Joe Mullin: In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking. Despite heavy pressure from the Interior Ministry, lawmakers voted Thursday night […]

Apple: Starting today, with the availability of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, Apple Intelligence features are now available in many new languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified) — as well as localized English for Singapore and India — and are accessible in nearly all regions […]

Nick Lockwood: Airdrop on macOS has this “great” feature where it displays receivers asynchronously as it finds them and they are sorted alphabetically, so the order shuffles randomly under the mouse as you are trying to clickBrought to you by the guy who sent a file to a random colleague when trying to share it […]

Also new in Swift 6.1, ST-0006: We offer three variants of #expect(throws:):One that takes an error type, and matches any error of the same type;One that takes an error instance (conforming to Equatable) and matches any error that compares equal to it; andOne that takes a trailing closure and allows test authors to write arbitrary […]

Ernie Smith (via Hacker News): But it of course raises the question: Do they make Apple‘s shows on Macs? As the second season of Severance ended in dramatic fashion, Apple decided to answer that question, and the answer was … surprisingly confusing. […] In the video Apple released, which highlights the Mac-driven editing process that […]