Dan Moren: Nice as it would be if Apple’s new system could simply import all your codes from Authy—or other apps like Google Authenticator—it doesn’t seem as though that’s an option for that at present, which isn’t entirely surprising given the secu…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (Hacker News): But there is a similarly serious zero-day flaw present in a much broader range of newer Western Digital MyCloud network storage devices that will remain unfixed for many customers who can’t or won’t upgrade to the latest o…
Lees meerJon Reid: Once or twice in my career, I’ve written an abstract test suite as a superclass, where the subclasses provide some sort of factory method. Then all the test cases in that suite get repeated for the specific instances. I do this all the tim…
Lees meerInternal Tech Emails: Panic’s @cabel shares App Store thoughts with Phil Schiller Some of these sentences seem very familiar, so I wonder if this e-mail has been published before, though I can’t seem to find the link. In any event, what a good commu…
Lees meerInternal Tech Emails has an interesting letter from Microsoft’s Ben Waldman that discusses negotiations over ClarisWorks (Apple agreed not to advertise their own product and instead preload a video promoting Microsoft Office), QuickTime, and Interne…
Lees meerSam Henri-Gold: today’s vibe: scrapped WWDC 2014 intro film feat. Larry David, JB Smoove, and Evan Spiegel See also: YouTube. John Gruber: One joke that might have played as funny in 2014 but wouldn’t in 2021 is the central conceit of the video — th…
Lees meerRuben Santamarta (PDF): IOActive has documented our detailed attack paths and component vulnerabilities to describe the first plausible, detailed public attack paths to effectively reach the avionics network on a commercial airplane from either non-…
Lees meerYev Pusin: Our latest version is pretty great: It cranks up the speed—letting you upload at whatever rate your local system can attain—all while reducing stress on key elements of your computer by an order of magnitude. […] We’ve also re-architected…
Lees meerFrancisco Tolmasky: I think the @AppStore may represent a “Closing of the Frontier” moment (in the American history “Frontier Thesis” sense) that may in part explain the dramatic slowdown in UI and UX innovation in iOS (and even more so in iPadOS) f…
Lees meerRian Hunter (via Hacker News): I do not agree with GitHub’s unauthorized and unlicensed use of copyrighted source code as training data for their ML-powered GitHub Copilot product. This product injects source code derived from copyrighted sources in…
Lees meerMohammed Abubakar: For starters, it’s an assistant that can help you with better code suggestions, but it has been recently brought to notice that the AI is leaking API keys that are valid and still functional. First reported by a SendGrid engineer,…
Lees meerMark Gurman: Just a few years after completing the multibillion-dollar Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. is ramping up efforts to decentralize out of Silicon Valley. I’m told that executives at the highest levels of the co…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Two months ago, Audacity was acquired by Muse Group, which owns other audio-related projects including the Ultimate Guitar website and the MuseScore app. According to Fosspost, changes to the privacy policy section on the Audacity webs…
Lees meerIvan Mathy (via Matt Birchler): Sometimes you need to do something, and it’s just way easier to Google something like “json formatter online” and paste your data into whatever the first result is. It’s not your fault Xcode prints out escaped strings…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Apple has been informed by China’s cyberspace regulator that it must remove the Didi Chuxing ride hailing app from the Chinese App Store following concerns about the Uber rival’s possible misuse of personal data. The app in question is…
Lees meerJason Kottke (also: David Pogue, Hacker News): A new iOS app called Brickit has been developed to breathe new life into your old Lego pile. Just dump your bricks out into a pile and the app will analyze what Lego bricks you have, what new creations …
Lees meerYan Zhu: the new search engine we’ve been working on at @brave is now in public beta! search.brave.comwe don’t track clicks or querieswe don’t profile youfor localized results, we only use IP and don’t store itwe show you what % of results are serve…
Lees meerSam Chandler: Today, I’m excited to announce Nitro’s acquisition of PDFpen, the much-loved suite of PDF productivity apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone developed by Smile, Inc.[…]With the acquisition of PDFpen, we have found the perfect complement and ad…
Lees meerKristin Hostetter (via Matt Stoller): Pocket Outdoor Media (parent company to SNEWS, Backpacker, and nearly 30 other active living brands) announced news that will catapult the Boulder-based company into a powerful position in these industries: It h…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): In ongoing antitrust discussions about App Store competition, Apple has maintained that allowing users to install apps outside of the App Store would have dire privacy consequences, but European Union digital competition chief M…
Lees meerMark Graham (via Hacker News): As part of the Internet Archive’s aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable — and are pleased to announce that 9 million formerly broken links on Wikipedia now work because they go t…
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