Apple (MacRumors): Apple introduced two-factor authentication for Apple ID in 2015. Today, with more than 95 percent of active iCloud accounts using this protection, it is the most widely used two-factor account security system in the world that we’…
Lees meerApple (via MacRumors): After extensive consultation with experts to gather feedback on child protection initiatives we proposed last year, we are deepening our investment in the Communication Safety feature that we first made available in December 2…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text editing with built-in Markdown syntax highlighting, a completely rebuilt rich text editor based on App…
Lees meerJack Williams: After 1st February 2023, new perpetual license purchases will not receive any feature updates (16.x) This means that any updates containing new features and functionality will not be included in your license purchase. However, bug fix…
Lees meerAshley Belanger (Hacker News, MacRumors): Confronted by police reports and concerns from privacy advocates, Apple released updates in February, claiming that new features would mitigate reported stalking risks. Stalking reports kept coming, though, …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Under the updated App Store pricing system, all developers will have the ability to select from 900 price points, which is nearly 10 times the number of price points previously available for most apps. This includes 6…
Lees meerAdam Engst: However, if you’re like me and haven’t set up Apple Pay on your iPad, you might be bothered by the way iPadOS badges the Settings app and constantly reminds you to finish setting up your iPad. I expect that succumbing to iPadOS’s demands…
Lees meerOpenAI (Hacker News): We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inapprop…
Lees meerDave DeLong: It turns out, there was a bug in Set.intersection(_:), but it had only been discovered this past June, and the fix only applies to macOS Ventura and later (my machine is running Monterey still). The scope of the bug is fairly limited: i…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In practice, a cryptex is a sealed Disk Image containing its own file system, which is mounted at a randomly chosen location within the root file system during the boot process. Prior to mounting the cryptex, macOS verifies it matches…
Lees meerJuli Clover (in January): Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team this morning published details on a new “Powerdir” macOS vulnerability that let an attacker bypass the Transparency, Consent, and Control technology to gain unauthorized access to prot…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along with code to get started with deploying to Apple Silicon devices.[…]Beyond image generation from text prompts, deve…
Lees meerCoinbase (Hacker News): You might have noticed you can’t send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature.Apple’s claim is that the gas fees required to send NFTs need to be p…
Lees meerAna Trisovic et al. (via Ethan Mollick): Research code is typically created by a group of scientists and published together with academic papers to facilitate research transparency and reproducibility. For this study, we define ten questions to addr…
Lees meerKevin Purdy: While the iPhone 14 hardware lineup costs largely the same as the previous generation, the cost of replacing the battery has gone up considerably, surpassing the prices Apple was charging before its 2016/2017 “Batterygate” reckoning.Rep…
Lees meerWhenever I mount a hard drive with lots of files, typically a clone drive, various other apps that deal with files often hang. An individual hang can last for minutes to over half an hour. If the app is doing a long series of file operations, which …
Lees meerAfter updating to Ventura, throughout Finder, other apps, and the Dock, all my documents were shown with blank icons. This eventually resolved itself in Finder and in open/save panels, but I still see incorrect icons in apps such as BBEdit, EagleFil…
Lees meerMarc Edwards: It’s common to have to draw the same kinds of icons over and over — many different apps and websites use similar glyphs, but each instance typically needs to be tweaked for size and style, so they need to be redrawn. Due to this repeti…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Anker’s popular Eufy-branded security cameras appear to be sending some data to the cloud, even when cloud storage is disabled and local only storage settings are turned on.[…]According to Moore, he purchased a Eufy Doorbell Dual, which…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When pressed briefly, it starts the Mac up in normal macOS mode; when pressed and held until the Mac reports that it’s loading Recovery Options, it engages Recovery mode, where you navigate startup and other options using buttons and …
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu (Hacker News): [LazyHGrid] container is lazy so it takes more time get the view rendered because SwiftUI has to check if each row is visible before rendering it.[…]What looks unusual is the huge number of updates on my custom views. So…
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