TN3125: Provisioning Profiles: A macOS app can claim certain entitlements without them being authorized by a provisioning profile. These unrestricted entitlements include:com.apple.security.get-task-allowcom.apple.security.application-groupsThose us…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple Music appears to be affected by a bug that is causing the app to install itself directly into the dock when downloaded from the App Store, with the app even replacing other first and third-party apps located in the dock. […] There…
Lees meerJon Brodkin: A federal judge has ordered all Internet service providers in the United States to block three pirate streaming services operated by Doe defendants who never showed up to court and hid behind false identities.The blocking orders affect …
Lees meerIn this week's podcast episode, Brett Burney and I go deep into the subject of passwords and how they might become obsolete thanks to the FIDO Alliance. We also discuss AT&T rate hikes for older plans, AirTag discounts, and two...
Lees meerMatt Sephton: Often I want to restore the latest version of a file from Time Machine, but using the Time Machine interface to do so is awkward and slow. So I came up with my own solution that can be triggered from the Finder context menu of any file…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: Reincubate launched its Camo app back in 2020 to seamlessly upgrade your Mac’s webcam with the iPhone you already have. Over the last two years, the app has been continuously upgraded, and today brings a major milestone. Camo now has…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple this week lowered its estimated trade-in values for select Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models in the United States. iMacs are down from a maximum of $1,200 to $850. When I traded in my iMac a month or so ago, I was surprised to f…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Apple has agreed to settle a long-lasting six-year class-action lawsuit that accused it of knowingly slowing down iPhone 4S devices following the iOS 9 update in 2015, agreeing to pay some iPhone 4S owners who had experienced poor perfor…
Lees meerFor a while now, Apple and other companies have been working towards a future in which we no longer need to use passwords. Apple—and others, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, MasterCard, Visa, and American Express—are part of the FIDO Alliance. F…
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi: Universal app: same features and same services are supported on iOS and macOS. Brand new macOS application with new design and improved functionality. New supported services on macOS: BazQux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, The Old R…
Lees meerStephen Warwick (Hacker News): A group of Apple employees has penned an angry letter to the company’s executive team over its office-bound work policy that doesn’t let them work remotely for more than two days a week.[…]The group says the most impor…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (Hacker News): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people vis…
Lees meerEric Slivka: In line with a report late last week, the European Commission today officially announced that it has issued a Statement of Objections to Apple over its restrictions that prevent third-party services from accessing the NFC capabilities o…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a second beta version of new 15.5 firmware that’s coming to the Studio Display, with the software coming one week after the launch of the first beta. The Studio Display firmware is designed to improve the function o…
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