Reuters (via Zack Whittaker, Hacker News): On Monday, SolarWinds confirmed that Orion - its flagship network management software - had served as the unwitting conduit for a sprawling international cyberespionage operation. The hackers inserted malic…
Lees meerStephanie Wilkinson: In 2013, Amazon bought Goodreads. Many in the reader community were worried about what Amazon would do with its new acquisition, but they retained the status quo for a while. Until now, apparently. They’ve given notice that they…
Lees meerDean Takahashi (via Hacker News): Eric Engstrom passed away this week, leaving friends in mourning for one of the renegades of the Microsoft empire and a brilliant tech innovator.Engstrom was known as part of the “Beastie Boys,” a trio of evangelist…
Lees meerTyler Hall: An example of unhelpful alerts that you didn’t opt-in to and can’t opt-out of are hot marketing garbage like this.[…]But I digress. Helpful or spam-like, the UX problem is dismissing them.[…]Because, in almost all instances of an alert a…
Lees meerBrave Software (tweet, via Tim Sweeney, Hacker News, MacRumors): Today Brave is releasing a new version (1.22) of its iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple. In a nutshell, Brave users on iPhones and iPads will no long…
Lees meerLoren Brichter (tweet): Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer, which nefariously hides itself from Activity Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn’t running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes you…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (tweet): This story began with customer reports of xScope being a “damaged app” on Big Sur. This was surprising because I had been downloading and testing the app on Big Sur for several months without issue.[…]It turns out all thes…
Lees meerPaul Haddad: Apparently Google is now doing this thing where they modify your incoming emails and wrap links around their link tracking service? Started in mid Oct. and I see no way to opt out. Google: Because links to malicious websites can be sent…
Lees meerXcode Releases (release notes): Xcode12.3 has been released! […] No direct download yet, but this is also the same build number as the Release Candidate, so it’s likely identical The direct download should eventually be here. Peter Steinberger: Appl…
Lees meerJuli Clover: There were no major new features discovered in the update during the beta testing period, but according to Apple’s release notes, the new software adds support for AirPods Max, introduces a new Apple TV+ tab[…] It reportedly fixes lots …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 14.3, updates that come over a month after the release of iOS and iPadOS 14.2, which brought new emojis, Intercom support, new wallpapers, and more. […] iOS 14.3 brings the ProRAW camera format to the…
Lees meerWolfie Christl (via David Heinemeier Hansson, Hacker News): Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it’s built into MS 365.A new feature to calculate ‘pr…
Lees meerSE-0297 (via Doug Gregor): The proposed solution provides interoperability between Swift’s concurrency constructs and Objective-C in various places. It has several inter-dependent pieces:Translate Objective-C completion-handler methods into async me…
Lees meerAlexander S. Kunz: In my review of Lightroom 10’s new features I concluded that it was perhaps put together in a haste to be ready for the Adobe Max conference release date, and that some problematic bugs remained. The worst one affects some Mac OS …
Lees meerCocoatech: New Features In Path Finder 10: Airdrop Integration! For devices discoverable by “Everyone”Share to AirDrop, Messages, Mail, Notes, etc.Fully redesigned for macOS Big Sur. Native support for Apple Silicon.Improved Dark Mode.File Browsing …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple is planning to retire its Music Memos app, which was first released in 2016 as an app designed to allow musicians and songwriters to capture song ideas on the fly. Since its launch, the app received few updates from Apple, and goi…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Cydia is joining a growing cadre of developers accusing Apple of anticompetitive behavior, reports The Washington Post. Cydia on Thursday sued Apple, accusing the company of using anticompetitive tactics to “nearly destroy…
Lees meerFTC (PDF, TidBITS, NBC, NY Times): The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. Following a lengt…
Lees meerThe good: Overall, this is my favorite iPhone in a long time, and possibly ever. Design is about tradeoffs, and this particular phone is well balanced for my needs. It feels great in my hand and in my pocket. I can once again hold it securely withou…
Lees meerMcLaren Stanley (via Steve Troughton-Smith): The reason the Uber app is that large [331 MB] is because of Swift. The Objective-C version was a third of that size. […] Library bundling is not the problem (swift system libraries are only a few MBs per…
Lees meerMatt Christensen: I use Text Edit all the time for ephemeral notes. I’ve never liked how in recent macOS versions you get a file picker instead of a blank document. No more! defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitle…
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