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Bezel 2.5.1

dinsdag 14 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

MacStories: Bezel [Web site] is one of those simple, easy-to-use apps that feels like it should have been made years ago. The one-line summary of Bezel is that it mirrors your iPhone screen to your Mac. But it actually does much more than that, elev…

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Gravy Analytics Hacked

dinsdag 14 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joseph Cox: Hackers claim to have compromised Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel which has sold masses of smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers said they have stolen a massive amount of data, including customer lis…

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Brazil Fines Apple Over FaceApp

dinsdag 14 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito (AppleInsider): Apple and Google have been fined R$19 million (about US$3.1 million) in Brazil after a judge ruled that the companies contributed to allowing the controversial photo editor FaceApp to improperly collect data from its …

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Treasury Department Hacked

dinsdag 14 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lawrence Abrams (Slashdot): Chinese state-sponsored threat actors hacked the U.S. Treasury Department after breaching a remote support platform used by the federal agency.[…]“Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China…

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This Remote Has Me Questioning Everything

maandag 13 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matt Birchler: I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, …

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Mac Toolbar Guidelines

maandag 13 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mario Guzmán (Mastodon, Bluesky): The following sections are general guidelines that describe fundamental Toolbar layout and design principles for Mac applications. Following these guidelines will help you create functional and aesthetically pleasin…

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What Happened to APFS Fast Directory Sizing?

maandag 13 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Siracusa: Has anyone successfully enabled Fast Directory Sizing on a directory on an APFS volume in macOS and then confirmed that it works using dirstat_np? Jim Luther: That’s one of those promised features I was referring to that never really …

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Accessibility That Fits

maandag 13 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Soroush Khanlou: Building a design that’s responsive to both its contents and its environment is a one of the primary challenges of robust user interface programming. There are some false gods out there and some legitimate best practices. However, I…

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SteamOS Expands Past the Steam Deck

vrijdag 10 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Crider (Hacker News): The big story in PC gaming for the last three years has been the Steam Deck. This low-power, portable, relatively inexpensive machine is clearly something the market has been waiting for, exciting gamers and energizing …

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Luigi Mangione’s Account Renamed on Stack Overflow

vrijdag 10 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Evan Carroll (via Hacker News): On Stack Exchange, all of the contributions on the site are contributed under a license maintained by a third party called Creative Commons; Creative Commons provides a license which states that licensed content must …

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Passkey Usability

vrijdag 10 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Passkeys—the much-talked-about password alternative to passwords that have been widely available for almost two years—was supposed to fix all that. When I wrote about passkeys two years ago, I was a big believer. I remain c…

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Network Neutrality Not Reinstated

vrijdag 10 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bruce Crumley (via Hacker News): The increasing challenge to government agencies’ authority to regulate businesses gained momentum this week, after an appeals court suspended application of the Federal Communications Commission‘s (FCC) ruling restor…

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Making Apple S9 and A16 in Arizona

donderdag 9 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Culpan: TSMC Arizona has picked up a second Apple product. In addition to the A16 processor for iPhones, which I shared with you in September, the fab is now producing SiPs (Systems-in-Package) for the Apple Watch, according to my sources. This …

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Bing Tricking People Into Thinking They’re on Google

donderdag 9 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tom Warren (tweet, Hacker News): Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot …

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Microsoft Edge Slurps Tabs From Chrome Without Permission

donderdag 9 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brandon Vigliarolo (via Hacker News): Buried within Edge’s browser settings on Windows PCs is code that goes well beyond a one-time import of favorites and stored passwords, and has been present in some form as far back as mid-2022 at least. It give…

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Xerox to Acquire Lexmark

donderdag 9 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lexmark (via Hacker News): Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) today announced it has agreed to acquire Lexmark International, Inc., from Ninestar Corporation, PAG Asia Capital, and Shanghai Shouda Investment Centre in a deal valued at $1.5 bil…

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Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”

woensdag 8 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Norbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the…

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RSS Cache Control

woensdag 8 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brent Simmons reported to me that my blog’s RSS feed wasn’t updating in recent versions of NetNewsWire. They’ve added support for the Cache-Control response header, and, for reasons unknown, my site was returning an interval of 2 days: $ curl --head…

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SysBumps Attack

woensdag 8 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Guru Baran (via Ric Ford, PDF): The research team from Korea University, led by Hyerean Jang, Taehun Kim, and Youngjoo Shin, presented their findings in a paper titled “SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in…

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LG UltraFine 6K

woensdag 8 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Malcolm Owen: The LG UltraFine 6K Monitor, model 32U990A, surfaced on Monday as part of the 2025 CES Innovation Awards, as an honoree in imaging. The monitor is described as the first in the world to have a 6K resolution display that also uses Thund…

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Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries

dinsdag 7 januari 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Graham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article clai…

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