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• 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀
• Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case — udge Amit Mehta ruled in favor of the Department of Justice, writing that Google has maintained a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
• Google default search deals break US law, court finds — "This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people," said Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a statement. “No company – no matter how large or influential – is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws."
• Jason Kint on X — Don't overlook the impact this may have on Apple. Yes, I believe any remedy has to look at forced divestiture of Chrome and Android in addition to killing the exclusive dealing. But if Apple loses its sweetheart deal with Google, it may lose $12B in revenue (mostly profits)
• Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ — After losses, the chipmaker is cutting $10 billion in costs.
• Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues — Based on this information, we are definitely experiencing CPU failures higher than our historical average, especially with 14th Gen. We have enough data to know that we don’t have an acute problem on the horizon with 13th Gen — it is more of a slow burn
• seaweedfs — SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.
• PodcastIndex Dashboard 1.1.0 — rPodcast's Podcast Index Dashboard.
• Apple Intelligence Early Preview: In-Call Recording, Safari Summaries, New Siri — After testing the first beta version of Apple Intelligence myself, I can tell you that the features don’t yet live up to the excitement.
• Cabel Sasser - Panic Social — Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad
• iOS 18: These Apple Intelligence Features Won't Be Ready Until 2025
• Forgejo becomes a hard fork of Gitea — his proposed agreement is the outcome of a discussion where a significant number of active Forgejo contributors agreed it should be a decision that is made in accordance to the decision making process. Once implemented, there is no turning back and it will impact the future of Forgejo as a whole.

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• 📻 Boost with Fountain.FM — Boost from Fountain.FM's website and keep your current Podcast app. Or kick the tires on the Podcasting 2.0 revolution and try out Fountain.FM the app! 🚀
• Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January — Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January and then debut publicly around the springtime — part of an iOS 18.4 upgrade that’s already in the works.
• Epic Games Newsroom on X — 1/3 Apple has rejected our Epic Games Store notarization submission twice now, claiming the design and position of Epic’s “Install” button is too similar to Apple's "Get" button and that our "In-app purchases" label is too similar to the App Store's "In-App Purchases" label.
• Apple approves Epic Games Store for iOS — Later the same day, Apple had a change of heart about the situation, and instead has approved the Epic Games Store.
• Jeff Johnson - Mastodon — Apple has ZERO moral high ground. The crApp Store is the origin of many dark patterns.
• tvOS 18 Hints at HomePod With Touchscreen Display — A unique touchscreen interface was allegedly found buried in tvOS 18 beta 3 by 9to5Mac, and the finding is actually relevant to the ‌HomePod‌ because the ‌HomePod‌'s software is an offshoot of the tvOS software.
• Future HomePod Again Rumored to Add Curved LCD Display — In October, Kosutami shared images of component parts that allegedly belong to a prototype touch screen ‌HomePod‌. Other reports at the time claimed to verify the legitimacy of these images with other sources.
• HomePod Saves Family's Life After Dog Starts Kitchen Fire — omePod‌ has Sound Recognition, an option that is able to detect the sound of a fire alarm and send an alert.
• Dog Starts Kitchen Fire Video
• Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X — Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel.
• Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X — For those interested: this is done through a built-in Chrome extension that can not be disabled, and does not show up in the extensions panel.
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• Apple’s AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple” — And publicly reviewable server code means experts can "verify this privacy promise."
• Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 — The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices.
• Apple Intelligence is the company's new generative AI offering — Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, its long-awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI
• Introducing Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Models — In the following overview, we will detail how two of these models — a ~3 billion parameter on-device language model, and a larger server-based language model available with Private Cloud Compute and running on Apple silicon servers — have been built and adapted to perform specialized tasks efficiently, accurately, and responsibly.
• Apple Likely to Add Google Gemini and Other AI Models to iOS 18 — In conversation with reporters after the WWDC keynote, Apple's senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi revealed that as Apple Intelligence evolves, the company eventually wants to give its users a choice between different AI models, and suggested that Google Gemini could be an option in the future.
• Blackmagic Design Unveils Spatial Video Camera for Shooting Apple Vision Pro Content — The URSA Cine Immersive camera features a custom stereoscopic 3D lens system with dual 8K sensors, capable of capturing a 180-degree field of view with spatial audio support. It is designed to capture content with a resolution of 8,160 x 7,200 per eye and offers 16 stops of dynamic range to ensure detail and color accuracy in every frame, with the ability to shoot stereoscopic 3D immersive cinema content at 90 frames per second.

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• FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows — Apple is turning FaceTime into a bit more of a Zoom-like video calling service with this update. FaceTime is also going to allow you to grab a link to a scheduled call so that you can share it with people in advance and join in at the right time.
• iPadOS 15 Preview - Features - Apple — A menu at the top of apps lets you enter Split View, Slide Over, full screen, or center window with just a tap. You can also quickly close a window from the menu.
• Siri coming to third-party devices for the first time
• iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition — With iOS 15, Siri will now be able to handle a variety of requests without an Internet connection.
• iPadOS 15: You can now build apps on the iPad — For the first time, you can code, iterate and build apps on the iPad itself. Using Swift Playgrounds on iPadOS 15.
• Xcode Cloud Overview — Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers.
• iOS 15 Includes Built-In Password Authenticator With Autofill — One of these new features is a built-in authenticator that will let iOS devices be used to generate verification codes for additional sign-in security.
• Sébastien Page on Twitter — So, Apple totally Sherlocked my app in iOS 15.
• Peter Steinberger on Twitter — VPNs sherlocked
• Apple Updates App Store Review Guidelines — First, developers who appeal an app rejection can now specify if they believe their app was rejected due to unfair treatment by the App Review team, including political bias or other forms of bias. Second, developers can now report other apps if they believe they present trust or safety concerns, or otherwise violate the App Store Review Guidelines.
• Apple’s new App Store Guidelines aim to crack down on fraud and scams

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• MSHub == FOSS Love? - dominickm.com
• GitLab on Twitter — "We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories #movingtogitlab https://t.co/7AWH7BmMvM We're scaling our fleet to try to stay up. Follow the progress on https://t.co/hN0ce379SC and @movingtogitlab"
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• 👋 Hello, GitHub | @natfriedman — Who am I? My name is Nat and I’ve been a developer since I was six. I’ve been active in open source since the 90s when I discovered Linux. I was blown away to discover a free operating system that came with an editor, compiler, and debugger—all of the tools you need to be a developer, and all of the source code! It was an incredible opportunity for a teenager in a small town in Virginia to learn from the best developers in the world. I spent 15 years working with Linux and founded a couple of open source companies. My first commit to GitHub was in 2009, when GitHub was a year old.
• Apple unveils iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad
• Apple announces Shortcuts app for Siri
• Apple adds camera effects like stickers, filters and Memoji to messages
• Steam for Windows soaked in WINE and Snapped