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Exactly on this day, September 25 2001, Apple shipped version 10.1 of their OS X operating system. The one they later would rename to macOS. Exactly twenty-five years ago today. Within all their fancy release presentations and videos there are barely no mentions of curl. In their technical notes page, there is just this short … Continue reading 25 years on Apple computers →
While helping clean out the garage of my grandfather’s friend, I found something that caused me to nearly drop what I was carrying. I found an Apple IIe, Monitor II, and an Apple ImageWriter, all stored in their original packaging! Apple released the Apple IIe in January of 1983 as the “enhanced” version of the […] The post Old Capacitors, New Problems: Booting an Apple IIe for the First Time in 30+ Years appeared first on Atomic Spin.
Every June, developers around the world tune in to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to see what’s next for Apple’s platforms. This year, I had the opportunity to experience it in person at Apple Park and it was a week I’ll never forget.As an iOS Engineer at Blinkit and a long time member of the Apple developer community, WWDC26 felt like the perfect intersection of two things I love “building products and learning from some of the best engineers and creators in the world”.Hi, I’m Ayush Singh, an iOS Engineer at Blinkit and a four-time winner of the Apple Swift Student Challenge…
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and it would be good if it didn’t suck. The idea that Apple would boost its capabilities with frontier models wasn’t so much … Continue reading The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough →
This is a cryptography blog and I always feel the need to apologize for any post that isn’t “straight cryptography.” I’m actually getting a little tired of apologizing for it (though if you want some hard-core cryptography content, there’s plenty here and here.) Sometimes I have to remind my colleagues that out in the real … Continue reading Dear Apple: add “Disappearing Messages” to iMessage right now →