Juli Clover (Reddit, Hacker News, Mac Power Users Talk, AppleInsider): Popular Mac app Bartender appears to have been quietly sold approximately two months ago, with neither the prior owner nor the current owner providing customers or potential cust…
Lees meerJoanna Stern (tweet): Porn, violent images, illicit drugs. I could see it all by typing a special string of characters into the Safari browser’s address bar. The parental controls I had set via Apple’s Screen Time? Useless.Security researchers repor…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Typically, Mac firmware is updated whenever a new version of macOS is installed, but if something goes wrong in the process, the Mac can be left with outdated firmware. When automatic firmware updates fail, the solution is to “revive” or…
Lees meerPatrick Breyer (via Hacker News): The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto. This is reported by Eura…
Lees meerBasic Apple Guy: 10 Years Ago: Apple Announced Swift Brian Webster: 10 year anniversary of Swift being announced at WWDC. Chris Lattner: Wow that’s right. This was a big day and Swift has come a long way in the intervening decade: Congrats to everyo…
Lees meerHelge Heß: Ugh, inverse SwiftData relationship updates do not seem to trigger Observation, that feels like a biggie 😳 […] This feels really bad, because the relationships are the thing which make an ORM worthwhile. I.e. you’d usually have a network …
Lees meerKevin Beaumont (via Stephen Hackett): Microsoft told media outlets a hacker cannot exfiltrate Copilot+ Recall activity remotely.Reality: how do you think hackers will exfiltrate this plain text database of everything the user has ever viewed on thei…
Lees meerJosh Whiton: A crazy experience — I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out. But the new wired, iPhone, lightning-cable headphones didn’t work. Strange.[…]By now the gift shop people and…
Lees meerICQ (via Hacker News): ICQ will stop working from June 26 You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace Wes Davis: ICQ was started in 1996 by Israeli company Mirabilis, which AOL bought in 1998. ICQ grew to 100 milli…
Lees meerElisha Fieldstadt (via Hacker News): An Apple AirTag led to the arrest of an airline subcontractor accused of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of items from luggage at a Florida airport.[…]Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies investigating both su…
Lees meerBrian Krebs: Both Apple and Google operate their own Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPS) that obtain certain hardware identifiers from all wireless access points that come within range of their mobile devices. Both record the Media Access Control …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple and Google have worked together to create an industry specification — Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers — for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both iOS and Android if suc…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Yesterday I took the M1 MacBook Pro to my local Apple-authorized service provider that I’ve been going to for many years, who performed all of the work on my Intel MacBook Pro, including the battery replacements and a Staing…
Lees meerJuli Clover: YouTube is the latest company to introduce mobile games that are available outside of the App Store, today announcing the official launch of “Playables” in the YouTube app.[…]YouTube is focusing on “lightweight, entertaining games,” so …
Lees meerOatmealDome (via Steve Troughton-Smith): Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store. This week, Delta, a multi-system emulator that was previously only available via AltStore, was released on the App Sto…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: This article demonstrates that the last of those isn’t necessarily true, and what happens when an App Store app ends up being translocated. The combination of an App Store app with a quarantine xattr is a particular problem for users,…
Lees meerTN3162: The CloudKit infrastructure is shared by all apps and services. The resources are finite, and so high utilization from one app can negatively affect others. To avoid this kind of impact and optimize the overall experience, CloudKit implement…
Lees meerJason Snell (Mastodon): I’m sad about the Ai Pin because it—and a similar AI hardware product, the Rabbit R1—shows just how much potential innovation is strangled by the presence of enormously powerful tech companies, most notably the Android-iPhone…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple seems allergic to saying that an iPhone won’t charge with MagSafe during Continuity Camera. However, it may not charge over USB either. Several users in a Reddit conversation reported that their iPhones lost charge during Continuit…
Lees meerHelge Heß: The new Foundation/#Swiftlang Predicates (and its expressions) seem a little weird because they can’t be constructed dynamically? Fly0strich: However, when I try to use that method inside of a #Predicate closure, it gives an error saying …
Lees meerErnie Smith (Hacker News): Simply put, Google has started adding “AI overviews” to many of its search results, which essentially throw pre-processed answers that often do not match the original intent of the search. If you’re using Google to actuall…
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