>, a fairly small app,
and keeping it 100% SwiftUI.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Andrade’s examples are copious. His conclusion is damning:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple dropped the ball here. AppKit was ahead of its time and
UIKit was a more polished version of AppKit. A serious
cross-platform framework that unified the two should have happened
long before SwiftUI. Instead, Apple left AppKit to fossilize and
then tried to leapfrog the problem.</p>
<p>You can see the result everywhere. SwiftUI is productive, modern,
and often delightful, right up until you try to make a really good
Mac app. Then suddenly you’re fighting the framework for things
the Mac solved 20 years ago.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There’s something really wrong with SwiftUI. Amongst the apps I use, the best example is Apple Journal. Basic stuff that’s worked reliably for decades — some things that heretofore had worked forever — are dangerously broken. If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then double-click on the word “brown” and delete it. Now invoke Undo.</p>
<p>What you expect is for the word “brown” to reappear. What happens is ... <em>the whole sentence disappears</em>. Gone. Invoke Redo and you only get back to “The quick fox.” The word “brown” is just gone forever. It’s nowhere in the Undo stack. That’s just profoundly fucked up. I’ve never seen anything like this with an AppKit app, ever. (I’ve never seen it with a UIKit app either — and the same thing happens on iOS with Journal. It’s just that you notice it less often because we don’t invoke Undo and Redo nearly as often there.)</p>
<p>I actually use the Journal app and I’ve lost entire sentences of text to this incompetent implementation of Undo. Editing text in Journal is <em>dangerous</em> because SwiftUI is so bad at something as fundamental as text editing. AppKit has had this solved since 1989 or so, a decade before Apple reunified with NeXT. And my example here is just one of many. Andrade documents a whole bunch more in his post. [Shopie is a good modern Mac app — you can practically see from reading his post that Andrade’s hands are scarred from dozens of paper cuts.</p>
<p>So while the world is largely focused on Apple’s AI-related announcements at WWDC tomorrow, I’ve got SwiftUI (on all platforms) and Mac-assed Mac development high on my list. Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop <em>good idiomatically native</em> apps. You got the correct complex behavior — for things like Undo/Redo — out of the box. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/apple-unveils-groundbreaking-new-technologies-for-app-development/">SwiftUI is now seven years old</a>. That’s too long for any excuses to hold water. </p>
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<title>★ SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps</title>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Alberto Romero on Apple’s AI Spending</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/what-apple-knows-about-ai-that-silicon"/>
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<published>2026-06-08T01:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-08T01:49:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Alberto Romero:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or
you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody
believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually
religious.” If God exists, the only coherent response is to
reorganize your entire life around that fact, as priests do. If
you pray sometimes, then you are just an atheist who’s also
fearful. When tech companies spend hundreds of billions on capital
expenditures to add sparkly AI features to Office, Gmail, and
Instagram, I only see fearful atheists — guys who don’t believe
in AI but pretend just in case.</p>
<p>In 2026, the four largest cloud and AI infrastructure providers — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft — committed to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-tech-strikes-gold-with-ai-but-at-a-steep-cost-f6d82a22">spending $670
billion on CapEx</a>. Apple, in contrast, spent $12.7 billion on
capex last fiscal year and projects <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/02/20/apples-ai-gamble-can-a-14b-budget-compete-in-a-700b-arms-race/">$14 billion for 2026</a>, 2%
of what its peers are spending. The conventional reading in
Silicon Valley is, naturally, that Apple is losing. Siri has been
a punchline for years — an internal executive <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/apple-s-siri-chief-calls-ai-delays-ugly-and-embarrassing-promises-fixes">called the delays
ugly and embarrassing</a> — and critics say that Apple has not
been the same without Steve Jobs. It is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ai-siri-development-behind-9ea65ee8">falling behind</a>, they
say, and moving way too slowly for AI.</p>
<p>I disagree with this portrayal: Apple is the most powerful tech
company in the world right now because it’s acting according to
what it believes.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Some of you, I bet, will object to Romero’s notion that no one is “casually religious”. <em>Almost everyone I know is casually religious</em>, you might be thinking. But read the whole piece. What he’s saying is that if you’re “casually religious” those are just words. You’re not living your life according to your professed beliefs (casual or not). And that’s how most of Apple’s peer companies seem to be approaching AI.</p>
<p>I’m not sure he’s right, but he might be, and I think his take is at least closer to right than wrong. Apple <em>is</em> making an enormous bet on AI — but their bet is that they don’t need to spend hundreds of billions per year on AI infrastructure (most of it fattening Nvidia’s bottom line) to reap the benefits. If Apple’s right we should start seeing it come together tomorrow.</p>
<p>(Arguably we’ve already seen it coming together — demand for Apple’s products and services has gone up, not down, so far in the AI era. Entrenched leaders often grow during the initial stages of extinctive disruptions — BlackBerry’s biggest year for sales (revenue) and investor confidence (market cap) <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/blackberry-revenue/">was 2011</a>, four years after the iPhone debuted — but the disruptors are there. There’s not yet a single threat on the market to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, or AirPods — nor to Apple’s services revenue.)</p>
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<entry>
<title>Halide Mark III</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.lux.camera/halide-mark-iii/"/>
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<published>2026-06-07T00:49:15Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-07T03:17:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog
photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the
limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how
freeing it felt. It felt so much better to have a handful of
amazing choices rather than photo-editor with thousands of
presets. We owe that to film engineers who spent years developing
versatile film stocks that work in a variety of situations.</p>
<p>Inspired by “Less, but better,” we partnered with the renowned
Hollywood colorist <a href="https://cullenkellycolor.com/">Cullen Kelly</a> to develop a
succinct set of gorgeous, <em>physically accurate</em> processes
exclusive to Halide. Each look was engineered with a specific
intent. We verified every look thousands of times on real-world
reference photos.</p>
<p>Put another way: every look is a banger.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Halide has always been a great — maybe <em>the</em> great — iPhone camera app for shooting RAW, with the intention of developing your images by hand in post. It’s a great <em>camera</em> technically and a great <em>app</em> UI-wise. <a href="https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/">Mark II introduced Process Zero</a>, which, in their own description, “uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce beautiful, film-like natural photos”. Process Zero was the first step toward the new built-in “looks” in Halide Mark III. I’ve been shooting with Mark III for a few weeks now, and they are, indeed, all bangers. And I <em>really</em> like that there aren’t that many of them. I wanted more looks than just Process Zero (which remains available, of course), but I feel a bit overwhelmed when faced with a dozen (or worse, dozen<em>s</em>) of choices for processing. I feel conflicted enough having to choose between <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_iphone_17e#fn2-2026-03-09">a handful</a> of <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/not_boring_camera_and_adobe_project_indigo">really good</a> third-party camera apps with which to shoot in the first place — it’s worse when I have to make too many choices within the camera app itself.</p>
<p>What I want is to just point and shoot and be able to instantly share images with the look I want already applied. I’m picky but I’m also really lazy, and don’t want to do any editing in post on most of the shots I keep. But I do want to be able to edit in post if I want to, including changing the look losslessly. This mixture of point-and-shoot ease and pro-level control didn’t use to be possible. Now, though, it is, with apps like <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-boring-camera/id6737783441">Not Boring Camera</a>, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/analogue-film-camera/id6748702405">Analogue</a>, and, now, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide-mark-iii-pro-camera/id885697368">Halide Mark III</a>.</p>
<p>It’s been a <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/21/apple-wanted-to-buy-halide-to-boost-iphone-18-pro/">turbulent</a> couple of months for Lux (to say the least), so I’m glad to see Sandofsky and team get Mark III out the door. If you, like me, had previously been impressed by Halide but didn’t use it because it required too much work in post, you should check out Mark III.</p>
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<entry>
<title>60 Minutes Correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and the Other Guy Will Stay at Show</title>
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<published>2026-06-06T20:04:06Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-06T20:04:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/05/business/media/60-minutes-stahl-wertheim-whittaker-memo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.flOX.fSw9JEqNoaU9">in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff</a> obtained by The New York Times (gift links):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes.
We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan,
strong leaders who everyone respected. As far as we can tell — because no explanation has ever been offered, they were expelled
because they fought for our 60 Minutes values and stood up to
protect our independence and integrity.</p>
<p>Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.
Collaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at
60. Don Hewitt actually encouraged loud passionate advocacy for
our pieces. [...]</p>
<p>We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement
of the existing power structure. That is simply, categorically not
the case.</p>
<p>Here’s why we’re are staying:</p>
<p>We don’t want to see 60 Minutes die.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>We’ll see how long this lasts.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty</title>
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<published>2026-06-06T19:56:01Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-06T19:56:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Josh Marshall:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East
Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a
judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of
Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer,
Yaakov Roth, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/white-house-ballroom-donald-trump-00951892">said that yes, President Trump could decide tomorrow
to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty</a> and no one could
stop him.</p>
<p>It was a good question from DC Court of Appeals Judge Patricia
Millett since it brings the arguments and their implications
clearly into the open. Reframe the question and the absurdity of
this proposition becomes even more clear. If you hire someone to
administer your estate, can they burn down the buildings on your
estate or chop it up into parcels and sell it off? Presumably not.
You hired them to run it, not to destroy it or sell it. It’s not
theirs. They were hired for a specific task. That person is your
employee. The president is hired to administer the country and
enforce its laws for four years. He doesn’t own the country or its
properties.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Pathetic lickspittles, one and all.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Nieman Journalism Lab: Twitter/X Punishes Accounts That Post Links</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/"/>
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<published>2026-06-05T20:46:56Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-05T20:46:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18
large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes +
comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have
paywalls: <a href="https://x.com/business">Bloomberg</a>, <a href="https://x.com/cnn">CNN</a>, <a href="https://x.com/Forbes">Forbes</a>, <a href="https://x.com/nytimes">The New
York Times</a>, <a href="https://x.com/WSJ">The Wall Street Journal</a>, and <a href="https://x.com/washingtonpost">The
Washington Post</a>. Nine don’t: <a href="https://x.com/AJEnglish">Al Jazeera English</a>,
<a href="https://x.com/AP">AP</a>, <a href="https://x.com/BBCNews">BBC</a>, <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews">Breitbart News</a>, <a href="https://x.com/CBSNews">CBS News</a>,
<a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire">Daily Wire</a>, <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews">Fox News</a>, <a href="https://x.com/NBCNews">NBC News</a>, and
<a href="https://x.com/Reuters">Reuters</a>. The last three accounts I looked at — <a href="https://x.com/LeadingReport">Leading
Report</a>, <a href="https://x.com/unusual_whales">unusual_whales,</a> and <a href="https://x.com/GlobeEyeNews">Globe Eye News</a> — are not news publishers, but aggregate breaking news in tweets
without links. (Here, for example, is an example of a Leading
Report <a href="https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/2041534947249242192">tweet</a>: “BREAKING: Iran has halted direct talks with
the US, per WSJ.” They’re sometimes referred to as
engagement-maxing accounts.</p>
<p>These charts make it pretty clear that links in tweets hurt
engagement. The connection was so apparent in my analysis that a
graph including all 18 publishers is almost unreadable: The
traditional, link-loving publishers are clustered in the bottom
left corner (lots of links, little engagement) in a nearly
indistinguishable mass of bubbles, no matter how large their
followings are.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Musk’s Twitter/X is not an aggregator for news. It’s a walled garden. But the type of garden where you need to keep your eyes open and your hand on your wallet. Sometimes it’s fun to visit a seedy neighborhood. But let’s not pretend it isn’t a seedy neighborhood just because, long ago, it used to be nice.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Elon Musk’s X Is a Freak Show</title>
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<published>2026-06-05T20:24:58Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-05T20:32:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came
across a <a href="https://x.com/kylewilsontharp/status/2037171182407999663">bubble chart</a> depicting the Twitter accounts that
had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was
depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality
and highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only
follow a handful of the top accounts. So I <a href="https://dashboards.cluvio.com/dashboards/qxny-9e5q-k65v/shared?filters=%7B%22platform_filter%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22political_content%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22political_lean%22%3A%5B%5D%7D&reportId=k6zq-g911-3m2o&sharingToken=78eb1196-5766-429d-acf8-edcfd96b7067&timerange=1767225600~">tracked down the
original data myself</a> and, with help from Claude, made my
own improved version of the chart. Here, <em>voilà</em>, are the Twitter
accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026:</p>
<p><a href="/misc/2026/05/nate-silver-twitter-account-cloud.png" class="noborder">
<img
src = "/misc/2026/05/nate-silver-twitter-account-cloud.png"
alt = "Data from Cluvio showing most engagements among X accounts from Jan. 1 to Apr. 4, 2026."
width = 500
/></a></p>
<p>It’s not hard to notice that Twitter has become extremely
right-leaning. But I’d argue there’s an equally important trend:
the top accounts are of incredibly low quality. Elon, with the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report">algorithmic boost</a> he built in for himself, is at the eye of
the storm, of course. But “Catturd” literally gets far more
engagement than the New York Times, for instance.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There’s a common argument from proponents of the Musk-era X that the only problem is that left-leaning people have abandoned the platform. That the X algorithm is a contest and if only right-leaning accounts are playing, of course they’re winning. This is nonsense. The whole thing is rigged. Elon Musk’s outsized prominence as the most-engaged-with account is proof of that. Twitter existed for 16 years before Musk bought it. He wasn’t even close to the biggest account during that era. Then he bought it. Now his account is the biggest.</p>
<p>As Silver’s data analysis shows, Musk’s X is not just dominated by right-wing accounts, it’s dominated by “<em>who the hell is that?</em>” right-wing slop accounts.</p>
<p>The only way not to lose a rigged game is to refuse to play. X is still a thing. A lot of people, companies, and organizations still post there — treat it like their blogs — exclusively. I still wind up linking to posts on X because that’s where they are. That’s a whole separate discussion. But anyone who’s trying to “compete” there with subject matter that is even vaguely political has no chance of success unless what they’re posting is what Elon Musk wants to see promoted. It’s not like his thumb is on the scale, it’s like an anvil is on the scale. The conundrum is that there are still a lot interesting people posting interesting things there.</p>
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<entry>
<title>Checking in on Perplexity</title>
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<published>2026-06-05T15:26:29Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-05T15:26:30Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Yours truly, last August:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company
like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources
are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels
more like something Perplexity would be seeding than one that
Apple executives would be leaking.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Perplexity is still <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=perplexity&wm=false">occasionally in the news</a> (often <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/04/perplexity-class-action-sham">not in good ways</a>), but it seems to me they’ve slipped into the “afterthought” tier of AI startups — which is exactly why they started leaning into <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/12/perplexity-jumps-shark-stunt-offer-to-buy-chrome">clownish stunts last year</a>. Everyone who previously suggested Apple should — or even might — buy them has gone silent.</p>
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<title>Some People Rooted for The Empire in ‘Star Wars’, Too</title>
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<published>2026-06-05T00:43:33Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-05T00:43:33Z</updated>
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<p>Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: <em>He who has the gold makes the
rules</em>. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and
torched his own position — and if Bilton’s letter is accurate, in
as mean-spirited and conceited a manner as possible. Pelley could
have chosen a dignified resignation under protest, but instead
pulled a power move in an attempt to intimidate Bilton, Weiss, and
Ellison, only to discover that no one feared his absence. In fact,
they’re probably happy to cut him loose.</p>
<p>There’s always at least <em>one</em> person in these situations who
thinks they’re untouchable. A wise executive knows to start by
making an example of that person, and then see how many other
people think they’re indispensable. It’s not as if TV news jobs
are expanding these days, after all. Pelley’s going to find out
the hard way that no one’s paying $5 million a year to emote into
a camera from other people’s copy.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It doesn’t even enter this man’s little mind that Pelley wasn’t concerned about his job, wasn’t concerned about his salary, but was concerned only with the integrity of the institution to which he’d committed decades of his career, and that he saw as his duty the need to stand up for his remaining and former colleagues. That Pelley himself has integrity. To the Trump lickspittles, everything is performative. They don’t just lack integrity, they don’t believe integrity is real.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/katienotopoulos/status/2062229659966697857">Katie Notopoulos</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The Scott Pelley story to me is a lesson in how if you work hard
enough in your career to get Fuck You Money, the real reward is
the day you need to say it, you can.</p>
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<published>2026-05-29T20:58:56Z</published>
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<summary type="text">dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.</summary>
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<title>★ What Is a Dickover?</title>
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<published>2026-05-22T20:30:18Z</published>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<summary type="text">The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.</summary>
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<p>The 13 circuits of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals">the U.S. federal courts of appeals</a> operate with a fair amount of independence, including <a href="https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/greedy-associates/5-non-times-new-roman-fonts-courts-use-in-their-opinions/">their typographic choices</a>. I was reminded of this today while reading the <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/22/ninth-circuit-epic-v-apple">aforelinked</a> decision <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/12/11/25-2935.pdf">from the Ninth Circuit in <em>Epic v. Apple</em></a>, because the Ninth Circuit sets their decisions in <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/a-brief-history-of-timesnewroman">Times New Roman</a> — a font that <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/10/">came up back in December</a> in the context of the Trump State Department.</p>
<p>Long argument short, Times New Roman isn’t bad, but it isn’t good. It is the median choice. But <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/comments/ge4tzq/different_fonts_used_by_us_court_of_appeals/">most of the circuit courts use it</a>: the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh. It could be worse: the <a href="https://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/14-1043P-01A.pdf">First</a> circuit not only uses Courier New (<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/14/clintons-letter">the worst version of Courier</a>, so of course it’s the one Microsoft shipped with Windows), but fully justifies their text — contrary to the nature of a monospaced font. (The Fourth circuit only recently switched <a href="https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/131839A.P.pdf">from Courier New</a> <a href="https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251012.P.pdf">to Times New Roman</a> — an upgrade, to be sure, but a disappointingly mediocre one.) It could be better: the <a href="https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OPN/24-341_opn.pdf">Second</a> and <a href="https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/OpinionsWeb/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2026/D05-20/C:24-2015:J:Hamilton:aut:T:fnOp:N:3544786:S:0">Seventh</a> use Palatino. (Note how much better that Seventh Circuit decision looks than the Second’s, with its wider margins creating a narrower column of text.)</p>
<p>But it can be <em>much</em> better. The Fifth Circuit was long typographically superior to its peers, using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_type_family">Century Schoolbook</a> — a highly legible font with great tradition and the right vibe. But in 2020, the Fifth Circuit upgraded, switching to <a href="https://typographyforlawyers.com/equity.html">Equity</a>, Matthew Butterick’s excellent type family (which, of course, is used throughout Butterick’s own web book, <a href="https://typographyforlawyers.com/"><em>Typography for Lawyers</em></a>). Here’s a <a href="https://x.com/E_A_Young/status/1285354790176935936">before and after tweet</a> noting the change. The <a href="https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/25/25-11006-CV1.pdf">results</a> are typographically sublime (including improved margins).</p>
<p>The gold standard is the U.S. Supreme Court, which uses Century Schoolbook. Yes, I just praised the Fifth Circuit’s change from Century Schoolbook to Equity as an upgrade, but tradition and consistency have their place. The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century. (If only that were true of their recent decisions. <em>Rimshot.</em>) Here is last month’s <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_new_jifl.pdf"><em>Louisiana v. Callais</em> decision</a> — the gerrymandering / redistricting case. Here is <a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep347/usrep347483/usrep347483.pdf">1954’s <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em></a>. I’d give the nod to the older one, which made better use of proper small caps, but the overall consistency is obvious.</p>
<p>Here is <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2026RulesoftheCourt_WEB.pdf">the 2026 edition of the Rules of the Supreme Court</a>. Not only does the Court use Century Schoolbook for its own decisions, it requires submissions to the Court to use the same (p. 44):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The text of every booklet-format document, including any appendix
thereto, shall be typeset in a Century family (e. g., Century
Expanded, New Century Schoolbook, or Century Schoolbook) 12-point
type with 2-point or more leading between lines. Quotations in
excess of 50 words shall be indented. The typeface of footnotes
shall be 10-point type with 2-point or more leading between lines.
The text of the document must appear on both sides of the page.</p>
<p>Every booklet-format document shall be produced on paper that is
opaque, unglazed, and not less than 60 pounds in weight, and
shall have margins of at least three-fourths of an inch on all
sides. The text field, including footnotes, may not exceed 4⅛
by 7⅛ inches.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why the extra one-eighths of an inch instead of just 4 × 7? I don’t know. But 4⅛ × 7⅛ is exactly the size of the text field in the court’s own decisions.</p>
<p>Now compare the current 2026 rulebook to <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/rules/rules_1910.pdf">this edition printed in 1910</a> (with rules adopted in 1884). The consistency is striking — but, once again, the older version makes better use of small caps and just has a bit more vim and vigor to it. <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/scotus-1910-rules-p-44.jpeg">Just look at page 44</a>, for example. It’s perfect. The current Court’s document formatters should aspire only to more closely ape the confidence and sturdiness of this older one. A century from now, U.S. Supreme Court decisions should look as similar to today’s as today’s do to those from a century ago.</p>
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<p>The various circuit courts using lesser typefaces, looser margins, and lazier formatting should follow the Fifth’s lead and get their shit together. Tuck your shirt in, comb your hair, straighten your tie, and pop a mint in your mouth. If you’re a United States federal court, your typographic style should reflect that.</p>
<p>Back in 2020, <a href="https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/choose-wisely-2020-edition.html">Butterick took a well-deserved victory lap</a> when the Fifth Circuit adopted Equity.<sup id="fnr1-2026-05-22-f"><a href="#fn1-2026-05-22-f">1</a></sup> He quoted Fifth Circuit Judge <a href="https://x.com/justicewillett">Don Willett</a>, a typography fan who spearheaded the restyling project, on its rationale. Willett wrote:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Why] did the circuit devote finite judicial energy to swapping
typefaces and widening margins? Simple answer: Our job is not
just to present clear opinions, but to present our opinions
clearly. Getting the law right is, of course, our tip-top
priority. Nothing matters more. ... But good enough is never good
enough. Our work is consequential, impacting the lives and
livelihoods of real people walloped by real problems in the real
world. The stakes are high, and we must present our best opinion,
not merely a passable one. And that presentation begins before
the first word is ever read.</p>
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<p>In the very same post, Butterick sings the praises of the Apple Extended Keyboard II, and notes that he has several spares in reserve. I do keenly intend to take Butterick up on <a href="https://practicaltypography.com/effluents-influence-affluence.html#:~:text=Musso%20%26%20Frank">his standing offer</a> to dine when next I’m in Los Angeles, but I worry that if we meet, we’ll trigger some sort of calamitous singularity of aligned taste. <a href="#fnr1-2026-05-22-f" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎</a></p>
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<title>★ The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts</title>
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<published>2026-05-16T20:32:51Z</published>
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<p>Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apples-next-ceo-needs-to-launch-a-killer-ai-product/">Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product</a>” (<a href="https://apple.news/AdCC7y43rTQq6SZH2bDmqxA">News+ link</a> to get around Wired’s miserly paywall):</p>
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<p>Much more recently, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-50-year-anniversary-artificial-intelligence-iphone/">I quizzed Ternus</a> and global marketing
head Greg Joswiak about Apple’s future, specifically its plans to
get ahead of the AI transformation. Ternus acknowledged that AI is
“an immense kind of inflection point,” but couched it as one of
many leaps that Apple has navigated. Each hit product — the Apple
II, the Mac, iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, iPad — piggybacked on
a previous product. “We never think about shipping a technology,”
he said. “We want to ship amazing products, features, and
experiences, and we don’t want our customers to think about what
[underlying] technology makes it possible. That’s the way we think
about AI.”</p>
<p>That’s fine, but I look back to the mid-2000s when everybody was
waiting for Apple to come out with a phone. When Jobs finally
delivered in January 2007, the product defined the mobile era.
It’s a big ask for Ternus to do something similar for the AI age — but it’s an opportunity that must be seized. AI threatens to
disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem. By the end of this decade,
it’s unlikely that people will swipe on their phones to tap on
Uber or Lyft. They will just tell their always-on AI agent to get
them home. Or that agent will have already figured out where they
need to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a
request. “There’s an app for that,” may be replaced by “Let the
agent do that.”</p>
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<p>I’m a huge longtime Steven Levy fan, but this is nonsense. It’s hard to read this and not worry that he too has lost his mind to the AI snake-oil hypesters. What Ternus told him is exactly right. The Apple way is never to ship a technology. The iPod wasn’t about MP3 files. It wasn’t about <a href="https://www.wired.com/2006/10/straight-dope-on-the-ipods-birth/">1.8-inch hard drives</a>. It was about music. The iPhone did define the mobile era (which we’re still very much in), but Apple doesn’t need to capitalize on every single market the mobile era opened up. Social media is a defining component of the mobile era. It comprises the entirety of Meta’s value and a sizable slice of Google’s (via YouTube). Apple doesn’t have a social network business. It’s fine — because the way people consume and create social media is using their phones.</p>
<p>Does AI “threaten to disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem”? It’s possible, but it doesn’t seem nearly as likely to me as Levy asserts. <em>Changing</em> the iPhone ecosystem? Sure — that’s already true. <em>Obviating</em> the iPhone ecosystem? I don’t see it. Levy’s argument reminds me of the hype around “the cloud” when that first became a term. It’s so meaningless when used broadly (e.g. “<em>Everything will soon be in the cloud</em>”) that it could mean anything. It’s step #2 in the <a href="https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes">gnomes-stealing-underpants</a> master plan.</p>
<p>The idea that AI agents “will have already figured out where [we] need to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a request” strikes me as pure fever dream high-on-the-hype fantasy. I’m just going to step outside a restaurant when I’m done eating a meal and a ride-share is going to be there, waiting for me, without my having hailed it? Every time? And I’m going to find this pleasing, not creepy? And ride-share drivers are going to respond to all these requests, because the requests will never be wrong? And this is going to happen, somehow, without my carrying a phone with me? And this is going to happen in the next four years? I don’t think I’d want this even if it were plausible, but it doesn’t sound plausible.</p>
<p>Actual products have to be real. Actual experiences have to rely on actual products. How exactly in Levy’s end-of-this-decade scenario will we tell our “always-on AI agent” to get us home? What microphone is listening to the command? What speaker is telling us the request was understood and acted upon? What screen do we look at to see how far away the hailed car is? I’d bet a pretty large sum of money that in 2030, when someone hails a ride-share vehicle to take them home, the most common product they’ll use to do that will be their phone. Whether they’re doing it via a verbal command issued to an “always-on AI agent” or good old tapping and swiping, it’ll be a phone.</p>
<p>If you think that people will buy smaller devices to replace their phones, and use those to talk to “always-on AI agents” instead, you have to answer some questions. What company is the best in the world at making smaller-than-phone personal computing devices? What device will people use as their camera? What device will people use as their screen, for watching videos, playing games, texting, and (one hopes) reading? My answers to those three questions: Apple, phone, phone. Why would smaller devices — you know, like watches, earbuds, and, say, glasses — work independently rather than pair with the phone that you’re almost certainly still going to be carrying with you?</p>
<p>Only a fool would argue that Apple can stand on the sidelines and ignore AI. It’s very different from, say, social media that way. Social media doesn’t pervade everything in technology. You can ignore social media as a user. (And you’re probably more productive, and happier, if you do.) A company can eschew social media as a business. AI, on the other hand, is pervasive. It can’t be ignored. But it’s just technology.</p>
<p>Wireless networking is pervasive too. But Apple doesn’t have “a killer wireless networking product”.<sup id="fnr1-2026-05-16"><a href="#fn1-2026-05-16">1</a></sup> Wireless networking simply pervades everything Apple makes. I’m hard pressed to think of a single product Apple makes that doesn’t use some combination of Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, and proprietary wireless protocols. There was a time, not <em>too</em> long ago, when Apple didn’t make a single product with wireless connectivity. Now it’s pervasive in all their devices. That’s more what AI is going to be like. There’s not going to be one “killer AI device”. Everything is going to be an AI device, to some extent, just like how everything today is a wireless connectivity device, to some extent.</p>
<p><strong>Postscript:</strong> “<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/18/existing-stakeholders-have-a-say-in-the-future">Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future</a>”.</p>
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<p>AirPort qualified, arguably. But Apple walked away from it, alas. <a href="#fnr1-2026-05-16" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎</a></p>
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<p>Verizon has sprung for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmntndEXWo">a new ad campaign</a> set in the <em>Austin Powers</em> world, with four stars from the cast — Mike Myers, of course, as Dr. Evil; Rob Lowe as Number Two (Robert Wagner is alive but is 96); Seth Green as Evil’s son Scott, and Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina — and director Jay Roach. The premise of the two-minute spot is that Dr. Evil is proposing “Menace Mobile”, a wireless carrier with confusing pricing and plans. Scott pooh-poohs the idea on the grounds that “This isn’t evil. This is just typical phone company stuff.” Then, after some back-and-forth, comes this exchange:</p>
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<p>Scott: Diabolical phone companies are why we’re all switching to
Verizon.</p>
<p>Dr. Evil: I thought Verizon was just like the rest of the wireless
organizations.</p>
<p>Scott: Well, they were, but not anymore. They just got rid of
activation and upgrade fees. They’re changing everything.</p>
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<p>I don’t think the commercial is particularly funny, alas, but I do find it extraordinary, because of the exchange quoted above. “Well, they were, but not anymore” is one the most extraordinary lines I’ve heard in a commercial. They’re just flat out admitting that, until recently, they ran their business like a scheme from Dr. Evil.</p>
<p>I’ve been on Verizon for a long time. It’s expensive, but so was AT&T, and I’ve always felt like I got better service and better coverage from Verizon (which is why I switched in the first place). But just last year I did the wrong thing when I bought my iPhone 17 Pro. I should have bought it unlocked, but instead I bought it as a device upgrade tied to my Verizon account, and the bastards nicked me for a $30 upgrade fee. I’d like to think that will never happen again because they’re actually dropping all of their bullshit fees, but I’ll believe it when I see it.</p>
<p><em><a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/austin-powers-international-man-of-mystery/">Austin Powers</a></em>, by the way, came out in 1997. In the film, Powers was frozen since 1967. That means next year, we’ll be as far removed from the debut of the movie as unfrozen Austin Powers was from the groovy 60s in the film.</p>
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<title>Cotypist – Smart Autocomplete Utility for Mac</title>
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<p>Usually when I link to a new app, it’s something that I find useful personally. <a href="https://cotypist.app/">Cotypist</a> is something else. It’s an AI-powered autocomplete utility for the Mac, using on-device models and processing, by developer Daniel Gräfe of Accelerated Thought. It is very well-designed, and remarkably Mac-assed (right down to <a href="https://cotypist.app/uninstall">where it stores</a> its local data and AI models). It respects your privacy and all the best conventions of MacOS. Cotypist suggests a few words ahead of your insertion point at a time, and you can accept them by hitting Tab; if you want to ignore them, you just keep typing. The autocomplete suggestions appear inline, in whatever app you’re typing in, using your current font. I wasn’t even aware that was possible, but it is via MacOS’s rich accessibility APIs. Cotypist’s suggestions are eerily good. It’s even got a great name.</p>
<p>Personally, I can’t stand using it.</p>
<p>For me, it’s actually worse that the suggestions are so good, and so often on-point for what I intend to write. That’s why I can’t stand it. It’s like having a voice in my ear whispering my own thoughts before I think them. But are they my thoughts, or are they just <em>close</em> to my thoughts? They’re so close I can’t tell. And thus the experience of seeing these words appear before I’ve typed them feels more like a curse than a blessing, and a never-ending distraction. I’d find Cotypist far less distracting if its suggestions weren’t as good — but in that case it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting or useful, and I wouldn’t be writing about it at all.</p>
<p>But I’m a writer. I enjoy writing. Writing is probably the most satisfying and fulfilling thing I do in life. I enjoy picking every word as I get to it. I find a blinking insertion point in the middle of a good but half-written sentence to be thrilling. But you might feel otherwise. Perhaps you find all writing to be a laborious chore, like washing dishes. Or you might have a job that requires answering a lot of repetitive emails. I’ve done email technical support in the past, and I would have killed for Cotypist then. I would imagine Cotypist is simply marvelous for someone who writes English as a second language.</p>
<p>It’s absolutely worth trying if you think you might want to use it, and probably worth trying just to see it in action even if, like me, you don’t want something like this. Trying it out might change your mind. There’s a free tier for casual use (100 completed words per day), <a href="https://cotypist.app/pricing">and Plus and Pro paid tiers</a> for $6 and $9 per month. New installations get a 30-day free trial of the Pro tier.</p>
<p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npxlJdxSv4A">Quinn “Snazzy Labs” Nelson’s review on YouTube</a>.</p>
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</entry><entry>
<title>New Domain for Sign In With Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=sus6t6ab" />
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<published>2026-06-18T17:13:48Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T18:55:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Apple Developer:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign
in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared
domain: <code>private.icloud.com</code>.</p>
<p>New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the
new domain. For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on
<code>privaterelay.appleid.com</code>, will be issued on
<code>private.icloud.com</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses, previously issued on
<code>icloud.com</code>, will be issued on <code>private.icloud.com</code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and
forward mail to users without interruption.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless/">Initial reaction</a> to this change is that it <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/17/new-hide-my-email-domain-makes-it-easier-to-block/">might render “Hide My Email” ineffective</a>, because shitbird services will simply ban the domain, trying to force you to use your primary email address. It seems inevitable that <em>some</em> number of services will do this. But my retort is that a service that won’t accept these email addresses is one that I probably don’t want to have anything to do with. The only reason <em>not</em> to accept <code>private.icloud.com</code> email addresses is if you want to do something invasive with users’ actual email addresses.</p>
<div>
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</entry><entry>
<title>NetNewsWire Status</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T16:59:08Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T16:59:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>Brent Simmons, writing at Inessential:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on
<a href="https://netnewswire.com/">NetNewsWire</a>.</p>
<p>A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt
pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the
foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding
new rooms.</p>
<p>Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 commits in
the past year.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>NetNewsWire was already one of my favorite, most-used, most indispensable apps. Now it’s much better and improving steadily at a rapid clip. You love to see it.</p>
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</entry><entry>
<title>SpaceX, Newly Public, to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in SpaceX Funny-Money Stock</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisition-ipo.html" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2026:/linked//6.43132</id>
<published>2026-06-18T16:49:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T20:55:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>CNBC, two days ago:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized
revenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also
ranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The
$60 billion in class A common stock that SpaceX has agreed to pay
to acquire Cursor represented a 3.4% dilution at the aerospace and
tech conglomerate’s IPO valuation.</p>
<p>Shares of SpaceX gained roughly 16% on Tuesday, topping Amazon and
Microsoft by market cap and making it the fourth most valuable
company in the U.S.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>SpaceX is an amazing company but this valuation is insane. The idea that it’s even close to as valuable as Microsoft or Amazon is bananas. SpaceX still isn’t even profitable, so its price-to-earnings ratio is literally infinity. It’s halfway through Thursday as I post this and SpaceX is down ~10 percent on the day, so a touch of sanity is being restored, at least at the moment.</p>
<p>Cursor, with $1 billion in sales, certainly isn’t worth 60× revenue — especially in a business where it too isn’t profitable. But who cares when you’re paying with funny-money stock?</p>
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<title>Tim Cook, in Interview With WSJ: ‘Unfortunately, Price Increases Are Unavoidable’</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T15:49:47Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T18:55:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging
costs of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said
in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. “We’re
doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being
passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from
the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable.”</p>
<p>Cook declined to offer details on the timing or scale of the
planned price increases, nor which products would be affected.
Apple’s next major product launch is likely to be in September
when it releases the iPhone 18 lineup, expected to include a new
foldable iPhone. [...]</p>
<p>Cook said Apple wouldn’t use its cash and silicon expertise to
build its own memory and storage factories. “We can’t do
everything,” said Cook. “We know what we’re good at.” [...] Cook
said during his time working in the electronics supply chain, from
IBM to Compaq to Apple, he had never seen a commodity price swing
like the one from the past six months. “This is a hundred-year
flood,” said Cook. “I’ve never seen anything like it in any area
in over 40 years.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Apple, to my recollection, has never before issued a warning about price increases. Keep in mind that Apple deals with prices in a very different way from its competitors. For Apple, prices are part of a product’s brand, so they don’t fluctuate with component costs. The trash can Mac Pro held its $3000 starting price for six years, despite its specs remaining effectively unchanged in that span.</p>
<p>So when Apple raises prices on the iPhone 18 Pro models this September (and, presumably, launches the folding iPhone “Ultra” with an eye-watering price), expect those prices to stick. And if Apple expects RAM and SSD component pricing to continue rising through 2027 — which is what many anticipate — they might build that into the pricing now. Raise prices by (say) $200 now rather than $100 this year and another $100 next year.</p>
<p>Also, credit to Tim Cook for taking this one personally, months ahead of the iPhone 18 launch, rather than leaving it to John Ternus to serve up a surprise shit sandwich in his first keynote as CEO.</p>
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<title>Snap Unveils Specs, Its $2,200 AR Glasses, and They’re Fugly</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T01:33:15Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T01:33:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs,
which Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into
see-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can
preorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable
deposit, and Snap says they’re expected to ship “this fall” in the
US, UK, and France. [...]</p>
<p>The company says that Specs are “fully standalone, with no puck
and no tether.” (Which is perhaps a jab at Apple’s Vision Pro,
which is tethered to a separate battery pack.) They’ll be offered
in two sizes, a 47mm model weighing 132g and a 52mm model weighing
136g, and will have removable inserts that Snap says will support
“a wide range of prescriptions.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Unlike Vision Pro, Snap is presenting Specs as eyeglasses that users will wear out and about in their daily lives. Viewed perfectly straight-on and photographed by a professional fashion photographer — <a href="https://www.specs.com/">as presented on the Specs website</a> — they’re a bold look. Viewed from any other angle and captured normally, they look like goggles, not glasses. The frames look orthopedic and the lenses are not even close to clear. They make you look like you forgot to take off your goggles leaving the theater after a 3D movie — goggles that are big enough to wear over regular glasses.</p>
<p>Maybe Specs are useful enough to justify looking so orthopedic, but I doubt it.</p>
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<title>Vehicle Motion Cues — a.k.a. Apple’s Weird Anti-Nausea Dots</title>
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<published>2026-06-18T01:15:27Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T01:15:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>Thomas Ricker, writing for The Verge:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>I’ll just work from the car</em>, I thought. But after a few minutes
of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel
the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that
sweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but
nothing helped... until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.</p>
<p>Introduced in 2024, Apple’s <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios">Vehicle Motion Cues</a> promise to
tap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or,
in my case, even <em>eliminate</em> the motion sickness felt when trying
to use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>My son has suffered from motion sickness in cars his whole life, and Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues work like a charm for him too. What a great feature.</p>
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<title>Yours Truly on MacBreak Weekly: Is the New Siri AI Good?</title>
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<published>2026-06-17T15:41:54Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-17T16:03:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>MacBreak Weekly:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel
this week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. Why
Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU
initially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra’s launch be
delayed this year?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It’s fun to be the guest, not the host, of a podcast. I took Jason Snell’s usual panelist spot this week, alongside Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren. Lots to cover, including a week of real-life experience using the new Siri AI. (It’s really good!)</p>
<p>Also, sometimes you just know what the episode title of a podcast is going to be, the moment a phrase is uttered. This was one of those episodes, with “<a href="https://intimatefunctionalities.com/">Intimate Functionalities</a>”.</p>
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<title>Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘# the **Epic** Story of Markdown’</title>
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<published>2026-06-17T15:37:42Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-17T15:38:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>David Pierce, host of The Vergecast:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John
joins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where
Markdown came from and <a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/">how it took over the world</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Markdown has been growing steadily for years, but it’s seen a step change in popularity now that it’s been embraced as the lingua franca of LLM agentic systems. I had an interesting all-too-brief chat last week in Cupertino with some people from Apple’s developer tools team about how it feels to see Markdown spread everywhere — <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/apple-developer-%E2%80%98markdown%E2%80%99-WWDC-2026.png">including WWDC</a>. In a word, gratifying.</p>
<p>But the biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions for formatting plain text. If everyone agrees to the same basic conventions, plain text can be significantly more expressive than a string of unformatted characters.</p>
<p>That’s it. So what I find gratifying isn’t that my “language” continues to thrive, because it’s not a language. It’s that the way I like to format plain text when I’m writing, and the way I like to see plain text formatted when I’m reading, has so thoroughly won the world’s mindshare battle. “Ha-ha”, I say, to people who want *this* to mean bold, not italic. (And to Slack and WhatsApp, I say “Fuck you.”)</p>
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</entry><entry>
<title>Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift</title>
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<published>2026-06-17T00:50:18Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-17T00:51:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhone
Mirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare I
say, quite fun. Should we judge how much fun each side of the
continental divide is having by how much fun they theoretically
<em>could</em> be having, or by how much fun they <em>are</em> having?</p>
<p>As it stands, the fun side is not the EU. But hope springs
eternal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Here we are two years later and I think the answer is more clear than ever which side of the continental divide is more fun. It’s not the EU. EU users still don’t have iPhone Mirroring and until and unless the European Commission changes its interpretation of the DMA, they likely never will. It’s a great feature.</p>
<p>Apple Intelligence, as we knew it until last week, eventually <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/01/apple-intelligence-is-now-fully-supported-in-the-eu-with-ios-18-4/">came to the EU</a>, about six months after it shipped for the rest of us. One can reasonably argue that EU iPhone and iPad users didn’t miss much during those six months. And that there hasn’t been that much to enjoy since Apple Intelligence debuted in the EU in iOS 18.4. That changed last week with the introduction of the first beta release of iOS 27. Siri AI is really good, truly useful, and genuinely <em>fun</em>. And it is not on pace to come to the EU six months after iOS 27 ships this fall. It is currently on pace to come to the EU <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly">never</a>.</p>
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<title>New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/apples-app-store-rolls-out-personalized-recommendations/" />
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<published>2026-06-16T16:12:31Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-16T23:09:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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<p>Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This week, Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-expands-app-store-capabilities-to-help-developers-grow-and-reach-new-users/">announced</a> a series of discovery features
that will personalize app recommendations based on users’
interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have
their app discovered.</p>
<p>At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone
maker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which
will showcase recommendations tailored to the individual. These
will also include new “App Notes” that explain why the specific
apps were recommended to you. Starting this week, you’ll find
these new personalized suggestions in various places in the App
Store, including the Apps or Games tab or on the Search tab.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Security research critics Mysk, posting <a href="https://x.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888">on Twitter/X</a> (<a href="https://xcancel.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888">XCancel link</a>), report that the App Store app seemingly sends analytics usage data to Apple with everything you do in the App Store app, including exactly what you type, character-by-character — and that this isn’t for search suggestions, but for analytics. (<a href="https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/12/app-store-personalized-recommendations-and-keylogging/">Via Michael Tsai</a>.)</p>
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<title>The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly</title>
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<p>The Washington Post editorial board yesterday (<a href="https://apple.news/AxhcCCGY8SS6bHY5xCvwhQA">News+ link</a>), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Brussels insists the decision is “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/09/siri-ai-europe-apple/19fab4a2-6401-11f1-bdd4-805ebb99a693_story.html">Apple’s and Apple’s only</a>” and
that nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the
launch. That’s technically true and wholly beside the point.</p>
<p>The law requires that the moment Siri AI ships in Europe, any
rival AI agent must get the same sweeping access to a user’s
messages, files and chat history. Apple proposed putting in a
software security layer to make that safe and offered a phased
rollout to build it. According to Apple, the European Commission
<a href="https://apple.news/AqSYonAtHQfCs_AOO4-n44w">rejected the proposal</a>.</p>
<p>The DMA was supposed to <a href="https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en">open markets</a>. But its legal logic was
born in the era of browsers, app stores and messaging apps. These
components can be swapped like batteries.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The DMA effectively demands everything to be swappable/interchangeable. So while the European Commission is correct that the DMA does not forbid Apple from launching <em>a</em> version of Siri AI, it clearly forbids Apple from launching the version of Siri AI they actually built.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Behind all this lies the dream that Europe could be a “<a href="https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/232/">regulatory
superpower</a>.” It wanted to create a market too big to skip that
would, by virtue of its heft, end up exporting its rules to the
rest of the world. That hasn’t worked out.</p>
<p>When adapting a product for Europe costs more than European market
access is worth, companies no longer comply. They simply leave out
the feature.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That’s the folly of the DMA, or at least the maximal interpretation of the DMA that the European Commission is pursuing. It only makes sense under the assumption that the EU is too big a market to ignore, and the EU’s market might is such that systems will be designed to meet their compliance standards, regardless of whether the makers of these systems support the regulations or not. (And in the case of Apple with iOS and Google with Android, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/">the two companies are in lockstep</a> in their opposition to the EU’s regulations on system-level AI interoperability.)</p>
<p>First, the EU is big but it isn’t <em>that</em> big. The best estimate I’ve seen is that <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue">the EU accounts for about 7% of Apple’s worldwide revenue</a>. Plus, because of the DMA, the cost of doing business in the EU is now significantly higher for Apple and Google, because they need to engineer DMA-compliant versions of various features and systems. Unless, that is, they stop bringing (a long and <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/19/iphone-mirroring-eu-numerama">ever-growing</a> list of) new features to the EU.</p>
<p>Which brings me to my second point. What exactly is the motivation for Apple and Google to engineer entirely separate systems for the EU to bring new features into compliance with the Commission’s broad interpretation of the DMA? Because if Apple doesn’t engineer a DMA-compliant version of Siri AI, iOS users in the EU will ... switch to Android, whose system-level AI was deemed noncompliant by the Commission a few months ago?</p>
<p>This doesn’t directly hurt Apple. It doesn’t force Apple to design, engineer, and ship a compliant EU-exclusive version of Siri AI that supports plug-and-play LLM back ends. It only hurts iPhone <em>users</em> who live in the EU, who are stuck with the old dumb version of Siri for the foreseeable future. The European Commission is either stupid or insane.</p>
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<title>The European Commission Ruled Months Ago That Google’s Integration of Gemini in Android Violates the DMA</title>
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<published>2026-06-15T18:58:22Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-15T23:31:36Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way
AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is
straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked
system-wide via hot words or button presses. This might also
include allowing AI tools to view screen context when the user
opens them. Context also extends to allowing alternative AI
systems to access local data to generate proactive suggestions and
summaries. The report actually describes something that sounds
like Google’s Magic Cue, which relies on Gemini to offer
suggestions based on your activity.</p>
<p>Google has also started experimenting with allowing AI to control
certain apps. As we saw when this feature <a href="https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2026/03/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-review-private-and-performant/">debuted on the Galaxy
S26</a>, Gemini is currently pretty bad at using apps on your behalf.
