Daring Fireball 17 hr ago

OS 27 Developer Beta 3 Enables New ‘Pace’ and ‘Expressivity’ Sliders for Siri’s New Voices

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its ...

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Daring Fireball 1d ago

Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired

Maestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work...

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Daring Fireball 1d ago

Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld

Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs h...

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Daring Fireball 3d ago

Day One Journal

My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac an...

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Daring Fireball 5d ago

April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’

Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave...

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Daring Fireball 5d ago

I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)

Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad m...

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Daring Fireball 6d ago

Valve Explains Why It Doesn’t Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms

Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link): While t...

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Daring Fireball Jun 30

U.K. Regulator Considers Requiring App Store to Allow Steering to the Web, and iOS NFC to Be Open

Sam Tabahriti, reporting for Reuters: Britain’s competition regulator ​on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment opti...

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Daring Fireball Jun 30

Data Breach at Indian Supplier Tata Electronics Exposes iPhone 18 Pro Details and Photos

Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, and Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters: Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, ​and photos of Apple’s upcoming iPhon...

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Daring Fireball Jun 27

Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022

From a September 2022 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, co-signed by Marco Rubio (then a Republican senator from Florida, curren...

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Daring Fireball Jun 27

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

Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models a...

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