Adam Kohler and Christopher Lopez: The downloaded DMG contains an application bundle. Normally, macOS applications instruct the user to drag such apps into the /Applications folder. But in this case, it tells the user to right-click on it and click …
Lees meerEswar: A new local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in macOS which could allow any user to escalate their privileges to root by mounting filesystems using “diskutil” command line utility. This new vulnerability has been assigne…
Lees meerCaleb Basinger: We don’t buy apps through the App Store. Rather, we purchase licenses in bulk—one for every employee or device—through Apple’s Apps and Books program, part of Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager.[…]The only problem is tha…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: In iOS 17, you can create a contact poster, which is essentially a combination of a profile picture and artwork that will represent you when calling other people on the phone, FaceTime, and other apps compatible with the CallKit fr…
Lees meerMaxime Chevalier: What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem…
Lees meerOSXDaily (tweet): One of the worst things about the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro is the shiny key issue. If you’re unfamiliar, the image above demonstrates the beginning stages of the shiny key development on my otherwise beautiful six month old MacB…
Lees meerJeremy Reimer (via Adam Engst): PLATO was an educational system that began in 1960 and was nearing its fourth iteration. It was responsible for many computer firsts, such as the first flat-screen plasma display, which launched in 1972 with PLATO IV.…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Built using second-generation 3-nanometer technology, M4 is a system on a chip (SoC) that advances the industry-leading power efficiency of Apple silicon and enables the incredibly thin design of iPad Pro. It also features an en…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 transforms iPad into a multicam production studio with Live Multicam, giving users the power to speed up their shoot by allowing them to connect and preview up to four cameras all at once, all in one pla…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): A new sensor in the barrel can sense a user’s squeeze, bringing up a tool palette to quickly switch tools, line weights, and colors, all without interrupting the creative process. A custom haptic engine delivers a light tap that p…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, keyboard, Hacker News): Available in silver and space black finishes, the new iPad Pro comes in two sizes: an expansive 13-inch model and a super-portable 11-inch model. Both sizes feature the world’s most advanced display — a new …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip. Now available in two sizes for the first time, the 11-inch iPad Air is super-portable, and the 13-inch model prov…
Lees meerPlentycom Systems: SteerMouse is a utility that lets you freely customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported. […] You can assign a function to combinations of a button and modifier keys ( command shift option…
Lees meerkeldwink (via Ric Ford): Updated my 15pro to 17.0.2 and I can no longer search in the calendar app. No matter what I search for, it comes up with “no results” The replies list various potential fixes. It’s not clear to me whether something is specif…
Lees meerApple: Starting May 1, 2024, new or updated apps that have a newly added third-party SDK that‘s on the list of commonly used third-party SDKs will need all of the following to be submitted in App Store Connect: Required reasons for each listed API P…
Lees meerWade Tregaskis (Hacker News): In a nutshell, the problem is that Swift’s Clock protocol has significant overheads by design. If you look at a time profile of code like this, you’ll see things like[…]That’s a lot of time wasted in function calls and …
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: Does anybody here know what macOS’ error -609 is when launching an app from the App Store? “The application “XYZ” can’t be opened. -609” And, maybe more importantly, how to fix it? Relaunches, re-installs and restarts have not h…
Lees meerApple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $90.8 billion, down 4 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.53. “Today Apple is reporting revenue of $90.8 billion for the March qua…
Lees meerChance Miller: Alongside the launch of Beats Solo 4 today, Apple has also announced new Beats Solo Buds earbuds. The new Beats Solo Buds pack a truly wireless design with an incredibly impressive 18 hours of battery life and $79.99 price. […] While …
Lees meerMysk: @brave for iOS just got updated to support the new “marketplace-kit” scheme. Brave only calls the scheme when trackers blocking is disabled. As we reported earlier, Apple implemented the new scheme in a way that allows tracking across websites…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Today, we’re introducing two additional conditions in which the CTF is not required: First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to…
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