The commission wants to explore allowing other AI services to
autonomously control installed apps and system features on Android
phones. Maybe someone else could do better?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Maybe! But also maybe it’s a bad idea for complex system architecture design to come from non-technical government bureaucrats. One of these maybes strikes me as a lot more likely than the other.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Many of the Gemini AI features in Android, including Magic Cue,
rely on running local models, and Google has been slow to allow
third parties the system access to make that work effectively. So
the EU is also suggesting a mandate that would ensure developers
have the necessary hardware access to run local models “with high
levels of performance, availability and responsiveness.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/">What</a> could go wrong?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Finally, Google may be required under the DMA to create new APIs
and offer technical assistance to other AI makers who want to plug
into Android. The commission also specifies that these tools must
be made available free of charge.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Of course, it’s not free of charge to provide technical assistance to one’s competitors. It’s actually a great expense.</p>
<p>Here’s the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_887">European Commission, announcing these “preliminary findings”</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The proposed measures aim to ensure that competing AI services can
effectively interact with applications on users’ Android devices
and execute tasks accordingly, such as sending an email using the
user’s preferred email app, ordering food or sharing a photo with
friends. Currently, Google largely reserves these capabilities for
use by its own AI offerings on Android phones and tablets. For
example, the measures would allow competing AI services to be
easily activated by users, using a custom ‘wake word’, a phrase
that the user can speak to activate an AI service.</p>
<p>The proposed measures will also enable competing providers of AI
services to innovate and offer deeply integrated AI experiences to
users on Android phones and tablets, along with Alphabet’s own AI
services, such as Gemini. Opening up access to these capabilities
will provide Android users across the EU with a wider choice of AI
services.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The difference between Google and Apple on this front is that Google just blazed ahead and shipped Gemini integrated into Android in the EU, and is now facing compliance problems after shipping. (Ask forgiveness.) Apple isn’t shipping Siri AI in the EU in iOS 27, knowing that it’s going to be deemed non-compliant. (Ask permission.)</p>
<p>The EC presumes that these measures “will also enable competing providers of AI services to innovate and offer deeply integrated AI experiences to users on Android phones and tablets”. Again: maybe! But really all they can enforce is that “competing providers of AI services” will have the same level of system-level integration that Google’s AI services have. The easiest way for Google to achieve that is by withdrawing Gemini integration in Android from the EU, not by building APIs and privacy protection mechanisms to enable the capabilities for third-party providers that the EC is demanding.</p>
<p>Google is learning the lesson Apple learned the hard way with all the existing features of iOS that were deemed noncompliant with the DMA when it went into effect. The “ship it first and ask forgiveness / hope it’s deemed compliant” strategy is not a good one in the EU.</p>
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<title>WorkOS Launches Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration</title>
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<p>My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration.</p>
<p>Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.</p>
<p>Markdown, baby. Who’d have thunk it?</p>
<p>With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application. Read the <a href="https://workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q22026">Auth.md docs</a>, and watch its on-stage introduction <a href="https://youtu.be/Dqp_b8GHLXU?t=1074">at the MCP Night: Agent Night keynote</a>.</p>
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<title>‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’</title>
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<p>Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to
help its competitors; on the other hand, what should be
blisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone
else other than them should even be making frontier LLMs.</p>
<p>What makes this policy all the more remarkable is the fact that it
was enacted only two months after Anthropic had that dispute with
the Department of War: the latter wanted to use Claude for any
legal use, while the former wanted more stringent controls around
surveillance and autonomous weapons. What this degradation
represented was both the capability and willingness of Anthropic
to silently alter its models to achieve its policy preferences. In
other words, Anthropic willfully validated some of its critics’
worst fears in terms of being a supply chain risk.</p>
<p>The broader takeaway from that previous episode, however, is that
Anthropic believes that they are the ones who should have final
say over how Anthropic is used; given that they think only they
should be developing leading edge AI, they by extension think that
only they should have final say over AI generally. When you
further combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements
about AI’s ability to conduct all economic activity, you realize
that Anthropic’s leadership effectively wants to have power over
everything and everyone.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Anthropic is best seen as a religious organization. Their employees are true believers in a cause, and on a mission. Perhaps every successful company has a religious aspect at its core — like, maybe, Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit. These companies tend to attract employees who believe in the company’s core mission, and the employees who believe tend to be the ones who thrive and rise within the companies’ ranks to positions of influence.</p>
<p>But Anthropic feels more like a real religion, where the core tenets must be taken on faith, and the priests (Anthropic employees) have a conviction about them. A religious fervor. If Apple gets too taken away by its cultural fervor for design, they do something silly like make a <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2014/09/apple_watch">$20,000 solid gold Apple Watch</a>. So what? If Microsoft or Google get taken away by their shared fervor for market share at all costs, they face antitrust remedies. A stifled market and abusive behavior from a monopolist isn’t good, but doesn’t end the world.</p>
<p>A religious fervor that believes the company is building god-like “super intelligence” that will dwarf human intelligence — and that only the company’s priesthood can be trusted to define, create, control, and gate access to it — is something else entirely. I tend to think the Anthropic true believers are all wet — that LLMs, amazing though they are, are not a path toward “super intelligence”. But, they used to be clearly behind OpenAI in technical capability, then caught up, and now with Mythos/Fable, they are clearly ahead. I still think they’re wrong about where this is heading, but I don’t think we can say we <em>know</em> they’re wrong.</p>
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<title>Trump’s Name (Set in the Wrong Font, of Course) Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center</title>
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<published>2026-06-13T17:34:15Z</published>
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<p>Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.</p>
<p>Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the
front of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the
center missed <a href="https://apple.news/A7OCrODYuS32yuG7E19AjDg">a federal judge’s two-week deadline</a> to do so.
The judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of
trustees to rename it was illegal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.</p>
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<title>Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Third-Party Developers</title>
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<published>2026-06-13T17:20:59Z</published>
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<p>From Apple’s Developer site:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as
accessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business
Program with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads
will be able to use Apple Foundation Models running on Private
Cloud Compute (PCC) with no cloud API cost. The model provides
access to frontier level intelligence with unparalleled privacy
protections. This makes it easy for small developers to get
started building intelligent app experiences without upfront
infrastructure costs.</p>
<p><strong>Eligibility requirements</strong></p>
<p>Access to PCC is available to developers who meet the following
criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li>Are enrolled in the <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/">App Store Small Business Program</a>.</li>
<li>Have fewer than 2 million <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/#app-downloads">first-time app downloads</a> from
any of their apps on the App Store.</li>
<li>Have the Private Cloud Compute entitlement <a href="https://developer.apple.com/help/account/capabilities/capability-requests">assigned to their
account</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Where Apple Intelligence is available, eligible developers can use
PCC in their apps distributed on the App Store, and test PCC
features via TestFlight or ad hoc distribution. Installs during
testing are not counted as first-time app downloads.</p>
<p>If any app subsequently exceeds the 2 million first-time downloads
threshold, or the developer is no longer enrolled in the App Store
Small Business Program, the developer will be notified and must
migrate to an alternative solution within 6 months. Information
about first-time downloads is available in <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/#app-downloads">Analytics in App Store
Connect</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>These strict limits don’t seem to be getting as much attention as they should. It’s nice that for small developers who meet the above criteria, access to PCC has no cost. But there’s no way (yet?) to buy your way out of these limits. There are no paid API tiers for larger developers who exceed the above limits, or for developers who qualify now but release a hit app that grows to exceed them. (Users who pay for iCloud+ don’t have any extra quotas for PCC usage in third-party apps either.)</p>
<p>The “fewer than 2 million first-time app downloads from any of their apps” restriction is particularly notable. It’s not 2 million installations for apps that are using PCC, but 2 million downloads for <em>any app the developer has ever released</em>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@_inside/116742529849306484">Developer Gui Rambo writes</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>So uhhhh… Apple should really rethink the Private Cloud Compute
developer access limitation. I do happen to have an app that’s had
more than 2 million downloads. That app is ChibiStudio, an app
that’s been in the App Store for over 10 years. It’s not like I’m
getting a million new users every year nowadays. And I’m also not
making any real money with it 🥲</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The bottom line is that — for the OS 27 cycle at least — PCC is primarily a feature for Apple itself to use in Siri AI. Granting access to PCC to any third-party developers at all is better than nothing, but this 2-million-download cap cuts off many developers who are in the Small Business Program. Apple should reconsider that. And I know there are a lot of developers who exceed the eligibility for the Small Business Program who would love to have access to the PCC APIs, even if access was paid. The lack of paid tiers says to me that Apple is worried enough about meeting demand from Siri AI users alone.</p>
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<title>U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds</title>
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<published>2026-06-13T17:02:29Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-15T16:44:53Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Anthropic:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The US government, citing national security authorities, has
issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable
5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside
the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.</p>
<p>We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm
(ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national
security concern. Our understanding is that the government
believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or
“jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this
specific technique being used to identify a small number of
previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all
appear relatively simple, and we have found that other
publicly-available models are able to discover them as well
without requiring a bypass.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5">Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were announced on Tuesday</a> — that post has detailed comparisons, from Anthropic, on the models’ capabilities.</p>
<p>Having the access ban extend all the way to “foreign national Anthropic employees” is, to say the least, aggressive. Whether that degree of restriction is truly warranted, I don’t think we, on the outside, can say. The Trump administration lacks credibility, to say the least, when it comes to foreign nationals. But it’s Anthropic itself that repeatedly compares the power of frontier models to nuclear weapons. Here’s CEO Dario Amodei, <a href="https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential">in an essay published just this month</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>There may come a time, perhaps relatively soon, when we need to go
beyond this, when the most powerful AI systems look less like
airplanes or automobiles and more like weaponizable nuclear
materials — a threat to humanity rather than “just” a threat to
public safety. If that occurs, we may need more aggressive
regulatory measures than those I have laid out.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>If that occurs — or if it already <em>has</em> occurred — it’s obviously not the place of Anthropic (or OpenAI or Google) to render that judgment. <a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/">Ben Thompson wrote about this presciently</a> back in March, and linking to his post, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/02/anthropic-and-alignment">I wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Nilay Patel, quoting the same section of Thompson’s column I
quoted above, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/reckless.bsky.social/post/3mg3qayzjlc2m">sees it as</a> “Ben Thompson making a
full-throated case for fascism”. I see it as the case against
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy">corporatocracy</a>. Who sets our defense policies? Our
democratically elected leaders, or the CEOs of corporate defense
contractors?</p>
</blockquote>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
<summary type="text">Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.</summary>
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<p>Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.</p>
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<p><strong>Audio-only version:</strong> <a href="https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/06/14/ep-449">In the usual place</a>, and wherever you get your podcasts.</p>
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<title>★ The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026</title></entry><entry>
<title>The WWDC 2026 Keynote and State of the Union on YouTube</title>
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<published>2026-06-12T17:28:19Z</published>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, <em>except</em> the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can <a href="https://software.charliemonroe.net/downie/">grab it</a> from YouTube.</p>
<p>Speaking of the State of the Union, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2jsIoMfDU">the full version</a> runs just over an hour, but Apple cut together <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM8krtCkEmQ">a 4.5-minute recap</a>. If you haven’t watched the full thing you should at least watch that recap.</p>
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<title>The European Commission Response to Siri AI and the DMA</title>
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<published>2026-06-12T17:02:45Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-13T02:11:38Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Thomas Regnier, <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/about/contact/press-services/press-contacts/commissions-spokespersons-service_en">spokesperson</a> for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out
“Siri AI” in the EU?</p>
<p>This decision is Apple’s and Apple’s only.</p>
<p>Because absolutely nothing in the DMA prohibits Apple from rolling
out new features in the EU.</p>
<p>Yes, the European Commission and Apple had a few contacts on
“Siri AI”.</p>
<p>But instead of offering a compliant solution, Apple asked to be
exempted from its interoperability obligations under the DMA — and this for 18 months.</p>
<p>That’s not an option. EU rules are non negotiable.</p>
<p>And it would mean that no AI agent other than “Siri AI” could be
chosen by EU consumers.</p>
<p>Apple, like any other gatekeeper, cannot close the market. The DMA
is very clear about that.</p>
<p>Our developers have the right to compete. And our consumers the
right to choose.</p>
<p>Those who want to keep using Apple products in their current form
can of course do it.</p>
<p>But for those who want to use another AI agent, the DMA will give
them the possibility to do so.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why this was posted to LinkedIn and not on the EC’s own <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en">press website</a> is as inexplicable as Regnier’s bizarre choice to spread 14 short sentences across 10 paragraphs. I quoted the entirety of the statement nonetheless, to give the EC their full say. I’ll let it speak for itself in this post, but this does not contradict <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/11/apple-dma-siri-ai">Apple’s position</a> or statements in any way.</p>
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<title>Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’</title>
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<published>2026-06-11T21:58:49Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-11T22:00:08Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI
system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the
ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s
ongoing visibility and control. That includes the ability to read
and send messages, make purchases, access files, and execute
actions across any app. Security researchers have already shown
that AI systems can be hijacked to steal personal data — like
passwords and photos — and to permanently alter files and
account settings without a user’s consent. As AI systems gain
more capabilities, these risks are quickly increasing in
frequency and scope.</p>
<p>Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called
Trusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual
assistants to safely access the same features and capabilities as
Siri AI for devices in the EU. Apple also shared a plan to launch
Siri AI in the EU while gradually rolling out this new solution
over an 18-month period. The European Commission said no. In fact,
the European Commission did not agree to any of Apple’s proposals.</p>
<p>Apple will continue working to bring these features to the
European Union as safely as possible. However, given the clear
dangers to EU users and the regulators’ failure to acknowledge
these risks, there is currently no timeline for Siri AI’s
availability in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There’s a lot to unpack here, including more background information — and on-the-record statements — from a briefing Apple held Tuesday that I was invited to at Apple Park. But the bottom line is that Apple’s public statements regarding the DMA and the European Commission have never been this strident before. In its public statements, Apple has always been <em>diplomatic</em>. That’s the word.</p>
<p>Now, they’re a bit more on war footing. There’s a massive gulf between what Apple is willing to do with Siri AI in the EU and what the Commission is demanding from Apple for DMA compliance. As things stand there’s no middle ground. Apple’s offers for compromise have been rejected. Unless one side changes its mind and concedes its current position, Siri AI will <em>never</em> come to the EU, and what Apple is saying here is that they’re unwilling to create the open-access-to-user-data system that the EC is demanding.</p>
<p>And from what I’ve seen so far in a day of testing Siri AI, EU iOS users are going to miss out on something really good.</p>
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<title>Spielberg on Being Repeatedly Turned Down to Direct a James Bond Film</title>
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<p>Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I approached Cubby Broccoli after <em>Jaws</em> was a big hit. I’d always
wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw <em>Dr. No</em>, so I
called Cubby after <em>Jaws</em> and volunteered. I said, “If you need a
director, I would love to direct one.” And he said no. And he
moved on.</p>
<p>And then Cubby called me again after <em>Close Encounters</em> came out.
And that was a big hit. And Cubby called me a few years after
<em>Close Encounters</em> and said, “We’d like to use the five notes in
<em>Moonraker</em>.” And I said, “I’ll make you a deal. I’ll give you
permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond
film.” And he said “Nope.” But I gave him the five notes anyway.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In <em>Moonraker</em>, the iconic <em>Close Encounters</em> notes are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZci4tZ-Wfk">the passcode to the locked door of a secret lab</a> that Bond (Roger Moore) needs to enter. Probably not so secure to play the passcode digits audible, but it’s a fun Easter egg. I always presumed that EON used it as fair-use homage, without bothering to ask Spielberg or Columbia Pictures for permission.</p>
<p>Spielberg, in his interview with The Rest Is Entertainment, goes on to explain the oft-repeated story that his disappointment over his rejection by Broccoli led to his collaboration with George Lucas to make <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark</em>, which I put on my short list for best movie ever made. The whole opening sequence of <em>Temple of Doom</em> — where Indiana Jones is wearing a dinner jacket and chaos erupts at a nightclub while Jones chases a vial of poison antidote while the other characters chase a diamond being kicked around the floor — is more Bond-like than most Bond films. (Oh, and that Shanghai nightclub’s name: Club Obi Wan. No need to ask permission for that one.)</p>
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<title>Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage</title>
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<p>Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC
keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to
talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk,
Federighi shared more details about Apple’s collaboration with
Google. Federighi was joined by Amar Subramanya (vice president
of AI), Mike Rockwell (Siri lead), and Sebastien Marineau-Mes
(software VP).</p>
<p>On the Google collaboration, Federighi explained:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none
of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these
models, we use none of the models that Google deploys to their
customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which
they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to
the knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or
anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope
that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.</p>
<p>So let’s talk about what we do use, or how our system is built.</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>This “Tech Talk” was good. It was detailed and technical, and there were live on-stage demos of Siri AI in action from Mike Rockwell. I don’t think Apple is ever going to go back to live on-stage major keynotes, but I do think the company is returning to more live events, including demos. There was a big live Siri AI/Apple Intelligence session for developers Tuesday morning in Steve Jobs Theater, which also had live demos. More like this, please.</p>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
<summary type="text">This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.</summary>
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<p>Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus">Jim Nielsen writing about it</a>, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon in platforms like Google Docs and Windows. You will also recall <a href="https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/">Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov writing about it</a>, illustrating that the bad idea wasn’t even implemented well, with different Apple apps using entirely different icons for the same menu items. You will also recall <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus">my linking to Nielsen</a> (“I can tolerate being angry about UI changes Apple makes to the Mac. But I can’t tolerate being heartbroken.”) and <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/05/hard-to-justify-tahoe-icons">to Prokopov</a> (“The fact that Tahoe’s menu item icons are glaringly inconsistent and often utterly inscrutable is the fudge icing on a shit cake, but the real embarrassment is that the idea ever got past the proposal stage. No real UI <em>or</em> icon designers think this is a good idea. None.”)</p>
<p>Top third-party developers rightly <a href="https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/01/10/removing-tahoes-unwanted-menu-icons/">rejected the design</a>, adopting <a href="https://indieweb.social/@brentsimmons/115846213935605782">open source code from Brent Simmons</a> to disable the default “icons in all standard menu items” behavior.</p>
<p>Wonderful news in MacOS 27 Golden Gate: the icons are gone. It’s like Tahoe’s menu item icons never happened. <a href="https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116720790550648158">Prokopov noted it on Mastodon</a> with before and after screenshots, and mentions that <a href="https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/menus">Apple has updated the Human Interface Guidelines accordingly</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Use menu item icons sparingly and with purpose.</b> Icons allow
people to find menu items more quickly, and help clarify what
selecting an item does. Use an icon to highlight the most common
actions and key features of your app, file system locations,
connected devices, visual concepts like rotating or flipping an
image, and user-generated content like folders and documents.
