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MacBook Pro (M5, 2025)

woensdag 15 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): With M5, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even faster, more capable, and delivers a huge leap in AI performance. […] Additionally, it offers phenomenal battery life of up to 24 hours, so users can take their pro…

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iPad Pro (M5, 8th Generation)

woensdag 15 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, MacStories): M5 unlocks the most advanced iPad experience ever, packing an incredible amount of power and AI performance into the ultraportable design of iPad Pro. […] N1, the new Apple-designed wireless networking chi…

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Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025)

woensdag 15 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacStories): Apple today introduced Apple Vision Pro with the powerful M5 chip that delivers a leap forward in performance, improved display rendering, faster AI-powered workflows, and extended battery life. The upgraded Vision P…

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Apple M5

woensdag 15 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with ov…

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Neo Network Utility 2.0

dinsdag 14 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann: Here’s Neo Network Utility 2.0 with a refreshed yet familiar design for macOS Tahoe, including menu icons, pill-shaped buttons, and a modern tab view. It actually looks good in Liquid Glass.Of course we didn’t just touch it u…

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Juice Jacking Protection Setting Broken in iOS 26

dinsdag 14 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ric Ford (PDF): Researchers at Graz University of Technology discovered severe, unpatched vulnerabilities in iPhones, Android phones and other devices that facilitate attacks and data theft via malicious USB chargers. Previously known and addressed …

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Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV

dinsdag 14 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eric Slivka: Buried in its announcement about “F1: The Movie” making its streaming debut on December 12, Apple has also announced that Apple TV+ is being rebranded as simply Apple TV.[…]Apple of course offers its set-top box hardware under the Apple…

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Cultivated Task Cancellation

dinsdag 14 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Max Seelemann (on his new blog): So how do you tell if a task supports cancellation? That’s tricky to answer per-se because cancellation is voluntary behavior and needs to be represented in the task’s value or error type. If you’re lucky, cancellati…

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Clips Discontinued

maandag 13 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eric Slivka: Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images, and photos with voice-based titles, music, filters, and graphics to create enhanced videos that can be shared on soc…

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NSO Group Acquired

maandag 13 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (via Hacker News): NSO spokesperson Oded Hershowitz told TechCrunch on Friday that “an American investment group has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership.” Confirmat…

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AI in Chrome, Neon, and Dia

maandag 13 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Google today said that Gemini AI is being integrated into the Chrome browser for the Mac and PC. Chrome users in the U.S. will get the functionality first, with Gemini able to clarify complex information on any webpage. There will be a …

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Script to Detect Slow USB-C Cables

maandag 13 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kaushik Gopal (via Hacker News): You have a drawer full of USB cables. Half are junk that barely charge your phone. The other half transfer data at full speed. But which is which? […] The script parses macOS’s system_profiler SPUSBHostDataType comma…

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Evolution of Apple Security Bounty Program

vrijdag 10 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Wired, MacRumors): We’re doubling our top award to $2 million for exploit chains that can achieve similar goals as sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks. This is an unprecedented amount in the industry and the largest payout offered by any …

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DEICER Removed From the App Store

vrijdag 10 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Pablo Manríquez: Apple has quietly removed DeICER, a civic-reporting app used to log immigration enforcement activity, from its App Store after a law enforcement complaint — invoking a rule normally reserved for protecting marginalized groups from h…

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Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

vrijdag 10 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Qualcomm (Hacker News): Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced its agreement to acquire Arduino, a premier open-source hardware and software company. The transaction accelerates Qualcomm Technologies’ strategy to empower developers by facilitat…

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Synology Reverses Ban on Third-Party Hard Drives

donderdag 9 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hilbert Hagedoorn (via Hacker News): Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives…

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Eyes Up Removed From the App Store

donderdag 9 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joseph Cox (Bluesky, Reddit): Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which wer…

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Complying With Texas Age Verification

donderdag 9 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): Beginning January 1, 2026, a new state law in Texas — SB2420 — introduces age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. While we share the goal of strengthening kids’ online safety, we are concerned that SB2420 i…

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French Siri Spying Lawsuit

donderdag 9 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Océane Herrero: The investigation, led by the country’s cybercrime agency OFAC, follows a complaint in February by the French NGO Ligue des droits de l’Homme, based on the testimony of a whistleblower and former employee of an Apple subcontractor Th…

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Customer Support Scams

woensdag 8 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Daniel Jalkut: I’m seeing more of a scam directed at customer support addresses, where the scammer pretends to be a customer who is having trouble with the app, and asks you to look at a screenshot of the problem, which is a link to a page that coax…

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Evolving AltStore PAL

woensdag 8 oktober 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Riley Testut: In April of last year, we launched AltStore PAL in the European Union as one of the first official alternative app marketplaces on iOS thanks to the Digital Markets Act. We launched with just 2 apps — my Nintendo emulator Delta and cli…

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