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Apple Asks Supreme Court to Review Epic Ruling

vrijdag 22 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Marcus Mendes: Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. […] In its petition, Apple is asking the Supreme Court…

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Lawsuits Claim OpenAI and Perplexity Shared User Data for Advertising

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Madeline Batt: The lawsuit targeted generative AI company Perplexity, along with Meta and Google, alleging they disclosed transcripts of users’ conversations with chatbots for targeted advertising. The case highlighted a burgeoning monetization stra…

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Taphouse 1.5

donderdag 21 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Multimodal Solutions: Install, update, and clean up your brew packages from a quiet Mac‑native app. 14,000+ formulae and casks — no terminal required. […] Browse and search through thousands of Homebrew packages with an intuitive visual interface. N…

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Apple vs. Indian Antitrust Regulator

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (Slashdot): Apple is fighting an antitrust penalty law in India that could require it to pay massive fines in its ongoing antitrust dispute with Tinder owner Match, reports Reuters. Last year, India passed a law that allows the Competiti…

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Updating Shared Shortcuts

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Manuel Grabowski: No actual concept of versioning or upgrades for shared shortcuts. Sharing shortcuts happens via weird iCloud URLs rather than being an actual aspect of the system. So to update a shortcut, do you just add it again? No indication of…

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Core Data Lab 3.0

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ron Elemans: Despite all that, we have done our best to embrace and implement the concepts of the Liquid Glass design in Core Data Lab 3.0, although with a few tweaks here and there to improve the contrast in especially dialogs. […] Identifying rows…

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Hijacking Apps Using Archive Utility

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk (Mastodon): Until macOS 26.4, Archive Utility had nearly unrestricted filesystem access. Combined with a drag-and-drop sandbox quirk, this let an attacker bypass App Sandbox data containers, Transparency, Consent, and …

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Inkwell Rejected From the App Store

woensdag 20 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Manton Reece: I submitted Inkwell for iOS to Apple for review on April 21st. It has gone through numerous rejections, code changes, resubmissions, clarifications, one phone call, and one appeal to the review board, which I’m still waiting to hear ba…

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Kickstart 1.0

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Paul Hudson (Mastodon, Twitter): It’s called Kickstart, and it has only one job: to help indie developers make more money on the App Store. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, launch docs, analytics dashboards, review tools, and half-finished marketin…

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Fortnite Returns to the App Store Except in Australia

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton: Fortnite is back on the App Store in every country except Australia, Epic Games announced today, as the company declared it is entering the “final battle” of its long-running legal dispute with Apple. Epic said the decision to push…

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Fantastical at 15

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Flexibits: So, grab a slice of virtual cake and join us on a trip down memory lane as we look back at how far Fantastical (and Flexibits) has come! Still one of my favorite apps, though I don’t use most of the advanced features. Previously: Fantasti…

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How Fake Contacts Can Fix Dictation’s Proper Noun Problems

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Apple doesn’t provide a user-editable list where you can add special words, but there is a back-door way to train Dictation—on all your Apple devices—to work more the way you prefer: through the Contacts app. […] Regardless of the number…

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Apple’s 2026 Accessibility Feature Preview

dinsdag 19 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): Apple today announced a suite of accessibility updates that use Apple Intelligence to expand capabilities across VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader, with additional new features for generate…

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Hardening Firefox With Mythos

maandag 18 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bobby Holley: Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser. We wrote previously about our collaboration with Anthropic to scan Firefox with…

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Memory Integrity Enforcement Exploit

maandag 18 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Khanh: Early this week, we had a meeting at Apple Park in Cupertino. While there, we also shared with Apple our latest vulnerability research report: the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on M5 silicon, surviving MIE. It was laser …

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Claude Desktop App

maandag 18 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Voorhees: Late yesterday, Anthropic announced messaging support for Claude Code, allowing users to connect to a Claude Code session running on a Mac from a mobile device using Telegram and Discord bots. I spent a few hours playing with it last …

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Apple Gift Card Scheme

maandag 18 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Todd Bookman (via Roman Loyola): Then, according to Carter, the cards are carefully placed back in their original packaging, and are returned to the store’s shelves, where an unsuspecting customer will hopefully purchase them and add money to the ca…

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OmniFocus 4.8.10

vrijdag 15 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OmniFocus 4.8: OmniFocus 4.8 introduces a visually refreshed interface, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26. This release also includes support for a range o…

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Apple Developer App 11.0

vrijdag 15 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Zac Hall (MacRumors): The update also adds these changes: Refreshed look with Liquid Glass. List filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, and preferred topics. Improved reliability of image capture during enrollment. Bug fixes and various…

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Chrome’s Huge weights.bin File

donderdag 14 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: The file in question is called “weights.bin,” which powers Google’s on-device Gemini Nano AI model – the engine behind Chrome features like scam detection, autofill suggestions, and the “Help Me Write” tool. Local models tend to be pre…

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Amazon Tokenmaxxing

donderdag 14 mei 2026 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rafe Rosner-Uddin (Hacker News): The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s beha…

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