Don’t display an icon if you can’t find one that clearly
represents the menu item.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This updated advice in the HIG is perfect. Screenshot:</p>
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src = "https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/hig-menu-item-icons.png"
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<p>MacOS 26 Tahoe — across every Apple app on the system — is a living example of the updated HIG’s “what not to do” example illustrations (including the second section about groups within a menu). If you’re stuck using Tahoe until Golden Gate arrives, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/what_to_do_about_those_menu_item_icons_in_macos_26_tahoe">recall this tip</a> to alleviate the problem to some extent.</p>
<p>This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team. I don’t know if all the untalented hacks are gone, but the untalented magazine-designer hacks with clout and influence all left with Alan Dye. I’ve chatted with a few people from Apple’s design team this week and they’re all loving the work they’re doing and the direction they’re taking Apple’s platforms. Backtracking on these idiotic menu item icons was a necessary first step.</p>
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<title>★ Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items</title></entry><entry>
<title>Apple OS 27: The Small Things</title>
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<p>Rishi Ó:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.</p>
<p>Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That’s a lot of bullet points.</p>
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<title>The Talk Show Live From WWDC: Tonight, In-Person and Streaming</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T18:53:47Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-11T00:09:21Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful <em>big</em> theater and tickets <a href="https://ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2026">are still available</a>.</p>
<p>You can <em>also</em> watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/theater-cinema-events/id6502666560">Theater app from Sandwich Vision</a> on Vision Pro. A purchase of the ticket to the live show, the Theater app for $12.99, is also good for replay forever — with surprise bonus features included. It’s a fun, truly immersive way to experience the show.</p>
<p>Hope to see you there tonight, one way or the other.</p>
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<title>Apple WWDC 2026 Keynote</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T17:42:32Z</published>
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<p>A brisk 76 minutes, including the post-credits Easter egg music video. The past few years ran about a half hour longer.</p>
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<title>Apple’s WWDC AI Demos Were Real and in Real Time</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T17:38:21Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:38:22Z</updated>
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<p>Julie Bort, TechCrunch:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was
how it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple
Intelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand,
pressing buttons or using voice commands in real time, while
another camera showed off the phone’s response.</p>
<p>These weren’t live onstage, anything-could-go wrong demos; they
were pre-taped. But they looked far more like proof of working
features than what Apple showed at WWDC 2024, when the company
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/13/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/">unveiled Apple Intelligence and a new Siri</a> to the world
through slickly produced videos that turned out to be more promise
than product.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The demos were all shot in single takes, with no editing. In fact, I think most of them were single takes of multiple demos back-to-back. That’s the way it should be, even when they feel a little slow. When a demo feels slow, the solution isn’t to edit the video — it’s to make the feature work faster.</p>
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<title>Apple Introduces Siri AI</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T17:23:29Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:46:12Z</updated>
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<p>Apple Newsroom yesterday:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing
Siri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find
what they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and
more. For example, users can ask Siri to find a restaurant
recommendation a friend messaged them about, surface a hotel
confirmation number from an old email, or pull up photos with
friends and family from a recent trip. And personal context
understanding extends to third-party apps when developers
integrate with Spotlight.</p>
<p>With even more systemwide app actions, Siri AI lets users get
things done across apps, like drafting an email from scratch, or
editing and sharing a set of photos. Using onscreen awareness,
Siri AI can answer questions related to the content on a user’s
screen. For example, if a user gets a text about a potluck with
friends, they can brainstorm with Siri on what to bring and then
add a recipe to the Notes app.</p>
<p>In addition, Siri AI can use broad world knowledge to get
up-to-date information from the web on virtually any topic and
generate a helpful answer, such as when and where to see the next
solar eclipse, or when a musician is coming to town. Users can
extend almost any response from Siri into a rich conversation and
ask follow-up questions.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I like the name “Siri AI”. “New Siri” wouldn’t have legs because eventually this won’t be new. This should be the dividing line between Siri as we know it and Siri as it should be. The demos I’ve seen so far (I still don’t have access on my iOS 27 testing device) are impressive. Well, impressive compared to old Siri. They’re table stakes for generative AI. But Siri AI is the only system that can draw upon your personal data in the apps on your devices, <em>and</em> perform actions based on the app intents supported by the apps on your devices. It is in some ways less capable than ChatGPT or Claude, but in other ways has more potential. It’s a very different approach and I think it’s the right one for Apple.</p>
<p>They need to execute, they need to prove this can scale, and most of all, they need to get third-party apps on board with <a href="https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/345">App Intents</a> and <a href="https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/240">App Schemas</a>. But it seems like they’re doing all of that. This is not a done deal but it is very realistic.</p>
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<title>Apple’s WWDC Announcement of the New Apple Intelligence System</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T16:50:33Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T17:45:39Z</updated>
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<p>Apple Newsroom:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple
Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and
its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence
experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers
using Private Cloud Compute.</p>
<p>Every facet of the new Apple Intelligence architecture is built
privacy-first, from the latest Apple Foundation Models to the core
operating system technologies that integrate these models deep
into Apple’s platforms. Apple Intelligence uses on-device
processing and Private Cloud Compute to help protect users’
privacy. Private Cloud Compute gives users access to
frontier-level intelligence, while extending the privacy and
security of iPhone into the cloud.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What’s confusing about this Apple-Google partnership is that Google pretty much calls all things AI “Gemini”. The models are “Gemini”, the assistant is “Gemini”, and the feature integrations are “Gemini”. So Apple is taking pains to emphasize that they’re building atop the Gemini <em>models</em>, not the Gemini <em>assistant</em>.</p>
<p>One way to think about it is this. Let’s say you’re a Google Gemini app user. That’s the assistant. Now you start using the new Apple Intelligence (that builds atop the Gemini models) and the new Siri AI (that builds atop the new Apple Intelligence). When you go back to the Google Gemini app, <em>nothing you did</em> using Apple Intelligence and Siri AI is visible to the Gemini app. And nothing you continue to do in the Google Gemini app is visible to Apple Intelligence or Siri AI.</p>
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<title>From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition</title>
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<published>2026-06-09T01:37:27Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-09T04:29:43Z</updated>
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<p>Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence
assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI
platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a
Siri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update,
according to people with knowledge of the matter. The assistant
can already tap into ChatGPT through a partnership with OpenAI,
but Apple will now allow competing services to do the same.</p>
<p>The company is developing new tools to allow AI chatbot apps
installed via the App Store to integrate with the Siri assistant,
said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans
haven’t been announced. The chatbots will also work with an
upcoming Siri app and other features in the Apple Intelligence
platform.</p>
<p>That means, for instance, if users have Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Gemini or Anthropic PBC’s Claude installed, they’d be able to send
queries to those services from within the Siri voice assistant,
just like they have been able to with ChatGPT since Apple
Intelligence launched in 2024.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Maybe Apple ran out of time today, and will announce this tomorrow? Maybe they forgot to announce it? Maybe they scrapped the next-generation Siri that existed two months ago and in the last month rebuilt another entirely new next-generation Siri? I’ll bet something like that is what happened.</p>
<p>I mean, people had knowledge of the matter.</p>
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<title>Mux — Video for Developers</title>
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<summary type="text">Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is now seven years old.</summary>
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<p>Paulo Andrade, last month, “<a href="https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/">Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026</a>”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I recently launched the macOS version of <a href="https://shopie.io/">Shopie</a>, an app I first
released on the iOS App Store late last year. Shopie helps you
keep track of products you’re interested in by letting you create
wishlists and notifying you whenever a product’s price,
availability, and other details change.</p>
<p>Unlike my other apps, where I typically blend AppKit (or UIKit)
with SwiftUI, Shopie is built entirely in SwiftUI. I wanted to
keep it that way to maximize code reuse across iOS, iPadOS, and
now macOS. This post explores how far SwiftUI can take you on the
Mac in 2026, especially if your goal is to build an app that feels
truly native to the platform. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive
review of SwiftUI on macOS. It’s simply a collection of recipes
and issues I ran into while porting <a href="https://shopie.io/">Shopie</a>, a fairly small app,
and keeping it 100% SwiftUI.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Andrade’s examples are copious. His conclusion is damning:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Apple dropped the ball here. AppKit was ahead of its time and
UIKit was a more polished version of AppKit. A serious
cross-platform framework that unified the two should have happened
long before SwiftUI. Instead, Apple left AppKit to fossilize and
then tried to leapfrog the problem.</p>
<p>You can see the result everywhere. SwiftUI is productive, modern,
and often delightful, right up until you try to make a really good
Mac app. Then suddenly you’re fighting the framework for things
the Mac solved 20 years ago.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There’s something really wrong with SwiftUI. Amongst the apps I use, the best example is Apple Journal. Basic stuff that’s worked reliably for decades — some things that heretofore had worked forever — are dangerously broken. If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then double-click on the word “brown” and delete it. Now invoke Undo.</p>
<p>What you expect is for the word “brown” to reappear. What happens is ... <em>the whole sentence disappears</em>. Gone. Invoke Redo and you only get back to “The quick fox.” The word “brown” is just gone forever. It’s nowhere in the Undo stack. That’s just profoundly fucked up. I’ve never seen anything like this with an AppKit app, ever. (I’ve never seen it with a UIKit app either — and the same thing happens on iOS with Journal. It’s just that you notice it less often because we don’t invoke Undo and Redo nearly as often there.)</p>
<p>I actually use the Journal app and I’ve lost entire sentences of text to this incompetent implementation of Undo. Editing text in Journal is <em>dangerous</em> because SwiftUI is so bad at something as fundamental as text editing. AppKit has had this solved since 1989 or so, a decade before Apple reunified with NeXT. And my example here is just one of many. Andrade documents a whole bunch more in his post. [Shopie is a good modern Mac app — you can practically see from reading his post that Andrade’s hands are scarred from dozens of paper cuts.</p>
<p>So while the world is largely focused on Apple’s AI-related announcements at WWDC tomorrow, I’ve got SwiftUI (on all platforms) and Mac-assed Mac development high on my list. Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop <em>good idiomatically native</em> apps. You got the correct complex behavior — for things like Undo/Redo — out of the box. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/apple-unveils-groundbreaking-new-technologies-for-app-development/">SwiftUI is now seven years old</a>. That’s too long for any excuses to hold water. </p>
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<title>Alberto Romero on Apple’s AI Spending</title>
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<p>Alberto Romero:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or
you don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody
believes in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually
religious.” If God exists, the only coherent response is to
reorganize your entire life around that fact, as priests do. If
you pray sometimes, then you are just an atheist who’s also
fearful. When tech companies spend hundreds of billions on capital
expenditures to add sparkly AI features to Office, Gmail, and
Instagram, I only see fearful atheists — guys who don’t believe
in AI but pretend just in case.</p>
<p>In 2026, the four largest cloud and AI infrastructure providers — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft — committed to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-tech-strikes-gold-with-ai-but-at-a-steep-cost-f6d82a22">spending $670
billion on CapEx</a>. Apple, in contrast, spent $12.7 billion on
capex last fiscal year and projects <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/02/20/apples-ai-gamble-can-a-14b-budget-compete-in-a-700b-arms-race/">$14 billion for 2026</a>, 2%
of what its peers are spending. The conventional reading in
Silicon Valley is, naturally, that Apple is losing. Siri has been
a punchline for years — an internal executive <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/apple-s-siri-chief-calls-ai-delays-ugly-and-embarrassing-promises-fixes">called the delays
ugly and embarrassing</a> — and critics say that Apple has not
been the same without Steve Jobs. It is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ai-siri-development-behind-9ea65ee8">falling behind</a>, they
say, and moving way too slowly for AI.</p>
<p>I disagree with this portrayal: Apple is the most powerful tech
company in the world right now because it’s acting according to
what it believes.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Some of you, I bet, will object to Romero’s notion that no one is “casually religious”. <em>Almost everyone I know is casually religious</em>, you might be thinking. But read the whole piece. What he’s saying is that if you’re “casually religious” those are just words. You’re not living your life according to your professed beliefs (casual or not). And that’s how most of Apple’s peer companies seem to be approaching AI.</p>
<p>I’m not sure he’s right, but he might be, and I think his take is at least closer to right than wrong. Apple <em>is</em> making an enormous bet on AI — but their bet is that they don’t need to spend hundreds of billions per year on AI infrastructure (most of it fattening Nvidia’s bottom line) to reap the benefits. If Apple’s right we should start seeing it come together tomorrow.</p>
<p>(Arguably we’ve already seen it coming together — demand for Apple’s products and services has gone up, not down, so far in the AI era. Entrenched leaders often grow during the initial stages of extinctive disruptions — BlackBerry’s biggest year for sales (revenue) and investor confidence (market cap) <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/blackberry-revenue/">was 2011</a>, four years after the iPhone debuted — but the disruptors are there. There’s not yet a single threat on the market to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, or AirPods — nor to Apple’s services revenue.)</p>
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<title>Halide Mark III</title>
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<p>Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog
photography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the
limited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how
freeing it felt. It felt so much better to have a handful of
amazing choices rather than photo-editor with thousands of
presets. We owe that to film engineers who spent years developing
versatile film stocks that work in a variety of situations.</p>
<p>Inspired by “Less, but better,” we partnered with the renowned
Hollywood colorist <a href="https://cullenkellycolor.com/">Cullen Kelly</a> to develop a
succinct set of gorgeous, <em>physically accurate</em> processes
exclusive to Halide. Each look was engineered with a specific
intent. We verified every look thousands of times on real-world
reference photos.</p>
<p>Put another way: every look is a banger.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Halide has always been a great — maybe <em>the</em> great — iPhone camera app for shooting RAW, with the intention of developing your images by hand in post. It’s a great <em>camera</em> technically and a great <em>app</em> UI-wise. <a href="https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/">Mark II introduced Process Zero</a>, which, in their own description, “uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce beautiful, film-like natural photos”. Process Zero was the first step toward the new built-in “looks” in Halide Mark III. I’ve been shooting with Mark III for a few weeks now, and they are, indeed, all bangers. And I <em>really</em> like that there aren’t that many of them. I wanted more looks than just Process Zero (which remains available, of course), but I feel a bit overwhelmed when faced with a dozen (or worse, dozen<em>s</em>) of choices for processing. I feel conflicted enough having to choose between <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_iphone_17e#fn2-2026-03-09">a handful</a> of <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/not_boring_camera_and_adobe_project_indigo">really good</a> third-party camera apps with which to shoot in the first place — it’s worse when I have to make too many choices within the camera app itself.</p>
<p>What I want is to just point and shoot and be able to instantly share images with the look I want already applied. I’m picky but I’m also really lazy, and don’t want to do any editing in post on most of the shots I keep. But I do want to be able to edit in post if I want to, including changing the look losslessly. This mixture of point-and-shoot ease and pro-level control didn’t use to be possible. Now, though, it is, with apps like <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-boring-camera/id6737783441">Not Boring Camera</a>, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/analogue-film-camera/id6748702405">Analogue</a>, and, now, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide-mark-iii-pro-camera/id885697368">Halide Mark III</a>.</p>
<p>It’s been a <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/21/apple-wanted-to-buy-halide-to-boost-iphone-18-pro/">turbulent</a> couple of months for Lux (to say the least), so I’m glad to see Sandofsky and team get Mark III out the door. If you, like me, had previously been impressed by Halide but didn’t use it because it required too much work in post, you should check out Mark III.</p>
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<title>60 Minutes Correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and the Other Guy Will Stay at Show</title>
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<published>2026-06-06T20:04:06Z</published>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/05/business/media/60-minutes-stahl-wertheim-whittaker-memo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.flOX.fSw9JEqNoaU9">in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff</a> obtained by The New York Times (gift links):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes.
We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan,
strong leaders who everyone respected. As far as we can tell — because no explanation has ever been offered, they were expelled
because they fought for our 60 Minutes values and stood up to
protect our independence and integrity.</p>
<p>Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.
Collaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at
60. Don Hewitt actually encouraged loud passionate advocacy for
our pieces. [...]</p>
<p>We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement
of the existing power structure. That is simply, categorically not
the case.</p>
<p>Here’s why we’re are staying:</p>
<p>We don’t want to see 60 Minutes die.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>We’ll see how long this lasts.</p>
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<title>Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty</title>
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<published>2026-06-06T19:56:01Z</published>
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<p>Josh Marshall:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East
Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a
judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of
Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer,
Yaakov Roth, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/white-house-ballroom-donald-trump-00951892">said that yes, President Trump could decide tomorrow
to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty</a> and no one could
stop him.</p>
<p>It was a good question from DC Court of Appeals Judge Patricia
Millett since it brings the arguments and their implications
clearly into the open. Reframe the question and the absurdity of
this proposition becomes even more clear. If you hire someone to
administer your estate, can they burn down the buildings on your
estate or chop it up into parcels and sell it off? Presumably not.
You hired them to run it, not to destroy it or sell it. It’s not
theirs. They were hired for a specific task. That person is your
employee. The president is hired to administer the country and
enforce its laws for four years. He doesn’t own the country or its
properties.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Pathetic lickspittles, one and all.</p>
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<title>Nieman Journalism Lab: Twitter/X Punishes Accounts That Post Links</title>
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<published>2026-06-05T20:46:56Z</published>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18
large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes +
comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have
paywalls: <a href="https://x.com/business">Bloomberg</a>, <a href="https://x.com/cnn">CNN</a>, <a href="https://x.com/Forbes">Forbes</a>, <a href="https://x.com/nytimes">The New
York Times</a>, <a href="https://x.com/WSJ">The Wall Street Journal</a>, and <a href="https://x.com/washingtonpost">The
Washington Post</a>. Nine don’t: <a href="https://x.com/AJEnglish">Al Jazeera English</a>,
<a href="https://x.com/AP">AP</a>, <a href="https://x.com/BBCNews">BBC</a>, <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews">Breitbart News</a>, <a href="https://x.com/CBSNews">CBS News</a>,
<a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire">Daily Wire</a>, <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews">Fox News</a>, <a href="https://x.com/NBCNews">NBC News</a>, and
<a href="https://x.com/Reuters">Reuters</a>. The last three accounts I looked at — <a href="https://x.com/LeadingReport">Leading
Report</a>, <a href="https://x.com/unusual_whales">unusual_whales,</a> and <a href="https://x.com/GlobeEyeNews">Globe Eye News</a> — are not news publishers, but aggregate breaking news in tweets
without links. (Here, for example, is an example of a Leading
Report <a href="https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/2041534947249242192">tweet</a>: “BREAKING: Iran has halted direct talks with
the US, per WSJ.” They’re sometimes referred to as
engagement-maxing accounts.</p>
<p>These charts make it pretty clear that links in tweets hurt
engagement. The connection was so apparent in my analysis that a
graph including all 18 publishers is almost unreadable: The
traditional, link-loving publishers are clustered in the bottom
left corner (lots of links, little engagement) in a nearly
indistinguishable mass of bubbles, no matter how large their
followings are.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Musk’s Twitter/X is not an aggregator for news. It’s a walled garden. But the type of garden where you need to keep your eyes open and your hand on your wallet. Sometimes it’s fun to visit a seedy neighborhood. But let’s not pretend it isn’t a seedy neighborhood just because, long ago, it used to be nice.</p>
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<title>Elon Musk’s X Is a Freak Show</title>
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<published>2026-06-05T20:24:58Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-05T20:32:32Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came
across a <a href="https://x.com/kylewilsontharp/status/2037171182407999663">bubble chart</a> depicting the Twitter accounts that
had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was
depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality
and highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only
follow a handful of the top accounts. So I <a href="https://dashboards.cluvio.com/dashboards/qxny-9e5q-k65v/shared?filters=%7B%22platform_filter%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22political_content%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22political_lean%22%3A%5B%5D%7D&reportId=k6zq-g911-3m2o&sharingToken=78eb1196-5766-429d-acf8-edcfd96b7067&timerange=1767225600~">tracked down the
original data myself</a> and, with help from Claude, made my
own improved version of the chart. Here, <em>voilà</em>, are the Twitter
accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026:</p>
<p><a href="/misc/2026/05/nate-silver-twitter-account-cloud.png" class="noborder">
<img
src = "/misc/2026/05/nate-silver-twitter-account-cloud.png"
alt = "Data from Cluvio showing most engagements among X accounts from Jan. 1 to Apr. 4, 2026."
width = 500
/></a></p>
<p>It’s not hard to notice that Twitter has become extremely
right-leaning. But I’d argue there’s an equally important trend:
the top accounts are of incredibly low quality. Elon, with the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report">algorithmic boost</a> he built in for himself, is at the eye of
the storm, of course. But “Catturd” literally gets far more
engagement than the New York Times, for instance.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There’s a common argument from proponents of the Musk-era X that the only problem is that left-leaning people have abandoned the platform. That the X algorithm is a contest and if only right-leaning accounts are playing, of course they’re winning. This is nonsense. The whole thing is rigged. Elon Musk’s outsized prominence as the most-engaged-with account is proof of that. Twitter existed for 16 years before Musk bought it. He wasn’t even close to the biggest account during that era. Then he bought it. Now his account is the biggest.</p>
<p>As Silver’s data analysis shows, Musk’s X is not just dominated by right-wing accounts, it’s dominated by “<em>who the hell is that?</em>” right-wing slop accounts.</p>
<p>The only way not to lose a rigged game is to refuse to play. X is still a thing. A lot of people, companies, and organizations still post there — treat it like their blogs — exclusively. I still wind up linking to posts on X because that’s where they are. That’s a whole separate discussion. But anyone who’s trying to “compete” there with subject matter that is even vaguely political has no chance of success unless what they’re posting is what Elon Musk wants to see promoted. It’s not like his thumb is on the scale, it’s like an anvil is on the scale. The conundrum is that there are still a lot interesting people posting interesting things there.</p>
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<title>Checking in on Perplexity</title>
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<published>2026-06-05T15:26:29Z</published>
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<p>Yours truly, last August:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company
like this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources
are inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels
more like something Perplexity would be seeding than one that
Apple executives would be leaking.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Perplexity is still <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=perplexity&wm=false">occasionally in the news</a> (often <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/04/perplexity-class-action-sham">not in good ways</a>), but it seems to me they’ve slipped into the “afterthought” tier of AI startups — which is exactly why they started leaning into <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/12/perplexity-jumps-shark-stunt-offer-to-buy-chrome">clownish stunts last year</a>. Everyone who previously suggested Apple should — or even might — buy them has gone silent.</p>
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<title>Some People Rooted for The Empire in ‘Star Wars’, Too</title>
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<p>Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: <em>He who has the gold makes the
rules</em>. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and
torched his own position — and if Bilton’s letter is accurate, in
as mean-spirited and conceited a manner as possible. Pelley could
have chosen a dignified resignation under protest, but instead
pulled a power move in an attempt to intimidate Bilton, Weiss, and
Ellison, only to discover that no one feared his absence. In fact,
they’re probably happy to cut him loose.</p>
<p>There’s always at least <em>one</em> person in these situations who
thinks they’re untouchable. A wise executive knows to start by
making an example of that person, and then see how many other
people think they’re indispensable. It’s not as if TV news jobs
are expanding these days, after all. Pelley’s going to find out
the hard way that no one’s paying $5 million a year to emote into
a camera from other people’s copy.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It doesn’t even enter this man’s little mind that Pelley wasn’t concerned about his job, wasn’t concerned about his salary, but was concerned only with the integrity of the institution to which he’d committed decades of his career, and that he saw as his duty the need to stand up for his remaining and former colleagues. That Pelley himself has integrity. To the Trump lickspittles, everything is performative. They don’t just lack integrity, they don’t believe integrity is real.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/katienotopoulos/status/2062229659966697857">Katie Notopoulos</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The Scott Pelley story to me is a lesson in how if you work hard
enough in your career to get Fuck You Money, the real reward is
the day you need to say it, you can.</p>
</blockquote>
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<published>2026-05-29T20:58:56Z</published>
<updated>2026-05-31T22:58:20Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<summary type="text">dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.</summary>
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<title>★ What Is a Dickover?</title></entry><entry>
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<published>2026-05-22T20:30:18Z</published>
<updated>2026-05-25T18:22:13Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<summary type="text">The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.</summary>
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<p>The 13 circuits of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals">the U.S. federal courts of appeals</a> operate with a fair amount of independence, including <a href="https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/greedy-associates/5-non-times-new-roman-fonts-courts-use-in-their-opinions/">their typographic choices</a>. I was reminded of this today while reading the <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/22/ninth-circuit-epic-v-apple">aforelinked</a> decision <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/12/11/25-2935.pdf">from the Ninth Circuit in <em>Epic v. Apple</em></a>, because the Ninth Circuit sets their decisions in <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/a-brief-history-of-timesnewroman">Times New Roman</a> — a font that <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/10/">came up back in December</a> in the context of the Trump State Department.</p>
<p>Long argument short, Times New Roman isn’t bad, but it isn’t good. It is the median choice. But <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/comments/ge4tzq/different_fonts_used_by_us_court_of_appeals/">most of the circuit courts use it</a>: the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh. It could be worse: the <a href="https://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/14-1043P-01A.pdf">First</a> circuit not only uses Courier New (<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/14/clintons-letter">the worst version of Courier</a>, so of course it’s the one Microsoft shipped with Windows), but fully justifies their text — contrary to the nature of a monospaced font. (The Fourth circuit only recently switched <a href="https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/131839A.P.pdf">from Courier New</a> <a href="https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251012.P.pdf">to Times New Roman</a> — an upgrade, to be sure, but a disappointingly mediocre one.) It could be better: the <a href="https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OPN/24-341_opn.pdf">Second</a> and <a href="https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/OpinionsWeb/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2026/D05-20/C:24-2015:J:Hamilton:aut:T:fnOp:N:3544786:S:0">Seventh</a> use Palatino. (Note how much better that Seventh Circuit decision looks than the Second’s, with its wider margins creating a narrower column of text.)</p>
<p>But it can be <em>much</em> better. The Fifth Circuit was long typographically superior to its peers, using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_type_family">Century Schoolbook</a> — a highly legible font with great tradition and the right vibe. But in 2020, the Fifth Circuit upgraded, switching to <a href="https://typographyforlawyers.com/equity.html">Equity</a>, Matthew Butterick’s excellent type family (which, of course, is used throughout Butterick’s own web book, <a href="https://typographyforlawyers.com/"><em>Typography for Lawyers</em></a>). Here’s a <a href="https://x.com/E_A_Young/status/1285354790176935936">before and after tweet</a> noting the change. The <a href="https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/25/25-11006-CV1.pdf">results</a> are typographically sublime (including improved margins).</p>
<p>The gold standard is the U.S. Supreme Court, which uses Century Schoolbook. Yes, I just praised the Fifth Circuit’s change from Century Schoolbook to Equity as an upgrade, but tradition and consistency have their place. The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century. (If only that were true of their recent decisions. <em>Rimshot.</em>) Here is last month’s <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_new_jifl.pdf"><em>Louisiana v. Callais</em> decision</a> — the gerrymandering / redistricting case. Here is <a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep347/usrep347483/usrep347483.pdf">1954’s <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em></a>. I’d give the nod to the older one, which made better use of proper small caps, but the overall consistency is obvious.</p>
<p>Here is <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2026RulesoftheCourt_WEB.pdf">the 2026 edition of the Rules of the Supreme Court</a>. Not only does the Court use Century Schoolbook for its own decisions, it requires submissions to the Court to use the same (p. 44):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The text of every booklet-format document, including any appendix
thereto, shall be typeset in a Century family (e. g., Century
Expanded, New Century Schoolbook, or Century Schoolbook) 12-point
type with 2-point or more leading between lines. Quotations in
excess of 50 words shall be indented. The typeface of footnotes
shall be 10-point type with 2-point or more leading between lines.
