Howard Oakley: These appear to be part of long-standing problems with Apple’s wireless trackpads and keyboards, which can also occasionally result in the doubling of letters and other glitches. Although these have improved to the level of occasional…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): The madness in this case is Safari background tabs spontaneously coming to the front again, an obviously undesirable behavior. The initial report was for an obscure (to me) web site in New Zealand, but then I asked around, and …
Lees meerNick Heer: Amazon does not promise to turn around its files nearly as quickly. It says that it can take up to thirty days to create the exported data. When it does become available, you are presented with a list of individual downloads labelled and …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although updates to XProtect’s data files and to MRT always have been irregular, a year ago they occurred quite frequently, with XProtect updates every 7-21 days, and MRT every month or so. As of today, the last XProtect update was pu…
Lees meerBjango: Snowflake is an incredibly detailed weather app, covering almost everything you could possibly want to know about current conditions and forecasts. I’m not sure why I haven’t heard much about this app, but I was glad to discover it recently.…
Lees meerSami Fathi: In association with CIT as the financing partner, Apple has launched a new Mac Upgrade Program for small businesses and Apple business partners that allow companies to easily distribute and upgrade their fleets of MacBooks at an affordab…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The breaking up of a bunch of old-school industrial conglomerates is leading some to question the very long-term prospects of the “new conglomerates” – tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. But a piece in the WSJ argues …
Lees meerZhenyi Tan (via John Gruber): YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube player (written in Flash) with an HTML tag. And now the YouTube player situation has gotten bad enough th…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): After a lot of trial and error, I came across the strangest observation: if I invoke “xcodebuild” from within my Python-based build script, the warning is emitted. If I invoke it directly from the Terminal, it isn’t. In fact, …
Lees meerCatalin Cimpanu (via Hacker News): Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting smaller A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that b…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++. […] No measurable overhead compared to calling Metal Object…
Lees meerJason Snell: Which brings me to page-turn buttons. The Paperwhite still doesn’t have them. Amazon has decided that page-turn buttons are a premium feature that should only be available on its $270 Oasis. (This is one of the reasons I recommend the K…
Lees meerApple (PDF, Hacker News, Reddit): Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims…
Lees meerTom Warren: Snazzy Labs owner Quinn Nelson has posted two videos on Twitter demonstrating some of the early notch issues. The main video demonstrates what appears to be a bug in macOS. Status bar items like Apple’s battery indicator can get hidden u…
Lees meerJason Snell: The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal—but they also reject the minimalist design mid-2010s App…
Lees meerMike Hanley: Today, we are sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, the details of our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm. These investments include the requirement of two-factor authentication …
Lees meerMy apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: C-Command Software (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve, ToothFairy) Adobe Creative Cloud Affinity apps Apparent Software Arturia astropad CYME DxO So…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: An official Dropbox support thread, shared by Mitchell Hashimoto on Twitter, reveals a fiasco around native support for Apple silicon Macs. Dropbox is seemingly insisting that a significant number of community members will have to …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: One of the stumbling blocks to using an external boot disk with an M1 Mac is that it may not cope if you update macOS on the internal SSD, then try booting from the external disk to update that. You may be prompted to assign an author…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: Future Chromium-based browsers under administrative control will be able to prevent users from viewing webpage source code for specific URLs, a capability that remained unavailable to enterprise customers for the past three years unt…
Lees meerSean Hollister (tweet): You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they’re leaving angry reviews. How can you salvage your reputation? Apple just found one incredibly effective way — get listeners to submit better reviews by interrupti…
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