Karl Bode (Hacker News, MacRumors): Oregon has officially become the seventh state (behind New York, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota) to pass “right to repair” legislation, making it easier and more affordable for consumers…
Lees meerBaldur Bjarnason: We have the worst job environment for tech in over two decades and that’s with the “AI” bubble in full force. If that bubble pops hard before the job market recovers, the repercussions to the tech industry will likely eclipse the d…
Lees meerQuinn: XPC is the preferred inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism on Apple platforms. XPC has three APIs:The high-level NSXPCConnection API, for Objective-C and SwiftThe low-level Swift API, introduced with macOS 14The low-level C API, which, …
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: Your code and the App Store don’t agree about when a subscription expired. The cause of this is Apple’s StoreKit sample code. It’s likely that you have some code similar to line 246 of Store.swift:subscriptionGroupStatus = try? aw…
Lees meerJason Snell: On Thursday Apple debuted its first immersive video since the Vision Pro launched, a five-minute-long compilation of highlights from the MLS Cup playoffs late last year. Without even seeing the video, I had many questions. Why did it ta…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression software library xz may be present in instances of Fedora Linux 40 and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution. The IT giant said the m…
Lees meerJoanna Stern: When you go into Settings > Privacy & Security > Journaling Suggestions, you’ll see that Discoverable by Others is enabled by default—even if you never turned on suggestions. Under the setting it says, “Allow others to detect you are n…
Lees meerMarco Arment: If I ran a website that supported Google-account login, I’d be pretty pissed at how they’re suddenly putting up an obnoxious overlay over my site’s layout.Why is this not bothering more people? Does anyone give a shit about their websi…
Lees meerThere have been a bunch of neat updates to this browser extension in the last year or so. April: [It’s] difficult to edit a long URL in the Safari address bar, especially on iPhone.[…]Select StopTheMadness from the menu. […] Tap the Edit Tab URL but…
Lees meerLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (tweet, via Nick Heer): In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior a…
Lees meerJim Dalrymple: Siri has done what no person could for 30 years: Make me stop using an Apple product. I am giving up on my 8 HomePods/minis out of the sheer frustration of trying to use Siri. I’ve been in tech for 30 years and this is one of the wors…
Lees meerFor many years, I’ve been saying “Hey Siri, remember to x” to create reminders on my iPhone (to be transferred to OmniFocus). Sometimes it would have trouble with the “x,” but it would always create a reminder. Now, this only works some of the time:…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (MacRumors, Hacker News): Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forc…
Lees meerCabel Sasser: PSA: 1Password uses “1Password.co” for email links — instead of their usual “1Password.com” domain. Craig Hockenberry: So the “phishing link” with the .co domain was a valid link and documented as such.But I still find it inexcusable.T…
Lees meerBen Cohen: Non-copyable generics aren’t for every-day code – but we’ve put a lot of care into making them stay out of your way until you need them, and then keeping them usable once you do. They will allow libraries to unlock more performance and sa…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed (Hacker News, MacRumors, Mac Power Users): Web-based design platform Canva has acquired the Affinity creative software suite, positioning itself as a challenger to Adobe’s grip over the digital design industry. Canva announced the de…
Lees meerEuropean Commission (via Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple’s rul…
Lees meerJoshua Long: On Tuesday, [March] 12, a researcher named Kedsayahm noticed that an app that featured pirated TV shows and movies was quickly climbing the charts in the App Store. The app was already #1 in the Entertainment category in Egypt at the ti…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Rarely, the Recovery volume becomes deleted, or the secure disk image it should contain gets removed. Unfortunately the only means of restoring it is to perform a macOS update, and even then some Macs seem unable to recover Recovery w…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: The FPAN is the “funding primary account number” and it’s the 15-18 digit number printed on your physical card. The DPAN is your “device primary account number”. […] It’s notable that it’s called a DPAN and not “the Apple Pay number” …
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (Mastodon): An app that can monitor your device is a great thing to have when you need it, but can get in the way when you don’t. On iOS we solved this problem by using Picture in Picture technology.[…]iPulse for iOS/iPadOS literal…
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