Chiara Castro (Hacker News, Reddit): Proton has confirmed the company has begun moving out of Switzerland due to “legal uncertainty” over the newly proposed surveillance law. […] The firm behind one of the best VPN and encrypted email services has b…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Mac users with the Studio Display have been complaining about intermittent flickering since the update launched in September. There are also complaints from users who have other kinds of displays, so it might be a bug that is affecting …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: There are many sites — and the trend seems to be accelerating — that do not use passwords (or passkeys) for signing in. Instead, they only support signing in via expiring “magic links” sent by email (or, sometimes, via text messages). T…
Lees meerPeter Maurer: The volume indicator, on the other hand, is most important to me when there’s currently no sound playing, e.g., because I want to confirm my system is muted (or at least not in “yell loud enough to wake everyone in the house” mode) bef…
Lees meerRob Halliday: It appeared that Backblaze was now just not backing up Dropbox AT ALL, and was discarding (without warning) existing backups of Dropbox folders. I contacted Backlbaze tech support. Janet their ‘AI Agent’ who is “well-trained to answer …
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced changes impacting iOS apps in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). These updates create new options for developers to distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces and to process app payment…
Lees meerFatbobman: SwiftData provides a batch deletion API that is more modern and type-safe than its Core Data counterpart. […] Note: Unlike the standard single-object deletion modelContext.delete(_ model: T), batch deletion is only applied to the database…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When first introduced in Mac OS X, no provision was made for xattrs to have type-specific preservation, and that was added later using flags suffixed to the xattr’s name. For example, the com.apple.lastuseddate xattr found commonly on…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): “Every instance of UserDefaults shares the contents of the argument and registration domains.” In other words, the result of calling registerDefaults on the object returned by [NSUserDefaults initWithSuiteName:] is the same …
Lees meerAdam Engst: However, getting that playlist working this year proved intensely frustrating. Even though it contains over 300 songs, only a handful played when we asked Siri to shuffle the playlist on the HomePod. It made no sense—I could cause any so…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 26.3 adds a new “Notification Forwarding” setting that allows incoming notifications on an iPhone to be forwarded to a third-party device. The setting is located in the Notification section of the Settings app under a new “Notificat…
Lees meerDanah Boyd (2024): Since the “social media is bad for teens” myth will not die, I keep having intense conversations with colleagues, journalists, and friends over what the research says and what it doesn’t. (Alice Marwick et. al put together a great…
Lees meerAnthony Enzor-Demeo (Hacker News): Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and building technology that puts them first. […] First: Every prod…
Lees meerCameron Faulkner (Amazon): The 27-inch 60Hz 5K IPS screen delivers 217 pixels per inch (PPI) — just one pixel per inch shy of the pricier options. Who knew that there was a color-accurate, pixel-dense display out there that won’t send creators or th…
Lees meerHonza Dvorsky: Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. Configuration management has long been a challenge across…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Google today announced a new cross-platform feature that allows for file sharing between iPhone and Android users. With AirDrop on the iPhone and QuickShare on Pixel 10 devices, there is a new file transfer function available. The file …
Lees meerFatbobman: Core Data/SwiftData does not create separate tables for each subclass. Instead, it merges data from the parent entity and all its child entities into a single table (usually named after the parent entity). […] The Wide Table Problem: If t…
Lees meerParis Buttfield-Addison (Hacker News, John Gruber): My Apple ID, which I have held for around 25 years (it was originally a username, before they had to be email addresses; it’s from the iTools era), has been permanently disabled. This isn’t just an…
Lees meerApple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.2 includes Swift 6.2.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, macOS 26.2, and visionOS 26.2. Xcode 26.2 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. …
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Tahoe 26.2 includes Edge Light, a feature that illuminates your face with soft light when you’re on a video call in a room with poor lighting. The update also …
Lees meermacOS 15.7.3 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.3 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See als…
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