Nick Wingfield on Sonos as an Acquisition Target (and a Juicy Tidbit Regarding a Former Apple Exec Who Wanted to Acquire Them)

Nick Wingfield on Sonos as an Acquisition Target (and a Juicy Tidbit Regarding a Former Apple Exec Who Wanted to Acquire Them)

Bezel 2.5.1

MacStories: Bezel [Web site] is one of those simple, easy-to-use apps that feels like it should have been made years ago. The one-line summary of Bezel is that it mirrors your iPhone screen to your Mac. But it actually does much more than that, elev…

Gravy Analytics Hacked

Joseph Cox: Hackers claim to have compromised Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel which has sold masses of smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers said they have stolen a massive amount of data, including customer lis…

Brazil Fines Apple Over FaceApp

Filipe Espósito (AppleInsider): Apple and Google have been fined R$19 million (about US$3.1 million) in Brazil after a judge ruled that the companies contributed to allowing the controversial photo editor FaceApp to improperly collect data from its …

Treasury Department Hacked

Lawrence Abrams (Slashdot): Chinese state-sponsored threat actors hacked the U.S. Treasury Department after breaching a remote support platform used by the federal agency.[…]“Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China…

‘47 Years Later, the Palisades Disappeared Overnight’

Volume 1 of Jack Smith’s Special Counsel Report Flatly States Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

Volume 1 of Jack Smith’s Special Counsel Report Flatly States Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

Bananas Bloomberg Report: ‘China Weighs Sale of TikTok’s US Operations to Elon Musk’

[Sponsor] Protect Your App With WorkOS Radar

Sonos Canned CEO Patrick Spence, Who Spearheaded Disastrous App Launch

Mastodon Is Transferring Its Ownership to a New Non-Profit

★ One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps

The notion that mobile web apps are closing the gap with native apps is laughable. The gulf between them is widening, not narrowing.

‘Free Our Feeds’

★ One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps

The notion that mobile web apps are closing the gap with native apps is laughable. The gulf between them is widening, not narrowing.

This Remote Has Me Questioning Everything

Matt Birchler: I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, …

Mac Toolbar Guidelines

Mario Guzmán (Mastodon, Bluesky): The following sections are general guidelines that describe fundamental Toolbar layout and design principles for Mac applications. Following these guidelines will help you create functional and aesthetically pleasin…

What Happened to APFS Fast Directory Sizing?

John Siracusa: Has anyone successfully enabled Fast Directory Sizing on a directory on an APFS volume in macOS and then confirmed that it works using dirstat_np? Jim Luther: That’s one of those promised features I was referring to that never really …

Accessibility That Fits

Soroush Khanlou: Building a design that’s responsive to both its contents and its environment is a one of the primary challenges of robust user interface programming. There are some false gods out there and some legitimate best practices. However, I…

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed