Juli Clover: Apple today released a sixth Studio Display 17 firmware beta, with the update coming a few weeks after the release of the fifth beta.All Studio Display models are able to receive over-the-air firmware updates, but this firmware update i…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When all the settings for automatic updates are turned off, the user should in theory be offered all updates as they become available, and be able to choose which to download and install manually from those offered in Software Update.…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today updated its iTunes Movie Trailers app for the iPhone with a notice that the Apple TV app is the new home of movie and TV show trailers. It is no longer possible to use the iTunes Movie Trailers app, which launched in 2011.…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (via Dave Mark, Jeff Johnson): Apple is planning to eliminate social media support advisor roles across Twitter, YouTube, and the Apple Support Community website starting later this year, according to multiple sources familiar with the…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: The idea here is that JavaScript is basically the only way nowadays that you can ship plugins or scripts with your apps on macOS that is not broken since Big Sur, I think. Because Ruby and Python and all these other scripting langu…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple may offer a USB-C data transfer accessory cable for iPhone 15 Pro models that is capable of Thunderbolt or USB4 speeds of up to 40Gbps. That is the latest claim made by Kosutami, who posted details of the cable on Twitter (now X)…
Lees meerAnthony Cangialosi: Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and upda…
Lees meervexl (via Hacker News): Our flagship project — the Vexl app — does exactly this: it connects users with other peers in their social circle so they can exchange cash for bitcoin with them in a privacy preserving way.[…]Vexl was successfully operated …
Lees meernicolodev (via Hacker News): FairPlay comprises a set of algorithms created by Apple for digital rights management (also called DRM, digital rights management). FairPlay is currently used to manage the decryption of iOS applications during their ins…
Lees meerMilen Dzhumerov (Mastodon): It has been commonly interpreted as “don’t think about performance in the beginning, you can fix any performance problem later”. This interpretation is completely and categorically wrong. […] With the additional context, …
Lees meerAndrew Anthony (via Hacker News): Leaving aside the “sorry, not sorry” expression of regret, the presumption is that the elderly remain vigilant to every missive from the online world, when in fact many find it a jungle of scams, junk mail, endless …
Lees meerKieran McCarthy (via Dare Obasanjo): Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on o…
Lees meerI was recently surprised to find that my Mac kept rejecting my password at boot. I’ve been using the same password for years and was sure it was correct. I typed it slowly while looking at the keys. I made sure that the Caps Lock key was not down. I…
Lees meerChime: The code in this repo should be considered Non-Functional right now. You can download the currently released version. Chime used to be commercial, but is now free. It built up some pretty significant cruft over time. In particular, the core U…
Lees meerJason Snell (Hacker News): For many years, I tried very hard to travel with only an iPad. (Why bring two devices? And I’m not leaving my iPad at home.) Since the arrival of Apple silicon, however, I’ve gone back to traveling with both an iPad and a …
Lees meerWikipedia (via Accidental Tech Podcast): mg, originally called MicroGnuEmacs (and later changed at the request of Richard Stallman), is a public-domain text editor that runs on Unix-like operating systems. It is based on MicroEMACS, but intended to …
Lees meerMatt Birchler: Anyway, I linked to the show’s Wikipedia page because the original episodes are no longer available to download from the official source (here’s an archived version). Happily, a kind soul has recently uploaded many episodes to YouTube…
Lees meerSean Hollister: If you’re thinking of buying a SanDisk Extreme Pro, Extreme Portable, Extreme Pro Portable, or WD MyPassport SSD, maybe just don’t. My colleague Vjeran just lost 3TB of video we’d shot for The Verge because the drive is no longer rea…
Lees meerJason Koebler (Hacker News, at the new 404 Media, Hacker News): Apple told a California legislator that it is formally supporting a right to repair bill in California, a landmark move that suggests big tech manufacturers understand they have lost th…
Lees meerRenaud Chaput (via ednl, Hacker News): Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta.It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile t…
Lees meerTom Warren (via Hacker News): A public preview of the feature is available today, allowing Excel users to manipulate and analyze data from Python. “You can manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries, and then use Excel’s f…
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