Howard Oakley: These recent macOS updates break from two traditions: for M1 models, their ‘firmware’ update also brings a new Recovery system which is based on the latest macOS, in this case 12.0.1 even when the update is 11.6.1, and a single Recove…
Lees meerDan Goodin: Now, researchers are reporting that there are at least two vulnerabilities in the patch, released as Log4J 2.15.0, and that attackers are actively exploiting one or both of them against real-world targets who have already applied the upd…
Lees meerCharles Hu: URL is one of the most common types used by Foundation for File IO as well as network-related tasks. The goal of this proposal is to improve the ergonomics of URL by introducing some convenience methods and renaming some verbose/confusin…
Lees meerCabel Sasser: Let’s compare the three — three!!! — totally separate ways to save PNG files in Photoshop.① “Save for Web (Legacy)” is the classic interface we grew up on, and the only one that supports animated gif. (How legacy? They save as “Adobe I…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Have you ever looked down at your Apple Watch and thought, “I wish I could browse the Web from my wrist!” OK, probably not. But now you can anyway, thanks to the $0.99 µBrowser from developer Arno Appenzeller, who specializes in fun li…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Alongside iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2, macOS Monterey 12.1, and watchOS 8.3, Apple yesterday introduced an updated version of Xcode, Xcode 13.2. Developers who are updating should be aware that there’s a bug with the Mac App Store version of …
Lees meerSami Fathi (Hacker News): New detailed CT scan images of the first-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro, and third-generation AirPods have revealed in detail what internal design changes Apple had to accomplish to include new features in every generation…
Lees meerLukas Kubanek (tweet): To detect the TestFlight environment on iOS, a trick that checks the receipt file name seems to be commonly used. Unfortunately, on macOS, the receipt file name is the same regardless of the environment, meaning that this appr…
Lees meerRado Minkov (via Meek Geek): But a day or two after using it, a ray of sunshine hits the iPad’s display and you realize a horrifying fact about it – under light it looks disgusting, smudged up – it’s somehow collected all the fingerprints in the wor…
Lees meerMarc Edwards: While easy to understand, using integer percentages for opacity does not map well to what typically happens at a technical level — opacity values in 8bit per channel images have a range of 0 to 255. A design tool that uses a 0 to 100 r…
Lees meerWikipedia: Alexa was founded as an independent company in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million in stock. Alexa provides web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on over 30 million websites. Alexa estimates website tra…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): In an extensive paywalled report based on interviews and purported internal Apple documents, The Information revealed that Tim Cook personally forged a five-year agreement with the Chinese government during a series o…
Lees meerStephen Nellis (Hacker News): But with just slightly more than 12 hours remaining before the deadline, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted Apple’s request to pause the order. The appeals court order means Apple will not have to make the …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: Apple just released the first major update to macOS Monterey. The update comes a month and a half after the October 25th release. Juli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.1 adds a major missing feature to the Mac -- SharePlay. With SharePlay, M…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): iOS 15.2 adds App Privacy Report, a feature designed to let you know how often apps are accessing permissions-restricted info like the camera and the microphone, plus it lets you know the domains that apps and websites are conta…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released a new “Tracker Detect” app on the Google Play Store, with the app designed to allow Android users to locate AirTags that might be nearby.Apple says that Android users can scan to find a nearby AirTag if they think t…
Lees meerApple: Product page optimization. Try out alternate versions of your app’s product page with different icons, screenshots, and app previews to find out which one gets the best results. Each version is shown to a percentage of randomly selected, elig…
Lees meerQuill: Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone. Quill will be shutting down, but its spirit and ideas will continue on. […] On 1pm PST, Satu…
Lees meerSean Hollister (Reddit, MacRumors): Remember when Apple pretended like it would let cloud gaming services like Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia into the App Store, while effectively tearing their business models to shreds? Know how Microsoft repli…
Lees meerDave Abrahams, former lead of the Swift standard library and SwiftUI contributor: My Rebase 2021 talk, “a retrospective on the design of Swift,” is up at [YouTube] This is a very interesting talk containing some very strange example Objective-C code…
Lees meerFree Wortley and Chris Thompson (Hacker News): A few hours ago, a 0-day exploit in the popular Java logging library log4j2 was discovered that results in Remote Code Execution (RCE) by logging a certain string.[…]Many, many services are vulnerable t…
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