David Pierce: On this episode of The Vergecast, Testut joins the show to tell us the full Delta story. He describes his early attempts at building emulators, the first time he almost made it onto the App Store, the process of building the alternativ…
Lees meerIngrid Lunden: Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned tha…
Lees meerMysk: iPhone users in the EU: DO NOT delete your alternative marketplace appsiOS 17.5 breaks alternative marketplace app re-installation. MarketplaceKit now generates a different client_id every time it is called. Now there’s no way for alternative …
Lees meerRichard Speed (via Hacker News): Google’s Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.In a joint statement with UniSuper CEO Peter Chun, Kurian admit…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: Following the acquisition, Broadcom’s VMware has announced today that Fusion Pro 13 and Workstation Pro 17 have been made free for personal use. […] For commercial use, Broadcom has simplified the VMware options to a single product, …
Lees meerMatthew Snyder (via Steve Troughton-Smith): The iPad feels like it’s caught between being the best hardware Apple makes, alongside the most ignored software. Steve Troughton-Smith: Some of the iPad angst isn’t that we have to wait ‘till WWDC to see …
Lees meerMeysam: I reported CVE-2024-27804, an iOS/macOS kernel vulnerability that leads to the execution of arbitrary code with kernel privileges. It’s fixed in iOS 17.5 and macOS 14.5, but Apple says it’s not eligible for the security bounty. Via Hacker Ne…
Lees meerJustin Ling: Zimmermann was a hacker in the oldest sense of the word. In the preceding years, he had grown freaked out by a proposal, put forward by a still-not-young Joe Biden, to force internet companies to give the U.S. government access to their…
Lees meerTripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz (MacRumors, Slashdot): Apple’s top software executives decided early last year that Siri, the company’s virtual assistant, needed a brain transplant. The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi an…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): While watchOS 10.5 is primarily a bug fix update, it does introduce a new Pride watch face to go along with the Pride band that Apple introduced earlier in May. Previously: watchOS 10.3.1
Lees meerApple (direct download): Xcode 15.4 supports simulating web distribution while running or testing your app. […] Some Macs recently received a macOS system update which disabled the simulator runtimes used by Xcode, including the simulators for iOS, …
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.5 adds a new word game for Apple News+ subscribers and allows for tracking stats and streaks of News+ games. It’s not clear why this update also caus…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.7. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.5. Previously: macOS 14.5 macOS 13.6.6 macOS 13.6.5 and macOS 1…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There are new features for Apple News+, such as an offline mode, and tracking notifications are now available cross-platform for alerts about Bluetooth trackers regardless of platform. Previously: iO…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): We did not find new features during the tvOS 17.5 beta testing process. Previously: tvOS 17.4
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): Apple does not specify what’s included in the HomePod 17.5 software, and the generic release notes only say that it brings stability and performance improvements. Previously: audioOS 17.4
Lees meerYoungCraxy: This is about to drive me crazy, whenever I capture a snapshot, when I press the camera, sometimes a black screen pops up and this doesn’t go away, I can’t shoot anything, I have to go in and out of the camera again. There are two really…
Lees meerSE-0436 (via Becca Royal-Gordon): Swift has always had a mechanism that allows Objective-C code to use Swift types: the @objc attribute. When a class is marked with @objc (or, more typically, inherits from an @objc or imported Objective-C class), Sw…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed (Hacker News): At least 224 people with diabetes have reported injuries linked to a defective iOS app that caused their insulin pumps to shut down prematurely, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On Wednesday, the…
Lees meerEmma Roth (Hacker News): Apple has apologized after a commercial meant to showcase its brand-new iPad Pro drew widespread criticism among the creative community. In a statement provided to Ad Age, Tor Myhren, Apple’s vice president of marketing, sai…
Lees meerApple (PDF, via Ivan Krstić): Unless otherwise noted, this documentation covers the following operating system versions: iOS 17.3, iPadOS 17.3, macOS 14.3, tvOS 17.3, and watchOS 10.3. Apple: Topics added:Cryptex1 Image4 Manifest Hash (spih)Cryptex1…
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