Jim Nielsen (via Hacker News): Have you ever searched for “AI chat” in the Mac App Store?I have. It’s like strolling through one of those counterfeit, replica markets where all the goods look legit at first glance. But then when you look closer, you realize something is off.For the query “AI chat”, there are so […]

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple says on its feature availability webpage that “Apple Intelligence: Live Translation with AirPods” won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU. Apple doesn’t give a reason for the restriction, but legal and regulatory pressures seem the most […]

Adam Engst: When Apple first introduced Emergency SOS via satellite with the iPhone 14, it promised two years of free service. Later, Apple extended the free service by another year (see “Apple Extends Free Emergency SOS via Satellite for iPhone 14 Users for Another Year,” 15 November 2023). That extension was set to expire in […]

Howard Oakley: When an app that supports versioning saves a file, the current version is added as a dataless file to a folder in AllUIDs, with its UUID as its name, its data are added to the ChunkStoreDatabase, and its details are added to the database in db-V1. Chunk sizes typically range up to just […]

Apple (Ivan Krstić, Hacker News): Arm published the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) specification in 2019 as a tool for hardware to help find memory corruption bugs. MTE is, at its core, a memory tagging and tag-checking system, where every memory allocation is tagged with a secret; the hardware guarantees that later requests to access memory […]