RTÉ (Hacker News): French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. […] It will now go to the Senate, France's …
Lees meerI normally don’t write about beta bugs, but I’ve seen lots of people discussing this one and also received customer questions about it. I can reproduce it on my Mac, though not for every HFS+ volume. Apple: HFS external media might fail to mount aut…
Lees meerSergiu Gatlan (Hacker News): Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensit…
Lees meerOrdinal0 (via Hacker News): In this post, I’ll walk through the process of reverse engineering the .car file format, explain its internal structures, and show how to parse these files programmatically. This knowledge could be useful for security res…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years. Now when I type something like Cal or Calendar or even Calendar.app I have to manually select the actual app in the list, if it even appears. I’v…
Lees meerMohammad Azam: We started with a simple model. Then we added a new property and transformed existing data. Then we introduced a uniqueness constraint and cleaned up duplicates before enforcing it. Each change felt small in isolation. But every one o…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Starting with iOS 26.4, Stolen Device Protection will be enabled by default and turned on for all iPhone users. […] Stolen Device Protection requires additional authentication through Face ID or Touch ID to access certain iPhone feature…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple’s iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system’s internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: [Y]ou’ll then be invited to choose from the available diagnostic suites according to your Mac’s hardware, from: Mac Resource Inspector, to test the main Mac hardware over a period of 1-7 minutes; Display Anomalies, for any built-in LC…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger (Twitter, Hacker News): When I started exploring AI, my goal was to have fun and inspire people. And here we are, the lobster is taking over the world. My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use. That’ll need a m…
Lees meerUK Competition and Markets Authority: The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on a package of commitments from Apple and Google intended to deliver immediate improvements in certainty, transparency and fairness for thousands of …
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: Apple buries the fact that its Apple Creator Studio bundle’s generative AI features come with any usage limits, but the limits are real and now appear to be significantly less than expected. Apple (via Ben Lovejoy): The exact numb…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple will soon do away with iTunes Wish Lists featuring movie and TV shows, according to emails going out to customers as of today. Apple says that people who still have wish lists should migrate items to their Apple TV watchlist befor…
Lees meerZac Hall (Hacker News, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Slashdot): Despite inking a deal with Google to use Gemini AI as the brains behind upgraded Siri, Apple is reportedly facing internal challenges in getting the final product ready for prime time. The r…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Tahoe 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security updates rather than new features, so it is a smaller update than some of the o…
Lees meerJuli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 include unspecified bug fixes and security updates, but there are a couple features that Apple didn’t highlight [li…
Lees meermacOS 15.7.4 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.4 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See als…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): watchOS 26.3 includes unspecified bug fixes and security updates, and there were no new outward-facing features discovered during the beta testing process. Previously: watchOS 26.2.1
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, HomePod Software 26.3 includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 26.2
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The tvOS 26.3 update includes bug fixes and security improvements[…] Previously: tvOS 26.2
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple’s release notes say that visionOS 26.3 includes bug fixes and security improvements[…] Previously: visionOS 26.2
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