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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly …

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Microsoft Finalizes Activision Blizzard Acquisition

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Milmo (Hacker News, MacRumors): Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£57bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard, the maker of games including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, after the UK’s competition watchdog cleared the acquisition.The Competiti…

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Swift Proposal: Pack Iteration

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SE-0408: Currently, it is possible to express list operations on value packs using pack expansion expressions. This approach requires putting code involving statements into a function or closure. For example, limiting repetition patterns to expressi…

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Mastering DOM Manipulation With Vanilla JavaScript

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Phuoc Nguyen (via Hacker News): Web development moves at lightning speed. I still remember when I first started using libraries like jQuery, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Zepto, and many more. Even with modern tools like Angular, VueJS, React, Solid a…

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Google Vertex AI Search

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brett Terpstra: So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s powe…

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Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to critics looked more like DRM for websites.[…]Apple incidentally has already…

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Apple’s Three Safaris

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises th…

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FTX Trial

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Molly White (via Nick Heer): We got our first glance at the FTX codebase on Friday. The prosecution brought out Github screenshots as they questioned cooperating witness Gary Wang, the former CTO of FTX who at various times was responsible for the c…

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Apple’s Q4 2023 Results

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors: The Company posted quarterly revenue of $89.5 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.46, up 13 percent year over year. “Today Apple is pleased to report a Sep…

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macOS 14: Separate iCloud Drive and CloudKit Switches

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: One important change in Sonoma is the distinction between apps accessing iCloud Drive (shown here) and those using CloudKit to share their databases (described below). […] To control the apps allowed to store their databases in iCloud…

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Apple’s Blue Ocean

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Siracusa (Hacker News): I just can’t shake the idea that a return to removable, user-accessible batteries has now become a blue-ocean opportunity just waiting for Apple to seize it.[…]There’s more headroom than there has ever been to accommodat…

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Ceasing Print Publication of ACM Journals and Transactions

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Association for Computing Machinery (via Hacker News): ACM has made the decision to cease print publication for ACM’s journals and transactions as of January 2024. The magazines Communications of the ACM, ACM InRoads, interactions, and XRDS: Crossro…

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Swift TO Is Closing Down

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Newsome: A lot of forces seemed to work against us this year. This made organizing quite a difficult and emotional challenge at times. Unfortunately this included some mistreatment from Apple’s Developer Relations team. Apple dangled the idea o…

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iMac 2023

dinsdag 31 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): iMac with M3 is up to 2x faster than the prior generation with M1. And for those upgrading from an Intel-based iMac, the new iMac is up to 2.5x faster than the most popular 27-inch models, and 4x faster than the most powerful 21…

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MacBook Pro Late 2023

dinsdag 31 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): The 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M3 is up to 60 percent faster than the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1, and with its advanced thermal system, it unleashes the full potential of M3 for sustained performance. Starting at $1,599, it deliv…

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Apple M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

dinsdag 31 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): These are the first personal computer chips built using the industry-leading 3-nanometer process technology, allowing more transistors to be packed into a smaller space and improving speed and efficiency. […] The M3 family of ch…

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Keyboard Maestro 11

maandag 30 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Stairways Software: Version 11 extends the editor by adding a New Macro Wizard and new Security preference pane, and enhanced searching and syncing.The engine adds a new keyboardmaestro command line tool for triggering macros, modern JavaScript synt…

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Code Signing Woes

maandag 30 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dirk Lemstra (via Hacker News, tweet): Today [ImageMagick’s Windows] code signing certificate will expire. For many years LeaderSSL sponsored us with a code singing certificate but they are no longer able to do so. Since June of 2023 the CA/B Forum …

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Masimo v. Apple

maandag 30 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brian Merchant: Kiani, an electrical engineer by training, had founded the Irvine company Masimo in 1989. Over the next three decades, he and his colleagues built Masimo into an industry leader in pulse oximetry, used to take readings of the amount …

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The Restaurant Nearest Google

maandag 30 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mia Sato: Jirapraphanan is exactly the kind of customer Thai Food Near Me hopes to scoop up. The New York-based restaurant is named after a literal Google search, betting it can bring in customers with the power of SEO — the practice of making a bus…

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iCloud Drive Switches to Dataless Files

vrijdag 27 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: In the recent past, when a file has been evicted to iCloud (its download being removed from local storage), it has been represented by a placeholder or stub file in its original folder on the Mac. Taking the file named MyDocument.extn…

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