Jess Weatherbed: Amazon is adding Apple TV Plus to Prime Video, a move that could help bolster the iPhone maker’s languishing streaming service. Apple TV Plus will be available on Prime Video in the US later this month as a $9.99 monthly add-on — th…
Lees meerLawrence Abrams (Hacker News): Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.[…]Hunt told BleepingComput…
Lees meerRicky Mondello (Mastodon): To make these passwords easier to type on suboptimal keyboard layouts like my colleague’s game controller, where the mode switching might be difficult, these new passwords are actually dominated by lowercase characters. An…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: If you’re using Yoink on macOS Sequoia, you might have encountered an issue where Yoink would not accept any files anymore.[…]Basically any app that handles file URLs and saves them as a security-scoped bookmark for later access…
Lees meerMichael Buckley (Mastodon, Hacker News): At some unknown point in the future, Google will revoke Transmit’s access to Google Drive. Sometime after that, we’ll be releasing updates to Transmit and Nova that remove the ability to create Google Drive c…
Lees meerAshley Belanger: Musi, a free music-streaming app only available on iPhone, sued Apple last week, arguing that Apple breached Musi’s developer agreement by abruptly removing the app from its App Store for no good reason.According to Musi, Apple deci…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap re…
Lees meerSean Hollister (PDF, Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. Google will have to distribute …
Lees meerDave Winer: Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog.I did a roundup of thoughts when this blog turned 25. I stand by what I wrote then, but I’d add this. My blog started because I needed content to test a script I had written that sent emails on …
Lees meerSt. Clair Software: When you set keyboard shortcuts for ejecting, sleeping and remounting, they are now shown in Jettison’s menu.Fixed a bug that could result in an error message when manually mounting a volume even though the volume mounts correctl…
Lees meerJeremy Gray (Hacker News): In Photoshop Elements 2025, a new AI-powered Remove Tool makes it easy to erase and replace distracting objects in photos, including unwanted people and distracting objects. This new feature also includes an accompanying “…
Lees meerChristian Bender: We don’t recommend upgrading [to Sequoia] now because there are several bugs related to networking and firewalls in the 15.0 release. We expect most of them to be fixed in 15.1.[…]There are individual reports of websites aborting l…
Lees meerChristian Selig (Mastodon): It seems at some point, even though UserDefaults is intended for non-sensitive information, it started getting marked as data that needs to be encrypted and cannot be accessed until the user unlocked their device. I don’t…
Lees meerDave Rahardja: There are two ways to refer to this protocol in Swift: using a native Swift type, or using an Objective-C Protocol object reference. let fungibleSwiftProtocol = Fungible.self let fungibleObjCProtocol = NSProtocolFromString("Fungible")…
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (Mastodon): In Xcode 16, project files and folders are arranged differently in the Project navigator. What used to be a group is now a folder, and this simple change has some interesting effects. At first, I was against the new scheme…
Lees meerAlexander Martin (via Hacker News): The social media giant Meta has been fined €91 million ($101 million) for accidentally storing hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords in plaintext instead of in an encrypted format on its internal systems. M…
Lees meerKeith Gugliotto: The Mac App Store places a receipt file in each purchased application. The receipt includes a certificate the application uses to validate that receipt to be sure you’ve made a bona fide purchase. That certificate is only valid for …
Lees meerForestVPN: Many of us rely on VPN apps to secure our online activities, but did you know there’s a way to set up a VPN on your iPhone without downloading an app? This method not only saves space but also provides a seamless experience for users who …
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 fixes a bug that could cause the Messages app to crash when a message with a shared Apple Watch face w…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.0.1 update addresses issues with several bug fixes for the touch screen, camera, and Messages app. Previously: iPadOS 18.0.1 iOS 18
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple today released iPadOS 18.0.1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since the iPadOS 18 update was pulled for those devices. After iPadOS 18 w…
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