Brian Krebs (Hacker News): On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change cou…
Lees meerDaniel Stenberg (Hacker News, Slashdot): The friendly reporter showed how the curl version bundled with macOS behaves differently than curl binaries built entirely from open source. Even when running the same curl version on the same macOS machine. …
Lees meerSteven Vaughan-Nichols (via Hacker News): For those of you who aren’t open-source licensing experts, this means developers can no longer use Redis’ code. Sure, they can look at it, but they can’t export, borrow from, or touch it.Redis pulled this sa…
Lees meerModular (Hacker News): We firmly believe for Mojo to reach its full potential, it must be open source. We have been progressively open-sourcing more of Mojo and parts of the MAX platform, and today we’re thrilled to announce the release of the core …
Lees meerMinna Tiainen (via Hacker News): The researchers studied eight apps: Safari, Siri, Family Sharing, iMessage, FaceTime, Location Services, Find My and Touch ID. They collected all publicly available privacy-related information on these apps, from tec…
Lees meerJonathan M. Gitlin (Hacker News): After public outcry, General Motors has decided to stop sharing driving data from its connected cars with data brokers. Last week, news broke that customers enrolled in GM's OnStar Smart Driver app have had their da…
Lees meergastropod: A bunch of universities have just sent out notices that email forwarding is going to increasingly break in the very near future. The big email services, gmail, yahoo, outlook and apple, are going to start tightening the thumbscrews (stric…
Lees meerEdvinas Byla (via Dave Verwer): The [LazyVGrid] user experience isn’t great, but it’s still probably okayish for a version 1.0.0 release. The performance issues are less noticeable with fewer items unless you’re used to high-quality apps. But then t…
Lees meerDoug Gregor: I’ve started a blog series aimed at C++ programmers who are interested in learning #SwiftLang. It teaches the breadth of the Swift language, but anchored in the features and idioms of C++. So if you know your Rule Of Fives and your SFIN…
Lees meerAshley Belanger: Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started requiring designated gatekeepers like Google and Apple to make it easier to switch default web browsers on devices.[…]Reuter…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: The gist of the commercial is that you shouldn’t worry about deleting photos to free up storage, because modern iPhones have plenty of space. […] But this commercial made me want to yell at my TV each time it came on: “The problem is iC…
Lees meerZoë Schiffer: Since its initial public offering in 2022, Grindr has been on a rocky road financially. Its stock has fallen 70 percent since its SPAC. After hitting an IPO-high of $71.51, it currently sits at $10.13. Last summer, employees announced …
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Today Apple announced an upcoming enhancement to existing repair processes that will enable customers and independent repair providers to utilize used Apple parts in repairs. […] And in order to simplify the repair process, custom…
Lees meerManish Singh (via Hacker News, MacRumors, Reddit): Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that they may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.[…]Apple previously described the attackers a…
Lees meerDavid Pierce (Hacker News): The AI Pin is an interesting idea that is so thoroughly unfinished and so totally broken in so many unacceptable ways that I can’t think of anyone to whom I’d recommend spending the $699 for the device and the $24 monthly…
Lees meerEric Migicovsky (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): I’m excited to announce that Beeper has been acquired by Automattic. This acquisition marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter as we continue our mission to create the best chat app on earth. [……
Lees meerJordan Rose (Mastodon): There are only three ways to get run-time polymorphism in Swift. Well, three and a half. […] Calling a function value (closure) Calling a class member Calling a protocol requirement Manually testing the type of a value […] Ge…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: The App Store app on macOS is the default handler of URLs with the macappstore: scheme. App Store preview web pages automatically open the App Store app by setting the location of an HTML element to a macappstore: URL. My free open so…
Lees meerNick Heer: Earlier this week, Dave Kendall of documentary production company Prairie Hollow and formerly of a Topeka, Kansas PBS station, wrote in the Kansas Reflector an article criticizing Meta. Kendall says he tried to promote posts on Facebook f…
Lees meerBrandon Saltalamacchia (Hacker News, Dennis): The main source of our traffic was through Google Search. Whenever you searched for something retro gaming-related, our hope was that you would stumble across our website for advice, as we have invested …
Lees meerAinsley Bourque Olson: For anyone running the Pro edition of OmniFocus, this release also introduces some very exciting new custom perspective rules that support filtering based on dates, repeats, and more: New “Has date in range” rule type enables …
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