Timothy B. Lee (via Hacker News): When I clicked through to individual product pages, I found that most of those hundreds of positive reviews were for products other than can openers[…] […] Apparently, shady merchants gain control of Amazon pages fo…
Lees meerWojciech Reguła: This vulnerability has been disclosed on @Hack in Saudi Arabia in 20+ Ways To Bypass Your Macos Privacy Mechanisms presentation. In the end, it allowed impersonating TCC entitlements of any application installed on the device. […] A…
Lees meerAndy Kroll (via Bruce Schneier): But in a previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone, the bureau claims that it’s particularly easy to harvest data from Facebook’s WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage services, as long as the FBI has a wa…
Lees meerSteve Hayman (Hacker News, MacRumors): In retrospect, the tech involved in the merger wound up being so one-sided that many people say “NeXT actually bought Apple for negative $400,000,000.” A few years later, something like 70% of Apple’s VPs were …
Lees meeriA Writer: We get a lot of support requests because, on installation, @Grammarly for Mac kills system spell-checking in all other apps (including iA Writer). Deleting Grammarly won’t restore the spell-checking. You have to manually do it using Termi…
Lees meerNathan Leamer: Four years ago today the FCC rightly repealed #netneutrality regulations. And guess what? The Internet works fine. But never forget the hyperbolic predictions. Thread below Karl Bode (tweet): This week a coalition of infotainment outl…
Lees meerAnish Athalye (via Hacker News): Microsoft PhotoDNA creates a “unique digital signature” of an image which can be matched against a database containing signatures of previously identified illegal images like CSAM. The technology is used by companies…
Lees meerJustine Tunney (Hacker News): The SectorLISP project has achieved its goal of creating a LISP that’s tiny enough to fit in the master boot sector of a floppy disk. To the best of our knowledge, this is the tiniest LISP to date. Since a master boot r…
Lees meerRoss Cohen (via Hacker News): If a string substitution is attempted for any reason on the following string, it will trigger an infinite recursion, and the application will crash: ${${::-${::-$${::-j}}}}. This is fixed in Log4j 2.17. xg15: So, let me…
Lees meerLuca Bernardi (via Dave Verwer): SwiftUI has a new, pretty cool, debugging utility to help you understand what is causing a view to be reevaluated. Call Self._printChanges() inside the body of a view to print out the changes that have triggered the …
Lees meerPeter Kirn (Hacker News): In the interest of security and privacy, Apple on macOS Monterey has added a prominent orange dot to display outputs when audio capture is active. That renders their machines unusable for live visual performance, though, si…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (tweet, Hacker News): iOS 15 contains 114 binaries using SwiftUI, that’s almost 3 times the number from iOS 14. Likewise the number of binaries containing at least one line of Swift code has doubled between iOS 14 and iOS 15[…] […]…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: USB-C was supposed to be the last cable you would ever need. It hasn’t worked out that way. […] The problem is that USB-C has become a connector for distinctly different purposes and glancing at a port or cable rarely tells you enou…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli: I think a significant boon for new users would be step-through debugging of what’s happening in between actions so that users can figure out what’s wrong.[…]Making any sort of advanced Siri shortcut means you need to use a mix of…
Lees meerDave B (previously: 1, 2, 3): In the 6+ years since Apple Music was released in June of 2015, it has been a controversial app, to put it mildly. In those 6 years, I’ve written extensively on Apple Music’s flaws — both big and small. Some of these fl…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple has quietly nixed all mentions of CSAM from its Child Safety webpage, suggesting its controversial plan to detect child sexual abuse images on iPhones and iPads may hang in the balance following significant criticis…
Lees meerIan Beer & Samuel Groß (Hacker News): Based on our research and findings, we assess this to be one of the most technically sophisticated exploits we’ve ever seen, further demonstrating that the capabilities NSO provides rival those previously though…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet): “Loose” interpretations of Apple’s privacy policies allow apps such as Facebook and Snapchat to continue tracking users for targeted advertising even when they have asked to not be tracked, The Financial Times reports.[…]Ap…
Lees meerNick Heer: Apple’s announcement last month that it would soon sell users the parts they need to repair devices themselves reignited discussion about the perceived advantages and drawbacks of self-repair, and promoted questions about how many users w…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (tweet, via Philipp Defner): As first noted by Luming Yin on Twitter, Apple Music in macOS 12.2 beta now uses AppKit – which is macOS’ native interface framework. 9to5Mac was able to confirm based on macOS code that the Music app is …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple today released Swift Playgrounds 4, an update to the Swift Playgrounds app that’s been in the works for some time. The newest version of the app allows iPhone and iPad apps to be created directly on an iPad without t…
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