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GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown open_in_new
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GitHub Blog
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App Store annual subscriptions get new discounted monthly option open_in_new
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Apple Insider
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If that one big sum per year for an annual app subscription is too much to pay at once, the App Store will let you break that into monthly payments.
Apple is making it easier to get annual subscription discounts
Subscription revenue has become an integral part of Apple Services. Developers have a few ways to draw customers into long-term usage and bigger payouts, but they require big up-front financial commitments.
Apple has revealed a new payment option that could help developers offer better discounts while still getting a long-term commitment from the user. It works by offering the user an annual discount that is paid for over 12 months.
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Apple is making it easier to get annual subscription discounts
Subscription revenue has become an integral part of Apple Services. Developers have a few ways to draw customers into long-term usage and bigger payouts, but they require big up-front financial commitments.
Apple has revealed a new payment option that could help developers offer better discounts while still getting a long-term commitment from the user. It works by offering the user an annual discount that is paid for over 12 months.
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OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft open_in_new
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Ars Technica
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Amended agreement clears the way for OpenAI models to run on Amazon Bedrock.
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Apple's massive lobbying effort saves it from new App Store rules open_in_new
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Apple Insider
• 2d ago
Apple and Google have managed to defeat a California bill that would've forced them to stop favoring their own apps in digital storefronts like the App Store. All through the power of lobbying.
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The tech giants are frequently the target of legislators and regulators, trying to prevent them from being too dominant. One recent attempt to curtail the influence of Apple and Google failed to become a problem because of a massive and successful lobbying operation.
Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA) sponsored "Based Act," a bill to prevent tech companies from favoring their own apps and services when providing users with apps in the App Store and the Google Play Store, reports Bloomberg. The intention was to allow other apps to become more visible, instead of the platform owner's own services.
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Apple Park at night
The tech giants are frequently the target of legislators and regulators, trying to prevent them from being too dominant. One recent attempt to curtail the influence of Apple and Google failed to become a problem because of a massive and successful lobbying operation.
Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA) sponsored "Based Act," a bill to prevent tech companies from favoring their own apps and services when providing users with apps in the App Store and the Google Play Store, reports Bloomberg. The intention was to allow other apps to become more visible, instead of the platform owner's own services.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing open_in_new
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GitHub Blog
• 2d ago
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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Microsoft's Russinovich and Hanselman Warn AI Is Hollowing Out the Junior Developer Pipeline open_in_new
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InfoQ AI/ML
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Microsoft's Russinovich and Hanselman argue in a CACM paper that agentic AI creates an "AI drag" on junior developers while boosting seniors, incentivizing companies to stop hiring entry-level engineers. Entry-level hiring is down 67% since 2022. They propose a preceptor model borrowed from medical education to preserve the talent pipeline.
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What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 26.04 open_in_new
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.NET Blog
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Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) ships today with .NET 10. Here's how to install .NET 10 from the archive, use the new -resolute container tags, build Native AOT apps, and install .NET 8 and 9 from the dotnet-backports PPA.
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.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available! open_in_new
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.NET Blog
• 2w ago
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more!
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The Artemis II astronauts will set a new distance record from Earth today open_in_new
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The Verge
• 3w ago
On April 15th, 1970, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert set a distance record when Apollo 13 traveled 248,655 miles from Earth. Nearly 56 years later, the crew of Artemis II is expected to break that record by several thousand miles when the Orion spacecraft reaches a maximum distance of 252,757 miles away from […]
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iPhone Fold enters manufacturing test phase right on schedule open_in_new
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Apple Insider
• 3w ago
A new report claims that the iPhone Fold has entered a key production stage and that, if it passes tests, the device will be launched alongside the iPhone 18 range in September 2026.
The iPhone Fold may have all physical buttons on the right, leaving the left side clear — image credit: AppleInsider
Following rumors in March 2026 of Samsung Display planning to ramp up production of screens for the iPhone Fold, a new report backs up that schedule. According to leaker Instant Digital on Chinese social media site Weibo, the iPhone Fold is now in testing.
"The iPhone Fold is now in trial production at Foxconn," says the leaker (in translation). "If there is no accident, the iPhone Fold folding screen will be sold simultaneously around July like the iPhone 18 Pro."
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The iPhone Fold may have all physical buttons on the right, leaving the left side clear — image credit: AppleInsider
Following rumors in March 2026 of Samsung Display planning to ramp up production of screens for the iPhone Fold, a new report backs up that schedule. According to leaker Instant Digital on Chinese social media site Weibo, the iPhone Fold is now in testing.
"The iPhone Fold is now in trial production at Foxconn," says the leaker (in translation). "If there is no accident, the iPhone Fold folding screen will be sold simultaneously around July like the iPhone 18 Pro."
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Vibe coding app's victory lap cut very short by the App Store open_in_new
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Apple Insider
• 3w ago
The vibe-coding app Anything was pulled from the App Store, but the developer claimed victory after a return. Victory was fleeting, as the app is gone again, and nobody is saying why.
App Store boots Anything, again
Anything, a vibe-coding app for iOS that was pulled from the App Store, made a triumphant return on April 3. It celebrated by launching a $5,000 weekend hackathon and a credit giveaway on X, but that was seemingly premature.
Checking the App Store on Monday, Anything is nowhere to be found. It doesn't appear in searches, while a direct link to the app warns it's not available.
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App Store boots Anything, again
Anything, a vibe-coding app for iOS that was pulled from the App Store, made a triumphant return on April 3. It celebrated by launching a $5,000 weekend hackathon and a credit giveaway on X, but that was seemingly premature.
