Holly Borla: Swift 6.1 enables custom Swift Testing traits to perform logic before or after tests run in order to share set-up or tear-down logic. If you write a custom trait type which conforms to the new TestScoping protocol, you can implement a method to customize the scope in which each test or suite the […]

Apple (security, downloads): Clang now defines TARGET_OS_* conditionals as built-in macros based on the provided target triple.[…]Searching in the documentation viewer may start an indexing process which makes no progress. This may result in missing search results and increased CPU usage.[…]Fixed: Foundation encoders/decoders user info dictionaries now require Sendable values. This may cause build errors […]

SpamSieve 3.1.2 improves the filtering accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst other enhancements and fixes. Some interesting issues were: I made some more table view improvements enabled by the lazy Core Data collections mentioned in the previous release. Since it no longer loads the whole selection into RAM, it’s now possible to operate […]

Elon Musk (Hacker News): @xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed […]

Jason Snell:

While the ads played on, I began creating a thought experiment: There’s a $10 difference between the ad and ad-free plans. If Mr. Netflix (he wears a top hat) came to my house and said, “Jason, I’ve got a great deal for you. I’m going to pay you $120 a year, and all you have to do is watch ads while you watch Netflix,” what would I do? When I started thinking about it, I thought it might be an interesting intellectual question. What would I accept in exchange for having Mean Mr. Netflix beam ads into every show I watch?