Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Apple’s Safari web browser first added support for extensions in version 5, and since then—we’re now at Safari version 16—there have been four different extension formats!Safariextz: 2010 Mac, 2019 RIPSafari content blocker:…
Lees meerChristiaan Brand (Hacker News, MacRumors): We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator, across both iOS and Android, which adds the ability to safely backup your one-time codes (also known as one-time passwords or OTPs) to your Goog…
Lees meerPedro Canahuati (Hacker News): 1Password is beginning an internal test of our new, privacy-preserving in-app telemetry system. […] We’re only interested in how people use the app itself, what features and screens they interact with – not what they s…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Netflix said that it would be increasing the video quality of its Basic With Ads tier to 1080p at no extra cost to subscribers. Additionally, it said it would increase the number of simultaneous streams from one to two. […] Netflix rev…
Lees meerSteve Yegge (via Hacker News, Mastodon): LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may…
Lees meerSarah Perez (Hacker News): In today’s decision, the appeals court panel affirmed the district court’s denial of antitrust liability and its corresponding rejection of Epic’s illegality defense to Apple’s breach of contract counter-claim, the ruling …
Lees meerThomas Bandt: So I pulled a Dell laptop from a drawer under my desk and set up Windows 11.[…]First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred only recently. In the middle of the search menu. The menu which was supposed to be one of the …
Lees meerOle Zorn: Apple has unfortunately rejected the Pythonista 3.4 update, citing 3 separate issues. Still trying to process it all, but it’s ridiculous that even a harmless link to the top 50 female names in Iran (courtesy of the faker module) triggered…
Lees meerStacy Elliott: [John Ray III] wrote in Sunday’s court filing that FTX “kept virtually all crypto assets in hot wallets.” To underline his point, Ray mentioned the unauthorized transactions that drained $432 million worth of funds from the company’s …
Lees meerIvan Mehta (MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Hacker News): After vehemently fighting “sideloading” alternative app stores on the iPhone, Apple is now apparently looking to allow them with iOS 17, which will come out next year, to comply with European laws. The r…
Lees meerPrivacy1St: In the last 30 days, I have been closely monitoring the Mac App Store and have made a disturbing discovery. In the midst of the OpenAI frenzy, several apps have surfaced that are copying the iconic OpenAI logo and color scheme in order t…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Microsoft last year said it would be ending support for SwiftKey on iPhone, then only weeks later it backtracked and asked users to "stay tuned" for the arrival of new features. The company has now lived up to its promise with a fresh …
Lees meerScott Yoshinaga: Apple finally released the Studio Display in 2022. My initial reaction was to purchase one, even with the starting price of $1599. I’ve really wanted a 27-inch 5K display for a while and wasn’t willing to go with the 5K 27-inch LG U…
Lees meerNicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern (MacRumors, Hacker News): Greg Frasca has been locked out of his Apple account since October, and he’ll do just about anything to get back in. He has offered to fly from Florida to Apple’s California headquarters to pr…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: HTML button elements don’t appear in Safari in Lockdown Mode.Most input elements don’t appear either! A reader writes: Since iOS 16.4 was released, HTML input elements have vanished from all sites and web views in apps, and so have att…
Lees meerRyan Ashcraft (tweet): Last week, I published CloudSyncSession, a Swift library that builds on top of the CloudKit framework to make it easier to write sync-enabled, offline-capable apps.I started CloudSyncSession over two years ago with the goal of…
Lees meerCanopy: A library that helps you isolate CloudKit dependency and write testable code using CloudKit. […] In live use of your app, you initiate and inject the live Canopy object that talks to CloudKit. When independently testing your features, you in…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Starting today, Apple Card users can choose to grow their Daily Cash rewards with a Savings account from Goldman Sachs, which offers a high-yield APY of 4.15 percent — a rate that’s more than 10 times the national ave…
Lees meerAdam Engst (Mastodon): 33 years. That’s how long I’ve been publishing TidBITS, starting in April 1990. Last year was the closest I’ve come to shutting TidBITS down, but with changes that came late in the year, I’m more enthused about TidBITS than I …
Lees meerHarry McCracken (via Jason Snell): I’m not writing this article because the dead-tree versions of Maximum PC and MacLife are no more. I’m writing it because they were the last two extant U.S. computer magazines that had managed to cling to life unti…
Lees meerSketch: We’re writing to let you know that we’re introducing a modest increase to the cost of license renewals from $99 to $120. The new price will come into effect the next time you renew your license, on or after 19 May 2023. […] We don’t take dec…
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