Daring Fireball

Tuesday’s episode of Dithering was a good one, especially for the DF audience, so we’ve moved it outside the paywall and made it free-to-listen on the web. (We don’t (yet?) have an RSS feed that you can put in your podcast player for these occasional...

OpenAI, in a statement to Bloomberg this week:
“While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of anyevidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in faircompetition and allowing people the freedom to work wherever theychoose, and we’re focused on building innovative technology thatempowers...

David Ingram, reporting for NBC News (which recently added a paywall without gift links, alas):
Apple alleged in a lawsuit last week that OpenAI “never responded”to its concerns this year about what Apple believed was tradesecret theft. But emails reviewed by NBC News show that’s not thefull story: OpenAI did respond in February to Apple’s initialoutreach...

Louie Mantia, with a thoughtful essay on app icon design and the squircle-jail controversy on the Parakeet blog:
It’s worth noting that some of the platform’s best icons lookworse, while some of the platform’s worst icons look better.
Ultimately this is what I object to with the squircle mandate. It favors the bottom of the heap by restricting the top. It makes bad icons mediocre but pushes great icons toward mediocrity too. That’s not The Macintosh Way....