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Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Apple hid a postal barcode under ultraviolet light so a thank-you envelope could stay designed. That is how much work simplicity actually takes.
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Apple's Xcode 27.2 project format is JSON, smaller, and meant for people and coding agents to edit, with an open-source library instead of guessed parsers.
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Apple arrived late to foldables, but the Duo's hinge, under-display camera, dual displays, and Pencil support are the details that make it feel new.
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Apple Watch Series 12 Audio Intelligence listens inside a Secure Exclave. The architecture is not conventional recording, but Siri Recap still raises hard social questions.
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A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
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Walmart is adding tap-to-pay in U.S. stores after CurrentC, Walmart Pay, and years of refusing NFC—Apple Pay and Google Pay included, without killing QR checkout.
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homeOS does not look like a Homebridge kill-switch so much as another HomeKit consumer. The real risk is what Apple does with HAP as Matter takes over—and Homebridge 2.0's dual transport is the insurance policy.
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AppleInsider's homeOS overview reads less like a wall iPad and more like a room-scale operating system: proximity UI, face-aware profiles, and a growing home-hardware family—with Siri readiness as the delay.
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A leaked Apple demo of camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence raises two products at once: inconspicuous computer-vision sensors, and a potentially powerful assistive wearable—if the privacy model is designed before the hardware ships.
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Apple’s Xcode 26.6 and final version-26 OS updates look routine on the surface but carry substantial security hardening—arguing the last stop before iOS 27 is worth installing for the fixes, not for flashy features.
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Apple’s first full Neuromancer teaser (premiere Jan 22, 2027) lands while I’m rereading Gibson—arguing a dense cyberpunk classic needs atmosphere kept intact if the adaptation is to earn a new generation of readers.
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A Wiseday developer argued Apple would not let him show his app after App Store rejection for promotional graphics instead of screenshots—then fixed the listing, and the Hacker News consensus was that Apple was right all along.
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Jamf Threat Labs documents CrashStealer, a notarized macOS infostealer that impersonates Apple’s crash reporter—arguing signed, notarized, familiar-looking prompts still do not prove software is safe when attackers borrow the appearance of trust.
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Joseph Cox reports Apple took a year to fully fix a Hide My Email flaw Tyler Murphy disclosed in June 2025—only after 404 Media’s coverage—arguing a paid privacy feature should not need public pressure before customers are protected.
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Apple’s legal letters to former employees at OpenAI sit beside an ongoing product partnership. Companies sometimes have to defend their interests and preserve a business relationship at the same time.