Tanya Verma and Sudheesh Singanamalla (Hacker News, MacRumors): Today we are announcing support for a new proposed DNS standard — co-authored by engineers from Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly — that separates IP addresses from queries, so that no sing…
Lees meerJon Levine (Hacker News): In September, we announced that we’re building a new, free Web Analytics product for the whole web. Today, I’m excited to announce that anyone can now sign up to use our new Web Analytics — even without changing your DNS se…
Lees meerHoudah Software: Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple Mail messages are no longer available through the Spotlight index used by HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot 6.0 can nonetheless find your Apple Mail messages. HoudahSpot installs a plug-in that runs wi…
Lees meerJuli Clover: As part of iOS 14, Apple is introducing a new App Store feature that will provide privacy details for each app that you’re downloading, which the company has said can be likened to a “nutrition label” for apps.In a new Developer Support…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today announced AirPods Max, innovative wireless headphones that bring the magic of AirPods to an over-ear design with high-fidelity sound. AirPods Max combine a custom acoustic design, H1 chips, and advanced so…
Lees meerApple: The revive or restore processes involve the following steps:1. Launching Apple Configurator 2 on the second Mac and connecting the Mac computers2. Restarting the Mac using a special key sequence3. Using Apple Configurator 2 to do one of the f…
Lees meerSE-0296 (via Doug Gregor): This design introduces a coroutine model to Swift. Functions can opt into being async, allowing the programmer to compose complex logic involving asynchronous operations using the normal control-flow mechanisms. The compil…
Lees meerApple (list, MacStories): The independent developer of Wakeout! brought gentle exercise to home offices and classrooms with light-hearted and inclusive movements designed for everyone. Vast fantasy worlds in games like “Genshin Impact,” “Legends of …
Lees meerOisín Moran (via Hacker News): Fundamentally the challenge is just correctly guessing what ID a given tweet is going to get, then appending that onto the URL for our profile and tweeting it. […] Twitter used to use sequential IDs but no longer do. P…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet, Hacker News): I discovered that an application can use the venerable Unix command-line tool “ls” (list directory contents) to bypass both TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control) and the sandbox, enabling unauthorized access to …
Lees meerIan Beer (Hacker News, MacRumors): In this demo I remotely trigger an unauthenticated kernel memory corruption vulnerability which causes all iOS devices in radio-proximity to reboot, with no user interaction. Over the next 30’000 words I’ll cover t…
Lees meerApple: You can now enable Family Sharing for auto-renewable subscriptions and non-consumable in-app purchases, allowing users to share their purchases with up to five family members. Family Sharing provides a streamlined, convenient user experience …
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Blix Inc., developer of the email app BlueMail, then filed a lawsuit accusing Apple of manipulating search results in its iOS and macOS App Stores to suppress third-party competition and push consumers towards Apple’s own apps. Bli…
Lees meer14ned: I am sorry to report to r/cpp that Beman Dawes passed away yesterday. Beman had an unusually large impact on C++ over his long and very productive life. My personal opinion of his most monumental achievement was getting Filesystem into standa…
Lees meerLonghorn: If you disable SIP on an Apple Silicon Mac, you lose support for the Apple DRM. (FairPlay) Your iOS apps will not run on the system and some media playback might be affected/become unavailable. Apple keeps telling us that all the new secur…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): To ensure that all participants are fully eligible as small businesses, you’ll need to list all of your Associated Developer Accounts when you sign up for this program. An Associated Developer Account is an Apple Developer Program…
Lees meerRon Miller and Alex Wilhelm (Hacker News): Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. Rumors of a p…
Lees meerBrian Stucki (tweet): Apple has updated the macOS software license agreement for Big Sur. This doesn’t happen very often.[…]I have been working with Macs in data centers for sixteen years now. I’ve pushed through many of the “Mac mini/Xserve/Mac Pro…
Lees meerDavid Lonning: This update brings Forecast and Perspective widgets—quickly becoming a popular feature in OmniFocus for iOS—to the Mac for the first time. In macOS Big Sur, widgets appear in the updated Notification Center on the right side of the sc…
Lees meerSketch: “We experimented with moving away from the diamond, but that seemed a little silly considering that it’s such a strong part of our brand,” he explains. “So we created a bunch of new diamond shapes — some with perspective, some without; some …
Lees meerHector Martin (tweet): By becoming a patron, you will be allowing me to focus on this project as my primary job, and spend much more time on it that I ever could as a side project. The goal is to bring Linux support on Apple Silicon macs to the poin…
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