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Apple is developing seamless copy-paste between iPhones and Windows PCs, but it's unclear if it will be available outside the EU.

When Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol on November 25, 2024, it got everyone's eyes on it, including Christy, who was Appwrite's Engineering Lead back then. I had just started my role as an "Engineering Intern" and had no idea what a whole new protocol meant, or why it was such a big deal. Looking at the surface, I wasn't entirely wrong. MCP is JSON-RPC with a schema and a handshake stapled on. What took us sixteen months was everything stapled around it. Streamable HTTP did not exist when MCP launched. It replaced HTTP+SSE in the 2025-03-26 revision. The stdio years Christy had a working stdio server in the repo by February 26, 2025. We already had API keys, so the wiring was simple: claude mcp add appwrite \ --env APPWRITE_PROJECT_ID = <YOUR_PROJECT_ID> \ --env APPWRITE_API_KEY = <YOUR_API_KEY> \ --env APPWRITE_ENDPOINT = https://cloud.appwrite.io/v1 \ -- uvx mcp-server-appwrite An API key is scoped to exactly one project by design, so the ceiling was baked into the credential. Switching projects meant editing your editor config. Creating a project was impossible. So was anything at the organization level. The credential is the whole difference between the two transports, and everything hard about the hosted version follows from swapping it for a token that belongs to the user instead of the project. Authorization ate the schedule By the spec, authorization is genuinely optional: Authorization is OPTIONAL for MCP implementations. [...] Implementations using an HTTP-based transport SHOULD conform to this specification. For a service where one tool call can drop a database, we weren't comfortable treating it as optional. If you use Auth0 or WorkOS, this is a config screen. Appwrite keeps everything in-house, so Matej built the authorization server itself, and I built the resource server plus whatever Cloud was still missing before real clients would work. Steps 2 through 6 are the part that makes "just paste this URL" work. Nothing is pre-provisioned.

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.

Google is rolling out an update that will finally allow you to connect your Fitbit workouts, steps, vitals, and other data to Apple Health, as reported earlier by 9to5Mac. With Google Health's 5.05 update, you can now tap your profile icon, select "Partner apps," and choose Apple Health to link your data directly. Previously, you […]

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s a nascent industry, and such robots…

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actually go.

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app.

AirTags are great, but there are competing trackers that offer handy features and unique form factors.

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

Your Apple Watch has lots of options that will allow you to make it your own.

HashiCorp has released a public beta of Vault Kubernetes key management, a KMS v2-compatible plugin that lets the Kubernetes API server delegate envelope encryption to Vault Enterprise, moving the key encryption keys that protect etcd data out of the cluster and into a separately governed trust domain. By Mark Silvester

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just looking for answers…

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

iPhone stickers are a clever way to make conversations more personal and fun, but a good sticker library requires creating new and deleting old, overused ones.

Apple's CarPlay is a convenient way to listen to music or safely use navigation, but it can be a finnicky system that requires the occasional troubleshooting.

If you’re looking to cut back on screen time and get a little more active, here’s a roundup of the apps that might help.