Lawrence Abrams (Hacker News): Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users’ accounts, allowing a threat actor to compile a list of 5.4 million …
Lees meerDouglas Gregor: Here’s a proposed build process for the Swift compiler with Swift code in it: Build C++ bits with the host C++ compiler Build mandatory Swift bits with the host Swift compiler Link a “minimal stage 1" Swift compiler Build optional Sw…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The most notable finding is that most of them don’t use most of the features listed. Only four features—Live Text, Shortcuts, Hide My Email, and Memories in Photos—received more votes saying they were Occasionally or Frequently used than…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: In a statement (via Reuters), the Korea Communications Commissions (KCC) said that it conducted an inspection of Apple, Google, and One Store since May 17 to determine if they have violated in-app payment laws, and concluded that a…
Lees meerCheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li: Apple told suppliers on Friday that China has started strictly enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as being made either in “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei,” sources…
Lees meerTomas Kafka: Be the first to try the hourly forecast from a beta version of Apple’s own new weather service. Hit the Preferences button and switch the forecast source. Nowcast isn’t available yet, so it will be provided by the good & trusty Foreca.A…
Lees meerGregory Szorc: I’m very excited to announce that we now have a pure Rust implementation of a client for Apple’s Notary API in the apple-codesign crate. This means we can now notarize Apple software from any machine where you can get the Rust crate t…
Lees meerJulio Ojeda-Zapata: The mounts are not yet available to the public, but some lucky tech writers have been sent pre-release versions. Apple chose not to favor me with early access, but I found something similar while rummaging through my tech gear: P…
Lees meerEmma Roth, Jay Peters, and Richard Lawler (Hacker News): Netflix is testing a new way to tackle password sharing in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic (as reported first by Bloomberg). A support page for Netflix …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I quickly determined that this was just the regular Dropbox app. Dropbox has simply renamed it to include “Cloud Photo Storage” in the name for SEO purposes. This apparently works so well, at the moment, that some apps are putting these…
Lees meerJosé Adorno: Starting next week, DuckDuckGo will expand the third-party tracking scripts it blocks from loading on websites to include scripts from Microsoft. This update applies to the iOS and Android apps and browser extensions with beta apps to f…
Lees meerMatt Drange: In responding to a shareholder proposal for Apple to assess potential risk associated with using NDAs “in the context of harassment, discrimination, and other unlawful acts,” Apple told the SEC that its “policy is to not use such clause…
Lees meerDan Luu: Looks like AMD passed Intel in market cap last Friday, after being fairly close for quite a while.The majority of comments I’ve seen are betting on AMD, but I’d bet, at even odds, ten years from today, the 1-month trailing average market ca…
Lees meerSimon Sharwood: GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they’ve been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier.The Register has learned that such projects account for up to a quarter of GitLab’s hosting costs, and that the…
Lees meerTom Bridge: The Secret Service has lately been in some hot water because they failed to backup the text message (and iMessage?) history of the devices issued to their staff during an MDM transition. I talked some with Jason Snell from Six Colors in …
Lees meerApple: Learn how you can use the Virtualization framework to quickly create virtual machines on your Mac. We’ll show you how to create a virtual Mac and quickly test changes to your app in an isolated environment. We’ll also explore how you can inst…
Lees meerApple (via Howard Oakley, MacRumors): Resolves an audio issue with Studio Display Are they not able to give it a new version number because there’s no iOS 15.5.1 for phones? Previously: Studio Display Audio Issues Studio Display Firmware 15.5
Lees meerAdam Engst: As it stands now, free teams are restricted to being able to see the last 10,000 messages chronologically and access the most recent 5 GB of files. (Compare that to the Pro plan’s unlimited messages and 10 GB of files per user.) A free p…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: The edit-a-message-you-just-sent feature, intended for fixing typos or mistakes, has been tweaked. The time limit for editing is now 15 minutes, sent messages can be edited up to five times, and the recipient of an edited message now ha…
Lees meerJhonatan Avalos (tweet): Tool for avoiding using the URL(string:) initializer with optional result, instead introducing a compile time URL validity check. Note, this does not check for website availability, but if the URL is formatted correctly. […]…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: If you haven’t been paying attention to Instagram lately, they’ve been steadily dialing up the algorithmic content users see in their feeds, especially video. More stuff in your feed from accounts you don’t follow, selected by machine l…
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