Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.6. There does not seem to be an update for Monterey. Previously: macOS 14.4.1 macOS 13.6.5 and macOS 12.7.4
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, the macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 update fixes an issue that could cause USB hubs connected to external displays not to be recognized. It a…
Lees meerStephan Casas: AppKit includes a private category on NSApplication that adds _eventFirstResponderChainDescription — a string describing the current responder chain. This can be a really useful debugging tool!When your views aren’t handling input eve…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (Mastodon): Apple has consolidated documentation for its products, including manuals, technical specifications, and downloads on a new webpage that was first discovered by the Japanese-language website Mac Otakara and reported on this …
Lees meerJon Brodkin (Hacker News): Epic Games yesterday urged a federal court to sanction Apple for alleged violations of an injunction that imposed restrictions on the iOS App Store. Epic cited a 27 percent commission charged by Apple on purchases complete…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security “coming soon”, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 17.4.1 update includes important security updates and bug fixes. Mr. Macintosh: macOS ??? 😰 Previously: iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4
Lees meerDavid McCabe and Tripp Mickle (PDF, CourtListener, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Justice Department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, the federal government’s most significant challe…
Lees meerNick Moore (via andy4222): PopClip’s almost 13-year journey on the Mac App Store has come to an end. The reason? I can’t update PopClip with new features on the Mac App Store any more. This is due to Apple’s sandboxing policy. […] The review team di…
Lees meerJon Reid: For apps with an application delegate, I’ve written How To Switch Your iOS App Delegate for Improved Testing. This lets us set up a separate launch sequence for test runs that does only the bare minimum. Can we do the same thing for SwiftU…
Lees meercellio (via Hacker News, Reddit): Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your account. They do not care that this puts people at risk with thei…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of effective prompt injection strategies. It seems as if the most…
Lees meerMicrosoft: Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025. After that date it will not be possible to sign in with your user account nor make API calls. Lyubomir Ganev: Don’t you just love it when a big tech company buys one …
Lees meerDean Takahashi: Scopely announced that Monopoly Go has generated $2 billion in revenue just 10 months after launch and three months after hitting $1 billion.The reimagined take on Hasbro’s iconic board game has garnered a massive player base, solidi…
Lees meerKay Jebelli: Big day today as the [European] Commission kicks off its second round of DMA compliance workshops, this time focused on specific gatekeepers, their compliance reports, and the feedback of third-parties.[…]Interesting detail: the EC told…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Glenn Fleishman recently had to wipe one of his teenagers’ Macs after a massive Steam game download led to stalled Time Machine snapshots, resulting in a Mac with just 41K free. They tried numerous approaches to clearing space, but nothi…
Lees meerAndrew Abernathy: For those who knew him: @JoelPage passed away last night.For those who didn’t know: he was at @OmniGroup for approaching two decades, starting on the Support team in 2003, later also becoming the longtime PM for OmniGraffle, and a …
Lees meerAdam Tow (Mastodon): Since WWDC 2023, I was telling long-time MsgFiler customers that I would look into what I could do to support the product in this new era of Apple Mail sans plug-ins. Honestly, I was a bit bummed because I didn’t see a viable pa…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Walmart today announced that it has started selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip in the U.S., with pricing set at a very reasonable $699. The laptop can be ordered now on Walmart.com, and it will be available soon at select Walmar…
Lees meerApple: Notarization for iOS apps is a baseline review that applies to all apps, regardless of their distribution channel, focused on platform policies for security and privacy and to maintain device integrity. Through a combination of automated chec…
Lees meerEdovia (Mastodon): We were encouraged to find that approximately 80% of respondents expressed a positive inclination towards adopting Screens 5 as the default [vnc: URL] handler. However, we also acknowledge and respect the opinions of the remaining…
Lees meerScam apps top the search results, but at least Apple is protecting us from links to Spotify’s Web site (MacRumors): Spotify says Apple is stonewalling updates issued in compliance with that very ruling. In an email to the European Commission obtaine…
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