William P. Barr (tweet, PDF): This morning the Department of Justice, along with eleven states, filed a civil lawsuit against Google for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in general search services and search advertising in violation of the U.S. ant…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky (Hacker News): With all that in mind, we’re confident launching Halide Mark II at $36 (for new users). To celebrate the launch, we are discounting it to $30. […] Pay-Once is not going away, but we’ve decided to offer an alternative tha…
Lees meerSaleem Abdulrasool: The second round of review for SE-0289 “Result Builders” ran from September 24 through October 1, 2020. You can find the review thread here. The first round of review for SE-0289 “Function Builders” ran from August 31 through Sep…
Lees meereptcyka: Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking stuff. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. P…
Lees meerMaxwell Swadling: Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps. Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running 😒 The new beta for @littlesnitch seems to use…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: As we wait for the iPhone 12 review embargo to lift later today, more pictures are circulating of the devices in real-world lighting conditions, providing a better look at the different colors available. Dieter Bohn (iPhone 12) Nilay P…
Lees meerMitchel Broussard: Molekule today announced that its connected air purifier, the Air Mini+, now supports Apple HomeKit. Alongside the news, the Air Mini+ is also available to purchase on Apple.com and in Apple stores across North America, at a price…
Lees meerZach Knox: Today, I launched a new web browser app for iOS. It displays webpages in full screen, allows you to change your user agent, has a way to authenticate without the user agent, and has game controller support. How strange! Stadium is special…
Lees meerWWDC 2020 Session 10670: But this time, when I sign in, rather than go through a password and SMS 2FA flow, instead I just Face ID, like that. Boom. I’m signed in. […] Safari will only allow public key credentials created by this API to be used with…
Lees meerGeoff Hackworth (via Peter Steinberger): As a general rule, apps must build with the latest version of Xcode to opt in to seeing the native screen resolutions of new devices. Older apps would run on newer devices but appeared as letterboxed, pillar …
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci: In this new article, I will answer this question by measuring the total number of binaries in iOS. I will go one step further and also count the number of binaries using other programming languages: Objective-C, C++ and C. Finally…
Lees meergazzini (via ChrisLTD): I used to joke, back then, that I was a professional App Store rules explainer, because in every role, I was constantly explaining to peers, managers, and clients why we couldn’t build X because it violated Apple’s terms & co…
Lees meerDan Seifert: The most interesting thing is Apple’s new Family Setup service, which lets parents provision an Apple Watch for their kids to use. They can choose what apps and services their kids can access, who they can call or send messages to, and …
Lees meerArmin Briegel: Since macOS Mojave, the Security and Privacy controls restricts sending and receiving AppleEvents. A given process can only send events to a different process with user approval. Users can manage the inter-application approvals in the…
Lees meerQuinn: I regularly get asked questions about local network privacy. This is my attempt to collect together the answers for the benefit of all. Before you delve into the details, familiarise yourself with the basics by watching WWDC 2020 Session 1011…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: In Google Chrome’s “Cookies and site data” settings, accessible via the Preferences menu item or directly with chrome://settings/cookies in the address bar, you can enable the setting “Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome”.…
Lees meerDrew McCormack: Steve’s anniversary was a few days ago. I always pause, at least for a moment, to remember how great those times were after his return to Apple in 1996. A rollercoaster that convinced me to leave my secure job in the scientific commu…
Lees meerStephen O’Grady (via Hacker News): Fragmentation makes it impossible for vendors to natively supply the requisite components for a fully integrated toolchain. That does not change the reality, however, that developers are forced to borrow time from …
Lees meerRiley Testut: As a user, I love the App Store and would hate to see it become less important to iOS. In practice though, the current App Store situation has some significant problems which are getting harder and harder to ignore — several of which C…
Lees meerRyan Christoffel: Deliveries, the package tracking app for iOS and Mac, has received a strong update today with a wide variety of quality of life improvements. There’s nothing huge or flashy here, but the sum of the many small changes should help De…
Lees meerhis_rotundity_ (via Hacker News): I have a very close family member that works for Glassdoor. I spoke to this person and found out that a strategic repositioning, if you will, for Glassdoor is that they are trying to become a PR company of sorts, so…
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