The text of the document must appear on both sides of the page.</p>
<p>Every booklet-format document shall be produced on paper that is
opaque, unglazed, and not less than 60 pounds in weight, and
shall have margins of at least three-fourths of an inch on all
sides. The text field, including footnotes, may not exceed 4⅛
by 7⅛ inches.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why the extra one-eighths of an inch instead of just 4 × 7? I don’t know. But 4⅛ × 7⅛ is exactly the size of the text field in the court’s own decisions.</p>
<p>Now compare the current 2026 rulebook to <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/rules/rules_1910.pdf">this edition printed in 1910</a> (with rules adopted in 1884). The consistency is striking — but, once again, the older version makes better use of small caps and just has a bit more vim and vigor to it. <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/scotus-1910-rules-p-44.jpeg">Just look at page 44</a>, for example. It’s perfect. The current Court’s document formatters should aspire only to more closely ape the confidence and sturdiness of this older one. A century from now, U.S. Supreme Court decisions should look as similar to today’s as today’s do to those from a century ago.</p>
<hr />
<p>The various circuit courts using lesser typefaces, looser margins, and lazier formatting should follow the Fifth’s lead and get their shit together. Tuck your shirt in, comb your hair, straighten your tie, and pop a mint in your mouth. If you’re a United States federal court, your typographic style should reflect that.</p>
<p>Back in 2020, <a href="https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/choose-wisely-2020-edition.html">Butterick took a well-deserved victory lap</a> when the Fifth Circuit adopted Equity.<sup id="fnr1-2026-05-22-f"><a href="#fn1-2026-05-22-f">1</a></sup> He quoted Fifth Circuit Judge <a href="https://x.com/justicewillett">Don Willett</a>, a typography fan who spearheaded the restyling project, on its rationale. Willett wrote:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Why] did the circuit devote finite judicial energy to swapping
typefaces and widening margins? Simple answer: Our job is not
just to present clear opinions, but to present our opinions
clearly. Getting the law right is, of course, our tip-top
priority. Nothing matters more. ... But good enough is never good
enough. Our work is consequential, impacting the lives and
livelihoods of real people walloped by real problems in the real
world. The stakes are high, and we must present our best opinion,
not merely a passable one. And that presentation begins before
the first word is ever read.</p>
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<p>In the very same post, Butterick sings the praises of the Apple Extended Keyboard II, and notes that he has several spares in reserve. I do keenly intend to take Butterick up on <a href="https://practicaltypography.com/effluents-influence-affluence.html#:~:text=Musso%20%26%20Frank">his standing offer</a> to dine when next I’m in Los Angeles, but I worry that if we meet, we’ll trigger some sort of calamitous singularity of aligned taste. <a href="#fnr1-2026-05-22-f" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎</a></p>
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<p>Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apples-next-ceo-needs-to-launch-a-killer-ai-product/">Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product</a>” (<a href="https://apple.news/AdCC7y43rTQq6SZH2bDmqxA">News+ link</a> to get around Wired’s miserly paywall):</p>
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<p>Much more recently, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-50-year-anniversary-artificial-intelligence-iphone/">I quizzed Ternus</a> and global marketing
head Greg Joswiak about Apple’s future, specifically its plans to
get ahead of the AI transformation. Ternus acknowledged that AI is
“an immense kind of inflection point,” but couched it as one of
many leaps that Apple has navigated. Each hit product — the Apple
II, the Mac, iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, iPad — piggybacked on
a previous product. “We never think about shipping a technology,”
he said. “We want to ship amazing products, features, and
experiences, and we don’t want our customers to think about what
[underlying] technology makes it possible. That’s the way we think
about AI.”</p>
<p>That’s fine, but I look back to the mid-2000s when everybody was
waiting for Apple to come out with a phone. When Jobs finally
delivered in January 2007, the product defined the mobile era.
It’s a big ask for Ternus to do something similar for the AI age — but it’s an opportunity that must be seized. AI threatens to
disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem. By the end of this decade,
it’s unlikely that people will swipe on their phones to tap on
Uber or Lyft. They will just tell their always-on AI agent to get
them home. Or that agent will have already figured out where they
need to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a
request. “There’s an app for that,” may be replaced by “Let the
agent do that.”</p>
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<p>I’m a huge longtime Steven Levy fan, but this is nonsense. It’s hard to read this and not worry that he too has lost his mind to the AI snake-oil hypesters. What Ternus told him is exactly right. The Apple way is never to ship a technology. The iPod wasn’t about MP3 files. It wasn’t about <a href="https://www.wired.com/2006/10/straight-dope-on-the-ipods-birth/">1.8-inch hard drives</a>. It was about music. The iPhone did define the mobile era (which we’re still very much in), but Apple doesn’t need to capitalize on every single market the mobile era opened up. Social media is a defining component of the mobile era. It comprises the entirety of Meta’s value and a sizable slice of Google’s (via YouTube). Apple doesn’t have a social network business. It’s fine — because the way people consume and create social media is using their phones.</p>
<p>Does AI “threaten to disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem”? It’s possible, but it doesn’t seem nearly as likely to me as Levy asserts. <em>Changing</em> the iPhone ecosystem? Sure — that’s already true. <em>Obviating</em> the iPhone ecosystem? I don’t see it. Levy’s argument reminds me of the hype around “the cloud” when that first became a term. It’s so meaningless when used broadly (e.g. “<em>Everything will soon be in the cloud</em>”) that it could mean anything. It’s step #2 in the <a href="https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes">gnomes-stealing-underpants</a> master plan.</p>
<p>The idea that AI agents “will have already figured out where [we] need to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a request” strikes me as pure fever dream high-on-the-hype fantasy. I’m just going to step outside a restaurant when I’m done eating a meal and a ride-share is going to be there, waiting for me, without my having hailed it? Every time? And I’m going to find this pleasing, not creepy? And ride-share drivers are going to respond to all these requests, because the requests will never be wrong? And this is going to happen, somehow, without my carrying a phone with me? And this is going to happen in the next four years? I don’t think I’d want this even if it were plausible, but it doesn’t sound plausible.</p>
<p>Actual products have to be real. Actual experiences have to rely on actual products. How exactly in Levy’s end-of-this-decade scenario will we tell our “always-on AI agent” to get us home? What microphone is listening to the command? What speaker is telling us the request was understood and acted upon? What screen do we look at to see how far away the hailed car is? I’d bet a pretty large sum of money that in 2030, when someone hails a ride-share vehicle to take them home, the most common product they’ll use to do that will be their phone. Whether they’re doing it via a verbal command issued to an “always-on AI agent” or good old tapping and swiping, it’ll be a phone.</p>
<p>If you think that people will buy smaller devices to replace their phones, and use those to talk to “always-on AI agents” instead, you have to answer some questions. What company is the best in the world at making smaller-than-phone personal computing devices? What device will people use as their camera? What device will people use as their screen, for watching videos, playing games, texting, and (one hopes) reading? My answers to those three questions: Apple, phone, phone. Why would smaller devices — you know, like watches, earbuds, and, say, glasses — work independently rather than pair with the phone that you’re almost certainly still going to be carrying with you?</p>
<p>Only a fool would argue that Apple can stand on the sidelines and ignore AI. It’s very different from, say, social media that way. Social media doesn’t pervade everything in technology. You can ignore social media as a user. (And you’re probably more productive, and happier, if you do.) A company can eschew social media as a business. AI, on the other hand, is pervasive. It can’t be ignored. But it’s just technology.</p>
<p>Wireless networking is pervasive too. But Apple doesn’t have “a killer wireless networking product”.<sup id="fnr1-2026-05-16"><a href="#fn1-2026-05-16">1</a></sup> Wireless networking simply pervades everything Apple makes. I’m hard pressed to think of a single product Apple makes that doesn’t use some combination of Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, and proprietary wireless protocols. There was a time, not <em>too</em> long ago, when Apple didn’t make a single product with wireless connectivity. Now it’s pervasive in all their devices. That’s more what AI is going to be like. There’s not going to be one “killer AI device”. Everything is going to be an AI device, to some extent, just like how everything today is a wireless connectivity device, to some extent.</p>
<p><strong>Postscript:</strong> “<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/18/existing-stakeholders-have-a-say-in-the-future">Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future</a>”.</p>
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<p>AirPort qualified, arguably. But Apple walked away from it, alas. <a href="#fnr1-2026-05-16" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎</a></p>
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"content": "<p>Brent Simmons, writing at Inessential:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on\n<a href=\"https://netnewswire.com/\">NetNewsWire</a>.</p>\n\n<p>A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt\npay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the\nfoundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding\nnew rooms.</p>\n\n<p>Here are some highlights of what we’ve done with 2,188 commits in\nthe past year.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>NetNewsWire was already one of my favorite, most-used, most indispensable apps. Now it’s much better and improving steadily at a rapid clip. You love to see it.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘NetNewsWire Status’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/18/netnewswire-status\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "SpaceX, Newly Public, to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in SpaceX Funny-Money Stock",
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"published": "2026-06-18T16:49:00.000Z",
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"content": "<p>CNBC, two days ago:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>In November, Cursor said it crossed $1 billion in annualized\nrevenue, according to a release at the time. Cursor was also\nranked at No. 37 on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2026. The\n$60 billion in class A common stock that SpaceX has agreed to pay\nto acquire Cursor represented a 3.4% dilution at the aerospace and\ntech conglomerate’s IPO valuation.</p>\n\n<p>Shares of SpaceX gained roughly 16% on Tuesday, topping Amazon and\nMicrosoft by market cap and making it the fourth most valuable\ncompany in the U.S.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>SpaceX is an amazing company but this valuation is insane. The idea that it’s even close to as valuable as Microsoft or Amazon is bananas. SpaceX still isn’t even profitable, so its price-to-earnings ratio is literally infinity. It’s halfway through Thursday as I post this and SpaceX is down ~10 percent on the day, so a touch of sanity is being restored, at least at the moment.</p>\n\n<p>Cursor, with $1 billion in sales, certainly isn’t worth 60× revenue — especially in a business where it too isn’t profitable. But who cares when you’re paying with funny-money stock?</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘SpaceX, Newly Public, to Acquire Cursor for $60 Billion in SpaceX Funny-Money Stock’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/18/spacex-cursor\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Tim Cook, in Interview With WSJ: ‘Unfortunately, Price Increases Are Unavoidable’",
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"published": "2026-06-18T15:49:47.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset the surging\ncosts of memory and storage chips, Chief Executive Tim Cook said\nin an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal.</p>\n\n<p>“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. “We’re\ndoing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being\npassed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from\nthe increases, but the situation has become unsustainable.”</p>\n\n<p>Cook declined to offer details on the timing or scale of the\nplanned price increases, nor which products would be affected.\nApple’s next major product launch is likely to be in September\nwhen it releases the iPhone 18 lineup, expected to include a new\nfoldable iPhone. [...]</p>\n\n<p>Cook said Apple wouldn’t use its cash and silicon expertise to\nbuild its own memory and storage factories. “We can’t do\neverything,” said Cook. “We know what we’re good at.” [...] Cook\nsaid during his time working in the electronics supply chain, from\nIBM to Compaq to Apple, he had never seen a commodity price swing\nlike the one from the past six months. “This is a hundred-year\nflood,” said Cook. “I’ve never seen anything like it in any area\nin over 40 years.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Apple, to my recollection, has never before issued a warning about price increases. Keep in mind that Apple deals with prices in a very different way from its competitors. For Apple, prices are part of a product’s brand, so they don’t fluctuate with component costs. The trash can Mac Pro held its $3000 starting price for six years, despite its specs remaining effectively unchanged in that span.</p>\n\n<p>So when Apple raises prices on the iPhone 18 Pro models this September (and, presumably, launches the folding iPhone “Ultra” with an eye-watering price), expect those prices to stick. And if Apple expects RAM and SSD component pricing to continue rising through 2027 — which is what many anticipate — they might build that into the pricing now. Raise prices by (say) $200 now rather than $100 this year and another $100 next year.</p>\n\n<p>Also, credit to Tim Cook for taking this one personally, months ahead of the iPhone 18 launch, rather than leaving it to John Ternus to serve up a surprise shit sandwich in his first keynote as CEO.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Tim Cook, in Interview With WSJ: ‘Unfortunately, Price Increases Are Unavoidable’’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/18/cook-apple-price-increases\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Snap Unveils Specs, Its $2,200 AR Glasses, and They’re Fugly",
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"content": "<p>Jay Peters, The Verge (gift link):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Snap is finally launching augmented glasses for the public. Specs,\nwhich Snap describes as “a wearable computer built into\nsee-through augmented reality glasses,” will cost $2,195. You can\npreorder a pair of Specs now at specs.com with a $200 refundable\ndeposit, and Snap says they’re expected to ship “this fall” in the\nUS, UK, and France. [...]</p>\n\n<p>The company says that Specs are “fully standalone, with no puck\nand no tether.” (Which is perhaps a jab at Apple’s Vision Pro,\nwhich is tethered to a separate battery pack.) They’ll be offered\nin two sizes, a 47mm model weighing 132g and a 52mm model weighing\n136g, and will have removable inserts that Snap says will support\n“a wide range of prescriptions.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Unlike Vision Pro, Snap is presenting Specs as eyeglasses that users will wear out and about in their daily lives. Viewed perfectly straight-on and photographed by a professional fashion photographer — <a href=\"https://www.specs.com/\">as presented on the Specs website</a> — they’re a bold look. Viewed from any other angle and captured normally, they look like goggles, not glasses. The frames look orthopedic and the lenses are not even close to clear. They make you look like you forgot to take off your goggles leaving the theater after a 3D movie — goggles that are big enough to wear over regular glasses.</p>\n\n<p>Maybe Specs are useful enough to justify looking so orthopedic, but I doubt it.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Snap Unveils Specs, Its $2,200 AR Glasses, and They’re Fugly’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/17/snap-specs-fugly\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Vehicle Motion Cues — a.k.a. Apple’s Weird Anti-Nausea Dots",
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"content": "<p>Thomas Ricker, writing for The Verge:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p><em>I’ll just work from the car</em>, I thought. But after a few minutes\nof staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel\nthe first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that\nsweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but\nnothing helped... until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.</p>\n\n<p>Introduced in 2024, Apple’s <a href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios\">Vehicle Motion Cues</a> promise to\ntap into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or,\nin my case, even <em>eliminate</em> the motion sickness felt when trying\nto use an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook inside a moving vehicle.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>My son has suffered from motion sickness in cars his whole life, and Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues work like a charm for him too. What a great feature.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Vehicle Motion Cues — a.k.a. Apple’s Weird Anti-Nausea Dots’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/17/vehicle-motion-cues----aka-apples-weird-anti-nausea-dots\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Yours Truly on MacBreak Weekly: Is the New Siri AI Good?",
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"content": "<p>MacBreak Weekly:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel\nthis week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. Why\nApple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU\ninitially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra’s launch be\ndelayed this year?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>It’s fun to be the guest, not the host, of a podcast. I took Jason Snell’s usual panelist spot this week, alongside Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren. Lots to cover, including a week of real-life experience using the new Siri AI. (It’s really good!)</p>\n\n<p>Also, sometimes you just know what the episode title of a podcast is going to be, the moment a phrase is uttered. This was one of those episodes, with “<a href=\"https://intimatefunctionalities.com/\">Intimate Functionalities</a>”.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Yours Truly on MacBreak Weekly: Is the New Siri AI Good?’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/17/yours-truly-on-macbreak-weekly\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘# the **Epic** Story of Markdown’",
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"published": "2026-06-17T15:37:42.000Z",
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"content": "<p>David Pierce, host of The Vergecast:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John\njoins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where\nMarkdown came from and <a href=\"https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/\">how it took over the world</a>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Markdown has been growing steadily for years, but it’s seen a step change in popularity now that it’s been embraced as the lingua franca of LLM agentic systems. I had an interesting all-too-brief chat last week in Cupertino with some people from Apple’s developer tools team about how it feels to see Markdown spread everywhere — <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/apple-developer-%E2%80%98markdown%E2%80%99-WWDC-2026.png\">including WWDC</a>. In a word, gratifying.</p>\n\n<p>But the biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions for formatting plain text. If everyone agrees to the same basic conventions, plain text can be significantly more expressive than a string of unformatted characters.</p>\n\n<p>That’s it. So what I find gratifying isn’t that my “language” continues to thrive, because it’s not a language. It’s that the way I like to format plain text when I’m writing, and the way I like to see plain text formatted when I’m reading, has so thoroughly won the world’s mindshare battle. “Ha-ha”, I say, to people who want *this* to mean bold, not italic. (And to Slack and WhatsApp, I say “Fuck you.”)</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘# the **Epic** Story of Markdown’’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/17/vergecast-epic-story-of-markdown\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift",
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"published": "2026-06-17T00:50:18.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhone\nMirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare I\nsay, quite fun. Should we judge how much fun each side of the\ncontinental divide is having by how much fun they theoretically\n<em>could</em> be having, or by how much fun they <em>are</em> having?</p>\n\n<p>As it stands, the fun side is not the EU. But hope springs\neternal.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Here we are two years later and I think the answer is more clear than ever which side of the continental divide is more fun. It’s not the EU. EU users still don’t have iPhone Mirroring and until and unless the European Commission changes its interpretation of the DMA, they likely never will. It’s a great feature.</p>\n\n<p>Apple Intelligence, as we knew it until last week, eventually <a href=\"https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/01/apple-intelligence-is-now-fully-supported-in-the-eu-with-ios-18-4/\">came to the EU</a>, about six months after it shipped for the rest of us. One can reasonably argue that EU iPhone and iPad users didn’t miss much during those six months. And that there hasn’t been that much to enjoy since Apple Intelligence debuted in the EU in iOS 18.4. That changed last week with the introduction of the first beta release of iOS 27. Siri AI is really good, truly useful, and genuinely <em>fun</em>. And it is not on pace to come to the EU six months after iOS 27 ships this fall. It is currently on pace to come to the EU <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly\">never</a>.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Checking In on the iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/16/checking-in-on-the-ios-continental-fun-gap-drift\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations",
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"published": "2026-06-16T16:12:31.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>This week, Apple <a href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-expands-app-store-capabilities-to-help-developers-grow-and-reach-new-users/\">announced</a> a series of discovery features\nthat will personalize app recommendations based on users’\ninterests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have\ntheir app discovered.</p>\n\n<p>At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone\nmaker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which\nwill showcase recommendations tailored to the individual. These\nwill also include new “App Notes” that explain why the specific\napps were recommended to you. Starting this week, you’ll find\nthese new personalized suggestions in various places in the App\nStore, including the Apps or Games tab or on the Search tab.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Security research critics Mysk, posting <a href=\"https://x.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888\">on Twitter/X</a> (<a href=\"https://xcancel.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888\">XCancel link</a>), report that the App Store app seemingly sends analytics usage data to Apple with everything you do in the App Store app, including exactly what you type, character-by-character — and that this isn’t for search suggestions, but for analytics. (<a href=\"https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/12/app-store-personalized-recommendations-and-keylogging/\">Via Michael Tsai</a>.)</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/16/app-store-personalized-recommendations\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly",
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"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/14/apple-withholding-siri-ai-europe-is-another-dma-failure/",
"published": "2026-06-16T02:20:30.000Z",
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"content": "<p>The Washington Post editorial board yesterday (<a href=\"https://apple.news/AxhcCCGY8SS6bHY5xCvwhQA\">News+ link</a>), “Why Europe Won’t Have the New Siri”:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Brussels insists the decision is “<a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/09/siri-ai-europe-apple/19fab4a2-6401-11f1-bdd4-805ebb99a693_story.html\">Apple’s and Apple’s only</a>” and\nthat nothing in its flagship Digital Markets Act forbids the\nlaunch. That’s technically true and wholly beside the point.</p>\n\n<p>The law requires that the moment Siri AI ships in Europe, any\nrival AI agent must get the same sweeping access to a user’s\nmessages, files and chat history. Apple proposed putting in a\nsoftware security layer to make that safe and offered a phased\nrollout to build it. According to Apple, the European Commission\n<a href=\"https://apple.news/AqSYonAtHQfCs_AOO4-n44w\">rejected the proposal</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The DMA was supposed to <a href=\"https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en\">open markets</a>. But its legal logic was\nborn in the era of browsers, app stores and messaging apps. These\ncomponents can be swapped like batteries.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The DMA effectively demands everything to be swappable/interchangeable. So while the European Commission is correct that the DMA does not forbid Apple from launching <em>a</em> version of Siri AI, it clearly forbids Apple from launching the version of Siri AI they actually built.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Behind all this lies the dream that Europe could be a “<a href=\"https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/232/\">regulatory\nsuperpower</a>.” It wanted to create a market too big to skip that\nwould, by virtue of its heft, end up exporting its rules to the\nrest of the world. That hasn’t worked out.</p>\n\n<p>When adapting a product for Europe costs more than European market\naccess is worth, companies no longer comply. They simply leave out\nthe feature.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>That’s the folly of the DMA, or at least the maximal interpretation of the DMA that the European Commission is pursuing. It only makes sense under the assumption that the EU is too big a market to ignore, and the EU’s market might is such that systems will be designed to meet their compliance standards, regardless of whether the makers of these systems support the regulations or not. (And in the case of Apple with iOS and Google with Android, <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/\">the two companies are in lockstep</a> in their opposition to the EU’s regulations on system-level AI interoperability.)</p>\n\n<p>First, the EU is big but it isn’t <em>that</em> big. The best estimate I’ve seen is that <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue\">the EU accounts for about 7% of Apple’s worldwide revenue</a>. Plus, because of the DMA, the cost of doing business in the EU is now significantly higher for Apple and Google, because they need to engineer DMA-compliant versions of various features and systems. Unless, that is, they stop bringing (a long and <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/19/iphone-mirroring-eu-numerama\">ever-growing</a> list of) new features to the EU.</p>\n\n<p>Which brings me to my second point. What exactly is the motivation for Apple and Google to engineer entirely separate systems for the EU to bring new features into compliance with the Commission’s broad interpretation of the DMA? Because if Apple doesn’t engineer a DMA-compliant version of Siri AI, iOS users in the EU will ... switch to Android, whose system-level AI was deemed noncompliant by the Commission a few months ago?</p>\n\n<p>This doesn’t directly hurt Apple. It doesn’t force Apple to design, engineer, and ship a compliant EU-exclusive version of Siri AI that supports plug-and-play LLM back ends. It only hurts iPhone <em>users</em> who live in the EU, who are stuck with the old dumb version of Siri for the foreseeable future. The European Commission is either stupid or insane.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "The European Commission Ruled Months Ago That Google’s Integration of Gemini in Android Violates the DMA",
