More Ways to Pay: Tap to Pay Is Coming to Walmart and Sam’s Club
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·2d ago
When we think about convenience, we think about a lot of things, but making shopping feel simpler and more seamless from start to finish is a big part.
When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·3d ago
By John Gruber It occurred to me last night that I’d gotten less feedback regarding recent posts than usual.
Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunch
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·3d ago
Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·3d ago
Sometimes I take a screenshot of a post I like, either to send it to friends/meme channel or to save a “durable” copy.
Apple Screwed Up the TestFlight App’s Sort Order a Month Ago, and It’s Still Screwed Up, but the More I Think About It, the More Clear It Is They Started Screwing This Up 15 Years Ago
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·4d ago
By John Gruber Sometimes a small change can make a big impact. That’s especially true for Apple’s latest TestFlight update for users with a lot of pre-release software.
Apple: DOJ’s latest challenge in antitrust case ‘fails at every level’ - 9to5Mac
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·5d ago
Apple is pushing back against the Department of Justice’s bid to overturn a court decision allowing the company to seek documents from more than a dozen federal agencies. Here are the details.
‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·5d ago
During the 25 years Gerardo Pachuca has spent investigating thieves who steal cargo from semitrucks, he says he’s never seen behavior this brazen.
Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·6d ago
The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately...
Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·6d ago
By John Gruber Some follow-up to this weekend’s stemwinder “Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing”: Contra a bunch of idiots at Hacker News and elsewhere, I...
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·7d ago
By John Gruber When I wrote this week about Anthropic’s announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” everything they generate, including text, to comply with this...
Anthropic’s weak watermarks appease a weak law
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·7d ago
2026-08-12 Anthropic announced in August 2026 that text generated by supported Claude models will carry invisible, machine-readable watermarks, applied at model level across supported Claude...
You Don’t Need to Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·9d ago
By John Gruber Following up on my post yesterday about modern iPhones and scratch resistance, and my personal habits of (a) almost never using an iPhone case, and (b) never setting the iPhone face...
Expressive Design: Google's UX Research - Google Design
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·10d ago
Better, Easier, Emotional UX The research behind Google’s bold new direction for design Material 3 Expressive is the most researched update to Google’s design system, ever.
iPhone 17 durability put to the test — how well Apple's new phones withstand bending, scratching and dropping
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·11d ago
Durability is a key selling point for the iPhone 17 lineup. But just how well can the latest phones from Apple stand up to the punishment that daily life can dish out?
Google's Pixel 11 lineup offers fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini | TechCrunch
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·11d ago
For the last few years, Google’s Pixel has been a showcase of new AI features, with few hardware changes from the previous year’s devices.
Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold hands-on: Stagnating instead of innovating - Engadget
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·11d ago
Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold hands-on: Stagnating instead of innovating In a year when Samsung made two new flagship foldables, the latest Pixel Pro Fold feels like a letdown.
Spicy tale of an App Store fraud
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·12d ago
Despite my history of uncovering App Store frauds, I rarely go looking for these things intentionally! They’re just so pervasive and obvious, they jump out at me.
tumbledry
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·12d ago
This April, I felt exceptionally fortunate to donate our seventeen-year-old nearly-300,000 mile car and purchase its replacement: a certified pre-owned fully-electric BMW i4.
BMW brings modern mobility to the Sony Pictures film “Spider Man™: Brand New Day”.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·12d ago
PressClub Global · Article. BMW brings modern mobility to the Sony Pictures film “Spider Man™: Brand New Day”.
The Future is for Everyone
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·12d ago
The Future is for Everyone The Path to a Positive AI Future We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history.
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