Bruce Schneier: A Berlin-based company has developed an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple’s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.So now we have several problems with the system. Apple’s anti-stalker s…
Lees meerSami Fathi (tweet): Apple would rather pay a maximum of €50 million in fines than address concerns brought forward by the Dutch competition authority regarding developer access to third-party payment methods on the App Store, the EU’s head of digita…
Lees meerSteve Gehrman: You may be wondering, is this Path Finder 11? No, from now on it’s just called “Path Finder”. We’ve decided from now on we will no longer use version numbers in the apps name. There is still exists an internal build number which you c…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Checking dozens or even hundreds of backup snapshots stored on hard disks can take many hours. If you don’t check the snapshots, there’s little point in checking your backup storage, as all your backups are stored in snapshots. As sna…
Lees meerApple: Swift now allows existential types written with the any keyword. An existential type is a type that can hold a value of any type conforming to a specific protocol. The any keyword creates a syntactic distinction between existential types and …
Lees meerBruno Brito: While accessing a branch’s history, you can now toggle the “Compare” icon to compare that branch against a different local branch, so that you only see the commits that have been made on the feature branch.[…]By comparing your local bra…
Lees meerpsu: In the more modern versions of the runtime, the area that the runtime uses to write the result of the method call is zero’d out no matter what the type of the return value will be. In older versions of the runtime you could get into trouble bec…
Lees meerChris Lattner (Hacker News): To answer your question, the root cause of my decision to leave the core team is a toxic environment in the meetings themselves. The catalyst was a specific meeting last summer: after being insulted and yelled at over We…
Lees meerDave Winer: I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, but when I have an interaction with Apple, I think seriously I should just write off the $1300 I paid for the iPhone 13 Pro and get a high-end Android phone. I probably won’t because I’m locked in to…
Lees meerCraig Grannell (also: MacRumors): Kevin Archer is an indie developer who makes Authenticator App by 2Stable, a feature-rich, premium and suitably named take on, well, an authenticator app. There are of course other, similar, apps on the App Store. B…
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: If a movie is located within a service that I’m already paying for, then I’d like to get that. I don’t want to browse all of the services, and I don’t use websites that claim to have a complete catalog of where movies are available b…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Documents stored in user folders created by the user in iCloud Drive appear to be backed up most reliably, and appear in both snapshots and backups. That assumes, of course, that they aren’t evicted and left as stub files. Documents s…
Lees meerIvan Drucker: For desktop Macs, it’s easy to keep an external Time Machine drive permanently connected. But, speaking from my experience as a consultant, I find that the vast majority of laptop users, myself included, are unlikely to plug in a drive…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Google has announced early access to Chrome OS Flex, a method of replacing the operating system on older PCs and Macs “within minutes” to essentially turn them into Chromebooks.[…]The idea is that if you have an aging Mac lying around …
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith (tweet): The biggest glaring hole in UIKit on macOS is its handling of document-based apps. […] No Apple app is dogfooding this aspect of Catalyst, and it shows.[…]If you dig in, you will find that Catalyst gives you all the to…
Lees meerDan Petro (via Hacker News): To show you why, I wrote a tool called Unredacter that takes redacted pixelized text and reverses it back into its unredacted form. […] The key thing we’re focusing on is that the redaction process is inherently local. I…
Lees meerACM (Hacker News): The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has concluded that the revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. The new conditions stipulate that da…
Lees meerJez Corden (Hacker News): Popular tech outlet Gamers Nexus recently reported an incident with Newegg, which has long been a staple for PC builders. The Gamers Nexus team purchased a motherboard from Newegg, and later decided to return it having real…
Lees meerRandy Wigginton (via Dave Mark): I started attending Homebrew Computer Club meetings. Since I was unable to drive, I asked if anyone lived near me that could give me a lift to the meetings. A really nice guy came up and said he lived close and could…
Lees meerMike Schmitz: With Open In, you can trigger a list of installed browsers when you click a link and choose the one you want it to, well, open in. For the last several years, I’ve been using PasswordWallet as my bookmark opener, because it lets me spe…
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