Seth Schoen (via Hacker News): I’m devastated to report that Peter Eckersley (@pde), one of the original founders of Let’s Encrypt, died earlier this evening at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco.Peter was the leader of EFF’s contributions to Let…
Lees meerErnesto Van der Sar: For years, Cloudflare had a policy not to remove any accounts without a court order, so when it kicked out Daily Stormer and later 8Chan as well, eyebrows were raised. For example, copyright holders wondered why the company coul…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: There are complaints on Twitter, Reddit and the Apple Support Community dating back to June, and more recently on the MacRumors forums, about the issue, which is variously described as an “electrical buzzing” and “constant ringing” tha…
Lees meerRens Breur: We will first look into a number of examples of such cases where it is useful to know how the SwiftUI render loop works. Then we will explore the render loop in more detail and ask questions such as: when exactly is the body of a SwiftUI…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple’s iPhones have overtaken Android devices to account for more than half of all smartphones used in the United States, according to data from Counterpoint Research (via Financial Times).The active installed base of iP…
Lees meerSarah Perez (MacRumors): An app developer’s lawsuit over App Store rejections, scams and fraud has ended in a settlement agreement after court filings show a request to dismiss the suit earlier this summer. The plaintiff, app developer and former Pi…
Lees meerSimon Willison (Hacker News): SQLite: Past, Present, and Future is a newly published paper authored by Kevin P. Gaffney, Martin Prammer and Jignesh M. Patel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and D. Richard Hipp, Larry Brasfield and Dan Kenned…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Xcode Cloud, the continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode, accelerates the development and delivery of high-quality apps. Get started by configuring a workflow in Xcode and receive 25 compute hours…
Lees meerAlyssa Rosenzweig: Here’s a little secret: there are two graphics APIs called “Metal”. There’s the Metal you know, a limited API that Apple documents for App Store developers, an API that lacks useful features supported by OpenGL and Vulkan. And the…
Lees meerKyle Murray: We’re happy to announce that “The Swift Programming Language” book is now an open source project. This new project will be the basis of publishing the book on Swift.org in the future […] and will use the open source DocC tool.[…]When th…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years. It has now gone fully pre-emptive, as active as many commercial anti-malware products[…] […] These are orchestrated by XProtec…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Claris will rename FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go (for deploying FileMaker apps on the iPhone and iPad), and FileMaker Server (for hosting multi-user FileMaker apps) to Claris Pro, Claris Go, and Claris Server. A new Web-based development e…
Lees meerRaymond Chen: And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video! […] It turns out that the song contained one of …
Lees meerHelge Heß: Lighter is a set of technologies applying code generation to access SQLite3 databases from Swift, e.g. in iOS applications or on the server. Like SwiftGen but for SQLite3.[…]Lighter builds upon the database schema and hence directly knows…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci: In order to get access to random files outside of the app container, you can ask the user to select a folder using an Open dialog. The app will then be allowed to access any file inside this selected folder… as long as the app is …
Lees meerCelsys (via Jonathan Deutsch): Customers with an Update Pass or a Monthly Plan (purchased through app stores or the Clip Studio Paint site) will be able to use the most up-to-date version of the app for as long as their plan or pass is valid. Versio…
Lees meercanalys: The North American smartphone market reached 35.4 million shipped units in Q2 2022, down 6.4% yearly amid economic challenges, high inflation, and poor seasonal demand. Apple grew 3% and has dominated over half the North American region for…
Lees meerCasey Newton: On January 21, a moderately surprising headline hit the New York Times: in one of his first official acts as Twitter CEO, Parag Agrawal had fired the company’s chief information security officer, Rinki Sethi, and its head of security, …
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu (via Hacker News): I tried to launch a simple, no-frills iOS app for party-goers and music festivals in 🇷🇴 Romania.[…]The app is simple, fast, does what it says without any BS unneeded complexity. I thought subsequent features would be…
Lees meerFelix Krause (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Last week I published a report on the risks of mobile apps using in-app browsers. Some apps, like Instagram and Facebook, inject JavaScript code into third party websites that cause potential security an…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (tweet, Hacker News): As you can see in the graph: AppKit apps account for a huge percentage of apps After a slow start, the number of apps using SwiftUI is quickly growing The number of Mac Catalyst apps reached a ceiling [but see…
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