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AppleScript Broken in macOS 12.5 Beta 5

Luc Beaudoin brought to my attention that there is a serious bug in the current Monterey beta. So far it’s affected every app I’ve tried that uses AppleScript. The script will fail with error -609 (connectionInvalid). Sometimes the script succeeds t…

M2 Mac Thermal Concerns

Vadim Yuryev (video): We discovered SEVERE thermal throttling with Apple’s new M2 MacBook Pro, proving that it needs a BETTER cooling system with two fans instead of one. We exported 8K Canon RAW and saw temps hit 108°C, more than we’ve ever seen on…

The Power of SwiftUI “task” View Modifier

Majid Jabrayilov: The task view modifier starts the unstructured async task and binds it to the view lifecycle. SwiftUI automatically cancels ongoing tasks whenever the view disappears by propagating cooperative cancellation. […] Another variant of …

PACMAN Attack on M1 Processor

Carly Page (Hacker News, paper): The attack, appropriately called “Pacman,” works by “guessing” a pointer authentication code (PAC), a cryptographic signature that confirms that an app hasn’t been maliciously altered. This is done using speculative …

Pruning iOS “System Data”

frownface84: Phone had about 6gb of free space yesterday and was out of space when I woke up this morning. What’s this 10gb worth of system data? AwsomeOHdog: Why would “System Data” be using almost 40 GB of storage? Mizikame (via Meek Geek): Erase …

Apple Maps Location Scan Slows Down Wi-Fi

Ben Kuhn: I just did another round of “what’s making my Zoom calls stutter every 60s” and this time the culprit was… APPLE #!*$ING MAPS. That’s right, Macs now come preloaded with software to ruin wifi latency :(You can fix by revoking Maps’ locatio…

TikTok Shops Are Lousy With Counterfeit Products

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TechFan 476 – Atari at 50

Tim and David talk about 50 years of Atari, Apple AirPods, Power UP at the Science and Industry Museum, bug zappers, and Stage Manager on the iPad

Let’s Talk Apple 106: June 2022

This month Bart is joined by Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast & Adam Christianson of the MacCast. The show starts with the usual followups

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Joe Turkel Dies at 94

The Talk Show: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’

Republicans Working the Refs, Gmail Edition

FCC Commissioner Calls for TikTok to Be Remove From App Store

Brendan Carr (Hacker News): TikTok is not just another video app.That’s the sheep’s clothing.It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing.I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app sto…

Porting Graphing Calculator From C++ to Swift

Ron Avitzur: C++ is and always has been an effective language for managing complexity in large projects, so why did I change languages? I was incredibly impressed with Apple’s Augmented Reality technology. […] I’ve worked the last 18 months rewritin…

ConcurrencyPlus

Chime (via Matt Massicotte): TaskQueue Conceptually similar to a serial DispatchQueue, but can accept async blocks. Unlike with an unstructured Task, this makes it possible to control the ordering of events. […] CancellingContinuation Just like a Ch…