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Other People’s Playlists in Your Apple Music

donderdag 23 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: Apple Music appears to be sparking serious privacy concerns for some users, with multiple complaints on Reddit about other people’s playlists randomly appearing in their music libraries in the Music app.Redditor adh1003, who contacted …

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GitHub Copilot X

donderdag 23 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Dohmke (via Hacker News): GitHub Copilot started a new age of software development as an AI pair programmer that keeps developers in the flow by auto-completing comments and code. And less than two years since its launch, GitHub Copilot is al…

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DALL-E in Bing and Edge

donderdag 23 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Yusuf Mehdi (via MacRumors, Hacker News): We’re excited to announce we are bringing Bing Image Creator, new AI-powered visual Stories and updated Knowledge Cards to the new Bing and Edge preview. Powered by an advanced version of the DALL∙E model fr…

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Little Snitch Mini 1.0

woensdag 22 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Objective Development: It shows you each and every Internet connection of all apps on your Mac. And if you don’t like what you see, you simply push the Stop-Button. […] Choose from a curated collection of blocklists covering thousands of ad servers,…

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Swift Atomics 1.1

woensdag 22 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Karoy Lorentey (Mastodon): This change will finally enable widespread use of atomic strong references in Swift code.[…]ManagedAtomic will finally become conditionally Sendable when its Value is Sendable. This has proved to be a constant pain point f…

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Swift Proposal: Noncopyable Structs and Enums

woensdag 22 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SE-0390: All currently existing types in Swift are copyable, meaning it is possible to create multiple identical, interchangeable representations of any value of the type. However, copyable structs and enums are not a great model for unique resource…

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DPReview.com to Close

dinsdag 21 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Scott Everett (via Hacker News, Reddit): After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.[…]Thank y…

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The Growth of Mastodon

dinsdag 21 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Terry: Looks like users of Medium.com are starting to register for Mastodon accounts. Welcome to all new users of Mastodon. Registered users of Mastodon might reach 10million users tomorrow. And, indeed, that happened (via Hacker News). Some of the …

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Recovering Cropped Parts of Google Pixel Screenshots

dinsdag 21 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon Aarons (via Hacker News): Introducing acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel’s inbuilt screenshot editing tool, Markup, enabling partial recovery of the original, unedited image data of a cropped and/or redacted scree…

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Microsoft 365 Copilot

maandag 20 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jared Spataro: Today, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 3…

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Photos Data Loss With macOS 13.3 Beta

maandag 20 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Josh Hill (via Marquelle D. McKean): During a Europe trip in May 2022, I uploaded over 6,000 photos and hundreds of videos to the cloud. Upon editing and deleting some of the photos, I encountered an issue with Photos.app, which ultimately led to th…

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Spelunking Apple’s Open Source

maandag 20 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Daniel Jalkut (Masotdon): There’s no need to worry: the whole list, indexed by the pertinent platform and OS release to which they belong, is still available on a separate Releases page. Even better, each of these releases now has a corresponding Gi…

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Camo Studio 2

maandag 20 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Snell: I’ve been using Camo Studio 2 for a few weeks and I’ve been relieved, frankly, to finally have proper control over my Continuity Camera and Studio Display cameras. The lighting in my office is weird, so I often need to adjust the color …

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The Magic Highlighter 0.6

vrijdag 17 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Caleb Hailey: If you’re like us, you might have developed a habit of smashing the ⌘-F keyboard shortcut and repeating some or all of the exact same search terms you already submitted to the search engine (e.g. Google, DuckDuckGo, or Bing). […] The M…

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Equality in Swift: NSObject, Subclasses, and Existentials

vrijdag 17 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Newton: Conformance to the Equatable protocol seems pretty straightforward. You simply override the == function.[…]This works great for objects like structs, or classes with no superclass. However, we can run into problems with the == function …

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Amazon Shuts Down Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions

vrijdag 17 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Laura Hazard Owen (via Hacker News): It doesn’t matter whether they’re for your Kindle or in print — starting this week, Amazon is no longer selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions.[…]Instead, Amazon wants publishers to add their content to its…

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Petey 1.1.2

donderdag 16 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Modum: We are excited to introduce Petey your AI assistant app for the Apple Watch! With this app, you can now interact with the famous GPT model right from your wrist.[…]With Petey on your wrist, you can easily access a vast source of knowledge and…

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Ventura Adds com.apple.provenance

donderdag 16 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley (Hacker News): What happens in macOS Ventura is essentially the same until the moment that quarantine is cleared, when macOS now attaches a new extended attribute (xattr) of type com.apple.provenance to the file. This contains an 11-by…

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Peakto 1.5

donderdag 16 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

CYME: CYME adds annotation features to Peakto, the AI-powered photo meta-cataloger for macOS. Thanks to its wide compatibility–Lightroom, Luminar AI/Neo, Capture One and Apple Photos–Peakto allows photographers to annotate from the same interface th…

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Passing Types to Swift Functions

donderdag 16 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Paul Samuels: This post uses a toy helper function that fetches remote JSON to show how we can design its api so that explicitly providing the type isn’t required when the compiler can infer types from context. […] We can look at how JSONDecode.deco…

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GPT-4

woensdag 15 maart 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OpenAI (Hacker News): GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic…

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