David Temkin (via John Gruber): Today, we’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.[…]People sho…
Lees meerZak Doffman (via DuckDuckGo): When you upload your photos to Facebook or Instagram, most metadata is stripped out and replaced by Facebook’s own codes. The date and time remain, but the location data does not. This is a major privacy benefit, you do…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli (via Dave Mark): It’s my pleasure to announce that I’ve completely revamped my Shortcuts Library portion of my Shortcuts Catalog, remaking what was previously hundreds of shortcuts into a condensed set of:25 free example shortcuts…
Lees meerJesse Squires: Search in the Mail.app on Big Sur stopped working for some users. In addition to the workarounds mentioned here, Ben used OnyX to delete Mail’s Mailboxes index. After that, search in Mail.app started working for him again. More recent…
Lees meerFredrick R. Brennan (via Jason Snell): It is abundantly clear that this is the font they used, and no typewriter was involved in the production of this scene, even though the documents were the primary object of the scene. While working on the proje…
Lees meerAdam Engst: This change increases security even more, but it also prevents all backup apps from creating bootable duplicates because they cannot sign the backed-up System volume. In theory, Apple’s asr (Apple Software Restore) tool makes this possib…
Lees meerData Transfer Project (via Hacker News): The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service…
Lees meerSteve Weis (via Hacker News): A recent paper, “Fast Factoring Integers by SVP Algorithms“ by Claus P. Schnorr, claims significant improvements in factoring that “destroys the RSA cryptosystem“. If true, it would be practical to demonstrate on well k…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (via Hacker News): At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chin…
Lees meerJames Vincent: When a series of spookily convincing Tom Cruise deepfakes went viral on TikTok, some suggested it was a chilling sign of things to come — harbinger of an era where AI will let anyone make fake videos of anyone else. The video’s creato…
Lees meerApple (PDF, via mikeymikey): This documentation provides details about how security technology and features are implemented within Apple platforms. It also helps organizations combine Apple platform security technology and features with their own po…
Lees meerJon Fingas (via Hacker News, Slashdot, Navin Kabra, 9to5Mac): Actor and author Rachel True claims iCloud has effectively locked her out of her account due to the way her last name was written. Reportedly, her Mac thought lower-case “true” was a Bool…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple says that macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 introduces important security updates and should be installed by all users, with an additional support document clarifying that the software addresses WebKit vulnerability that could allow maliciousl…
Lees meerDougall Johnson (via Hacker News): This is an early attempt at microarchitecture documentation for the CPU in the Apple M1, inspired by and building on the amazing work of Andreas Abel, Andrei Frumusanu, @Veedrac, Travis Downs, Henry Wong and Agner …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Sometimes a developer needs to send a Mac app to a user for testing, and in that case it’s a pain to upload the app to App Store Connect first and wait for Apple to notarize the app before you distribute it. […] if you normally distrib…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (Hacker News, Slashdot): We’ve since confirmed with Apple that when supplies run out, the iMac Pro will no longer be available whatsoever. Apple says the latest 27-inch iMac introduced in August is the preferred choice for the vast maj…
Lees meerKoh M. Nakagawa (via Hacker News): I mentioned earlier that a proprietary ABI is used in AOT files. Specifically, the System V AMD64 ABI is used, with the x86_64 registers converted to arm64 registers according to the following table. […] The Rosett…
Lees meerOpenAI (via Hacker News, paper): We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, …
Lees meerT0ST (via Hacker News): GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was released 7 years ago.[…]Ent…
Lees meerDustin Curtis (tweet, Hacker News, 9to5Mac, David Heinemeier Hansson, John Gruber, Nick Heer): I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accou…
Lees meerCabel Sasser: It doesn’t matter how clear your terms are in your subscription app — and ours are CRYSTAL — some people will just breeze past them Until Apple starts clearly labelling subscription terms IN THE APP STORE ITSELF, I think we’ll keep get…
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