Cameron Faulkner: Of the two sizes, the 13-inch model bears the closest resemblance to Apple’s MacBook Pro, with its keyboard arrangement and center-aligned trackpad, and well, just about everything else about it. The 15-inch laptop’s design dashes …
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Over a dozen parental control app developers have come together with a shared message for Apple: it’s “time to put kids first.”Together, they have launched a new website called Screen Time API that urges Apple to release a public API …
Lees meerMark Gurman: iTunes has been the way Apple users listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, hear podcasts, and manage their devices for almost two decades. This year, Apple is finally ready to move into a new era. The company is launching a trio of…
Lees meerW3C: Today W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. The Memorandum of Understanding jointly published as the WHATWG/W3C Joint Working Mode gives the specifics of…
Lees meerGab (Hacker News): Progress on our new codebase is going well. For those who don’t know, our plan is to fork existing open source software, Mastodon, which is based on the ActivityPub social networking protocol. […] You’ll be able to log into and us…
Lees meerBruno Rocha: To put it short, autoreleasepool is still useful in iOS/Swift development as there are still legacy Obj-C classes in UIKit and Foundation that call autorelease, but you likely don’t need to worry about it when dealing with Swift classes…
Lees meerMark Gurman (tweet, 9to5Mac): Apple Inc.’s former head of App Store approvals said he’s worried about competition between the company and developers, and even recalled board member Al Gore asking about a controversial app approval. Phillip Shoemaker…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Last week, in a research note shared with MacRumors, a team of Barclays analysts “confirmed” that 3D Touch “will be eliminated” in all 2019 iPhones, as they predicted back in August 2018. The analysts gathered this information from Ap…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today announced a new iPod touch with headline features being a faster A10 Fusion chip and a new 256GB storage option. That’s the same processor as the iPhone 7, up from the iPhone 6–era A8. It has the same 4-inch screen size as…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I don’t know why, but one of those things has been bugging me a lot in recent months: the drab gray color that indicates tapdown state for list items and buttons. Putting aside skeuomorphic textures like woodgrain and leather and the 3D…
Lees meerFilippo Cavallarin (Hacker News): To better understand how this exploit works, let’s consider the following scenario: An attacker crafts a zip file containing a symbolic link to an automount endpoint she/he controls (ex Documents -> /net/evil.com/Do…
Lees meerMovist (via Leo): This is because Apple has refused to update the app, and they have also removed from the App Store the already accepted version.What Apple pointed out was that Movist has a feature of “downloading 3rd party media”. So we removed th…
Lees meerFelix Krause: If you get the email, this is your chance to give feedback about: - Binary processing time - Code signing - Lack of API endpoints - Inconsistent rejection reasons - Managing app metadata and screenshots - TestFlight review times Tyler …
Lees meerMichal Necasek (via Hacker News): Microsoft reportedly wanted to use the forward slash as path separator, but IBM nixed the idea because it would have created an incompatibility with DOS 1.x, which already used the forward slash as a switch characte…
Lees meerGoogle (via Kevin Beaumont): We found that an SMS code sent to a recovery phone number helped block 100% of automated bots, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, and 76% of targeted attacks. On-device prompts, a more secure replacement for SMS, helped preve…
Lees meerSam Biddle (via John Gruber): Offered to select Facebook partners, the data includes not just technical information about Facebook members’ devices and use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, but also their past locations, interests, and even their soci…
Lees meerTengfei Tu et al. (PDF via Susan Potter): In this paper, we perform the first systematic study on concurrency bugs in real Go programs. We studied six popular Go software including Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC. We analyzed 171 concurrency bugs in to…
Lees meerJohn Wilander: The combination of third-party web tracking and ad campaign measurement has led many to conflate web privacy with a web free of advertisements. We think that’s a misunderstanding. Online ads and measurement of their effectiveness do n…
Lees meerCabel Sasser: After more than 20 years of making quality apps you love for Mac and iOS, Panic was ready to try something new… …and that something was hardware. Playdate (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It’s got a…
Lees meerGitHub (tweet, Hacker News): Funding developers through GitHub Sponsors is one more way to contribute to open source projects you appreciate. Help developers get the resources they need, and recognize contributors working behind the scenes to make o…
Lees meerVLC (Hacker News): One major design goal is to expose what UI frameworks need. Several user interfaces, like Qt, Mac OS and Android, will use this API to display and interact with the main VLC playlist. The playlist must be performant for common use…
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