Daring Fireball Sep 5, 7:42 PM

Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and po...

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Daring Fireball Sep 5, 4:08 PM

‘Bob and Van’

Marco Arment: And I can’t help but feel that maybe we were better off before we knew everyone’s hot takes on everything. The town coffee shop was just a coff...

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Daring Fireball Sep 5, 12:05 AM

Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Replacing Shantanu Narayen

Annie Palmer, CNBC: Adobe on Thursday named Anil Chakravarthy as its next president and CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who announced he would step down ea...

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Daring Fireball Sep 4, 11:23 PM

NBA Brings the Hammer on the Clippers — $30 Million Fine, 5 First-Round Draft Picks, and Steve Ballmer Is Banned for a Year

Mike Vorkunov, reporting for The Athletic (gift link): The NBA levied the largest punishment in league history on the LA Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer on ...

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Daring Fireball Sep 4, 8:04 PM

Apple Fixed ‎TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order

I wrote two weeks ago about how the v4.3.0 update to TestFlight (released on July 21) broke the sort order for apps in the sidebar. Apple yesterday released ...

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Daring Fireball Sep 4, 7:55 PM

Vinted

Remarking on MapQuest taking the #1 spot in the App Store (in the wake of their decision to ignore President Trump’s fiat renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake A...

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Daring Fireball Sep 4, 6:07 PM

★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints

It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.

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Daring Fireball Sep 4, 4:15 PM

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercri...

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Daring Fireball Sep 4, 1:35 AM

OpenAI Soft-Releases GPT‑6 Astra

Simon Willison: GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, ...

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Daring Fireball Sep 3, 4:39 PM

Phil Schiller Steps Down From Running App Store and Product Events

Mark Gurman: Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down fr...

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Daring Fireball Sep 3, 4:30 PM

MapQuest Refuses to Relabel Lake Ontario, Rewarded With Surge in Popularity

Finya Swai, reporting for The Hill two days ago: MapQuest has surged in popularity on the app charts after the mapping service said it would not rename Lake ...

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Daring Fireball Sep 2, 8:58 PM

iOS 27 Introduces New ‘iPhone Handoff’ Feature

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: “iPhone Handoff” can be set up from the Settings app, under the Cellular menu. During the setup process, you can choose which iPhon...

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