Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

watchOS 26.2.1

Juli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer): Today’s update enables Precision Finding for the new AirTag 2 on the Apple Watch Series 9 and later and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. Prior to now, Precision Finding for the AirTag has been limited to the iPhone. It is not yet clear if […]

Swift Pitch: Borrowing Sequence

Ben Cohen: A sequence provides access to its elements through an Iterator, and an iterator’s next() operation returns an Element?. For a sequence of noncopyable elements, this operation could only be implemented by consuming the elements of the iterated sequence, with the for loop taking ownership of the elements individually. While consuming iteration is sometimes […]

curl Removes Bug Bounties

Jan Tångring (Hacker News): “AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown”, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se. Therefore, cURL is terminating the bounty payouts as of the end of […]

Sources: Anthropic is set to raise about $20B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, double the amount it had targeted, at a $350B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic is set to raise about $20B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, double the amount it had targeted, at a $350B valuation  —  Company in talks to raise new funds from Coatue, GIC, Iconiq and Sequoia at $350bn valuation  —  Anthropic is set to raise about $20bn from venture capitalists …

Amazon shutters all of its physical Go and Fresh stores

Amazon Go and Fresh physical store locations will soon be no more, with Amazon announcing on Tuesday that it's closing the majority of the stores and converting others into Whole Foods Market locations. Customers will still be able to order from Amazon Fresh online, but won't be able to shop at physical stores with the […]