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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·2d 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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·2d 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...

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·2d ago

macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 6 introduces redesigned traffic light window controls. The new look resembles older Mac OS X systems with more detail in each button.

Daring Fireballby John Gruber·3d ago

Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.

Daring Fireballby John Gruber·3d 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...

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·4d 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...

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·4d 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...

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·6d 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...

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·7d 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?

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·8d ago

Lucky for me, Mercury just launched Spend, an expense-management tool that lets me set intelligent budgets for the team. The system can automatically cut off spending when someone hits a limit.

Daring Fireballby John Gruber·8d 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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·8d 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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·8d 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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·9d 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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·9d ago

Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA...

Daring Fireballby John Gruber·9d ago

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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·10d ago

Apple released iOS 27 beta 5 today, giving developer beta testers the next preview update since iOS 27 debuted at WWDC. Developers can download the new beta now.

Daring Fireballby John Gruber·10d ago

[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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·10d ago

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.

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Daring Fireballby John Gruber·12d ago

By John Gruber Yesterday I published an article titled “App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours”. I have retracted it.

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