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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 […]

MTG's Dandân Secret Lair sold out in minutes, already reselling for $300

Magic’s new Dandan Secret Lair deck sold out in 27 minutes, and resellers are already listing the Chaos Vault drop for more than twice the list price.

Trump Demands Staff Get King Of Hormuz On Line

WASHINGTON—In a bid to regain access to the sea passage through which ships enter the Persian Gulf, President Donald Trump ordered staff to get the King of Hormuz on the line, White House sources confirmed Monday. “Put me on with the royal leader of Hormuz, ASAP—I need to convince him to reopen his water,” said […]

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