John Poole (via MacRumors): Geekbench tests have always been grounded in real-world use cases and use modern. With Geekbench 6, we’ve taken this to the next level by updating existing workloads and designing several new workloads, including workload…
Lees meerBlair Lyon (via Hacker News): Since Akamai’s acquisition of Linode in early 2022, we’ve been hard at work to bring the platforms together under one roof. With the announcement of Akamai Connected Cloud, Linode is now fully integrated into the Akamai…
Lees meerEric Van Aelstyn: The out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application was permanently disabled on certain versions of Windows 10 on February 14, 2023 through a Microsoft Edge update. Note, this update will be rolled out over the span …
Lees meerMysk: The App Store on macOS 13.2 sends detailed usage data and analytics to Apple. All interactions are associated with the user’s iCloud ID, or dsid. This happens even when you turn off sharing usage data and analytics.[…]Here’s an example of the …
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: Con artists involved in a so-called “pig butchering” scam sneaked apps into Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store by temporarily presenting innocuous functionality.[…]As the apps went through review, they each appeared to be doi…
Lees meerAlsoft (via Agen Schmitz): Supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion through macOS 13 Ventura when rebuilding Mac OS Extended volumes.Now runs on Apple Silicon M1 & M2 Macs to rebuild Mac OS Extended volumes.No longer requires a kernel extension (KEXT) to op…
Lees meerJon Brodkin (via Hacker News): When Hillier looked up his address on the FCC map, it showed Comcast claims to offer 1.2Gbps download and 35Mbps upload speeds at the house. In reality, he makes do with CenturyLink Internet that tops out at 60Mbps dow…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: As we have done before on several occasions, we’re going to employ macOS Shortcuts to create a solution for comparing binary data of files in Kaleidoscope, without the need to change Kaleidoscope itself.[…]Some Kaleidoscope users p…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): Apple today released macOS Ventura 13.2.1, the a minor to the macOS Ventura operating system initially released in October. Juli Clover: According to Apple’s security notes for the updates…
Lees meerJuli Clover (security): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 16.3.1 update includes multiple bug fixes, addressing issues with iCloud and Siri requests for Find My, plus it adds more Crash Detection optimizations.The iCloud settings fix may a…
Lees meerMarc Edwards: Using the area works well for a circle, but, what about a donut? The hole in the middle reduces the total area. This also happens with stars and other shapes. Holes and concave segments should probably be ignored. A method to do this e…
Lees meerDave Verwer: I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that sums up the balance of the pros and cons of life in the iOS App Store better than this Apple Developer News post from last week. It announces more flexibility to the billing grace period featur…
Lees meerRon Amadeo (via Peter Steinberger): The feature leverages Android's multi-user system to have two copies of the same app but with different data, allowing you to log in to each with different accounts. Some apps support multiple accounts and some do…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When privacy settings are playing up, and you get prompted to allow access that you have already agreed to, or access fails when it should have worked, there’s little you can do about it. Once you’ve fiddled with Privacy & Security se…
Lees meerTransmission (Hacker News, Mac Rumors): This is a major release, both in numbering and in effort! It’s been in active development for over a year and has a huge list of changes -- over a thousand commits -- since Transmission 3.00.[…]The code has be…
Lees meerChris Hanson: While Lisa appears to have an underlying procedural API similar to that of the Macintosh Toolbox, the Office System applications were primarily written in the Clascal language—an object-oriented dialect of Pascal designed by Apple with…
Lees meerJason Snell (Hacker News): Coming off the high of the release of Apple Silicon, the Mac has slid back for two consecutive years. There was plenty of praise for the M2 MacBook Air, but the delay to the M2 Mac mini and MacBook Pro—which didn’t get ann…
Lees meerSE-0385 (discussion): In Swift, declarations are annotated with attributes to opt into both built-in language features (e.g. @available) and library functionality (e.g. @RegexComponentBuilder). This proposal introduces the ability to attach library-…
Lees meerTower: Working Copy and Branches Review: On macOS 13, the width of the middle pane in the Working Copy and Branches Review sections always reset themselves to the default after leaving the view. This has been annoying me every day since Ventura was …
Lees meerApple: Starting January 18, 2023, the App Store receipt signing certificate will use a new WWDR intermediate certificate. The existing intermediate certificate expires on February 7, 2023. In most cases, this certificate change won’t require changes…
Lees meerDustin Shahidehpour: After years of iteration, the Facebook codebase does not resemble a typical iOS codebase:It’s full of C++, Objective-C(++), and Swift.It has dozens of dynamically loaded libraries (dylibs), and so many classes that they can’t be…
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