Maurice Parker: Adding data syncing to any application is hard. iCloud helps with that somewhat, but it is still really hard to get right. Shoehorning a hierarchical data structure like an outline into a flat data structure like iCloud is super hard and I did not get it right the first time. While I did […]
Ken Macon (Hacker News): Arizona legislators have introduced what may be the most aggressive app store age verification bill in the country. House Bill 2920 would require age verification not just for app downloads, but for preinstalled software, the browser, the text messaging app, the search bar, the calculator, and the weather widget. Every piece […]
RTÉ (Hacker News): French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. […] It will now go to the Senate, France's upper house, ahead of becoming law. […] The legislation, which also provides […]
Lydia Mee, reporting for Motorsport:
IMAX has announced that a select number of races will be shown
live in IMAX locations across the United States in 2026. The new
fan viewing experience is part of a collaboration with Apple TV,
which has taken over the broadcasting rights for the championship
in the US on a multi-year deal from 2026.
“F1 is a rapidly growing force in sports and culture in the US,
and by bringing F1 on Apple TV live to IMAX theatres nationwide,
we’re delivering the energy and excitement to even more screens in
a truly immersive way,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice
president of music, sports, and Beats.
You know what would add even more screens in an immersive way? If Vision Pro users had access to the same live screenings on virtual IMAX screens.
I normally don’t write about beta bugs, but I’ve seen lots of people discussing this one and also received customer questions about it. I can reproduce it on my Mac, though not for every HFS+ volume. Apple: HFS external media might fail to mount automatically. (168672160) Workaround: For macOS only, use CLI tool diskutil mount […]