Apple Improves Context Window Management for its Foundation Models

iOS 26.4, now in Release Candidate, introduces improved context window management for Apple’s Foundation Models, helping developers work with the 4096-token context window limit. This encourages treating the context window as a constrained resource, which requires actively managing it like memory in a low-resource system to optimize its usage. As with most large language models, … Read more

Charting the vibes in the 2025 Apple Report Card – Six Colors

I’m a Six Colors Subscriber who likes to draw pictures of data. As in previous years, Jason Snell kindly asked me if I wanted to try drawing some additional graphs based on the 2025 Report Card. In prior years, I’ve looked at the questionnaire data in ways that a social scientist might, mostly focusing on … Read more

WHAT THE TECH? iPhone features | Local News

You probably use your iPhone every day. You text. You take photos. You scroll. You record video. But your phone has several built-in features that many people have never discovered. Hidden keyboard symbols If you have ever searched for a special character and couldn’t find it, the solution is usually simple. Press and hold certain … Read more

Apple opens 2026 Swift Student Challenge to global coders

Apple has opened submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge, inviting student developers worldwide to design and submit Swift-based app playgrounds that demonstrate creativity, social impact, inclusivity or technical skill. Challenge scope The challenge invites students to create an app playground that can be experienced within three minutes. Submissions must be self-contained and able to … Read more

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.40

DreamWorks Animation has updated MoonRay, its in-house production renderer, now available open-source. MoonRay 2.40 extends the new light path visualizer for debugging renders, and introduces a prototype for a new user interface. A high-performance Monte Carlo ray tracer, used on all recent DreamWorks moviesOpen-sourced in 2023, along with Arras, DreamWorks’ in-house cloud rendering framework, MoonRay … Read more

Shadow AI assistant Clawdbot raises workplace risks

Token Security Labs has reported that employees are actively using the open-source AI assistant Clawdbot, also known as Moltbot, in 22% of its customer organisations. Clawdbot is a personal AI assistant that runs on a user’s own Mac or Linux device. The project’s creator is Peter Steinberger. Users can connect the assistant to messaging and … Read more

Apple Leaves Behind Another MacBook Air

Newly redesigned MacBook Air laptops are seen displayed during the WWDC at Apple Park on June 06, … More 2022 kicked off the annual WWDC22 developer conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images With the next version of macOS expected to debut during WWDC 20205 in June, Apple will leave behind several older deskbound … Read more

Desktop edition of sculpting app Nomad enters free beta

A creature created with Nomad by Glen Southern. The new desktop edition of the formerly mobile-only digital sculpting app is now available in free public beta. Hexanomad – aka developer Stéphane Ginier – has released the new desktop edition of Nomad, its popular digital sculpting app for iPads and Android tablets, in free public beta. … Read more