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Daring Fireballby John Gruber18 Aug 2026
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...
Daring Fireballby John Gruber18 Aug 2026
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...
Daring Fireballby John Gruber16 Aug 2026
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...
Daring Fireballby John Gruber16 Aug 2026
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...
Daring Fireballby John Gruber14 Aug 2026
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...
Daring Fireballby John Gruber14 Aug 2026
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.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber13 Aug 2026
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?
Daring Fireballby John Gruber12 Aug 2026
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.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber12 Aug 2026
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.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber12 Aug 2026
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.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber11 Aug 2026
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.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber11 Aug 2026
PressClub Global · Article. BMW brings modern mobility to the Sony Pictures film “Spider Man™: Brand New Day”.
top 76%plop score, higher is betterDaring Fireballby John Gruber11 Aug 2026
The Future is for Everyone The Path to a Positive AI Future We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber11 Aug 2026
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber10 Aug 2026
[Update: See the retraction below.] On the web, if I build something that works within the standards, it works. Whether people use it is up to them.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber10 Aug 2026
I remember when I came up with my first idea that I shared with the world. It was a dating site for people who didn’t want to share photos of themselves, but build text-only connections.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber9 Aug 2026
By John Gruber Yesterday I published an article titled “App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours”. I have retracted it.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber4 Aug 2026
By John Gruber OpenAI published an unbylined blog post overnight, responding in public — but not yet in court — to Apple’s new motion for a preliminary injunction.
Daring Fireballby John Gruber3 Aug 2026
By John Gruber Following up from last week, when I asked: When you lease an iPhone through Apple Upgrade, you need a cellular account on one of the big three U.S.