Sarah Perez: Another decentralized social networking application to challenge Twitter has hit the App Store. Last year, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey donated around $245,000 in bitcoin (then roughly 14 BTC) to fund the development of an open and de…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Safari has gained a new feature called Profiles, which is designed to help keep your browsing separate for topics like Work, School, or Personal. Each profile gets its own icon and silos your history, Tab Groups, favorites, and cookies…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (MacRumors): Asked about the possibility of third-party watch faces on Apple Watch, Lynch says that the watch face is the home screen of the watch and they want everything to work reliably and consistently. As Apple controls all the fa…
Lees meerAndrew Orr (Hacker News, Reuters): Japan is the next country to impose regulations on these companies, according to The Japan Times. It will require Apple and Google to let users download apps through services other than their app stores. The govern…
Lees meerWWDC 2023 session 10060: We have heard from developers like you that it can be challenging to get all the information you need from the great third-party SDKs that your apps depend on. Privacy manifests are a new way for third-party SDK developers t…
Lees meerBrandon Jackson (Hacker News, 3): A package was delivered to my house on Wednesday, May 24, and everything seemed fine. The following day, however, I found that my Echo Show had signed out, and I was unable to interact with my smart home devices. [……
Lees meerMia Sato: Packed with SEO keywords and phrases and generated using artificial intelligence tools, the Get Bullish store blog posts act as a funnel for consumers coming from Google Search, looking for things like Mother’s Day gifts, items with swear …
Lees meerAbner Li: In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets.[…]Google cited “efforts to sharpen our focus” in selling the Google Domains registra…
Lees meerWebKit: In Safari 17, Private Browsing gets even more private with added protection against some of the most advanced techniques used to track you. Technical changes include: Adding blocking for known trackers and fingerprinting. Adding support for …
Lees meerAsmodee (in 2021): Asmodee announces the acquisition of Board Game Arena (BGA), the digital multiplayer board game platform, to provide BGA with high visibility among the consumer market and accelerate the release of Asmodee’s long-awaited successes…
Lees meerChristina Warren: But buried in the keynote was a macOS feature that Apple should have called out with more fanfare: DirectX 12 support for macOS. As PC gamers already know, this software support means the floodgates are open for some real games — n…
Lees meerSE-0400: Swift applies definite initialization analysis to stored properties, stored local variables, and variables with property wrappers. Definite initialization ensures that memory is initialized on all paths before it is accessed. A common patte…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean: Bike Outliner adds inline navigation buttons so you can zoom through your outline with just your mouse. It also adds a navigation bar with back and forward history and breadcrumbs.[…]New inline navigation buttons are added after rows…
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann (tweet): Scripted Rules allow for custom file matching with Lua or JavaScript code.[…]Rule File Content now looks inside zip files, including .docx (Word) and .xlsx (Excel) files.[…]The popup menu with the search locations includes…
Lees meerWWDC 2023 session 10053: Even though the photos look like they are part of your app, they are rendered by the system and only shared when selected, so the user’s photos always remain in their control.[…]Prior to macOS Sonoma, when a user wants to sc…
Lees meerByron Tau and Dustin Volz: The vast amount of Americans’ personal data available for sale has provided a rich stream of intelligence for the U.S. government but created significant threats to privacy, according to a newly released report by the U.S.…
Lees meerMatthew Green (in 2019, Hacker News): Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did Snowden just embaras…
Lees meerScott Forstall (Hacker News): I just discussed with Mark [Zuckerberg] how they should not include embedded apps in the Facebook iPad app--neither in an embedded web view or as a directory of links that would redirect to Safari.Not surprisingly, he w…
Lees meerTaras Buria (via Slashdot): Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view…
Lees meerSarah Perez (Hacker News): Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the i…
Lees meerAdam Tow: I understand Apple’s reasoning behind this decision, and I am by no means advocating for the boycott of Apple, Mail, or anything like that.However, MailKit has not been improved enough to serve as a viable alternative for Mail Plug-In deve…
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