Linus Torvalds (via Hacker News): On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a loong time, and it’s finally reality, thanks to the A…
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News): The Company posted a June quarter revenue record of $83.0 billion, up 2 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.20. […] “Our June quarter results continued to demonstrate our ability to…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple's release notes, there are no new prominent features in watchOS 8.7. Instead, the software focuses on under-the-hood "improvements," along with bug fixes and important security updates. Fingers crossed, but this seems…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Until now, Apple has offered developers two ad opportunities on the App Store: in the Search tab and within the Search results page. Chance Miller: First and foremost, there is a new advertising slot coming to the “Today” homepage of the…
Lees meerJason Snell: The real advance, though, is in how you control volume or scrub through a track. Previously, you needed to put your finger down on the dot itself, and then slide the dot back and forth. If you missed the dot, you failed. In iOS 16, the …
Lees meerAdam Engst: The big name in the field appears to be Jackery, and its Explorer 160 costs only $139.99 for 167 watt-hours of energy storage with an AC outlet, USB-C port, two USB-A ports, and a DC 12V port. It’s reasonably light at 3.97 pounds (1.8 kg…
Lees meerMike Lewis (via Dave Verwer): I recently built DeepCodable, a package to encode and decode arbitrarily-nested data into flat Swift structs, by defining the coding paths with a result builder. I personally have been wanting something like this for a …
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: Because you’ve already chosen Stage Manager in your first or regular Space, it’s on for all of them. And when you turn it off, you are turning it off for all of them.So what you end up with is a Mac desktop that has you focusing o…
Lees meerThomas Clement: wow so now Apple is going to use my personal name in user notifications to tell users I’m personally installing login items on their machine. I think there’s a difference between the app (that users voluntarily install) doing things …
Lees meerSeth Willits: Audio recording from my Apple Studio Display microphone is still fundamentally broken in every app. Latest OS and display firmware versions. And for what it’s worth, I filed this back in May as FB10017937. No response from Apple yet. F…
Lees meerMickey Jin (tweet): I found some new attack surfaces in the macOS PackageKit.framework, and successfully disclosed 15+ critical SIP-Bypass vulnerabilities. Apple has addressed 12 of them with CVE assigned so far. […] Moreover, an attacker could get …
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): For months now, I have been scratching my head over a small but persistent number of “crash reports” affecting a few of my apps. The issue is most prevalent in MarsEdit, where I have a handful of users who run into the issue m…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Enter a name for the shared album. Then, click in the Invite People field and start typing a contact’s name. As you type, Photos automatically suggests entries from your contacts. So far, so good. But let’s say you inadvertently hit th…
Lees meerJason Snell: I want a mechanical keyboard and Touch ID! […] I decided to attach some velcro tape on the keyboard and the bottom of my desk, positioning the keyboard so that the Touch ID sensor was at the very front of the underside of my desk. […] I…
Lees meerNovall Swift: Did you know with WeatherKit you can request any combination of data sets and it’s returned as a tuple? This is great if you only need a subset of data! Here I’m requesting to include the current weather and daily forecast, and I can e…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I’ve received a number of bug reports from customers saying that the extension doesn’t appear in Safari. And when my app calls the API [SFSafariApplication showPreferencesForExtensionWithIdentifier: completionHandler:] to show the exte…
Lees meerTower: Auto-expand changesets: A new view option has been added to configure behaviour of auto-expanding diffs in the History changeset views. You can find it under “Diffs in Changeset” in the “View” main menu. This is great. I always want to see th…
Lees meerSE-0366 (forum): In this document, we propose adding a new function called move to the swift standard library, which ends the lifetime of a specific local let, local var, or consuming function parameter, and which enforces this by causing the compil…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Earlier this year, Apple began allowing “reader” apps to provide external links for customers so they can log in and pay for a subscription from outside the App Store. Now Netflix is rolling out an option in its iOS app that takes u…
Lees meerDr. Drang: Yesterday, John Voorhees wrote a nice article at MacStories about creating links to specific email messages. His system is in the form of a Shortcut, but the real work is done by an AppleScript. The AppleScript is an extension of one John…
Lees meerMichael Steeber: The Apple Store Time Machine is a celebration of the places and products that have shaped our lives for more than twenty years. This interactive experience recreates memorable moments in Apple history with painstaking detail and his…
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