Charlie Savage (via Hacker News): The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers, according to an unclassified letter by the agency.The letter, addressed to a Democratic…
Lees meerBen Patterson (via Hacker News): Remember when IFTTT said it would allow its legacy users to set their own prices for the service’s “pro” plan, and that it would honor those prices “forever”? Well, it turns out “forever” has an expiration date.In a …
Lees meerNikita Prokopov (Hacker News): As you can see, even the checkmark wasn’t always there. But one thing remained constant: checkboxes were square.Why square? Because that’s how you can tell them from radio buttons[…][…]You see, people on the Web think …
Lees meerWill Crichton (via Hacker News): Despite decades of advances in document rendering technology, most of the world’s documents are stuck in the 1990s due to the limitations of PDF. Yet, modern document formats like HTML have yet to provide a competiti…
Lees meerVictoria Song (via Hacker News): The company has been one of the most prolific makers of Wear OS smartwatches over the years, and its absence will leave a large gap in the market.[…]This shouldn’t come as a huge shock if you’ve been paying attention…
Lees meerAltStore: We’ve started the process of becoming a legitimate “app marketplace”, allowing our European friends to download @delta and other AltStore apps officially for the first time ever!See you in March ☘️ Jacob Kastrenakes: Epic plans to launch t…
Lees meerApple: This spring [with iOS 17.4], Apple is introducing transcripts on Apple Podcasts, making it easier for anyone to access podcasts. With transcripts, your audience can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or p…
Lees meerMozilla (via Mike Rockwell): This dashboard tracks technical issues in major software platforms which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser. We consider aspects like security, stability, performance, and functionality, and propose…
Lees meerApple: In line with Apple’s mission to protect user privacy, Apple is updating its App Store Review Guideline for using Sign in with Apple. Sign in with Apple makes it easy for users to sign in to apps and websites using their Apple ID and was built…
Lees meerApple: Available for developers’ apps around the world, Apple also announced new options for streaming games[…] Apple (MacRumors): Apple is introducing new options for how apps globally can deliver in-app experiences to users, including streaming ga…
Lees meerApple: Apple will introduce new default controls for users in Settings for:App marketplace apps — Users will be able to manage their preferred default app marketplace through a new default setting for app marketplace apps. Platform features for find…
Lees meerApple: The coming changes to iOS in the EU include: […] New frameworks and APIs for alternative browser engines — enabling developers to use browser engines, other than WebKit, for browser apps and apps with in-app browsing experiences. Apple: To us…
Lees meerApple: Today, developers can ask questions or share feedback or suggestions to Apple in a variety of ways — such as developer support, the Apple Developer Forums, and Feedback Assistant. To reflect the DMA’s changes, Apple has created an additional …
Lees meerApple: Apple will expand the analytics available for developers’ apps both in the EU and around the world to help developers get even more insight into their businesses and their apps’ performance. Over 50 new reports will be available through the A…
Lees meerApple: Payment Service Providers (PSPs) — where developers use an alternative payment processor that lets users complete transactions within their app.Linking out to purchase — where developers direct users to complete a transaction for digital good…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Slashdot): Developers who offer the ability to sideload their apps in the European Union will still face restrictions and fees imposed by Apple, The Wall Street Journal reports.App sideloading capabilities will allow users to downl…
Lees meerJohn Walker: Ubisoft has chosen this week to rebrand its Ubisoft+ subscription services, and introduce a PC version of the “Classics” tier at a lower price. […] You can subscribe to Game Pass, or PlayStation Plus, and get a broad range of hundreds o…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen (MacRumors): January 24 will be the Macintosh’s 40th birthday, marking four decades since Steve Jobs showed off what he believed to be the future of computing. Dan Moren: In that time, it’s run on four different processor architectures …
Lees meerNiko Kitsakis: In graphical user interfaces, we have seen an increase in buttons recently that consist merely of text or icons, without a clear, visible button shape being present. This insipid, uninspired mediocrity, exemplified by Google’s “Materi…
Lees meerTower: Environment settings: In addition to adding custom environment variables, environment variables from the login shell are now also automatically added when running Git commands. This should make hook scripts work without additional configurati…
Lees meerChris Hanson (Hacker News): A lot of people think QuickTime is a “video format,” but that’s not really accurate. Video and audio playback are applications atop the QuickTime container format; the container format itself is a means of representing mu…
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