Isaiah Poritz (via Corellium, Hacker News): Apple Inc. failed to fully revive a long-running copyright lawsuit against cybersecurity firm Corellium Inc. over its software that simulates the iPhone’s iOS operating systems, letting security researcher…
Lees meerElon Musk (via John Scott-Railton): We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop. John Carmack: I may be reading this incorrectly, but if you are actually deleting inactive a…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Most recently, Quinn “The Eskimo!” of Apple’s Developer Technical Support has explained: “The exact circumstances where the system translocates an app is not documented and has changed over time.” […] Surprisingly, the third condition…
Lees meerOccamSec (in 2021): It is far easier, however, to break the codesigning system and sign your binary as an Apple binary. But let’s get this straight: even though the machine will be aware that the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE LoadCommand is tainted, it will sti…
Lees meerKarl Bode (in 2019, via Daniel J. Wilson, Hacker News): Adobe this week began sending some users of its Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate, and Media Director programs a letter warning them that they were no longer legally authorized to…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News, MacStories, 9to5Mac): Apple today unveiled Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad. Video and music creators can now unleash their creativity in new ways that are only possible on iPad. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPa…
Lees meerJesse Squires (Mastodon): I am writing this for anyone who is interested in trying to go independent — either with your own app development business, solo contracting and freelancing, or both. […] For me, the first year was full of learning — how to…
Lees meerDavid Pogue (via CYME): After 30 years of shutterbugging, my photos were all over the place. 150,000 of them were on Flickr, which was once free but has crept up to $80 a year—and is ancient and pretty terrible for photo management (can’t search by …
Lees meerAnders Borum: Making decisions for my coming S3 app. Does Apple app review allow free to download apps to put everything behind a paywall, such that users can download and use the app during a free trial but when the trial expires nothing is availab…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News): One thing is painfully clear to me already: the BigCos are coming for our passwords, so passkeys can’t be ignored. Google recently wrote about the beginning of the end of the password. Apple has also indicated t…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Because these are ‘hot’ fixes to address vulnerabilities that are either being exploited already or are considered urgent, I can see a case for temporary secrecy. As they’re easy to uninstall, unlike regular macOS updates, any resulti…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (Hacker News): It was rumored in February that Apple may be planning to limit charging speeds and other functionality of USB-C cables that are not certified under its “Made for iPhone” program. Like the Lightning port on existing iPhon…
Lees meerChance Miller: Brydge, a once thriving startup making popular keyboard accessories for iPad, Mac, and Microsoft Surface products, is ceasing operations. According to nearly a dozen former Brydge employees who spoke to 9to5Mac, Brydge has gone throug…
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.52, unchanged year over year. “We are pleased to report an all-time reco…
Lees meerMarcin Kolny (via Hacker News): We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components (for example, AWS Step Functions or AWS Lambda), which was a good choice for building the service quickly. In theory, this would all…
Lees meerInstapaper: This release features a new CarPlay app for playing articles, a number of text-to-speech improvements including access to more voices, the ability to edit article metadata, and other improvements. Listening to articles is a cool idea, bu…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon): Looking at the global chart, Chrome seems to be holding steady in the desktop market over the last year, but Safari does show an uptick from about 9.5 to just under 11 percent. As Benton points out, the most striking thing in…
Lees meerJeremy Howard (via Hacker News): But this “two-language” approach has serious downsides. For instance, AI models often have to be converted from Python into a faster implementation, such as ONNX or torchscript. But these deployment approaches can’t …
Lees meerTony Cunningham (via Hacker News): These are some of the error messages produced by Apple’s MPW C compiler. These are all real. (If you must know I was bored one afternoon and decompiled the String resources for the compiler.)[…]“You can’t modify a …
Lees meerJason Snell: I’ve had a Mac running as a server in my house for more than 20 years now, and I have zero regrets. As I detailed five years ago, the specific uses for my always-on Mac have changed numerous times over the decades, but the various Macs …
Lees meerStephen Hackett: Yesterday, I picked up my new truck, a 2023 Toyota Tundra. Coming from an older Tacoma, this truck is amazing, and that includes the large 14-inch screen. The truck has wireless CarPlay, and I noticed something right away: CarPlay’s…
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