Ari Levy and Jordan Novet: Atlassian said on Wednesday that it’s eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following a plunge in its stock price driven by developments in artificial intelligence. “We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile,” […]

Jeff Johnson: The older, simpler API [NSURL URLWithString:URLString] behaves the same as [NSURL URLWithString:URLString encodingInvalidCharacters:YES] when your code is compiled with the iOS 17 or macOS 14 SDK. So much for backward compatibility! [NSURL URLWithString:URLString] continues to work fine with example 1, leaving the URL string untouched, but it mangles example 2: https://example.org?url=https%253A%252F%252Fexample.org%253Ffoo%5B0%5D%253Dbar Notice that […]

Another crackerjack essay on design and attention from Terry Godier. (Note that the Casio in the essay not only shows the actual time, but has functional buttons.)

Apple Newsroom today:

Apple today announced AirPods Max 2, bringing even better Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), elevated sound quality, and intelligent features to the iconic over-ear design. Powered by H2, features like Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness, Voice Isolation, and Live Translation come to AirPods Max for the first time. The new AirPods Max also unlock creative possibilities for podcasters, musicians, and content creators, with useful features like studio-quality audio recording and camera remote.

AirPods Max 2 will be available to order starting March 25 in midnight, starlight, orange, purple, and blue, with availability beginning early next month.

Seemingly no change to the Smart Case for the Max, which I know some people were hoping for. (I only use AirPods Pro, not Max, but when I tested the original AirPods Max I thought the case was fine.) Here’s a link to Apple’s Compare page showing all the differences between the Max 2 and original Max, with AirPods Pro 3 in the third slot. (Archived for posterity here.) One neat new feature: the Max 2 will support using the Digital Crown button as a remote camera shutter button for a paired iPhone or iPad.

“What that means in practice is that even a kernel-level exploit would not be able to turn on the camera without the light appearing on screen.”