MacStealer Malware

Jovi Umawing (Hacker News): Users are manipulated to download and execute this file onto their systems. Once achieved, a bogus password prompts users in an attempt to steal their real password. MacStealer then saves the password in the affected syst…

Bypassing Little Snitch With Empty TCP Packets

Jeff Johnson: When you look at the implementation of Little Snitch, the interpretation of the word “data” becomes crucial. Technically, unless you allow the connection, Little Snitch does indeed prevent HTTP data from getting sent. Nonetheless, Litt…

Designing for Colorblindness

Andy Baio: For some people, colorblindness is a serious liability that closes doors on career dreams. It’s hard to become a pilot, train conductor, or pathologist if you can’t differentiate colors in critical instruments, signals, or tissue samples.…

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The Talk Show: ‘This Guy Reads a Lot Better’

MyMac Podcast 933: Who’s NeXT

Guy is away as he’s not very well, don’t worry he’ll be back soon. So to keep the MyMac snowball rolling down the hill,

Swift Foundation Preview

Tony Parker (tweet): This preview provides a unified implementation of Foundation, written in Swift, that is faster, safer, and more approachable to new contributors.A new Foundation Workgroup will run reviews of proposed Foundation API and coordina…

Apple’s Guidance for StateObject Initialization

Jordan Morgan (Mastodon): In an attempt to put an end to our StateObject woes in a more paradigmatic manner, Luca Bernardi let us know that Apple’s official documentation now tackles the matter. Specifically, there is now text detailing how to handl…

countryd

Filipe Espósito: You can use an iPhone or iPad almost anywhere in the world, but some iOS features are only available in specific places. In some cases, these restrictions are related to local regulations (such as FaceTime not being available in the…

Zero-Click Exploits Against iOS 16

Citizen Lab (Hacker News): Our ensuing investigation led us to conclude that, in 2022, NSO Group customers widely deployed at least three iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains against civil society targets around the world. NSO Group’s third a…

Microsoft Edge Leaking Browsing History to Bing

Tom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft’s Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to…

The Talk Show: ‘This Guy Reads a Lot Better’

Yours Truly With Rene Ritchie Speculating on WWDC

The Four Types of Safari Extension

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Apple’s Safari web browser first added support for extensions in version 5, and since then—we’re now at Safari version 16—there have been four different extension formats!Safariextz: 2010 Mac, 2019 RIPSafari content blocker:…

Google Authenticator Adds Syncing

Christiaan Brand (Hacker News, MacRumors): We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator, across both iOS and Android, which adds the ability to safely backup your one-time codes (also known as one-time passwords or OTPs) to your Goog…

1Password to Add Telemetry

Pedro Canahuati (Hacker News): 1Password is beginning an internal test of our new, privacy-preserving in-app telemetry system. […] We’re only interested in how people use the app itself, what features and screens they interact with – not what they s…

Netflix Ads, Password Sharing, and DVDs

Tim Hardwick: Netflix said that it would be increasing the video quality of its Basic With Ads tier to 1080p at no extra cost to subscribers. Additionally, it said it would increase the number of simultaneous streams from one to two. […] Netflix rev…

Cheating Is All You Need

Steve Yegge (via Hacker News, Mastodon): LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may…

Apple Wins Antitrust Battle With Epic Games

Sarah Perez (Hacker News): In today’s decision, the appeals court panel affirmed the district court’s denial of antitrust liability and its corresponding rejection of Epic’s illegality defense to Apple’s breach of contract counter-claim, the ruling …

Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu and in iOS

Thomas Bandt: So I pulled a Dell laptop from a drawer under my desk and set up Windows 11.[…]First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred only recently. In the middle of the search menu. The menu which was supposed to be one of the …

Pythonista 3.4 Update Rejected

Ole Zorn: Apple has unfortunately rejected the Pythonista 3.4 update, citing 3 separate issues. Still trying to process it all, but it’s ridiculous that even a harmless link to the top 50 female names in Iran (courtesy of the faker module) triggered…