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The Freeze-Your-Call Edition Thursday, July 3, 2025

FaceTime In iOS 26 Will Freeze Your Call If Someone Starts Undressing, by Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac

Another new feature was just discovered in the iOS 26 beta: FaceTime will now freeze your call’s video and audio if someone starts undressing.

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It’s unclear whether this is an intended behavior, or just a bug in the beta that’s applying the feature to adults when it should only apply to child accounts.

Stuff

Travelling This Summer? There’s An App For That, by Kendra Sharp, The Globe and Mail

Canadian frequent flyers like Ms. Tuck are increasingly turning to innovative, often inexpensive, tech tools to support their wellness on the go – from reducing stress to tracking sleep quality or staying present while exploring.

An Elegant Mac App Has Turned My Basic Tasks Into A Whole Lot Of Fun, by Nadeem Sarwar, Digital Trends

Dory is the latest app switcher application for Mac, one that is as flashy as it is about sheer substance. Instead of asking users to shift their hands from the keyboard deck to the trackpad or asking them to remember a special keyboard shortcut, Dory takes things to the elementary stage.

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All you need to do is hit the button of your choice on the keyboard, or the mouse. After that, you’re just an identifier key away from launching the app of your choice.

Develop

Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck, by Pedro Tavares

There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. If anything, those become even more important as more code gets generated.

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If I point my webcam to a television playing, say, Oppenheimer (Academy Awards for Best Picture 2023), and start FaceTime, does the video cut off immediately when Apple Intelligence detects nudity, or does the video cut off immediately once A.I. ascertains this is copyrighted materials?

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