Apple (Hacker News): Apple today announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. investment that now totals $600 billion over the next four years. Today’s announcement includes the ambitious new American Manufacturing Program (AMP), dedicated to bringing even more of Apple’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the U.S. […]

Apple: Xcode 26 beta 5 requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.5 or later. The download is back to being a .xip file, and there’s a slightly smaller Apple Silicon–only version. Again, the release notes don’t actually show what’s new in this build. The span property of UTF8View does not support the small string representation […]

Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the fifth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the fourth betas. Juli Clover: Apple is continuing to refine button placement, animations, and design in preparation for launching iOS 26 in September.[…]Apple added a toggle in […]

PseudorandomNoise (Hacker News): TLDR uBO Lite is available in Test Flight today for all the Cupertino OS’s Jen Simmons (Hacker News, Reddit): Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of developers & other people wish that uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Now it is! Download for Safari 18.6 and Safari 26 beta. VastTension6022: I […]

Especially with macOS Sequoia, I get this error almost every time I connect a hard drive or SSD and try to erase it. Disk Utility reports: The calling process or user lacks the proper privileges to perform this operation The workaround is to quit and relaunch Disk Utility.