Checking the App Store on Monday, Anything is nowhere to be found. It doesn't appear in searches, while a direct link to the app warns it's not available.
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Apple at 50: Michael Spindler, the CEO who brought in the clones open_in_new
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Apple Insider
• 3w ago
He's Apple's Chief Operating Officer who became the CEO — but he's not Tim Cook. Instead, this was how Michael Spindler replaced John Sculley, and made himself ill trying to save the company in the 1990s.
Apple CEO Michael Spindler — image credit: Apple
Michael Scott was the first Apple CEO, brought in by Mike Markkula, who became the second CEO when Scott was shown the door. Markkula was then responsible along with Steve Jobs for recruiting John Sculley, until he was also shown the exit sign.
But while it was Sculley who made Spindler Chief Operating Officer, and then it was the board that made him CEO, Markkula was again behind all of this. It was Markkula who recruited Spindler to join Apple in September 1980.
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Apple CEO Michael Spindler — image credit: Apple
Michael Scott was the first Apple CEO, brought in by Mike Markkula, who became the second CEO when Scott was shown the door. Markkula was then responsible along with Steve Jobs for recruiting John Sculley, until he was also shown the exit sign.
But while it was Sculley who made Spindler Chief Operating Officer, and then it was the board that made him CEO, Markkula was again behind all of this. It was Markkula who recruited Spindler to join Apple in September 1980.
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AMD or Nvidia eGPUs can work on Apple Silicon Macs, but not for graphic acceleration open_in_new
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Apple Insider
• 3w ago
Apple has signed a driver for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs connected to Apple Silicon but there are some big caveats, and it won't improve your graphics. Here's what they're for.
An earlier time when you could use eGPUs with Macs
When Apple announced the use of eGPUs with AMD Radeon cards in 2016, we were pretty excited. Full support shipped in early 2017 and for a few short years, Thunderbolt provided an excellent graphics-accelerating one-cable dock to our MacBook Pros.
But even then, Apple has stubbornly prevented modern Nvidia GPUs from working with Macs. And, with the change to Apple Silicon, Apple effectively killed off any real use of an externally usable Nvidia GPU with its Mac lineup.
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An earlier time when you could use eGPUs with Macs
When Apple announced the use of eGPUs with AMD Radeon cards in 2016, we were pretty excited. Full support shipped in early 2017 and for a few short years, Thunderbolt provided an excellent graphics-accelerating one-cable dock to our MacBook Pros.
But even then, Apple has stubbornly prevented modern Nvidia GPUs from working with Macs. And, with the change to Apple Silicon, Apple effectively killed off any real use of an externally usable Nvidia GPU with its Mac lineup.
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Explore union types in C# 15 open_in_new
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.NET Blog
• 3w ago
C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items open_in_new
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Azure DevOps Blog
• 4w ago
We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found the current interaction model confusing and, at times, disruptive. For example, […]
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Perplexity on AI’s friction vs time savings (answered macOS app question using other platforms): AI can be both high-friction and net-valuable, but only in certain task types and with the right expectations, and current systems absolutely can mislead people about how reliably time-saving they are.
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Hans Dickel @geekfog.net
AI is more like Augmented Interaction. Or Aggregation Instrument. No intelligence. Definitely artificial at times. Strong with historical review. Strong context required. Can turn into productivity loss. Strong data lookup capabilities. Complex, but no learning, despite appearances.
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4 months ago
Unbelievable that iOS 26 still limits the sleep alarm when Apple Watch is used. The message: When you wear Apple Watch to bed, the alarm will go off on your watch. And only your watch! No option to include phone or just do to phone. Even worse, watch doesn’t always go off! Apple fail. 👎
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4 months ago
Example of AI frustration at times. Claude was asked to update a table with research information. It provided a response that wasn't a table. I indicated it was to be in a table. Its response: You're absolutely right—let me rebuild this into a single comprehensive table. Painful at times.
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4 months ago
After decades on Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2026 (and liking it!), the transition to Visual Studio Code (insiders) is almost complete for modern app development (including .NET Core). Multi-platform and Microsoft Ignite Conference 2025 helped push.
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5 months ago
After attending Microsoft Ignite last week, it seems VSCode is cool, and Visual Studio, even the new 2026 version released two weeks ago, isn't at least with AI. 🤭
Hans Dickel @geekfog.net
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5 months ago
Many interesting new AI capabilities were demonstrated at MS Ignite today. Impressive concurrency with coding agents in GitHub. Sadly, not in Azure DevOps. Perhaps even sadder, adding Markdown to OneNote is still absent. 🤣🤔 #msignite #microsoftignite #ignite2026
Hans Dickel @geekfog.net
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5 months ago
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is well underway. This free virtual event shows Microsoft's technical and business trajectory with Artificial Intelligence (😱). Many nice announcements, but the echo of being in a conference hall is less than ideal. #msignite #microsoftignite #ignite2025
Hans Dickel @geekfog.net
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5 months ago
OneDrive for Business can be frustrating. Just today: File uploaded and synchronized to the cloud. The Windows 11 link to the file pasted in OneNote is wrong. Insult to injury, OneDrive Web doesn't show it as a recent file, even 10 minutes after uploading.
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5 months ago
Biggest surprise with .NET Conf Day 2: File-based apps. A potential replacement or supplement for other scripting across platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux).
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5 months ago
This morning's IT Leadership Group at grey-search.com was a valuable discussion on AI with other professional networking leaders, talking about today's limitations and alignment with human values.