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"published": "2026-06-15T18:58:22.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Ryan Whitham, writing for Ars Technica back in April:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way\nAI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is\nstraightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked\nsystem-wide via hot words or button presses. This might also\ninclude allowing AI tools to view screen context when the user\nopens them. Context also extends to allowing alternative AI\nsystems to access local data to generate proactive suggestions and\nsummaries. The report actually describes something that sounds\nlike Google’s Magic Cue, which relies on Gemini to offer\nsuggestions based on your activity.</p>\n\n<p>Google has also started experimenting with allowing AI to control\ncertain apps. As we saw when this feature <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2026/03/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-review-private-and-performant/\">debuted on the Galaxy\nS26</a>, Gemini is currently pretty bad at using apps on your behalf.\nThe commission wants to explore allowing other AI services to\nautonomously control installed apps and system features on Android\nphones. Maybe someone else could do better?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Maybe! But also maybe it’s a bad idea for complex system architecture design to come from non-technical government bureaucrats. One of these maybes strikes me as a lot more likely than the other.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Many of the Gemini AI features in Android, including Magic Cue,\nrely on running local models, and Google has been slow to allow\nthird parties the system access to make that work effectively. So\nthe EU is also suggesting a mandate that would ensure developers\nhave the necessary hardware access to run local models “with high\nlevels of performance, availability and responsiveness.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/\">What</a> could go wrong?</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Finally, Google may be required under the DMA to create new APIs\nand offer technical assistance to other AI makers who want to plug\ninto Android. The commission also specifies that these tools must\nbe made available free of charge.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Of course, it’s not free of charge to provide technical assistance to one’s competitors. It’s actually a great expense.</p>\n\n<p>Here’s the <a href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_887\">European Commission, announcing these “preliminary findings”</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The proposed measures aim to ensure that competing AI services can\neffectively interact with applications on users’ Android devices\nand execute tasks accordingly, such as sending an email using the\nuser’s preferred email app, ordering food or sharing a photo with\nfriends. Currently, Google largely reserves these capabilities for\nuse by its own AI offerings on Android phones and tablets. For\nexample, the measures would allow competing AI services to be\neasily activated by users, using a custom ‘wake word’, a phrase\nthat the user can speak to activate an AI service.</p>\n\n<p>The proposed measures will also enable competing providers of AI\nservices to innovate and offer deeply integrated AI experiences to\nusers on Android phones and tablets, along with Alphabet’s own AI\nservices, such as Gemini. Opening up access to these capabilities\nwill provide Android users across the EU with a wider choice of AI\nservices.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The difference between Google and Apple on this front is that Google just blazed ahead and shipped Gemini integrated into Android in the EU, and is now facing compliance problems after shipping. (Ask forgiveness.) Apple isn’t shipping Siri AI in the EU in iOS 27, knowing that it’s going to be deemed non-compliant. (Ask permission.)</p>\n\n<p>The EC presumes that these measures “will also enable competing providers of AI services to innovate and offer deeply integrated AI experiences to users on Android phones and tablets”. Again: maybe! But really all they can enforce is that “competing providers of AI services” will have the same level of system-level integration that Google’s AI services have. The easiest way for Google to achieve that is by withdrawing Gemini integration in Android from the EU, not by building APIs and privacy protection mechanisms to enable the capabilities for third-party providers that the EC is demanding.</p>\n\n<p>Google is learning the lesson Apple learned the hard way with all the existing features of iOS that were deemed noncompliant with the DMA when it went into effect. The “ship it first and ask forgiveness / hope it’s deemed compliant” strategy is not a good one in the EU.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The European Commission Ruled Months Ago That Google’s Integration of Gemini in Android Violates the DMA’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/ec-google-gemini-ai-dma\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "WorkOS Launches Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration",
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"content": "<p>My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration.</p>\n\n<p>Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.</p>\n\n<p>Markdown, baby. Who’d have thunk it?</p>\n\n<p>With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application. Read the <a href=\"https://workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q22026\">Auth.md docs</a>, and watch its on-stage introduction <a href=\"https://youtu.be/Dqp_b8GHLXU?t=1074\">at the MCP Night: Agent Night keynote</a>.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘WorkOS Launches Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/workos-authmd\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’",
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"published": "2026-06-15T17:18:46.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Ben Thompson, in his weekly free column at Stratechery:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>On one hand, I actually don’t begrudge Anthropic not wanting to\nhelp its competitors; on the other hand, what should be\nblisteringly clear is that Anthropic does not think that anyone\nelse other than them should even be making frontier LLMs.</p>\n\n<p>What makes this policy all the more remarkable is the fact that it\nwas enacted only two months after Anthropic had that dispute with\nthe Department of War: the latter wanted to use Claude for any\nlegal use, while the former wanted more stringent controls around\nsurveillance and autonomous weapons. What this degradation\nrepresented was both the capability and willingness of Anthropic\nto silently alter its models to achieve its policy preferences. In\nother words, Anthropic willfully validated some of its critics’\nworst fears in terms of being a supply chain risk.</p>\n\n<p>The broader takeaway from that previous episode, however, is that\nAnthropic believes that they are the ones who should have final\nsay over how Anthropic is used; given that they think only they\nshould be developing leading edge AI, they by extension think that\nonly they should have final say over AI generally. When you\nfurther combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements\nabout AI’s ability to conduct all economic activity, you realize\nthat Anthropic’s leadership effectively wants to have power over\neverything and everyone.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Anthropic is best seen as a religious organization. Their employees are true believers in a cause, and on a mission. Perhaps every successful company has a religious aspect at its core — like, maybe, Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit. These companies tend to attract employees who believe in the company’s core mission, and the employees who believe tend to be the ones who thrive and rise within the companies’ ranks to positions of influence.</p>\n\n<p>But Anthropic feels more like a real religion, where the core tenets must be taken on faith, and the priests (Anthropic employees) have a conviction about them. A religious fervor. If Apple gets too taken away by its cultural fervor for design, they do something silly like make a <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2014/09/apple_watch\">$20,000 solid gold Apple Watch</a>. So what? If Microsoft or Google get taken away by their shared fervor for market share at all costs, they face antitrust remedies. A stifled market and abusive behavior from a monopolist isn’t good, but doesn’t end the world.</p>\n\n<p>A religious fervor that believes the company is building god-like “super intelligence” that will dwarf human intelligence — and that only the company’s priesthood can be trusted to define, create, control, and gate access to it — is something else entirely. I tend to think the Anthropic true believers are all wet — that LLMs, amazing though they are, are not a path toward “super intelligence”. But, they used to be clearly behind OpenAI in technical capability, then caught up, and now with Mythos/Fable, they are clearly ahead. I still think they’re wrong about where this is heading, but I don’t think we can say we <em>know</em> they’re wrong.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/anthropic-safety-superpower\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Trump’s Name (Set in the Wrong Font, of Course) Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center",
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"published": "2026-06-13T17:34:15.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Jonathan Edwards reporting for The Washington Post:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>President Donald Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.</p>\n\n<p>Crews at the performing arts venue started removing it from the\nfront of the building around 3 a.m., several hours after the\ncenter missed <a href=\"https://apple.news/A7OCrODYuS32yuG7E19AjDg\">a federal judge’s two-week deadline</a> to do so.\nThe judge had ruled that the decision by the center’s board of\ntrustees to rename it was illegal.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>A perfect metaphor for the work ahead of us.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Trump’s Name (Set in the Wrong Font, of Course) Has Been Removed From the Kennedy Center’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/13/trump-name-kennedy-center\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Third-Party Developers",
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"url": "https://developer.apple.com/private-cloud-compute/",
"published": "2026-06-13T17:20:59.000Z",
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"content": "<p>From Apple’s Developer site:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>To ensure getting started with a large cloud model is as\naccessible as possible, developers in the App Store Small Business\nProgram with fewer than two million first time App Store downloads\nwill be able to use Apple Foundation Models running on Private\nCloud Compute (PCC) with no cloud API cost. The model provides\naccess to frontier level intelligence with unparalleled privacy\nprotections. This makes it easy for small developers to get\nstarted building intelligent app experiences without upfront\ninfrastructure costs.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Eligibility requirements</strong></p>\n\n<p>Access to PCC is available to developers who meet the following\ncriteria:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Are enrolled in the <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program/\">App Store Small Business Program</a>.</li>\n<li>Have fewer than 2 million <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/#app-downloads\">first-time app downloads</a> from\nany of their apps on the App Store.</li>\n<li>Have the Private Cloud Compute entitlement <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/help/account/capabilities/capability-requests\">assigned to their\naccount</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Where Apple Intelligence is available, eligible developers can use\nPCC in their apps distributed on the App Store, and test PCC\nfeatures via TestFlight or ad hoc distribution. Installs during\ntesting are not counted as first-time app downloads.</p>\n\n<p>If any app subsequently exceeds the 2 million first-time downloads\nthreshold, or the developer is no longer enrolled in the App Store\nSmall Business Program, the developer will be notified and must\nmigrate to an alternative solution within 6 months. Information\nabout first-time downloads is available in <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/#app-downloads\">Analytics in App Store\nConnect</a>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>These strict limits don’t seem to be getting as much attention as they should. It’s nice that for small developers who meet the above criteria, access to PCC has no cost. But there’s no way (yet?) to buy your way out of these limits. There are no paid API tiers for larger developers who exceed the above limits, or for developers who qualify now but release a hit app that grows to exceed them. (Users who pay for iCloud+ don’t have any extra quotas for PCC usage in third-party apps either.)</p>\n\n<p>The “fewer than 2 million first-time app downloads from any of their apps” restriction is particularly notable. It’s not 2 million installations for apps that are using PCC, but 2 million downloads for <em>any app the developer has ever released</em>. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@_inside/116742529849306484\">Developer Gui Rambo writes</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>So uhhhh… Apple should really rethink the Private Cloud Compute\ndeveloper access limitation. I do happen to have an app that’s had\nmore than 2 million downloads. That app is ChibiStudio, an app\nthat’s been in the App Store for over 10 years. It’s not like I’m\ngetting a million new users every year nowadays. And I’m also not\nmaking any real money with it 🥲</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The bottom line is that — for the OS 27 cycle at least — PCC is primarily a feature for Apple itself to use in Siri AI. Granting access to PCC to any third-party developers at all is better than nothing, but this 2-million-download cap cuts off many developers who are in the Small Business Program. Apple should reconsider that. And I know there are a lot of developers who exceed the eligibility for the Small Business Program who would love to have access to the PCC APIs, even if access was paid. The lack of paid tiers says to me that Apple is worried enough about meeting demand from Siri AI users alone.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Third-Party Developers’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/13/pcc-severely-limited-third-party-developers\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds",
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"url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access",
"published": "2026-06-13T17:02:29.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-15T16:44:53.000Z",
"content": "<p>Anthropic:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The US government, citing national security authorities, has\nissued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable\n5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside\nthe United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.\nThe net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable\nFable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.\nAccess to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.</p>\n\n<p>We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm\n(ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national\nsecurity concern. Our understanding is that the government\nbelieves it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or\n“jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this\nspecific technique being used to identify a small number of\npreviously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all\nappear relatively simple, and we have found that other\npublicly-available models are able to discover them as well\nwithout requiring a bypass.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5\">Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were announced on Tuesday</a> — that post has detailed comparisons, from Anthropic, on the models’ capabilities.</p>\n\n<p>Having the access ban extend all the way to “foreign national Anthropic employees” is, to say the least, aggressive. Whether that degree of restriction is truly warranted, I don’t think we, on the outside, can say. The Trump administration lacks credibility, to say the least, when it comes to foreign nationals. But it’s Anthropic itself that repeatedly compares the power of frontier models to nuclear weapons. Here’s CEO Dario Amodei, <a href=\"https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential\">in an essay published just this month</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>There may come a time, perhaps relatively soon, when we need to go\nbeyond this, when the most powerful AI systems look less like\nairplanes or automobiles and more like weaponizable nuclear\nmaterials — a threat to humanity rather than “just” a threat to\npublic safety. If that occurs, we may need more aggressive\nregulatory measures than those I have laid out.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>If that occurs — or if it already <em>has</em> occurred — it’s obviously not the place of Anthropic (or OpenAI or Google) to render that judgment. <a href=\"https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/\">Ben Thompson wrote about this presciently</a> back in March, and linking to his post, <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/02/anthropic-and-alignment\">I wrote</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Nilay Patel, quoting the same section of Thompson’s column I\nquoted above, <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/reckless.bsky.social/post/3mg3qayzjlc2m\">sees it as</a> “Ben Thompson making a\nfull-throated case for fascism”. I see it as the case against\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy\">corporatocracy</a>. Who sets our defense policies? Our\ndemocratically elected leaders, or the CEOs of corporate defense\ncontractors?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/13/us-government-forces-anthropic-to-shut-down-fable-5-and-mythos-5-models\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "★ The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026",
"description": "Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.",
"url": "https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/the_talk_show_live_from_wwdc_2026",
"published": "2026-06-12T23:36:15.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-16T22:48:39.000Z",
"content": "<p>Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.</p>\n\n<p><iframe\n style = \"margin-left: -25px;\"\n width=\"512\" height=\"288\"\n src=\"https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/osBiD_XxrjQ?si=ANItt5dxnKMKAsn4\"\n title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" \n allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\"\n referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"\n allowfullscreen>\n</iframe></p>\n\n<p><strong>Immersive 3D video with spatial audio:</strong> Coming soon, exclusively in <a href=\"https://sandwich.vision/\">Sandwich Vision</a>’s <a href=\"https://apps.apple.com/app/theater-the-future-of-cinema/id6502666560\">Theater</a> on Vision Pro, available on the App Store. The bandwidth-constrained immersive livestream Tuesday night looked cool; the on-demand version coming in a few days will look amazing.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Audio-only version:</strong> <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/06/14/ep-449\">In the usual place</a>, and wherever you get your podcasts.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Sponsored by:</strong></p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://detailspro.app/talkshow/\">DetailsPro</a> — Design with SwiftUI anytime, anywhere: on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro. Get one year of DetailsPro Premium for $26 (normally $59.99) with this link.</p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://flighty.com/careers\">Flighty</a> — The world’s best flight tracker and travel app. Now hiring one Senior Product Designer and one Senior Full-Stack iOS Engineer.</p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.finalist.works/talkshow/\">Finalist</a> — A daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built on proven paper-based planning methods. Use this link to get six months free.</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Watch on a big screen if you can (real, or virtual). All credit and thanks for the video production go to my friends at <a href=\"https://sandwich.co/\">Sandwich</a>, who, as ever, are nothing short of a joy to work with.</p>",
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"title": "The WWDC 2026 Keynote and State of the Union on YouTube",
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"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o",
"published": "2026-06-12T17:28:19.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-12T17:28:20.000Z",
"content": "<p>Apple’s Developer app lets you download local copies of every session, including the State of the Union, <em>except</em> the keynote. Why this is I don’t know. But if you want a local copy, you can <a href=\"https://software.charliemonroe.net/downie/\">grab it</a> from YouTube.</p>\n\n<p>Speaking of the State of the Union, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2jsIoMfDU\">the full version</a> runs just over an hour, but Apple cut together <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM8krtCkEmQ\">a 4.5-minute recap</a>. If you haven’t watched the full thing you should at least watch that recap.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The WWDC 2026 Keynote and State of the Union on YouTube’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/12/the-wwdc-2026-keynote-on-youtube\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "The European Commission Response to Siri AI and the DMA",
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"content": "<p>Thomas Regnier, <a href=\"https://commission.europa.eu/about/contact/press-services/press-contacts/commissions-spokespersons-service_en\">spokesperson</a> for the European Commission, in a statement posted to LinkedIn (with edited video, if you’d like to watch him read parts aloud):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>What is the true story behind Apple’s decision not to roll out\n“Siri AI” in the EU?</p>\n\n<p>This decision is Apple’s and Apple’s only.</p>\n\n<p>Because absolutely nothing in the DMA prohibits Apple from rolling\nout new features in the EU.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, the European Commission and Apple had a few contacts on\n“Siri AI”.</p>\n\n<p>But instead of offering a compliant solution, Apple asked to be\nexempted from its interoperability obligations under the DMA — and this for 18 months.</p>\n\n<p>That’s not an option. EU rules are non negotiable.</p>\n\n<p>And it would mean that no AI agent other than “Siri AI” could be\nchosen by EU consumers.</p>\n\n<p>Apple, like any other gatekeeper, cannot close the market. The DMA\nis very clear about that.</p>\n\n<p>Our developers have the right to compete. And our consumers the\nright to choose.</p>\n\n<p>Those who want to keep using Apple products in their current form\ncan of course do it.</p>\n\n<p>But for those who want to use another AI agent, the DMA will give\nthem the possibility to do so.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Why this was posted to LinkedIn and not on the EC’s own <a href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en\">press website</a> is as inexplicable as Regnier’s bizarre choice to spread 14 short sentences across 10 paragraphs. I quoted the entirety of the statement nonetheless, to give the EC their full say. I’ll let it speak for itself in this post, but this does not contradict <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/11/apple-dma-siri-ai\">Apple’s position</a> or statements in any way.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The European Commission Response to Siri AI and the DMA’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/12/the-european-commission-response-to-siri-ai-and-the-dma\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’",
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"url": "https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/",
"published": "2026-06-11T21:58:49.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-11T22:00:08.000Z",
"content": "<p>Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI\nsystem nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the\nability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s\nongoing visibility and control. That includes the ability to read\nand send messages, make purchases, access files, and execute\nactions across any app. Security researchers have already shown\nthat AI systems can be hijacked to steal personal data — like\npasswords and photos — and to permanently alter files and\naccount settings without a user’s consent. As AI systems gain\nmore capabilities, these risks are quickly increasing in\nfrequency and scope.</p>\n\n<p>Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called\nTrusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual\nassistants to safely access the same features and capabilities as\nSiri AI for devices in the EU. Apple also shared a plan to launch\nSiri AI in the EU while gradually rolling out this new solution\nover an 18-month period. The European Commission said no. In fact,\nthe European Commission did not agree to any of Apple’s proposals.</p>\n\n<p>Apple will continue working to bring these features to the\nEuropean Union as safely as possible. However, given the clear\ndangers to EU users and the regulators’ failure to acknowledge\nthese risks, there is currently no timeline for Siri AI’s\navailability in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>There’s a lot to unpack here, including more background information — and on-the-record statements — from a briefing Apple held Tuesday that I was invited to at Apple Park. But the bottom line is that Apple’s public statements regarding the DMA and the European Commission have never been this strident before. In its public statements, Apple has always been <em>diplomatic</em>. That’s the word.</p>\n\n<p>Now, they’re a bit more on war footing. There’s a massive gulf between what Apple is willing to do with Siri AI in the EU and what the Commission is demanding from Apple for DMA compliance. As things stand there’s no middle ground. Apple’s offers for compromise have been rejected. Unless one side changes its mind and concedes its current position, Siri AI will <em>never</em> come to the EU, and what Apple is saying here is that they’re unwilling to create the open-access-to-user-data system that the EC is demanding.</p>\n\n<p>And from what I’ve seen so far in a day of testing Siri AI, EU iOS users are going to miss out on something really good.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/11/apple-dma-siri-ai\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Spielberg on Being Repeatedly Turned Down to Direct a James Bond Film",
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"published": "2026-06-11T20:38:09.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Steven Spielberg, on The Rest Is Entertainment on YouTube:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I approached Cubby Broccoli after <em>Jaws</em> was a big hit. I’d always\nwanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw <em>Dr. No</em>, so I\ncalled Cubby after <em>Jaws</em> and volunteered. I said, “If you need a\ndirector, I would love to direct one.” And he said no. And he\nmoved on.</p>\n\n<p>And then Cubby called me again after <em>Close Encounters</em> came out.\nAnd that was a big hit. And Cubby called me a few years after\n<em>Close Encounters</em> and said, “We’d like to use the five notes in\n<em>Moonraker</em>.” And I said, “I’ll make you a deal. I’ll give you\npermission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond\nfilm.” And he said “Nope.” But I gave him the five notes anyway.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>In <em>Moonraker</em>, the iconic <em>Close Encounters</em> notes are <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZci4tZ-Wfk\">the passcode to the locked door of a secret lab</a> that Bond (Roger Moore) needs to enter. Probably not so secure to play the passcode digits audible, but it’s a fun Easter egg. I always presumed that EON used it as fair-use homage, without bothering to ask Spielberg or Columbia Pictures for permission.</p>\n\n<p>Spielberg, in his interview with The Rest Is Entertainment, goes on to explain the oft-repeated story that his disappointment over his rejection by Broccoli led to his collaboration with George Lucas to make <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark</em>, which I put on my short list for best movie ever made. The whole opening sequence of <em>Temple of Doom</em> — where Indiana Jones is wearing a dinner jacket and chaos erupts at a nightclub while Jones chases a vial of poison antidote while the other characters chase a diamond being kicked around the floor — is more Bond-like than most Bond films. (Oh, and that Shanghai nightclub’s name: Club Obi Wan. No need to ask permission for that one.)</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Spielberg on Being Repeatedly Turned Down to Direct a James Bond Film’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/11/spielberg-bond\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage",
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"url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/08/craig-federighi-details-apples-collaboration-with-google-for-siri-ai-in-ios-27/",
