Wes Davis
YouTuber Christopher Lawley asked developers and creators about their favorite features from WWDC 2023.
There are a lot of familiar faces in Lawley’s video if you like Apple-focused tech podcasts like many of those hosted by RelayFM.
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The Washington Post takes a close look at Tesla Autopilot crash statistics.
Tesla’s self-driving features have been involved in 736 crashes and 17 fatalities, according to The Washington Post.
The Post says its analysis shows the number of crashes is far more than has been reported before, but notes that NHTSA says just because driver-assistance features were involved doesn’t mean they were the cause.
The Autopilot feature is currently under NHTSA investigation.
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
[Washington Post]
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Reddark is tracking which subreddits are going dark.
A new website called Reddark has a list of subreddits (with their subscriber counts) going dark to protest Reddit’s recent API pricing changes that prompted third-party Reddit apps like Apollo to announce they’re shutting down.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hosted an AMA yesterday about the changes, and it went as well as you could expect.
So far, 160 subreddits have gone dark.
Reddark
[reddark.untone.uk]
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All I have in this world is my Zapper and my word.
Smashing two nostalgic properties together is an easy win, but Duane Shoots Toys did it in hard mode earlier this year by meticulously recreating a miniature version of the finale of Scarface... and making Tony Montana play Duck Hunt.
I guess it’s true: every dog, even Nintendo’s 40-year old good boy, has his day.
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The king of soundtracks, Kenny Loggins, is now the king of password generation.
Kenny Log-ins is a real website that will make real, secure passwords for you based on Kenny Loggins lyrics (via Boing Boing).
It does exactly what it needs to: you get three options (“Danger Zone” is the weakest, of course) for increasingly-secure, randomly-generated passwords with embedded lyrics. Then you can be footloose while playin’ with the boys, knowing Loggins has your log-ins.
Kenny Log-Ins
[Kenny Log-Ins]
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The iOS 17 beta lets you auto-delete verification codes.
The feature auto-deletes verification codes after they’re autofilled from Messages and, now, Mail (spotted by Twitter user aaronp613, who contributes to AppleDB).
On Android, which has had the feature since it first debuted in 2021 in India, codes are deleted after 24 hours, but iOS does so immediately after they’re autofilled.
To quote my colleague Dan Seifert in Slack: “FINALLY.”
