Arkadiy Tetelman (via Hacker News): As part of the investigation, Amnesty International wrote a blog post with their forensic analysis of several compromised phones, as well as an open source tool, Mobile Verification Toolkit, for scanning your mobi…
Lees meerKeith Smiley: As of macOS Big Sur, instead of shipping the system libraries with macOS, Apple ships a generated cache of all built in dynamic libraries and excludes the originals. This tool allows you to extract these libraries from the cache for re…
Lees meerSwift Language Reference: There are two kinds of attributes in Swift—those that apply to declarations and those that apply to types. An attribute provides additional information about the declaration or type. For example, the discardableResult attri…
Lees meerCal Stephens (tweet): guard captures behave like weak captures (e.g. guard captures do not retain the captured value), but the closure body is only executed if the captured objects still exist.[…]As of SE-0269, strong and unowned captures of self en…
Lees meerGriffin Jones (via John Gruber): The Apple Desktop Bus Keyboard is first to include a power button, the Snow White design and the ADB port, three welcome additions. The lower key travel makes sustained typing a little easier. The mechanism has a ver…
Lees meerJuli Clover: When you track a friend or a family member using the Find My app, it now shows continuous streaming updates on their location rather than updating with a new location every few minutes. […] Devices that have been turned off can still be…
Lees meerAkshat Patel: Once we had a list of the flaky tests, we tried to go through each one and determine why they were failing. We found that some UI elements such as menus and popovers were particularly prone to flakiness — they would sometimes be dismis…
Lees meerPanic (Hacker News, Slashdot): The Playdate store is now open. Juli Clover: Priced at $179, the Playdate is a pocket-sized gaming system that has a unique design. It features a black and white display, bright yellow chassis, a d-pad, A+B buttons, an…
Lees meerThomas Reed: We had a free Safari app extension rejected by an App Store reviewer last night, because such software is only allowed from “reputable companies.” […] We are reputable enough to have the kext signing entitlement and the EndpointSecurity…
Lees meerClaudia Zimmer: Many users who used to enjoy free and unlimited high quality photo storage have found themselves having to pay or migrate their images to another service. […] Starting with version 1.4, Avalanche adds the ability to transfer Google P…
Lees meerGabriel Theodoropoulos (via Dave Verwer): What I mentioned above is definitely good news, but it regards evolvements that are going to be working in macOS Monterey and above. That’s nice, but what about backward compatibility? What if we wanted to m…
Lees meerZack Whittaker (via Hacker News): His Windows laptop was one of several devices seized by the FBI, which investigators said was protected with a password but could be unlocked using Reffitt’s face. […] Reffitt’s lawyer told the court that his client…
Lees meerMatthew Langlois: In July 2020, we announced our intent to require the use of token-based authentication (for example, a personal access, OAuth, or GitHub App installation token) for all authenticated Git operations. Beginning August 13, 2021, we wi…
Lees meerClare Duffy: President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the US economy. It includes a provision directing the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules preventing manufacturers from imposing restr…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Members of the Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month filed a lawsuit (via Apple Insider) attempting to prevent Apple’s subpoenas from being approved. The Coalition for App Fairness is afraid that Apple will use those private com…
Lees meerJeff Shiner (tweet): Today we’re announcing a new investment round in 1Password. Our current investor Accel led this round and a number of incredible folks including Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and top executives from Shopify, Slack, Squarespace…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): The Company posted a June quarter record revenue of $81.4 billion, up 36 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.30. […] “Our record June quarter operating performance included new revenue records …
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: XLoader malware has now migrated from Windows machines to attack Macs too. An evolution of the malware known as Formbook, it lets an attacker log keystrokes, take screenshots, and access other private information. Worryingly, the malwar…
Lees meerBill Toulas: The infection begins with dropping a legit copy of Adobe Flash Player, which is also very common among macOS malware strains. Still, MapperState’s features, encryption scheme, debug symbols, and strings were all hidden, encrypted, or st…
Lees meerChance Miller: While some Apple products are repaired directly in Apple Stores, Apple contracts many of its Mac repairs to third-party providers, including CSAT Solutions based in Houston, Texas. A new report today from Insider today sheds light on …
Lees meerPerry Sun (via Hacker News): With IE now out of the way, the distinction of ‘most-hated browser’ goes to Apple’s Safari – which all along had been a close second to IE. In a similar vein, Safari has consistently lagged behind competing browsers in s…
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