Francisco Pires: A team of researchers with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Washington have demonstrated a world-first Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher (DMP) vulnerability, dubbed “Augury,” tha…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Twitter today announced that it will be shutting down TweetDeck for Mac next month to focus on the web-based version of TweetDeck. This is pretty much what they said a few years ago when discontinuing the Mac version of the regular Tw…
Lees meerNatalia Panferova (tweet): The integer value we get with enumerated() shouldn’t be used as index into the collection unless the collection is zero-based and integer-indexed. It's a counter that always starts from zero. Ben Cohen: zip is better in ev…
Lees meerxkcd (via John Gruber): Apple Maps is kind of good now Nick Heer: To give credit where credit is due, the directions provided by Apple Maps were generally very good. It still tells me to make a u-turn when it is legally prohibited, but I vastly pref…
Lees meerDan Barbera: Sony in February introduced the LinkBuds, a curious set of earphones that have an open design that’s not quite like any other in-ear headphone product on the market. We picked up a set of Sony’s strange LinkBuds to see how they measure …
Lees meerMarco Eidinger: Despite the missing qualifier, the code compiles because padding() gets treated as self.padding(). During runtime, that leads to an infinitely recursive View => stack overflow 💥 I did not find a technique to detect the mistake of a m…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although increasing the transfer speed from the SATA SSD at up to 400 MB/s to more than 1 GB/s halved the time taken to boot, there’s no consistent improvement beyond that. This suggests that time to boot an M1 Mac from an external SS…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Until relatively recently, one limitation with Thunderbolt was the absence of hubs which allowed the connection of multiple Thunderbolt devices to a single port on the Mac. Several models are now available, although they’re considerab…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Researchers at TU Darmstadt have discovered that the process which AirDrop uses to find and verify someone is a contact on a receiver’s phone can expose private information.[…]As an attacker, it is possible to learn the phone numbers and…
Lees meerFederico Viticci (tweet): As much as I love the iPad, at some point I have to face its current reality: if Apple thinks iPadOS isn’t a good fit for the kind of functionalities people like me need, that’s fine, but perhaps it’s time to try something …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: On MacOS 12 Monterey (and apparently MacOS 11 Big Sur), what happens instead is that TextEdit becomes the active application but only its frontmost window comes forward. On MacOS 10.15 Catalina, and all previous versions of MacOS back t…
Lees meerMatthias Maurberger (via SwiftUI Weekly): One example that illustrates this quite well is when you want to make all children of a VStack as wide as the widest child. Sounds like it should be straightforward. But it’s not. It’s a surprisingly hard pr…
Lees meerDave Verwer: Parse lasted longer than their major competitor, Stackmob, who was acquired and then shuttered just a few months later. But eventually, in 2017, Facebook turned off the hosted Parse servers.They did open-source the platform as they clos…
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