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AirPods Max 2
Apple (Hacker News, Reddit, MacRumors): Apple today announced AirPods Max 2, bringing even better Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), elevated sound quality, and intelligent features to the iconic over-ear design. Powered by H2, features like Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness, Voice Isolation, and Live Translation come to AirPods Max for the first time. The new AirPods Max […]
EagleFiler 1.9.20
EagleFiler 1.9.20 is a maintenance release of my Mac digital filing cabinet and e-mail archiving app that improves importing (from Mariner Paperless, Evernote, and Apple Creator Studio), adds some scripts for working with dates and filenames, and improves searching and tagging. macOS 26.4 adds some classes with strange names like AppIntentsServices.$RunnerServiceDispatcherActorProtocol and IDSFoundation.$IDSDRealTimeGroupSessionManager that confuse […]
AI Layoffs
Ari Levy and Jordan Novet: Atlassian said on Wednesday that it’s eliminating 10% of its workforce, or about 1,600 jobs, as the company restructures following a plunge in its stock price driven by developments in artificial intelligence. “We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile,” […]
URL/NSURL Double-Encodes Characters Unnecessarily
Jeff Johnson: The older, simpler API [NSURL URLWithString:URLString] behaves the same as [NSURL URLWithString:URLString encodingInvalidCharacters:YES] when your code is compiled with the iOS 17 or macOS 14 SDK. So much for backward compatibility! [NSURL URLWithString:URLString] continues to work fine with example 1, leaving the URL string untouched, but it mangles example 2: https://example.org?url=https%253A%252F%252Fexample.org%253Ffoo%5B0%5D%253Dbar Notice that […]