Category: Daring Fireball

Daniel Jalkut, writing for the Red Sweater Software blog: MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text…

Frances Mao, reporting for BBC News: China is lifting its most severe Covid policies — including forcing people into quarantine camps — just a week after landmark protests against…

Kif Leswing, reporting for CNBC: “And now, thanks to the hard work of so many people, these chips can be proudly stamped Made in America,”…

The incomparable Steven Levy, writing for Wired: One of his dreams was to extend the screen along the edge of the unit, so people could…

Stewart Butterfield, in a memo to Slack employees obtained by The Verge (posted, of course, on the company’s internal Slack): So: why?? Well, we started…

Alex Sherman and Lillian Rizzo, reporting for CNBC: Warner Bros. Discovery executives are close to formalizing a new name and platform for its soon-to-be-launched streaming…

Apple Newsroom: Under the updated App Store pricing system, all developers will have the ability to select from 900 price points, which is nearly 10…

Paul Kafasis, writing at One Foot Tsunami: I’ve actually heard this hilariously vulgar story before, but I had no idea there was a physical artifact…

Jonas Degrave: Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. You might be aware…

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery: What has been fascinating to watch over the weekend is how those refinements have led to an explosion of interest…

My thanks to Doxie for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their new Doxie Pro scanner. When the world went went home for work,…

Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV…