Published on: 2025-06-11 19:13:30
Long-time 9to5Mac readers will remember that the native Shortcuts app started as an indie project called Workflow, a clever, approachable tool that made automation fun and accessible to less technical users. Today, Shortcuts remains a powerful utility, particularly on the Mac. However, compared to how agentic AI tools have reshaped how we think about automation, it’s feeling a bit stagnant. That may be about to change. As reported by Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter, Apple is prepari
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 12:07:57
Eight years ago, Apple acquired popular automation app Workflow, which later became baked into iOS as Shortcuts. Now, two years removed from their time at Apple, two creators behind Workflow and Shortcuts have a new app coming to macOS: Sky, which brings AI assistance to the Mac. Sky integrates deeply with macOS to offer AI powers across any app Sky was unveiled today by two of its creators, Ari Weinstein and Conrad Kramer, both formerly of Apple after the company acquired Workflow and turned
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 03:49:36
It still has to go through the Senate. The US House of Representatives just narrowly passed a budget bill, which has been referred to by President Trump and others as "one big, beautiful bill." Hidden amongst the cuts to health care, debt add-ons and tax breaks for the rich is a ten-year ban of state AI laws. You read that right. States would be banned by the federal government from enforcing laws that regulate AI for the next decade. The vote fell largely along party lines, with nearly every
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 17:05:56
In Brief Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington, Bloomberg reports. Over 40% of the people laid off were in software engineering, making it by far the largest category, Bloomberg found based on state filings. Relatively few sales or marketing positions were affected, Bloomberg added. To be fair, coders are a big chunk of Microsoft’s workforce, although it doesn’t disclose the exact proportion. The cuts are part of recent layoffs at Micros
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 23:00:00
But long-running government programs that monitor the snowpack across the West are among those being threatened by cuts across the US federal government. Also potentially in trouble: carbon dioxide measurements in Hawaii, hurricane forecasting tools, and a database that tracks the economic impact of natural disasters. It’s all got me thinking: What do we lose when data is in danger? Take for example the work at Mauna Loa Observatory, which sits on the northern side of the world’s largest active
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 08:20:22
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced Congress for the first time since taking over the Department of Health and Human Services. Today, RFK Jr. appeared before both the House and Senate in two separate committee hearings. Though the main thrust of Kennedy’s testimony concerned the upcoming HHS budget, the former environmental lawyer was also pressed to defend the administration’s ongoing—and legally contested—budget and staffing cuts as well as his stances on a variety of issues, including vaccination an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 15:23:02
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it’s laying off more than 6,000 employees, around three percent of the company’s entire workforce. These are the biggest job cuts at Microsoft since it laid off 10,000 employees in 2023, and will impact employees across Microsoft’s businesses. “We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 20:23:02
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is laying off more than 6,000 employees, around three percent of the company’s entire workforce. These are the biggest job cuts at Microsoft since it laid off 10,000 employees in 2023, and will impact employees across Microsoft’s businesses. “We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace,”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 19:10:30
Bill Gates is not impressed by Elon Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency. In an interview with the Financial Times, he described Musk’s work as hurting the most vulnerable people on the planet. “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” He repeated that line a bit more directly in conversation with the New York Times, stating that while Musk could go on to become a great philanthropist, saying, “In the meantime, the worl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 09:40:15
by Jason Snell John Voorhees, writing on Club MacStories (subscription required): Nearly three years ago, I wrote AppleScript: Shortcuts Bridge or Crutch?, questioning whether accessing AppleScript via Shortcuts on the Mac was a feature to be celebrated or a red flag, fearing that Apple would use the integration to postpone or never release many of the system-level actions that were missing from Shortcuts’ debut on the Mac. As I put it then, “if Shortcuts is to become the default way to automa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 16:00:12
The Trump administration is hoping to take a sledgehammer to science and public health. In its new proposed budget released this week, the White House is pushing for sweeping cuts to the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other vital agencies. The White House revealed its budget proposal Friday. Some of the proposal’s lowlights include slashing the NIH and CDC’s budget by nearly 50%. While Congress is unlikely to pass all the cuts, passing just a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 15:39:25
On Friday, the US Office of Management and Budget sent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the Senate's Appropriations Committee, an outline of what to expect from the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposal. As expected, the budget includes widespread cuts, affecting nearly every branch of the federal government. In keeping with the administration's attacks on research agencies and the places research gets done, research funding will be taking an enormous hit, with the National Institut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 07:18:00
What just happened? It's not just big tech companies that are seeing a lot of layoffs right now – the gaming industry is also going through a tough time. The latest cuts are being made by Electronic Arts, which is laying off over 300 people, including 100 at Respawn Entertainment. The decision means several in-development titles have been canceled, including a new Titanfall game. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, citing people familiar with the cuts, writes that between 300 and 400 positions are bein
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 12:18:00
What just happened? It's not just big tech companies that are seeing a lot of layoffs right now – the gaming industry is also going through a tough time. The latest cuts are being made by Electronic Arts, which is laying off over 300 people, including 100 at Respawn Entertainment. The decision means several in-development titles have been canceled, including a new Titanfall game. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, citing people familiar with the cuts, writes that between 300 and 400 positions are bein
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-13 16:55:17
In the nearly two weeks since Ars reported on the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts for NASA's science programs, scientists and Democratic lawmakers have both expressed deep concerns about the future of the space agency. However, in a pattern consistent across a host of issues in which GOP lawmakers do not want to be seen to be publicly criticizing the Trump administration, the response to these sweeping cuts from Republican officials has been much more muted. But this week, three pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 16:00:03
Andy Walker / Android Authority Shortcuts are everywhere on Android, and I use them daily to speed up my workflow. Long-time Android smartphone owners may be familiar with shortcuts that appear when icons are long-pressed or the various swiping gestures available that trigger a variety of other actions. But Android also hides a bevy of other shortcuts in a context menu when selecting text. How often do you use Android's text-selection shortcuts? 115 votes As often as possible, multiple times d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 07:52:49
📋 ClipCapsule ClipCapsule is a minimalist clipboard manager for Linux, built with Go and WailsJS. It supercharges your productivity by allowing you to manage and switch clipboard entries using only keyboard shortcuts—no mouse or GUI required. ⚠️ This is a work-in-progress project. Currently, the GUI must be open for shortcuts to work, but we're actively working on a background daemon to make the app run seamlessly without launching the interface. ✨ Features 🚀 Keyboard-first Workflow : Switch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 22:00:32
Image by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Developments Earlier this month, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary and noted anti-vaccine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted that thousands of laid-off workers had to be reinstated due to "mistakes" made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Musk's henchmen's cuts to the agency's many health programs are likely to be devastating. But during his first TV interview as HHS secretary with CBS News, Kennedy appeared baffli
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 00:27:52
In Brief General Motors is laying off 500 workers at a factory in Canada because of weak demand for its all-electric BrightDrop vans, according to CNBC. GM told CNBC that the cuts were not related to the ongoing trade war being waged by President Donald Trump. The company is cutting one of the two shifts at the CAMI plant in Ontario, and will idle the facility for 20 weeks beginning in May. The cuts are the newest twist in BrightDrop’s short but somewhat tumultuous history. It created BrightD
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 12:46:17
iOS 18.4 arrived late last month packed with a variety of new features, including an upgrade you might have missed that provides a fast way to open your go-to conversations in the Messages app. Here’s how it works. Messages now supports shortcuts to launch specific conversations Apple’s Messages app has received some solid upgrades in recent months, such as Genmoji, Image Playground, emoji tapbacks, scheduled messages, and more. In iOS 18.4, there’s another new Messages feature that’s enabled
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-02 20:56:32
See no evil, hear no evil. In a recent interview, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., professed to not know anything about the Trump administration’s plans to strip away billions in funding from state and local health departments. RFK Jr.’s apparent ignorance was on display during his first network TV interview as HHS secretary, which aired Wednesday on CBS news. At one point, CBS News chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook asked Kennedy whether he had personally
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 00:57:00
In brief: Microsoft is considering making more job cuts this year, adding to the performance-based layoffs and other terminations it has implemented in 2025 so far. The latest round could come as soon as May and will reportedly target managers and non-coding staff. Some Microsoft organizations are looking to increase their span of control, defined as the number of direct reports or subordinates a manager or supervisor oversees. It also wants to increase the number of coders compared to non-code
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 18:27:50
Image by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Developments Last week, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary and noted anti-vaccine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping layoffs as part of a major restructuring effort. Roughly 20,000 of the department's 82,000 full-time employees ended up on the chopping block. Around 10,000 have been laid off, with the rest being taking either early retirements or buyouts, according to the announcement. But it's looki
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 19:56:12
Foodnoms is a powerful nutrition tracking app that I’ve written about before. It’s designed to be fast and easy to use with a design that’s optimized perfectly for Apple platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. This week, Foodnoms is getting a big update with completely revamped Shortcuts integration. The latest version of Foodnoms brings 44 new Shortcuts actions across eight different categories. This includes actions for things like logging your food, tracking and modifying y
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-13 23:10:00
Chatbots are changing how we connect to each other and ourselves. But are these changes for the better, and how should they be monitored and regulated? To learn more, join me for a live Roundtable session this Thursday at 12pm ET. I’ll be chatting with MIT Technology Review editor Rachel Courtland and senior reporter Eileen Guo, and we’ll be unpacking the landscape around chatbots. Register to ensure you don’t miss out! The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/im
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 03:53:38
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Federal Trade Commission doesn’t have any staffing issues that will impact its ability to face Amazon in trial after all, an attorney for the government said in a filing to a federal court, hours after saying they needed a two-month delay. The surprising letter appeared Wednes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 04:41:35
Earlier this year, unelected White House advisor and billionaire Elon Musk made a splashy appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, wielding a golden chainsaw gifted to him by Argentina's president and self-described anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei. Photos show the richest man in the world brandishing the chainsaw — a particularly unsubtle symbol for the ruthless cutting of government spending — and hoisting it above his head with a gleeful rictus. The striking appearance ser
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-01 14:25:41
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google could offer users a new selection of shortcuts under the Search bar in a future release of the Google app. We’ve spotted an early version of the revamped UI with three instead of four shortcuts. Google has also added a new AI Mode shortcut to the search bar. Update: March 5, 2025 (08:25 AM ET): Google has updated the shortcuts in the latest Google app release (version 16.8.31). The duplicate Voice Search and Lens shortcuts in the Search bar have n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-06 00:15:22
Today’s iOS 18.4 beta 2 offers the first major hints in Apple’s software of the upcoming big Siri upgrades. Apple has added a bunch of new Shortcuts app actions for Apple apps, with super fine-grained controls available for building shortcuts that change apps’ settings in various ways. iOS 18.4 Shortcuts actions provide glimpse into Siri powers coming soon Apple’s Shortcuts app hasn’t received as many noteworthy updates recently as it once did. But that appears set to change soon. Shortcuts’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-10 22:21:17
Google told staffers in its "People Operations" and cloud organizations this week that it plans to cut employees as part of internal reorganizations, CNBC has learned. The company will offer a voluntary exit program to U.S.-based, full-time employees in People Operations, Google's human relations division, starting in early March, according to a memo issued Tuesday by HR chief Fiona Cicconi that was viewed by CNBC. The latest cuts come after finance chief Anat Ashkenazi said one of her top pri
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