Sean Hollister: There was never any question what Epic Games wanted when it took Apple to court: the 48-second “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite” made it clear App Store hypocrisy was the agenda. But the justification for a parallel case against Google wasn…
Lees meerHarley Finkelstein: To our partners: on Aug 1st we are removing all revenue share on your first $1M. That means you will keep 100% of your first $1M when you sell on @Shopify’s app store. The best part? At the end of every year, the numbers reset. E…
Lees meerJeffrey Knockel and Lotus Ruan (tweet, Hacker News): We analyzed Apple’s filtering of product engravings in six regions, discovering 1,105 keyword filtering rules used to moderate their content. Across all six regions we analyzed, we found that Appl…
Lees meerJoseph Cox et al. (Slashdot, Hacker News, Reddit): On Wednesday, GitHub user AsuharietYgvar published details of what they claim is an implementation of NeuralHash, a hashing technology in the anti-CSAM system announced by Apple at the beginning of …
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: Over the years the system’s support for Touch Bar changed in ways that made Touché slowly become less reliable and, finally, to more or less not work on any Macs at all. I recently had some insights about how the Touch Bar support on …
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): Throughout the beta testing period, Apple has been tweaking the design of the Safari browser on the iPhone and in beta 6, there are further refinements. The bottom tab bar has been redesigned to appear below page content, and Ap…
Lees meerKeith Smiley: sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunchThis works fine locally, but when updating remote CI machines, entering the password can be troublesome. Furthermore if you want to support having CI machines automatically switch between Xcode versions w…
Lees meerHadi Partovi: 25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a startup. […] To motivate us more, I plastered the hall…
Lees meerTwitter: Today, we released a few changes to the way Twitter looks on the web and on your phone. While it might feel weird at first, these updates make us more accessible, unique, and focused on you and what you’re talking about Derrit DeRouen: In t…
Lees meerDave Verwer: Say hello to iOS Dev Jobs version 2.0! 🚀 It’s entirely new, and it now has native apps! 🎉 […] Whether a position is remote or on-site is by far the most important factor affecting whether you’ll consider it, so you can now filter by tha…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple’s desire to move to a single jack that could do double-duty for power and communications was the beginning of the end for MagSafe. USB-C offers those capabilities with a generally well-designed connector that is both slim and bidir…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Apple has released a new macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 update, delivering unspecified bug fixes for Mac users running the latest major operating system version. The update comes a little over two weeks after Apple released macOS 11.5.1. See also…
Lees meerDave Teare (tweet, MacRumors, Reddit): Categories now sit atop your item list as a simple dropdown filter, giving the sidebar plenty of room to show all your vaults and their accounts. You’ll also notice an indicator next to each shared vault, makin…
Lees meerjskidpix (via Hacker News): JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation. […] Just like the original Kid Pix, there’s no guide—have fun! Most of the tools support Shift (^) to enlarge. There a…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (tweet): Google considered buying Epic Games as the companies sparred over Epic’s Fortnite Android app, according to newly unsealed court filings. […] Epic claims Google was threatened by its plans to sidestep Google’s official Play St…
Lees meerSteve Tibbett (includes video): Flipping tabs in the new Safari is terrible. The flipping of the chrome colour makes it even harder to see what tab is selected. This isn’t an artificial test, these were the tabs I had open. John Gruber: Mind-bogglin…
Lees meerThis, from Bryan Braun, is great (via Hacker News). Matt Birchler: Younger readers may not be familiar, but After Dark was a piece of software you could get for your Mac that had a bunch of screensavers you could enjoy. The most iconic, as far as I …
Lees meerCloudflare: The Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) Scanning Tool allows website owners to proactively identify and take action on CSAM located on their website. By enabling this tool, Cloudflare will compare content served for your website through t…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (iMore): The App Store feature on the Australian App Store, first highlighted by Beau Nouvelle on Twitter, is called “Slime relaxations” and reportedly features apps that are non-functional and seek to charge disproportionately cost…
Lees meerNick Heer: The Store page, launched yesterday, seems to fix the clunkiness of that previous redesign. You can tell it is important because it is the first menu item after the Apple logo. It also, unfortunately, makes liberal use of horizontal scroll…
Lees meerJon Brodkin (MacRumors, Bruce Schneier): Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent of users. The settlement between Zoom and th…
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