‘Here’s Why I Decided to Buy “InfoWars”’

Mike Tyson Slaps Jake Paul in Face During Weigh-In

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars in Bankruptcy Auction

Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak

Norbert Heger: Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia. […] …

Thomas Kurtz, RIP

Valley News (Hacker News): Tom is well known as the co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language in 1964. A version of BASIC still exists today. John Kemeny and Tom had already developed a version of the Dartmouth Timesharing Sys…

Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac

Apple (MacRumors, MacStories): In Final Cut Pro 11, editors can access two all-new AI-powered tools: Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions. With Magnetic Mask, editors can effortlessly isolate people and objects in a video clip without the need f…

Google Drive Blackout in Italy

Andy Maxwell (via Hacker News): After blocking Cloudflare [link] to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecti…

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars in Bankruptcy Auction

Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer

Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer

Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer

App Store Connect 2.0

Juli Clover: App Store Connect 2.0 includes a refreshed UI throughout the app, as well as new capabilities. Developers are able to promote their apps by generating marketing assets for app launches, version updates, featured placements in the Today …

macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls

Norbert Heger: Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall produ…

Questioning EU Geo-Blocking Restrictions

Hartley Charlton: The European Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, today announced that it has formally notified Apple regarding potential breaches of the EU's anti-geo-blocking rules. […] According to …

OneDrive and Sequoia

Sergiu Gatlan: “Opening or saving files within Desktop or Documents folders can cause the file’s app to freeze. This occurs on macOS 15,” the company said in a Friday update to a support document tracking the recent issues in OneDrive.[…]Until a fix…

The Verge’s Compilation of Tech Leaders Congratulating Donald Trump

★ Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the ‘S’ Suffix

Apple’s S suffix for certain iPhone models — 3GS, 4S, 5S, 6S, XS — has always been problematic in this regard.

Claiming Time Machine Backups

Howard Oakley: Assuming that your old Mac made Time Machine backups, and you want your new Mac to continue doing so, now’s the time to connect that backup storage, if it wasn’t already used as the migration source. When you do, you’ll be offered two…

Misguided Apple Intelligence Ads

Adam Engst (Hacker News): A pair of new ads for Apple Intelligence portray the Writing Tools and Memories movies as tools for those unwilling to put in any effort.In the first ad, Apple Intelligence enables a goof-off who wastes time and annoys his …

Bodyreader v. Apple

Tim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that the case – the first of its kind to be heard in Beijing’s intellectual property court – bears similarities to Epic Games’ 2021 lawsuit against Apple. Bodyreader claims Apple unfairly removed their app citing “dis…

John Geleynse Retires From Apple

John Geleynse: Being a part of Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a lifetime. […] We released the platforms and tools that helped bring incredible products to life. We inspired developers to do some of the best work of their…