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Indie App Spotlight: 'Summit' is an all-in-one portfolio tracker for iPhone and iPad
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (218+ words) Welcome to'Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you're a developer and would like your app featured, get'in contact. If you're a heavy investor, you might find…...
WhatsApp working on anti-spoiler feature for text messages
16+ hour, 10+ min ago (240+ words) Users will soon be able to mark messages as spoilers, so their content isn't immediately visible to recipients. Here are the details. As spotted by WABetaInfo, the latest TestFlight build of WhatsApp includes references to a feature that will let…...
Apple researchers develop local AI agent that interacts with apps
23+ hour, 37+ min ago (684+ words) Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details. In December 2023, a team of 9 researchers published a study called "FERRET: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at…...
Protect your family's private data by removing it from the internet
1+ day, 49+ min ago (443+ words) Taking proactive steps to protect the privacy of yourself and your family has never been more important than it is today. Buying and selling personal data is now a big business, with hundreds of data brokers devoted to doing exactly…...
Apple rolls out Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate 2
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (209+ words) Apple is rolling out the second Release Candidate of Xcode 26.3, which will feature agentic coding capabilities. Here are the details. Earlier this month, Apple announced that Xcode 26.3 would gain agentic coding capabilities, integrating natively with AI coding tools such as…...
Feature Request: iCloud really needs to copy Dropbox 'sync next"
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (400+ words) Despite having a 2TB iCloud account, I also have an identically sized Dropbox one, and the latter is my primary cloud service for working files. The reason for favoring Dropbox over iCloud is the speed of synchronization. Dropbox almost always syncs…...
Opera's quirky website celebrates its browser’s 30th anniversary
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (229+ words) From the dial-up days to the era of AI-assisted browsing, Opera's interactive experience takes users through key milestones that helped shape the web over the past three decades. If you're reading this on your iPhone, you may want to switch…...
February 19, 2026 – New CarPlay features, more
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (217+ words) Seth Kurkowski has been following the rocket launches from Florida for sense 2018 after seeing SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo launch. He also help start Space Coast Launch Ambassadors, a outreach group advocating for space exploration while helping the general public enjoy…...
DuckDuckGo rolls out AI-powered image editing on Duck.ai
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (279+ words) After adding image generation to Duck.ai late last year, DuckDuckGo is now rolling out image editing capabilities for its private AI chatbot. Here's how it works. With the feature, users can now select New Image from the side menu,…...
WhatsApp launches one of its most requested features for groups
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (223+ words) WhatsApp just announced that Group Message History is rolling out now, which Meta says is one of its "most requested features." Here are the details. Have you ever joined a new group chat and feel totally lost without the context…...