Voice Dream Reader Switches to Subscriptions

Jonathan Mosen: Unfortunately, the relationship between Voice Dream Reader’s new owners and its engaged user base got off to a rocky start. Members of the online blind community did not find out about the sale of Voice Dream Reader last year from ei…

Music App Links in EU

Apple (Hacker News): 3.1.1(a): Updated to include Music Streaming Services Entitlements. The new guideline reads: 3.1.1(a) Link to Other Purchase Methods: Developers may apply for entitlements to provide a link in their app to a website the develope…

Allowing iOS Game Emulators and Mini Apps

Apple (Hacker News): 4.7: Added games from retro game console emulator apps to the list of permitted software, and clarifies that mini apps and mini games must be HTML5. Sweet! The new guideline reads: 4.7 Mini apps, mini games, streaming games, cha…

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TechFan 505 – Shoplifting Ink

Tim and David discuss the changes to Roku, and why Tim won’t buy another product from them. Plus, Amazon kills Just Walk About stores, The post TechFan 505 – Shoplifting Ink appeared first on MyMac.com.

Embedding a Privacy Manifest Into an XCFramework

Joe Heck (Mastodon): I expected documentation at least, and was hoping for an update in Xcode – specifically the xcodebuild command – to add an option that accepted a path to a manifest and included it appropriately. So far, nothing from Apple on th…

Macs Targeted by Infostealer Malware

Jamf Threat Labs: While searching for “Arc Browser” on Google, it was brought to our attention that following the sponsored result for what seems to be the legitimate Arc web browser, actually brings you to a malicious site aricl[.]net that imitates…

Recalling Apple v. Qualcomm

Reed Albergotti (via Eric Migicovsky): One of the first stories I covered then was Apple’s lawsuit against Qualcomm, which was accused of having a wireless modem monopoly and overcharging companies for the device. Apple paid Qualcomm about $7 per ph…

Trying to Bring Apple Watch to Android

Chance Miller (Hacker News): As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it at one point considered creating an Apple Watch for Android. The company tells me that it spent three years working on bringing Appl…

The ‘xz’ Back Door

Google Podcasts Is Gone

David Pierce: Google Podcasts is dead. It has been dying for months, since Google announced last fall that it was killing its dedicated podcast app in order to focus all its podcasting efforts on YouTube Music. This is a bad idea and a big downgrade…

AV1 Integer Overflow

Paul Ducklin (tweet): The security vulnerablities themselves turn out to be a single bug, or at least to be covered by a single bug identifier, CVE-2024-1580, which was found and reported by Nick Galloway, a researcher in Google’s Project Zero bug-h…

New FileVault Recovery Keys and GoFetch

Howard Oakley: macOS Sonoma 14.4 and 14.4.1 updates have been prompting some users to create a new FileVault Recovery Key. If you see this as your Mac completes an update, here’s what you should next. […] If your Mac has FileVault turned on, and you…

GoFetch

GoFetch (PDF, Hacker News): GoFetch is a microarchitectural side-channel attack that can extract secret keys from constant-time cryptographic implementations via data memory-dependent prefetchers (DMPs). We show that DMPs are present in many Apple C…

Seven Years of APFS

Howard Oakley: Although APFS has certainly had its moments over the last seven years, Apple’s gambles have paid off, and proved key to the success of Apple silicon Macs. Had there been no APFS, many of the fundamental technologies like Secure Boot a…

A Disk So Full, It Couldn’t Be Restored

Glenn Fleishman (Mastodon): Turned out, my kid had managed a neat trick, though they were not alone: they had filled macOS’s startup volume storage so full that the operating system was incapable of deleting files in any fashion. Instead of halting …

Checking Bootable Systems Using bputil

Howard Oakley: Apple gives the user control over the level of security to be used, in Startup Security Utility, in Recovery. For this to work with boot volume groups (BVGs), each must have its own set of boot security policies, determined by its Loc…

Apple’s Problem With Lina Khan

Matt Stoller (ArsTechnica): As part of the claim outside of the smartphone, the Antitrust Division asserted that “Apple’s conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech. For example, Apple is rapidly expanding its r…

Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Google to Delete Search Data From Tens of Millions of Users Who Used ‘Incognito’ Mode in Chrome

Yahoo Is Acquiring Artifact, Folding It Into Yahoo News