"published": "2026-06-11T00:48:52.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC\nkeynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to\ntalk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk,\nFederighi shared more details about Apple’s collaboration with\nGoogle. Federighi was joined by Amar Subramanya (vice president\nof AI), Mike Rockwell (Siri lead), and Sebastien Marineau-Mes\n(software VP).</p>\n\n<p>On the Google collaboration, Federighi explained:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none\nof that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these\nmodels, we use none of the models that Google deploys to their\ncustomers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which\nthey deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to\nthe knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or\nanything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope\nthat’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.</p>\n\n<p>So let’s talk about what we do use, or how our system is built.</p>\n</blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This “Tech Talk” was good. It was detailed and technical, and there were live on-stage demos of Siri AI in action from Mike Rockwell. I don’t think Apple is ever going to go back to live on-stage major keynotes, but I do think the company is returning to more live events, including demos. There was a big live Siri AI/Apple Intelligence session for developers Tuesday morning in Steve Jobs Theater, which also had live demos. More like this, please.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/10/federighi-google-gemini-partnership\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "★ Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items",
"description": "This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.",
"url": "https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items",
"published": "2026-06-11T00:09:01.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-11T01:59:41.000Z",
"content": "<p>Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus\">Jim Nielsen writing about it</a>, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon in platforms like Google Docs and Windows. You will also recall <a href=\"https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/\">Nikita “Tonsky” Prokopov writing about it</a>, illustrating that the bad idea wasn’t even implemented well, with different Apple apps using entirely different icons for the same menu items. You will also recall <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/06/nielsen-icons-in-menus\">my linking to Nielsen</a> (“I can tolerate being angry about UI changes Apple makes to the Mac. But I can’t tolerate being heartbroken.”) and <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/05/hard-to-justify-tahoe-icons\">to Prokopov</a> (“The fact that Tahoe’s menu item icons are glaringly inconsistent and often utterly inscrutable is the fudge icing on a shit cake, but the real embarrassment is that the idea ever got past the proposal stage. No real UI <em>or</em> icon designers think this is a good idea. None.”)</p>\n\n<p>Top third-party developers rightly <a href=\"https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/01/10/removing-tahoes-unwanted-menu-icons/\">rejected the design</a>, adopting <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/@brentsimmons/115846213935605782\">open source code from Brent Simmons</a> to disable the default “icons in all standard menu items” behavior.</p>\n\n<p>Wonderful news in MacOS 27 Golden Gate: the icons are gone. It’s like Tahoe’s menu item icons never happened. <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116720790550648158\">Prokopov noted it on Mastodon</a> with before and after screenshots, and mentions that <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/menus\">Apple has updated the Human Interface Guidelines accordingly</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p><b>Use menu item icons sparingly and with purpose.</b> Icons allow\npeople to find menu items more quickly, and help clarify what\nselecting an item does. Use an icon to highlight the most common\nactions and key features of your app, file system locations,\nconnected devices, visual concepts like rotating or flipping an\nimage, and user-generated content like folders and documents.\nDon’t display an icon if you can’t find one that clearly\nrepresents the menu item.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This updated advice in the HIG is perfect. Screenshot:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/hig-menu-item-icons.png\" class=\"noborder\">\n <img\n src = \"https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/06/hig-menu-item-icons.png\"\n alt = \"Screenshot from the updated HIG, with illustrations of menus with and without unnecessary icons.\"\n width = 525\n /></a></p>\n\n<p>MacOS 26 Tahoe — across every Apple app on the system — is a living example of the updated HIG’s “what not to do” example illustrations (including the second section about groups within a menu). If you’re stuck using Tahoe until Golden Gate arrives, <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/what_to_do_about_those_menu_item_icons_in_macos_26_tahoe\">recall this tip</a> to alleviate the problem to some extent.</p>\n\n<p>This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team. I don’t know if all the untalented hacks are gone, but the untalented magazine-designer hacks with clout and influence all left with Alan Dye. I’ve chatted with a few people from Apple’s design team this week and they’re all loving the work they’re doing and the direction they’re taking Apple’s platforms. Backtracking on these idiotic menu item icons was a necessary first step.</p>",
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"title": "Apple OS 27: The Small Things",
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"url": "https://blog.oneberri.com/posts/wwdc26-the-small-things",
"published": "2026-06-09T21:29:57.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-09T21:33:17.000Z",
"content": "<p>Rishi Ó:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>My favorite Apple updates are not the flashy new features, but the quiet little touches: annoyances fixed, workflows made smoother, rough edges sanded down, and longstanding flaws thoughtfully reworked. To me, they’re the clearest sign of a company that cares about its craft.</p>\n\n<p>Here’s a collection from a WWDC26 screen-grab, organized for easier reading, on improvements coming later this year.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>That’s a lot of bullet points.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple OS 27: The Small Things’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/09/the-small-things\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "The Talk Show Live From WWDC: Tonight, In-Person and Streaming",
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"url": "https://ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2026",
"published": "2026-06-09T18:53:47.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-11T00:09:21.000Z",
"content": "<p>If you can make it in person, you should come. The California Theater is a beautiful <em>big</em> theater and tickets <a href=\"https://ti.to/daringfireball/the-talk-show-live-from-wwdc-2026\">are still available</a>.</p>\n\n<p>You can <em>also</em> watch tonight’s show in live stereoscopic immersive in the <a href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/theater-cinema-events/id6502666560\">Theater app from Sandwich Vision</a> on Vision Pro. A purchase of the ticket to the live show, the Theater app for $12.99, is also good for replay forever — with surprise bonus features included. It’s a fun, truly immersive way to experience the show.</p>\n\n<p>Hope to see you there tonight, one way or the other.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The Talk Show Live From WWDC: Tonight, In-Person and Streaming’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/09/the-talk-show-live-tonight\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Apple WWDC 2026 Keynote",
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"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o",
"published": "2026-06-09T17:42:32.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-09T17:42:32.000Z",
"content": "<p>A brisk 76 minutes, including the post-credits Easter egg music video. The past few years ran about a half hour longer.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple WWDC 2026 Keynote’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/09/apple-wwdc-2026-keynote\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Apple’s WWDC AI Demos Were Real and in Real Time",
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"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/apples-wwdc-ai-demos-looked-more-real-after-250m-false-ad-settlement/",
"published": "2026-06-09T17:38:21.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-09T17:38:22.000Z",
"content": "<p>Julie Bort, TechCrunch:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>But the most telling detail wasn’t what Apple announced. It was\nhow it chose to show some things off. Many of the Apple\nIntelligence demoes featured someone standing, phone in hand,\npressing buttons or using voice commands in real time, while\nanother camera showed off the phone’s response.</p>\n\n<p>These weren’t live onstage, anything-could-go wrong demos; they\nwere pre-taped. But they looked far more like proof of working\nfeatures than what Apple showed at WWDC 2024, when the company\n<a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/13/everything-apple-announced-wwdc-2024/\">unveiled Apple Intelligence and a new Siri</a> to the world\nthrough slickly produced videos that turned out to be more promise\nthan product.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The demos were all shot in single takes, with no editing. In fact, I think most of them were single takes of multiple demos back-to-back. That’s the way it should be, even when they feel a little slow. When a demo feels slow, the solution isn’t to edit the video — it’s to make the feature work faster.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple’s WWDC AI Demos Were Real and in Real Time’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/09/apple-wwdc-demos\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Apple Introduces Siri AI",
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"url": "https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-introduces-siri-ai-a-profoundly-more-capable-and-personal-assistant/",
"published": "2026-06-09T17:23:29.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-09T17:46:12.000Z",
"content": "<p>Apple Newsroom yesterday:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>This new version of Siri is built on Apple Intelligence, allowing\nSiri to draw on personal context understanding and help users find\nwhat they need in the moment across messages, emails, photos, and\nmore. For example, users can ask Siri to find a restaurant\nrecommendation a friend messaged them about, surface a hotel\nconfirmation number from an old email, or pull up photos with\nfriends and family from a recent trip. And personal context\nunderstanding extends to third-party apps when developers\nintegrate with Spotlight.</p>\n\n<p>With even more systemwide app actions, Siri AI lets users get\nthings done across apps, like drafting an email from scratch, or\nediting and sharing a set of photos. Using onscreen awareness,\nSiri AI can answer questions related to the content on a user’s\nscreen. For example, if a user gets a text about a potluck with\nfriends, they can brainstorm with Siri on what to bring and then\nadd a recipe to the Notes app.</p>\n\n<p>In addition, Siri AI can use broad world knowledge to get\nup-to-date information from the web on virtually any topic and\ngenerate a helpful answer, such as when and where to see the next\nsolar eclipse, or when a musician is coming to town. Users can\nextend almost any response from Siri into a rich conversation and\nask follow-up questions.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I like the name “Siri AI”. “New Siri” wouldn’t have legs because eventually this won’t be new. This should be the dividing line between Siri as we know it and Siri as it should be. The demos I’ve seen so far (I still don’t have access on my iOS 27 testing device) are impressive. Well, impressive compared to old Siri. They’re table stakes for generative AI. But Siri AI is the only system that can draw upon your personal data in the apps on your devices, <em>and</em> perform actions based on the app intents supported by the apps on your devices. It is in some ways less capable than ChatGPT or Claude, but in other ways has more potential. It’s a very different approach and I think it’s the right one for Apple.</p>\n\n<p>They need to execute, they need to prove this can scale, and most of all, they need to get third-party apps on board with <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/345\">App Intents</a> and <a href=\"https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/240\">App Schemas</a>. But it seems like they’re doing all of that. This is not a done deal but it is very realistic.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple Introduces Siri AI’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/09/apple-introduces-siri-ai\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Apple’s WWDC Announcement of the New Apple Intelligence System",
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"url": "https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-intelligence-brings-powerful-ai-capabilities-into-everyday-experiences/",
"published": "2026-06-09T16:50:33.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-09T17:45:39.000Z",
"content": "<p>Apple Newsroom:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple\nFoundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and\nits Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence\nexperiences. These latest models run on device and on servers\nusing Private Cloud Compute.</p>\n\n<p>Every facet of the new Apple Intelligence architecture is built\nprivacy-first, from the latest Apple Foundation Models to the core\noperating system technologies that integrate these models deep\ninto Apple’s platforms. Apple Intelligence uses on-device\nprocessing and Private Cloud Compute to help protect users’\nprivacy. Private Cloud Compute gives users access to\nfrontier-level intelligence, while extending the privacy and\nsecurity of iPhone into the cloud.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>What’s confusing about this Apple-Google partnership is that Google pretty much calls all things AI “Gemini”. The models are “Gemini”, the assistant is “Gemini”, and the feature integrations are “Gemini”. So Apple is taking pains to emphasize that they’re building atop the Gemini <em>models</em>, not the Gemini <em>assistant</em>.</p>\n\n<p>One way to think about it is this. Let’s say you’re a Google Gemini app user. That’s the assistant. Now you start using the new Apple Intelligence (that builds atop the Gemini models) and the new Siri AI (that builds atop the new Apple Intelligence). When you go back to the Google Gemini app, <em>nothing you did</em> using Apple Intelligence and Siri AI is visible to the Gemini app. And nothing you continue to do in the Google Gemini app is visible to Apple Intelligence or Siri AI.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple’s WWDC Announcement of the New Apple Intelligence System’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/09/apples-wwdc-apple-intelligence-announcement\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition",
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"url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-plans-to-open-up-siri-to-rival-ai-assistants-beyond-chatgpt-in-ios-27",
"published": "2026-06-09T01:37:27.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence\nassistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI\nplatform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a\nSiri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update,\naccording to people with knowledge of the matter. The assistant\ncan already tap into ChatGPT through a partnership with OpenAI,\nbut Apple will now allow competing services to do the same.</p>\n\n<p>The company is developing new tools to allow AI chatbot apps\ninstalled via the App Store to integrate with the Siri assistant,\nsaid the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans\nhaven’t been announced. The chatbots will also work with an\nupcoming Siri app and other features in the Apple Intelligence\nplatform.</p>\n\n<p>That means, for instance, if users have Alphabet Inc.’s Google\nGemini or Anthropic PBC’s Claude installed, they’d be able to send\nqueries to those services from within the Siri voice assistant,\njust like they have been able to with ChatGPT since Apple\nIntelligence launched in 2024.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Maybe Apple ran out of time today, and will announce this tomorrow? Maybe they forgot to announce it? Maybe they scrapped the next-generation Siri that existed two months ago and in the last month rebuilt another entirely new next-generation Siri? I’ll bet something like that is what happened.</p>\n\n<p>I mean, people had knowledge of the matter.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘From the Annals of People Having Knowledge of the Matter, Siri AI Extensions Edition’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/08/gurman-siri-ai-extensions\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "★ SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps",
"description": "Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop good idiomatically native apps. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and SwiftUI is now seven years old.",
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"content": "<p>Paulo Andrade, last month, “<a href=\"https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/\">Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-Assed App in 2026</a>”:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I recently launched the macOS version of <a href=\"https://shopie.io/\">Shopie</a>, an app I first\nreleased on the iOS App Store late last year. Shopie helps you\nkeep track of products you’re interested in by letting you create\nwishlists and notifying you whenever a product’s price,\navailability, and other details change.</p>\n\n<p>Unlike my other apps, where I typically blend AppKit (or UIKit)\nwith SwiftUI, Shopie is built entirely in SwiftUI. I wanted to\nkeep it that way to maximize code reuse across iOS, iPadOS, and\nnow macOS. This post explores how far SwiftUI can take you on the\nMac in 2026, especially if your goal is to build an app that feels\ntruly native to the platform. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive\nreview of SwiftUI on macOS. It’s simply a collection of recipes\nand issues I ran into while porting <a href=\"https://shopie.io/\">Shopie</a>, a fairly small app,\nand keeping it 100% SwiftUI.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Andrade’s examples are copious. His conclusion is damning:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple dropped the ball here. AppKit was ahead of its time and\nUIKit was a more polished version of AppKit. A serious\ncross-platform framework that unified the two should have happened\nlong before SwiftUI. Instead, Apple left AppKit to fossilize and\nthen tried to leapfrog the problem.</p>\n\n<p>You can see the result everywhere. SwiftUI is productive, modern,\nand often delightful, right up until you try to make a really good\nMac app. Then suddenly you’re fighting the framework for things\nthe Mac solved 20 years ago.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>There’s something really wrong with SwiftUI. Amongst the apps I use, the best example is Apple Journal. Basic stuff that’s worked reliably for decades — some things that heretofore had worked forever — are dangerously broken. If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then double-click on the word “brown” and delete it. Now invoke Undo.</p>\n\n<p>What you expect is for the word “brown” to reappear. What happens is ... <em>the whole sentence disappears</em>. Gone. Invoke Redo and you only get back to “The quick fox.” The word “brown” is just gone forever. It’s nowhere in the Undo stack. That’s just profoundly fucked up. I’ve never seen anything like this with an AppKit app, ever. (I’ve never seen it with a UIKit app either — and the same thing happens on iOS with Journal. It’s just that you notice it less often because we don’t invoke Undo and Redo nearly as often there.)</p>\n\n<p>I actually use the Journal app and I’ve lost entire sentences of text to this incompetent implementation of Undo. Editing text in Journal is <em>dangerous</em> because SwiftUI is so bad at something as fundamental as text editing. AppKit has had this solved since 1989 or so, a decade before Apple reunified with NeXT. And my example here is just one of many. Andrade documents a whole bunch more in his post. [Shopie is a good modern Mac app — you can practically see from reading his post that Andrade’s hands are scarred from dozens of paper cuts.</p>\n\n<p>So while the world is largely focused on Apple’s AI-related announcements at WWDC tomorrow, I’ve got SwiftUI (on all platforms) and Mac-assed Mac development high on my list. Apple’s developer message used to be that it was not just easy to develop apps for their platforms, but that it was easy to develop <em>good idiomatically native</em> apps. You got the correct complex behavior — for things like Undo/Redo — out of the box. That’s still true for AppKit and UIKit, but it’s never been true for SwiftUI, and <a href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/apple-unveils-groundbreaking-new-technologies-for-app-development/\">SwiftUI is now seven years old</a>. That’s too long for any excuses to hold water. </p>",
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"title": "Alberto Romero on Apple’s AI Spending",
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"published": "2026-06-08T01:00:00.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Alberto Romero:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>AI is like religion. Either you believe it changes everything, or\nyou don’t believe at all. There is no moderate position; nobody\nbelieves in AGI “more or less,” just like nobody is “casually\nreligious.” If God exists, the only coherent response is to\nreorganize your entire life around that fact, as priests do. If\nyou pray sometimes, then you are just an atheist who’s also\nfearful. When tech companies spend hundreds of billions on capital\nexpenditures to add sparkly AI features to Office, Gmail, and\nInstagram, I only see fearful atheists — guys who don’t believe\nin AI but pretend just in case.</p>\n\n<p>In 2026, the four largest cloud and AI infrastructure providers — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft — committed to <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-tech-strikes-gold-with-ai-but-at-a-steep-cost-f6d82a22\">spending $670\nbillion on CapEx</a>. Apple, in contrast, spent $12.7 billion on\ncapex last fiscal year and projects <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/02/20/apples-ai-gamble-can-a-14b-budget-compete-in-a-700b-arms-race/\">$14 billion for 2026</a>, 2%\nof what its peers are spending. The conventional reading in\nSilicon Valley is, naturally, that Apple is losing. Siri has been\na punchline for years — an internal executive <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/apple-s-siri-chief-calls-ai-delays-ugly-and-embarrassing-promises-fixes\">called the delays\nugly and embarrassing</a> — and critics say that Apple has not\nbeen the same without Steve Jobs. It is <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ai-siri-development-behind-9ea65ee8\">falling behind</a>, they\nsay, and moving way too slowly for AI.</p>\n\n<p>I disagree with this portrayal: Apple is the most powerful tech\ncompany in the world right now because it’s acting according to\nwhat it believes.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Some of you, I bet, will object to Romero’s notion that no one is “casually religious”. <em>Almost everyone I know is casually religious</em>, you might be thinking. But read the whole piece. What he’s saying is that if you’re “casually religious” those are just words. You’re not living your life according to your professed beliefs (casual or not). And that’s how most of Apple’s peer companies seem to be approaching AI.</p>\n\n<p>I’m not sure he’s right, but he might be, and I think his take is at least closer to right than wrong. Apple <em>is</em> making an enormous bet on AI — but their bet is that they don’t need to spend hundreds of billions per year on AI infrastructure (most of it fattening Nvidia’s bottom line) to reap the benefits. If Apple’s right we should start seeing it come together tomorrow.</p>\n\n<p>(Arguably we’ve already seen it coming together — demand for Apple’s products and services has gone up, not down, so far in the AI era. Entrenched leaders often grow during the initial stages of extinctive disruptions — BlackBerry’s biggest year for sales (revenue) and investor confidence (market cap) <a href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/blackberry-revenue/\">was 2011</a>, four years after the iPhone debuted — but the disruptors are there. There’s not yet a single threat on the market to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, or AirPods — nor to Apple’s services revenue.)</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Alberto Romero on Apple’s AI Spending’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/07/alberto-romero-on-apples-ai-spending\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Halide Mark III",
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"published": "2026-06-07T00:49:15.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Ben Sandofsky, writing on the Lux Camera blog:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>After decades of shooting digital, I returned to analog\nphotography in 2023. I thought it would be challenging, given the\nlimited selection of film stocks, only to be surprised by how\nfreeing it felt. It felt so much better to have a handful of\namazing choices rather than photo-editor with thousands of\npresets. We owe that to film engineers who spent years developing\nversatile film stocks that work in a variety of situations.</p>\n\n<p>Inspired by “Less, but better,” we partnered with the renowned\nHollywood colorist <a href=\"https://cullenkellycolor.com/\">Cullen Kelly</a> to develop a\nsuccinct set of gorgeous, <em>physically accurate</em> processes\nexclusive to Halide. Each look was engineered with a specific\nintent. We verified every look thousands of times on real-world\nreference photos.</p>\n\n<p>Put another way: every look is a banger.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Halide has always been a great — maybe <em>the</em> great — iPhone camera app for shooting RAW, with the intention of developing your images by hand in post. It’s a great <em>camera</em> technically and a great <em>app</em> UI-wise. <a href=\"https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/\">Mark II introduced Process Zero</a>, which, in their own description, “uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce beautiful, film-like natural photos”. Process Zero was the first step toward the new built-in “looks” in Halide Mark III. I’ve been shooting with Mark III for a few weeks now, and they are, indeed, all bangers. And I <em>really</em> like that there aren’t that many of them. I wanted more looks than just Process Zero (which remains available, of course), but I feel a bit overwhelmed when faced with a dozen (or worse, dozen<em>s</em>) of choices for processing. I feel conflicted enough having to choose between <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_iphone_17e#fn2-2026-03-09\">a handful</a> of <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/not_boring_camera_and_adobe_project_indigo\">really good</a> third-party camera apps with which to shoot in the first place — it’s worse when I have to make too many choices within the camera app itself.</p>\n\n<p>What I want is to just point and shoot and be able to instantly share images with the look I want already applied. I’m picky but I’m also really lazy, and don’t want to do any editing in post on most of the shots I keep. But I do want to be able to edit in post if I want to, including changing the look losslessly. This mixture of point-and-shoot ease and pro-level control didn’t use to be possible. Now, though, it is, with apps like <a href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-boring-camera/id6737783441\">Not Boring Camera</a>, <a href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/analogue-film-camera/id6748702405\">Analogue</a>, and, now, <a href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide-mark-iii-pro-camera/id885697368\">Halide Mark III</a>.</p>\n\n<p>It’s been a <a href=\"https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/21/apple-wanted-to-buy-halide-to-boost-iphone-18-pro/\">turbulent</a> couple of months for Lux (to say the least), so I’m glad to see Sandofsky and team get Mark III out the door. If you, like me, had previously been impressed by Halide but didn’t use it because it required too much work in post, you should check out Mark III.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Halide Mark III’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/06/halide-mark-iii\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "60 Minutes Correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and the Other Guy Will Stay at Show",
