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Increased iCloud Errors

maandag 24 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

GoodNotes: HTTP 503 is a temporary error code (“Service unavailable”) indicating iCloud servers aren’t responding correctly to requests from your devices. The error typically gets resolved as GoodNotes automatically retries, but we’re getting many r…

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Google Drive Incorrectly Flags File for Copyright Infringement

maandag 24 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Emily Dolson (via Hacker News): Uh, @googledrive, are you doing okay? This file literally contains a single line with the number “1”. Presumably nobody manually added the hash of that data to a list, so this is probably some sort of AI mistake. The …

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IAP Fees for Event Services, Deferred Again

maandag 24 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: In 2020, we chose to support apps and developers that needed to adapt services from in-person to digital as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we deferred App Store Review Guideline 3.1.1, which requires apps offering paid onlin…

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Jira Discontinues Catalyst Mac App

vrijdag 21 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Atlassian: Our sole focus is ensuring you have the best possible experience with Jira so for that reason we are sunsetting the Jira Cloud for Mac app and focusing all energy on building outstanding performance across the most powerful versions of Ji…

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User-Friendly Diagnostics Should Be a Core Part of Any System

vrijdag 21 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: If my Mac is capable of recognising the faces of friends in their photos, then it’s surely able to provide me with a little assistance in diagnosing the cause of an error, and suggesting what I can usefully do next. If Disk Utility ca…

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G Suite Removes Free Plans

vrijdag 21 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Google, in 2006: A standard edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is available today as a beta product without cost to domain administrators or end users. Key features include 2 gigabytes of email storage for each user, easy to use customization to…

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How Apple Destroys Lightning

vrijdag 21 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rene Ritchie: $1000 and the iPhone 13 Pro is still stuck at USB2 speeds. Never mind the $1100 iPhone 13 Pro Max. Why? Because, Lightning, and — wait for it — Lightning has pretty much been stuck at USB2’s half a gigabit per second, since… 2012. That…

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“American Innovation and Choice Online” and “Open Markets” Acts

donderdag 20 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Makena Kelly: On Tuesday, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission launched a joint effort to modernize antitrust enforcement, seeking comment on how the agencies can apply current law in cases against tech companies like Meta (parent com…

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No More iOS 14 Security Updates

woensdag 19 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Last week, MacRumors shared news that Apple had stopped releasing iOS 14 security updates and was pushing those still on iOS 14 to upgrade to iOS 15, an apparent reversal of a promise to allow users to stay on the iOS 14 operating syste…

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1Password Series C Funding Round

woensdag 19 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Shiner (tweet, Hacker News): I’m delighted to announce that 1Password has raised $620 million in our latest investment round that values our company at $6.8 billion. This moment represents a lot of hard work by a lot of amazing people. Most day…

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Making Mac OS X Unix Compliant Certified

woensdag 19 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Terry Lambert (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): I was the tech lead at Apple for making Mac OS X pass UNIX certification, and it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX™ trademark in advertising. […] W…

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Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard

woensdag 19 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the troubled publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The deal will value Activision at $68.7 billion, far in excess of the $26 billion Microsoft paid to acquire LinkedIn …

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An Examination of the Bug Bounty Marketplace

woensdag 19 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bounty Everything (PDF, via Bruce Schneier): Ellis and Stevens’s research offers a historical overview of bounty programs and an analysis of contemporary bug bounty platforms — the new intermediaries that now structure the vast majority of bounty wo…

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Bartender and the Notch

dinsdag 18 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Josh Ginter (via Matt Birchler): Bartender provides other customization options to fit your needs. You can ensure specific icons are always visible, other icons always hidden, and you can put spacers between icons to provide breathing room. You can …

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BackLog 1.0

dinsdag 18 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Gansrigler (tweet): It’s complicated, or at least cumbersome, to get logs that predate you clicking “Start streaming” in Console.app – Apple’s recommendation for it is to create an entire system diagnostics report and look for files in ther…

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Austria: Google Analytics Violates GDPR

dinsdag 18 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

noyb: In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (“Datenschutzbehörde” or “DSB”) has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR. This is the first decision on the 101 model…

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Safari 15 IndexedDB Information Leaks

maandag 17 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Martin Bajanik (Hacker News, MacRumors): In this article, we discuss a software bug introduced in Safari 15’s implementation of the IndexedDB API that lets any website track your internet activity and even reveal your identity.[…]In Safari 15 on mac…

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StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement for Netherlands

maandag 17 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton (tweet): In a message posted on its developer site late on Friday, Apple announced that it will comply with a Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) ruling that compels the company to allow third-party payment service…

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Small Developer Assistance Fund Claims

maandag 17 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple in August announced plans to pay $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit levied by U.S. developers, and as of today, the website that will allow developers to submit a claim for a payout has gone live. […] Developers need to…

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Photo Ninja

maandag 17 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mikael Thalen (via John Wilander): “Photo Ninja uses a novel series of steganography, detection perturbation, visible overlay, and several other AI-based enhancement processes to shield your images from reverse image searches without compromising th…

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Canon Forced to Ship “Knockoff” Ink Cartridges

vrijdag 14 januari 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jon Fingas: Printer makers have long used chips to thwart third-party ink cartridge sales and drive you toward their own products, but they’re now feeling the sting of those restrictions. The Register and USA Today note Canon has had to ship toner c…

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