John McCall: SE-0446 added basic language support in Swift for non-escapable types, whose values are restricted in scope. However, it intentionally left out the ability for functions and properties to return values of these types, pending a future p…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (Hacker News): The EU has followed up on its Digital Markets Act specification procedures for Apple regarding the iPhone’s interoperability with third-party connected devices like smartwatches and headphones, as announced last fall. To…
Lees meerEric Migicovsky (via Dare Obasanjo, Hacker News): During Pebble v1, I learned how much harder it is to build a great smartwatch experience on iPhone than it is on Android. It sounds like things have actually gotten worse over the last 8 years. I wan…
Lees meerArin Waichulis (Hacker News, MacRumors): It’s now been revealed that a serious HTTP bug left Passwords users vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months, from the initial release of iOS 18 until the patch in iOS 18.2.Security researchers …
Lees meerRic Ford: Apple’s exhorbitantly-priced Mac storage comes with impressive benchmark claims but has some serious, hidden bottlenecks in certain scenarios, as do other SSDs. David Harry illustrated this clearly in a video, using Activity Monitor as a n…
Lees meerEFF (Hacker News): When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in spying inside the U.S., Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth a…
Lees meerAmazon: You can opt out of sending voice recordings to the cloud for devices that can process the audio of your Alexa requests locally (Echo (4th Gen), Echo Show 10 or Echo Show 15) or supported devices that are able to communicate with the devices …
Lees meerChristina Petrova: The first DMA browser choice screens started rolling out in the EU in March 2024. Since then, they have slowly started appearing for:New and existing Android smartphones and tablet users with Chrome pre-set as a default browser (t…
Lees meerWho decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environm…
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