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"published": "2026-06-06T20:04:06.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/05/business/media/60-minutes-stahl-wertheim-whittaker-memo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.flOX.fSw9JEqNoaU9\">in a memo to the 60 Minutes staff</a> obtained by The New York Times (gift links):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes.\nWe’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan,\nstrong leaders who everyone respected. As far as we can tell — because no explanation has ever been offered, they were expelled\nbecause they fought for our 60 Minutes values and stood up to\nprotect our independence and integrity.</p>\n\n<p>Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.\nCollaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at\n60. Don Hewitt actually encouraged loud passionate advocacy for\nour pieces. [...]</p>\n\n<p>We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement\nof the existing power structure. That is simply, categorically not\nthe case.</p>\n\n<p>Here’s why we’re are staying:</p>\n\n<p>We don’t want to see 60 Minutes die.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>We’ll see how long this lasts.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘60 Minutes Correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and the Other Guy Will Stay at Show’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/06/stahl-whitaker-60-minutes\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty",
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"url": "https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-can-tear-down-statue-of-liberty-says-trump-lawyer",
"published": "2026-06-06T19:56:01.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-06T19:56:02.000Z",
"content": "<p>Josh Marshall:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East\nWing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a\njudge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of\nLiberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer,\nYaakov Roth, <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/white-house-ballroom-donald-trump-00951892\">said that yes, President Trump could decide tomorrow\nto bulldoze the Statue of Liberty</a> and no one could\nstop him.</p>\n\n<p>It was a good question from DC Court of Appeals Judge Patricia\nMillett since it brings the arguments and their implications\nclearly into the open. Reframe the question and the absurdity of\nthis proposition becomes even more clear. If you hire someone to\nadminister your estate, can they burn down the buildings on your\nestate or chop it up into parcels and sell it off? Presumably not.\nYou hired them to run it, not to destroy it or sell it. It’s not\ntheirs. They were hired for a specific task. That person is your\nemployee. The president is hired to administer the country and\nenforce its laws for four years. He doesn’t own the country or its\nproperties.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Pathetic lickspittles, one and all.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Trump Lawyer Argues Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/06/trump-statue-of-liberty\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Nieman Journalism Lab: Twitter/X Punishes Accounts That Post Links",
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"url": "https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/",
"published": "2026-06-05T20:46:56.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-05T20:46:57.000Z",
"content": "<p>Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18\nlarge publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes +\ncomments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers have\npaywalls: <a href=\"https://x.com/business\">Bloomberg</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/cnn\">CNN</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/Forbes\">Forbes</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/nytimes\">The New\nYork Times</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/WSJ\">The Wall Street Journal</a>, and <a href=\"https://x.com/washingtonpost\">The\nWashington Post</a>. Nine don’t: <a href=\"https://x.com/AJEnglish\">Al Jazeera English</a>,\n<a href=\"https://x.com/AP\">AP</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/BBCNews\">BBC</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/BreitbartNews\">Breitbart News</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/CBSNews\">CBS News</a>,\n<a href=\"https://x.com/realDailyWire\">Daily Wire</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/FoxNews\">Fox News</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/NBCNews\">NBC News</a>, and\n<a href=\"https://x.com/Reuters\">Reuters</a>. The last three accounts I looked at — <a href=\"https://x.com/LeadingReport\">Leading\nReport</a>, <a href=\"https://x.com/unusual_whales\">unusual_whales,</a> and <a href=\"https://x.com/GlobeEyeNews\">Globe Eye News</a> — are not news publishers, but aggregate breaking news in tweets\nwithout links. (Here, for example, is an example of a Leading\nReport <a href=\"https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/2041534947249242192\">tweet</a>: “BREAKING: Iran has halted direct talks with\nthe US, per WSJ.” They’re sometimes referred to as\nengagement-maxing accounts.</p>\n\n<p>These charts make it pretty clear that links in tweets hurt\nengagement. The connection was so apparent in my analysis that a\ngraph including all 18 publishers is almost unreadable: The\ntraditional, link-loving publishers are clustered in the bottom\nleft corner (lots of links, little engagement) in a nearly\nindistinguishable mass of bubbles, no matter how large their\nfollowings are.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Musk’s Twitter/X is not an aggregator for news. It’s a walled garden. But the type of garden where you need to keep your eyes open and your hand on your wallet. Sometimes it’s fun to visit a seedy neighborhood. But let’s not pretend it isn’t a seedy neighborhood just because, long ago, it used to be nice.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Nieman Journalism Lab: Twitter/X Punishes Accounts That Post Links’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/05/nieman-journalism-lab-twitter-links\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"title": "Elon Musk’s X Is a Freak Show",
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"url": "https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show",
"published": "2026-06-05T20:24:58.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came\nacross a <a href=\"https://x.com/kylewilsontharp/status/2037171182407999663\">bubble chart</a> depicting the Twitter accounts that\nhad received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was\ndepressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality\nand highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only\nfollow a handful of the top accounts. So I <a href=\"https://dashboards.cluvio.com/dashboards/qxny-9e5q-k65v/shared?filters=%7B%22platform_filter%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22political_content%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22political_lean%22%3A%5B%5D%7D&reportId=k6zq-g911-3m2o&sharingToken=78eb1196-5766-429d-acf8-edcfd96b7067&timerange=1767225600~\">tracked down the\noriginal data myself</a> and, with help from Claude, made my\nown improved version of the chart. Here, <em>voilà</em>, are the Twitter\naccounts with the most engagement so far in 2026:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"/misc/2026/05/nate-silver-twitter-account-cloud.png\" class=\"noborder\">\n <img\n src = \"/misc/2026/05/nate-silver-twitter-account-cloud.png\"\n alt = \"Data from Cluvio showing most engagements among X accounts from Jan. 1 to Apr. 4, 2026.\"\n width = 500\n /></a></p>\n\n<p>It’s not hard to notice that Twitter has become extremely\nright-leaning. But I’d argue there’s an equally important trend:\nthe top accounts are of incredibly low quality. Elon, with the\n<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report\">algorithmic boost</a> he built in for himself, is at the eye of\nthe storm, of course. But “Catturd” literally gets far more\nengagement than the New York Times, for instance.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>There’s a common argument from proponents of the Musk-era X that the only problem is that left-leaning people have abandoned the platform. That the X algorithm is a contest and if only right-leaning accounts are playing, of course they’re winning. This is nonsense. The whole thing is rigged. Elon Musk’s outsized prominence as the most-engaged-with account is proof of that. Twitter existed for 16 years before Musk bought it. He wasn’t even close to the biggest account during that era. Then he bought it. Now his account is the biggest.</p>\n\n<p>As Silver’s data analysis shows, Musk’s X is not just dominated by right-wing accounts, it’s dominated by “<em>who the hell is that?</em>” right-wing slop accounts.</p>\n\n<p>The only way not to lose a rigged game is to refuse to play. X is still a thing. A lot of people, companies, and organizations still post there — treat it like their blogs — exclusively. I still wind up linking to posts on X because that’s where they are. That’s a whole separate discussion. But anyone who’s trying to “compete” there with subject matter that is even vaguely political has no chance of success unless what they’re posting is what Elon Musk wants to see promoted. It’s not like his thumb is on the scale, it’s like an anvil is on the scale. The conundrum is that there are still a lot interesting people posting interesting things there.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Elon Musk’s X Is a Freak Show’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/05/musk-x-freak-show\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"id": "tag:daringfireball.net,2026:/linked//6.43091",
"title": "Checking in on Perplexity",
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"url": "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/05/regarding-those-rumors-of-apple-pursuing-an-acquisition-of-perplexity",
"published": "2026-06-05T15:26:29.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-05T15:26:30.000Z",
"content": "<p>Yours truly, last August:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a company\nlike this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sources\nare inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feels\nmore like something Perplexity would be seeding than one that\nApple executives would be leaking.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Perplexity is still <a href=\"https://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=perplexity&wm=false\">occasionally in the news</a> (often <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/04/perplexity-class-action-sham\">not in good ways</a>), but it seems to me they’ve slipped into the “afterthought” tier of AI startups — which is exactly why they started leaning into <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/12/perplexity-jumps-shark-stunt-offer-to-buy-chrome\">clownish stunts last year</a>. Everyone who previously suggested Apple should — or even might — buy them has gone silent.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Checking in on Perplexity’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/05/checking-in-on-perplexity\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"id": "tag:daringfireball.net,2026:/linked//6.43090",
"title": "Some People Rooted for The Empire in ‘Star Wars’, Too",
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"url": "https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/06/03/cbs-fires-scott-pelley-after-trying-very-hard-to-get-fired-n3815553",
"published": "2026-06-05T00:43:33.000Z",
"updated": "2026-06-05T00:43:33.000Z",
"content": "<p>Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: <em>He who has the gold makes the\nrules</em>. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue and\ntorched his own position — and if Bilton’s letter is accurate, in\nas mean-spirited and conceited a manner as possible. Pelley could\nhave chosen a dignified resignation under protest, but instead\npulled a power move in an attempt to intimidate Bilton, Weiss, and\nEllison, only to discover that no one feared his absence. In fact,\nthey’re probably happy to cut him loose.</p>\n\n<p>There’s always at least <em>one</em> person in these situations who\nthinks they’re untouchable. A wise executive knows to start by\nmaking an example of that person, and then see how many other\npeople think they’re indispensable. It’s not as if TV news jobs\nare expanding these days, after all. Pelley’s going to find out\nthe hard way that no one’s paying $5 million a year to emote into\na camera from other people’s copy.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>It doesn’t even enter this man’s little mind that Pelley wasn’t concerned about his job, wasn’t concerned about his salary, but was concerned only with the integrity of the institution to which he’d committed decades of his career, and that he saw as his duty the need to stand up for his remaining and former colleagues. That Pelley himself has integrity. To the Trump lickspittles, everything is performative. They don’t just lack integrity, they don’t believe integrity is real.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://x.com/katienotopoulos/status/2062229659966697857\">Katie Notopoulos</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The Scott Pelley story to me is a lesson in how if you work hard\nenough in your career to get Fuck You Money, the real reward is\nthe day you need to say it, you can.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Some People Rooted for The Empire in ‘Star Wars’, Too’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/04/some-people-rooted-for-the-empire\"> ★ </a>\n</div>",
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"id": "tag:daringfireball.net,2026://1.43059",
"title": "★ What Is a Dickover?",
"description": "dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.",
"url": "https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover",
"published": "2026-05-29T20:58:56.000Z",
"updated": "2026-05-31T22:58:20.000Z",
"content": "<p><em><a href=\"/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover\">Please enjoy this article on its own webpage</a>. Trust me.</em></p>",
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"id": "tag:daringfireball.net,2026://1.43048",
"title": "★ The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts",
"description": "The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.",
"url": "https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/the_fonts_of_the_us_federal_courts",
"published": "2026-05-22T20:30:18.000Z",
"updated": "2026-05-25T18:22:13.000Z",
"content": "<p>The 13 circuits of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals\">the U.S. federal courts of appeals</a> operate with a fair amount of independence, including <a href=\"https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/greedy-associates/5-non-times-new-roman-fonts-courts-use-in-their-opinions/\">their typographic choices</a>. I was reminded of this today while reading the <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/22/ninth-circuit-epic-v-apple\">aforelinked</a> decision <a href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2025/12/11/25-2935.pdf\">from the Ninth Circuit in <em>Epic v. Apple</em></a>, because the Ninth Circuit sets their decisions in <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/a-brief-history-of-timesnewroman\">Times New Roman</a> — a font that <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/10/\">came up back in December</a> in the context of the Trump State Department.</p>\n\n<p>Long argument short, Times New Roman isn’t bad, but it isn’t good. It is the median choice. But <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/comments/ge4tzq/different_fonts_used_by_us_court_of_appeals/\">most of the circuit courts use it</a>: the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh. It could be worse: the <a href=\"https://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/14-1043P-01A.pdf\">First</a> circuit not only uses Courier New (<a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/14/clintons-letter\">the worst version of Courier</a>, so of course it’s the one Microsoft shipped with Windows), but fully justifies their text — contrary to the nature of a monospaced font. (The Fourth circuit only recently switched <a href=\"https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/131839A.P.pdf\">from Courier New</a> <a href=\"https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251012.P.pdf\">to Times New Roman</a> — an upgrade, to be sure, but a disappointingly mediocre one.) It could be better: the <a href=\"https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OPN/24-341_opn.pdf\">Second</a> and <a href=\"https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/OpinionsWeb/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2026/D05-20/C:24-2015:J:Hamilton:aut:T:fnOp:N:3544786:S:0\">Seventh</a> use Palatino. (Note how much better that Seventh Circuit decision looks than the Second’s, with its wider margins creating a narrower column of text.)</p>\n\n<p>But it can be <em>much</em> better. The Fifth Circuit was long typographically superior to its peers, using <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_type_family\">Century Schoolbook</a> — a highly legible font with great tradition and the right vibe. But in 2020, the Fifth Circuit upgraded, switching to <a href=\"https://typographyforlawyers.com/equity.html\">Equity</a>, Matthew Butterick’s excellent type family (which, of course, is used throughout Butterick’s own web book, <a href=\"https://typographyforlawyers.com/\"><em>Typography for Lawyers</em></a>). Here’s a <a href=\"https://x.com/E_A_Young/status/1285354790176935936\">before and after tweet</a> noting the change. The <a href=\"https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/25/25-11006-CV1.pdf\">results</a> are typographically sublime (including improved margins).</p>\n\n<p>The gold standard is the U.S. Supreme Court, which uses Century Schoolbook. Yes, I just praised the Fifth Circuit’s change from Century Schoolbook to Equity as an upgrade, but tradition and consistency have their place. The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century. (If only that were true of their recent decisions. <em>Rimshot.</em>) Here is last month’s <a href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_new_jifl.pdf\"><em>Louisiana v. Callais</em> decision</a> — the gerrymandering / redistricting case. Here is <a href=\"https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep347/usrep347483/usrep347483.pdf\">1954’s <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em></a>. I’d give the nod to the older one, which made better use of proper small caps, but the overall consistency is obvious.</p>\n\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2026RulesoftheCourt_WEB.pdf\">the 2026 edition of the Rules of the Supreme Court</a>. Not only does the Court use Century Schoolbook for its own decisions, it requires submissions to the Court to use the same (p. 44):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The text of every booklet-format document, including any appendix\nthereto, shall be typeset in a Century family (e. g., Century\nExpanded, New Century Schoolbook, or Century Schoolbook) 12-point\ntype with 2-point or more leading between lines. Quotations in\nexcess of 50 words shall be indented. The typeface of footnotes\nshall be 10-point type with 2-point or more leading between lines.\nThe text of the document must appear on both sides of the page.</p>\n\n<p>Every booklet-format document shall be produced on paper that is\nopaque, unglazed, and not less than 60 pounds in weight, and\nshall have margins of at least three-fourths of an inch on all\nsides. The text field, including footnotes, may not exceed 4⅛\nby 7⅛ inches.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Why the extra one-eighths of an inch instead of just 4 × 7? I don’t know. But 4⅛ × 7⅛ is exactly the size of the text field in the court’s own decisions.</p>\n\n<p>Now compare the current 2026 rulebook to <a href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/rules/rules_1910.pdf\">this edition printed in 1910</a> (with rules adopted in 1884). The consistency is striking — but, once again, the older version makes better use of small caps and just has a bit more vim and vigor to it. <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/scotus-1910-rules-p-44.jpeg\">Just look at page 44</a>, for example. It’s perfect. The current Court’s document formatters should aspire only to more closely ape the confidence and sturdiness of this older one. A century from now, U.S. Supreme Court decisions should look as similar to today’s as today’s do to those from a century ago.</p>\n\n<hr />\n\n<p>The various circuit courts using lesser typefaces, looser margins, and lazier formatting should follow the Fifth’s lead and get their shit together. Tuck your shirt in, comb your hair, straighten your tie, and pop a mint in your mouth. If you’re a United States federal court, your typographic style should reflect that.</p>\n\n<p>Back in 2020, <a href=\"https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/choose-wisely-2020-edition.html\">Butterick took a well-deserved victory lap</a> when the Fifth Circuit adopted Equity.<sup id=\"fnr1-2026-05-22-f\"><a href=\"#fn1-2026-05-22-f\">1</a></sup> He quoted Fifth Circuit Judge <a href=\"https://x.com/justicewillett\">Don Willett</a>, a typography fan who spearheaded the restyling project, on its rationale. Willett wrote:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>[Why] did the circuit devote finite judicial energy to swapping\ntypefaces and widening margins? Simple answer: Our job is not\njust to present clear opinions, but to present our opinions\nclearly. Getting the law right is, of course, our tip-top\npriority. Nothing matters more. ... But good enough is never good\nenough. Our work is consequential, impacting the lives and\nlivelihoods of real people walloped by real problems in the real\nworld. The stakes are high, and we must present our best opinion,\nnot merely a passable one. And that presentation begins before\nthe first word is ever read.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr />\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn1-2026-05-22-f\">\n<p>In the very same post, Butterick sings the praises of the Apple Extended Keyboard II, and notes that he has several spares in reserve. I do keenly intend to take Butterick up on <a href=\"https://practicaltypography.com/effluents-influence-affluence.html#:~:text=Musso%20%26%20Frank\">his standing offer</a> to dine when next I’m in Los Angeles, but I worry that if we meet, we’ll trigger some sort of calamitous singularity of aligned taste. <a href=\"#fnr1-2026-05-22-f\" class=\"footnoteBackLink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.\">↩︎</a></p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n</div>",
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"id": "tag:daringfireball.net,2026://1.43022",
"title": "★ AI Is Technology, Not a Product",
"description": "It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.",
"url": "https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product",
"published": "2026-05-16T20:32:51.000Z",
"updated": "2026-05-18T16:48:28.000Z",
"content": "<p>Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “<a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/apples-next-ceo-needs-to-launch-a-killer-ai-product/\">Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product</a>” (<a href=\"https://apple.news/AdCC7y43rTQq6SZH2bDmqxA\">News+ link</a> to get around Wired’s miserly paywall):</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Much more recently, <a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/apple-50-year-anniversary-artificial-intelligence-iphone/\">I quizzed Ternus</a> and global marketing\nhead Greg Joswiak about Apple’s future, specifically its plans to\nget ahead of the AI transformation. Ternus acknowledged that AI is\n“an immense kind of inflection point,” but couched it as one of\nmany leaps that Apple has navigated. Each hit product — the Apple\nII, the Mac, iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, iPad — piggybacked on\na previous product. “We never think about shipping a technology,”\nhe said. “We want to ship amazing products, features, and\nexperiences, and we don’t want our customers to think about what\n[underlying] technology makes it possible. That’s the way we think\nabout AI.”</p>\n\n<p>That’s fine, but I look back to the mid-2000s when everybody was\nwaiting for Apple to come out with a phone. When Jobs finally\ndelivered in January 2007, the product defined the mobile era.\nIt’s a big ask for Ternus to do something similar for the AI age — but it’s an opportunity that must be seized. AI threatens to\ndisrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem. By the end of this decade,\nit’s unlikely that people will swipe on their phones to tap on\nUber or Lyft. They will just tell their always-on AI agent to get\nthem home. Or that agent will have already figured out where they\nneed to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a\nrequest. “There’s an app for that,” may be replaced by “Let the\nagent do that.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I’m a huge longtime Steven Levy fan, but this is nonsense. It’s hard to read this and not worry that he too has lost his mind to the AI snake-oil hypesters. What Ternus told him is exactly right. The Apple way is never to ship a technology. The iPod wasn’t about MP3 files. It wasn’t about <a href=\"https://www.wired.com/2006/10/straight-dope-on-the-ipods-birth/\">1.8-inch hard drives</a>. It was about music. The iPhone did define the mobile era (which we’re still very much in), but Apple doesn’t need to capitalize on every single market the mobile era opened up. Social media is a defining component of the mobile era. It comprises the entirety of Meta’s value and a sizable slice of Google’s (via YouTube). Apple doesn’t have a social network business. It’s fine — because the way people consume and create social media is using their phones.</p>\n\n<p>Does AI “threaten to disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem”? It’s possible, but it doesn’t seem nearly as likely to me as Levy asserts. <em>Changing</em> the iPhone ecosystem? Sure — that’s already true. <em>Obviating</em> the iPhone ecosystem? I don’t see it. Levy’s argument reminds me of the hype around “the cloud” when that first became a term. It’s so meaningless when used broadly (e.g. “<em>Everything will soon be in the cloud</em>”) that it could mean anything. It’s step #2 in the <a href=\"https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes\">gnomes-stealing-underpants</a> master plan.</p>\n\n<p>The idea that AI agents “will have already figured out where [we] need to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a request” strikes me as pure fever dream high-on-the-hype fantasy. I’m just going to step outside a restaurant when I’m done eating a meal and a ride-share is going to be there, waiting for me, without my having hailed it? Every time? And I’m going to find this pleasing, not creepy? And ride-share drivers are going to respond to all these requests, because the requests will never be wrong? And this is going to happen, somehow, without my carrying a phone with me? And this is going to happen in the next four years? I don’t think I’d want this even if it were plausible, but it doesn’t sound plausible.</p>\n\n<p>Actual products have to be real. Actual experiences have to rely on actual products. How exactly in Levy’s end-of-this-decade scenario will we tell our “always-on AI agent” to get us home? What microphone is listening to the command? What speaker is telling us the request was understood and acted upon? What screen do we look at to see how far away the hailed car is? I’d bet a pretty large sum of money that in 2030, when someone hails a ride-share vehicle to take them home, the most common product they’ll use to do that will be their phone. Whether they’re doing it via a verbal command issued to an “always-on AI agent” or good old tapping and swiping, it’ll be a phone.</p>\n\n<p>If you think that people will buy smaller devices to replace their phones, and use those to talk to “always-on AI agents” instead, you have to answer some questions. What company is the best in the world at making smaller-than-phone personal computing devices? What device will people use as their camera? What device will people use as their screen, for watching videos, playing games, texting, and (one hopes) reading? My answers to those three questions: Apple, phone, phone. Why would smaller devices — you know, like watches, earbuds, and, say, glasses — work independently rather than pair with the phone that you’re almost certainly still going to be carrying with you?</p>\n\n<p>Only a fool would argue that Apple can stand on the sidelines and ignore AI. It’s very different from, say, social media that way. Social media doesn’t pervade everything in technology. You can ignore social media as a user. (And you’re probably more productive, and happier, if you do.) A company can eschew social media as a business. AI, on the other hand, is pervasive. It can’t be ignored. But it’s just technology.</p>\n\n<p>Wireless networking is pervasive too. But Apple doesn’t have “a killer wireless networking product”.<sup id=\"fnr1-2026-05-16\"><a href=\"#fn1-2026-05-16\">1</a></sup> Wireless networking simply pervades everything Apple makes. I’m hard pressed to think of a single product Apple makes that doesn’t use some combination of Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, and proprietary wireless protocols. There was a time, not <em>too</em> long ago, when Apple didn’t make a single product with wireless connectivity. Now it’s pervasive in all their devices. That’s more what AI is going to be like. There’s not going to be one “killer AI device”. Everything is going to be an AI device, to some extent, just like how everything today is a wireless connectivity device, to some extent.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Postscript:</strong> “<a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/18/existing-stakeholders-have-a-say-in-the-future\">Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future</a>”.</p>\n\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr />\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn1-2026-05-16\">\n<p>AirPort qualified, arguably. But Apple walked away from it, alas. <a href=\"#fnr1-2026-05-16\" class=\"footnoteBackLink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.\">↩︎</a></p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n</div>",
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