Paku Paku — Pac-Man in One Dimension

Finally, Our First ‘Finally’ of the Year Nominee for 2024

13-Year-Old Prodigy Willis ‘Blue Scuti’ Gibson Is First to Beat NES Tetris

Paku Paku — Pac-Man in One Dimension

Fixing Continuity Camera

Niléane: Continuity Camera became a feature that I need to work reliably. Sadly, it doesn’t. Half of the time, apps like Zoom and Discord on macOS could not see the iPhone SE in the list of available cameras. This meant I had to fetch a Lightning ca…

Mac App Sandboxing Interferes With Drag & Drop

Wade Tregaskis: Merely inspecting the UTIs in the pasteboard is fine – that doesn’t interfere with anything. So if all you care about is if any kind of file (or folder) is being dragged, you’re set. But if you want to only react to some types of fil…

Apple’s Five App Stores

Manish Singh and Natasha Lomas (via Slashdot): The iPhone-maker has updated the language pertaining to its risk factors in the fiscal year 2023 Form 10-K filing (PDF), with the revised text presenting a shift from the company’s previous position, in…

Google Settles Incognito Lawsuit

Simon Sharwood: A US court filing [PDF] dated December 26 records that Google and the plaintiffs have agreed to a term sheet that, if approved by the judge, will conclude the matter. Those terms of the proposed settlement weren’t disclosed. But the …

Humane Lays Off 4 Percent of Employees Before Releasing Its AI Pin

Passenger’s iPhone Survived, Intact, 16,000-Foot Fall From Alaska Airlines Plane

Humane Lays Off 4 Percent of Employees Before Releasing Its AI Pin

Hey Calendar App Is Now in the App Store

Passenger’s iPhone Survived, Intact, 16,000-Foot Fall From Alaska Airlines Plane

★ Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App

I just don’t get it. Apple has nothing to gain by this — *nothing, not a cent — but a lot to lose.

Passenger’s iPhone Survived, Intact, 16,000-Foot Fall From Alaska Airlines Plane

Fantastical

Alaska and United Airlines Report Loose Parts in Boeing 737 Max 9 Door Panels

Alaska and United Airlines Report Loose Parts in Boeing 737 Max 9 Door Panels

Mac Liquid Detection

Filipe Espósito (via Hacker News): macOS Sonoma 14.1 includes a new system daemon named “liquiddetectiond,” which, as the name suggests, can identify when the computer has been exposed to liquids. More specifically, this daemon runs in the backgroun…

SwiftData Fetching Pending Changes

Keith Harrison: If you don’t want the pending changes included in the fetch results you should be able to override the default by setting includePendingChanges to false in the fetch descriptor[…] Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to get that to…

The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282

Luke Bodell (via Hacker News): In August, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) warning MAX operators about using the engine anti-icing system in dry air. The AD came about following in-flight testing, which found that deploying the anti-ic…