Amazon (Hacker News, Slashdot):
The all-new 6-inch Kindle is the most pocket-sized Kindle we’ve ever made. With 16GB of storage, up to 6 weeks of battery life, and 30% faster book opening than the previous release, it is lighter and features a new seamless flush-front design. This required rethinking how the display, front light, and touch layers are assembled and bonded. We’re also introducing edge-to-edge color across the entire family. The housing is made from recycled materials with a 100% recycled cobalt battery. Starting at $149.99 and available in Ube and Graphite.
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The all-new Kindle Paperwhite is thinner and lighter than the previous lineup, waterproof with an adjustable warm light for comfortable reading at any hour, and up to 12 weeks of battery life on a single charge. The Paperwhite display uses an oxide-thin film transistor backplane and is the largest Kindle Paperwhite display with the highest contrast ratio—delivering deep blacks and crisp text, and images that pop off the screen, whether you’re reading in bright sunlight or under the covers at night.The Signature Edition adds aluminum rear housing, 32 GB of storage, an auto-adjusting front light, pogo pin dock charging, and double tap to turn pages—all while remaining thinner than the previous version.
Lauren Forristal:
Kevin Keith, Amazon’s vice president of devices, said the company is using “Cap” (capacitive) touch technology and haptics to create what he describes as a “dead zone.” As a reader grips the Kindle, the device detects where a finger is resting and adjusts the touch-sensitive area accordingly.
Lauren Forristal:
Amazon announced a range of new accessories on Thursday. And one of them, a $34.99 remote called the Kindle Click, caught our eye.
The Kindle Click is a compact Bluetooth remote designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.
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Amazon also announced other accessories as part of the new Kindle family, including a magnetic cover with physical page-turn buttons and a charging dock stand for the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition and Colorsoft Signature Edition.
I still wish for the return of built-in page-turn buttons, but the new Page Turn Cover is the best news on this front in a while. Unfortunately, it adds bulk, costs $80, and doesn’t work with the base Kindle or the regular Paperwhite.
The Paperwhite Signature Edition is $249.99, and Amazon is offering me $50 off if I “Upgrade” my old Oasis by October 8. This isn’t explained very well, but it sounds like you keep the old device, and it doesn’t get bricked. There’s a separate 20% + $5 offer for a “Trade-In” where you do give up the old device. There’s a bundle with the Page Turn Cover and the Sling Bag, but there doesn’t seem to be a bundle with just the cover.
Jason Snell:
I admit that I find it somewhat shocking that even a basic e-reader costs $170 these days, but here we are.
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I gotta say that I don’t love that Amazon has decided that to use page-turn buttons, you need to pay $80 and keep your Kindle in a case. But at least they’re finally offering an option. (For the record, Kobo’s Libra Colour is priced similarly to the Paperwhite Signature Edition and has buttons right on it, no case required. It’s the e-reader I use the most these days.)
Previously:
E Ink Hardware Kindle
Howard Oakley:
In Golden Gate there are currently three sources of records of AI transactions. Those handled entirely on-device appear only to be recorded by Unified log entries, while interactions with Siri are provided in a detailed transcript in the new Siri app.
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Although that transcript includes external references implying that an off-device model was used, no explicit information is given, and entries don’t make clear what information left the device, or whether that was handled by PCC or Apple’s secure implementation in Google Cloud.
Apple’s documentation refers users to the Apple Intelligence Report (AIR) available from Privacy & Security settings. When enabled, this will generate at the user’s request, a report covering the last 15 minutes or 7 days of AI interactions which “may include personal data such as messages and text you enter in intelligent writing tools.”
Glenn Fleishman:
Because of the peculiar nature of AI large language models (LLMs), Apple has to “talk” to Siri AI just like we talk to ChatGPT or Claude. But what does Apple say in these system prompts?
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The report is formatted in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), which is not meant to be read by humans. However, you can open it in a JSON reader, such as the free JSON Viewer, for a color-coded view that’s easier to examine, or cut and paste it into a text editor or word processor. Reports can get large, though, and JSON Viewer only handles files up to 10 MB. Try OK JSON if you hit that limit ($24.99 with a 7-day free trial). Neither app soft-wraps long lines, so I copy the prompts into BBEdit ($59.99, free mode available) for searching and viewing.
Howard Oakley:
I pointed out that the bulk of most AIRs are privateCloudComputeRequests, metadata for requests processed by PCC, whose main contents are attestation bundles. Those are provided in Protobuf format, and encoded using Base64, making them difficult to access.
However, Apple states that “you can parse, canonicalize, and verify attestation bundles from the Apple Intelligence Report using the pccvre attestation subcommands.” This article explains how you can do that without compromising the security of your Mac, using a Virtual Machine.
Howard Oakley:
Once you’re happy the AIR will be worth browsing, return to that setting and click on the Export Activity button. Be sure to save that AIR with the default .json extension.
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Provided you’re running macOS Golden Gate, download the first beta of my new app AIRer from here: AIRer100
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If there are records in that AIR, they will be listed by time and date, with the oldest at the top, in the left sidebar. Select one of them, and its useful contents will be displayed in the main part of AIRer’s window.
Previously:
AIRer Apple Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Mac Mac App macOS 27 Golden Gate Privacy Private Cloud Compute
anonymoussingh:
We maintain a macOS product whose installer uses custom InstallerSection plugin bundles to show configuration panes during install. Starting with macOS 27 beta 6, all of our plugins stopped loading in Installer.app — the panes never appear and the install fails because our preinstall step depends on data the panes collect.
HirohikoKihara (via Ric Ford):
A third-party PKG installer that ships a custom Installer Plugin no longer displays one of its selection panes. The plugin bundle appears not to be loaded, so the pane that it provides is silently skipped and the user cannot choose the intended installation option.
FE:
This is regression for all latest updates eg. 15.8, 27.7, 28.0. This bug refuse open installer plugin for security reason in spite of the plugin and installer are correctly signed, notarized and works seamlessly in previous macOS versions. Workaround is copy installer (*.pkg) to local file system (home, desktop folder).
Previously:
Bug Installer Mac macOS 15 Sequoia macOS 27 Golden Gate macOS Tahoe 26
