Dominic Preston (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple has reportedly been ordered by the UK government to create a backdoor that would give security officials access to users’ encrypted iCloud backups. If implemented, British security services would have …
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.1.1 improves the filtering accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst other enhancements and fixes. The update was held up because the Developer ID Notary Service was down for most of the business day yesterday. Some interesting issu…
Lees meerDan Goodin: On Thursday, mobile security company NowSecure reported that the app sends sensitive data over unencrypted channels, making the data readable to anyone who can monitor the traffic. More sophisticated attackers could also tamper with the …
Lees meerWes Davis: Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of a…
Lees meerAlexander Blach: I’m getting a report from a user that the Mac App Store doesn’t work on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 anymore - they get “An unexpected error occurred while signing in.”I also see these threads in the the Apple Support Community:App Store No…
Lees meerThe Iconfactory (Mastodon): Tapestry combines posts from your favorite social media services like Bluesky, Mastodon, Tumblr and others with RSS feeds, podcasts, YouTube channels and more. All of your content presented in chronological order, with no…
Lees meerSilvio Rizzi (September 2024): The new Reeder is out!A note to Reeder Classic users: For this release, I’ve tried to cover any questions you might have about the new Reeder and Reeder Classic in the FAQ.There’s no pressure to upgrade. As mentioned b…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed (MacRumors, 9to5Mac): The first “Apple approved” porn app for iPhone is rolling out in Europe, via AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS app marketplace. AltStore PAL developer Riley Testut says that Hot Tub, which describes itself as an ad…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Spotify achieved its first full year of profitability since launching in 2008. The company has previously had occasional profitable quarters, but consistently lost money each year.[…]One profitability factor may have been Apple’s decisi…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that helps users create custom invitations to gather friends and family for any occasion. With Apple Invites, users can create and easily share invitations, R…
Lees meerInstapaper: On Instapaper iOS and macOS, you can now sign in to websites directly within the app. When you’re logged into sites, Instapaper can more reliably retrieve and display complete articles. Increasingly, we’re seeing more “hard paywalls” acr…
Lees meerMatt Massicotte: It would be nice if there was a single place to go to look up all the terms, keywords, and annotations related to Swift concurrency. So here it is. Each term is linked to the Swift evolution proposal that introduced it, which is usu…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Starting next week, Apple’s retail stores will no longer offer AppleCare+ plans as a one-time purchase, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.Instead, he said the stores will only offer AppleCare+ as a subscription. It was already avai…
Lees meerJason Snell (complete commentary): It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about A…
Lees meerOwen Voorhees (tweet, Hacker News): As a foundational step in this new chapter of Swift build technologies, today Apple is open sourcing Swift Build, a powerful and extensible build engine that provides a set of build rules for building Swift projec…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When all else fails, the next step is to identify what’s using files on that volume or disk, so you can decide whether to force quit that process in Activity Monitor. Don’t do that blindly, as you could end up killing processes that y…
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $2.40, up 10 percent year over year. Apples gross margin is up to 46.9 perce…
Lees meerApple (via MacRumors): A Mac laptop with Apple silicon automatically turns on and starts up when you open its lid or connect it to power. With macOS Sequoia 15 or later, you can change this behavior without affecting your ability to use your keyboar…
Lees meerCharlie Monroe: The first few apps I released had almost no downloads, no users and there was no income from them. They are long forgotten by the world and even by me. Be prepared to have some setbacks, don’t let them discourage you. Start small and…
Lees meerJason Kim et al. (Hacker News, MacRumors, Slashdot): We present SLAP, a new speculative execution attack that arises from optimizing data dependencies, as opposed to control flow dependencies. More specifically, we show that Apple CPUs starting with…
Lees meerTodd Haselton (Hacker News): Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s January 20th executive order to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali to the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, respectively…
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