Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the eighth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the seventh betas. The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5. Steve Troughton-Smith: Historically, since iOS 13, beta 8 has been the last beta […]

Bluesky (via Hacker News): Mississippi’s approach [to child safety] would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky. The Supreme Court’s recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comply with Mississippi’s age assurance law—and make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive personal information and undergo age checks to access the site—or risk massive fines. The […]

Kif Leswing (via Hacker News): Intel, the only American company capable of making advanced chips on U.S. soil, said in a press release that the government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company. Intel […]

Bruno Brito (release notes): This update allows you to create custom Git workflows, enabling you to define and enforce the exact workflow that meets your project’s needs.[…]The first step is to define your core branches, i.e., your “trunk” (e.g., main, master) and “base” (e.g., develop, dev) branches so that you can establish the foundational structure […]

Nathan Manceaux-Panot: Enjoy staggering performance improvements. Every last part of the app has been thoroughly tuned: Retcon is now incredibly responsive, and easily handles Git histories with hundreds of thousands of commits. No compromise was made to reach these speeds: Retcon still transparently preserves your working directory and stage, offers pervasive undo, a combined stage, […]