Juli Clover: Following signs of new Side Button functionality in the iOS 26.2 beta 3 update, Apple developer documentation has confirmed that assigning a third-party voice assistant to the Side Button will be a feature available to iPhone users in Japan. […] Apple makes it clear that the option to activate a third-party personal assistant […]

SpamSieve 3.2.2 is a maintenance release of my Mac e-mail spam filter. SpamSieve 3.2 had a bunch of changes to deal with Microsoft’s plan to sunset Legacy Outlook on November 1, however in early October they announced a new plan to keep supporting Legacy Outlook for another year. I think this was the right decision, […]

Joe Rossignol: Apple’s high-end Mac Pro desktop computer is currently “on the back burner,” according to the latest word from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said he heard that Apple has “largely written off” the Mac Pro, with the sentiment inside the company being that the Mac Studio represents the present […]

Anthony Ha: A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen-monitoring technology.Reuters reports the jury found that the Apple Watch’s workout mode and heart rate notification features violated Masimo’s patent. Eric Slivka: “Over the past six years (Masimo has) sued […]

Slava Pestov (Hacker News): This is all, of course, about the dreaded the compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time error. This error can appear with both valid and invalid code, and the various workarounds are unsatisfactory, to say the least. Splitting up an expression into smaller pieces, introducing type annotations, or […]