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The impact of Flash at Config 2024
You can see a lot of the talks from Figma's Config 2024 conference here on YouTube.
AI
Gruber, Copyright and LLM scraping
John Gruber, noted Apple access journalist, is back defending the company after its launch of Applebot-powered Apple Intelligence. There's some interesting treatment of Apple Intelligence and more specifically Applebot crawling the 'public web' and then 'transforming' that crawled content, via this post from Louie
BeReal
BeReal sells for €500 million
BeReal, a French once-a-day photo sharing app, today announced that it is being acquired. The new owner, Voodoo, is a French "hyper-casual and casual" app and games company that "has over 7 billion downloads and entertains over 150 million people per month." I’m thrilled to
games
The PS2 indie game aesthetic begins
Just tried the demo for this game on Steam Deck and it does an incredible job of capturing the PS2 graphics aesthetic. Huge Katamari-vibes.
Media
G/O Media sells Gizmodo
Keleops publishes four consumer tech websites: Journal du Geek, 01net, Presse Citron and iPhon. Jean-Guillaume Kleis, the chief executive of Keleops, said in an interview on Tuesday that the company had been looking to make an acquisition in the United States for several years and Gizmodo was “an obvious choice.
"Introducing Kino - Pro Video for iPhone"
Interesting new app from the creators of Halide. Introducing Kino - Pro Video for iPhoneToday we’re excited to launch Kino, a powerful filmmaking app for beginners and experts alike. As say they say in screenwriting, “Show, Don’t tell,” so let’s walk through a few of the tent-pole
Resistance is futile: Microsoft will screenshot everything you do, whether you like it or not
this is the out of box experience for Windows 11's new Recall feature on Copilot+ PCs. It's enabled by default during setup and you can't disable it directly here. There is an option to tick "open Settings after setup completes so I can
Would cop
The 'Pingu' officially licensed PS1 Controller was exclusively available in Japan in the late '90s. pic.twitter.com/qllOXf3RUk — Obsolete Sony (@ObsoleteSony) June 1, 2024
Media
Vox.com redesign takes cues from The Verge, moves to Wordpress
Nice post from Thomas Stang, Engineering Lead at Vox Media, on the transition from Vox Media's Chorus CMS to Wordpress. Some interesting tidbits: The Journey from The Verge to Vox.comIn September of 2022, The Verge launched an ambitious new site. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel introduced the site
Australia
Daylight Computer joins the anti-tech space race
There's a growing sentiment in Silicon Valley that the solution to our overabundance of tech is more tech. Last Friday the Daylight Computer Company introduced the DC-1 - a 10.5 inch tablet with a heavily guarded and non-specific "LivePaper" screen technology. In a comment on
Check out the Daylight computer
Daylight Computer joins the anti-tech space raceThere’s a growing sentiment in Silicon Valley that the solution to our overabundance of tech is more tech. Last Friday the Daylight Computer Company introduced the DC-1 - a 10.5 inch tablet with a heavily guarded and non-specific “LivePaper” screen technology. In
iPad
I just wanted the camera bump to go away
I'm all for the new iPad Pro being thicker for battery life or for less processor throttling, but the camera bump? Ridiculous. Would love an iPad that can sit on a table and be used with an Apple Pencil without wobbling.
Tech
UniSuper blames continued outage on Google Cloud
For the past 5 days UniSuper has been inaccessible by members, unable to check their Super balances and use the platform as a whole.
Media
ABC to become less Sydney-centric by moving to Western Sydney
Announced in 2020 as part of a "Five Year Plan the ABC committed to "reducing the concentration of facilities in Sydney" to "increase the distribution of ABC operations around the country". Today they have made a big step towards the goal of being less Sydney-centric
New
New: Arc for Windows
Half of my love for this browser comes from the company name - The Browser Company - it's so classic. And now it's available on Windows. This is not the end of our Windows journey — it's just Day 1. Now the real work begins.