Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
★ MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 8
Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the eighth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the seventh beta. The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5. Previously: macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 7 Update (2025-08-26): Mario Guzmán: How is this good design? It […]
iOS 26 Developer Beta 8
Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the eighth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the seventh betas. The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5. Steve Troughton-Smith: Historically, since iOS 13, beta 8 has been the last beta […]
Bluesky Blocking Access to Mississippi
Bluesky (via Hacker News): Mississippi’s approach [to child safety] would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky. The Supreme Court’s recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comply with Mississippi’s age assurance law—and make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive personal information and undergo age checks to access the site—or risk massive fines. The […]
US Government Takes 10% Stake in Intel
Kif Leswing (via Hacker News): Intel, the only American company capable of making advanced chips on U.S. soil, said in a press release that the government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company. Intel […]