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Acorn 8.3 With Liquid Glass

Gus Mueller: Acorn 8.3 is out and the big new feature is that it supports Liquid Glass for folks who are running macOS Tahoe (which is over 50% of Acorn 8 users at this point!). […] But the UI was a ton of work! And I made it extra difficult on myself by making Liquid […]

White Label Gemini on Private Cloud Compute

Juli Clover (Hacker News): The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed by Google. […] Apple will use Gemini for functions related to summarizing […]

iOS 26.2: App Marketplaces and Browser Choice in Japan

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple on Tuesday released the first beta of iOS 26.2 to developers, and it appears that the software will allow users in Japan to install alternative app marketplaces on their devices when it is released to the public in December. According to a post shared on X by @Tzzlala, iPhones […]

MainActor.assumeIsolated, Preconcurrency, and Isolated Conformances

Fatbobman: As Swift 6 gradually gains adoption, this problem becomes increasingly prominent: developers want to benefit from the concurrency safety guarantees provided by the Swift compiler, while struggling with how to make their code meet compilation requirements. This article will demonstrate the clever use of MainActor.assumeIsolated in specific scenarios through an implementation case with NSTextAttachmentViewProvider. […]

All playable characters in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment

There are 19 playable characters in Age of Imprisonment available by completing quests. Here's how to unlock all characters in Age of Imprisonment