Jonas Dreßler (via Hacker News): There’s a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-27867) in the firmware of Apple AirPods. Anyone who knows the Bluetooth MAC address (which is somewhat public) can connect to your AirPods and listen to the microphone or pl…
Lees meerChrome Security Team (via Jeff Johnson, Hacker News): Over the past six years, we have observed a pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incid…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In a WWDC 2024 coding video last week, Apple highlighted a recently-introduced API that allows developers to offer built-in Translate app capabilities in their own apps on iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS Sonoma, and later. Apple: Discove…
Lees meerRyan Jones: Deleting any iMessage media from your device storage (i.e. Mac or iPhone) also deletes it from the cloud forever.Even when:Messages in the Cloud is OnKeep Messages is ForeverYou’re in local storage managementApple you gotta clarify these…
Lees meerGreg Pierce: FB14170572: Add “Date Deceased” field to Contact records Louie Mantia: When I worked on iTunes, we briefly discussed inheriting purchased music, but we didn’t build anything for it. Product teams may never prioritize legacy-related feat…
Lees meerArno Gourdol (2006, via Lobsters): However, we soon started realizing that the Finder backend would be useful outside of the Finder. Therefore, a plan was hatched to someday make it available as a public API. Since I had previously been responsible …
Lees meerEmanuel Maiberg (tweet, Hacker News): The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool after a user showed that it was clearly copying Apple’s weather app. Figma disabled the feature, named Make Design, after CEO and co…
Lees meerGarrett Murray: I had no idea the “filter unknown senders” setting for Messages did much more than it implies. It actually creates a root-level menu that gives you several filter views that are very useful… why isn’t this enabled by default? The fil…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.0.5 is a maintenance release for my Mac e-mail spam filter. It seems to work great with the current macOS Sequoia beta, though I expect another update will be required when Apple releases the AI-enabled beta of Mail later this summer. Un…
Lees meerNathan Manceaux-Panot: Haven’t seen this mentioned yet: in macOS Sequoia, you can open a context menu by pressing ⌃⏎, for the current selection. Very nice—Windows has had this for ages! The shortcut is Control-Return. I’m looking forward to this, si…
Lees meerMing-Chi Kuo (tweet, via Hacker News): Increasing the energy density of the battery cells will increase the battery temperature when running. To avoid overheating the battery, Apple uses the stainless steel battery case for the first time as a therm…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said this week that machine-learning companies can scrape most content published online and use it to train neural networks because it’s essentially “freeware.”Shortly afterwards the Center …
Lees meerApple is focusing on what it can do that no one else can on Apple devices, and not really even trying to compete against ChatGPT *et al.* for world-knowledge context. They’re focusing on unique differentiation, and eschewing commoditization.
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