iOS 17.1 Lock Screen Photo Album Shuffle

Zachary McAuliffe: Apple introduced Photo Shuffle for lock screen in iOS 16. However, you could only choose categories of photos in your library and camera roll, like People and Pets, or you could use the Select Photos Manually option and go through…

Mint.com Replaced by Credit Karma

Emma Roth (via Hacker News, Reddit): Intuit first acquired Mint in 2009, an app that has offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions. Now, Intuit is inviting users to Credit K…

Apple’s Trademark Exploit

GiovanH (via Hacker News): Apple puts its logo on the devices it sells: not just the outer casing, but also each internal component. The vast majority of these logos are totally enclosed and invisible to the naked eye. This seems like a strange prac…

★ The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros

These new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are the best laptops ever made. Not just the best MacBooks, the best laptops, full stop, and I don’t think it’s even close.

iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings

★ The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros

These new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are the best laptops ever made. Not just the best MacBooks, the best laptops, full stop, and I don’t think it’s even close.

‘Unexpected Baskerville: The Story of LoveFrom Serif’

New Features for Final Cut Pro for Mac and iPad

iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings

Google Photos’s Magic Editor Has Content Guardrails

Google Photos’s Magic Editor Has Guardrails

Trump’s Dark Plans for a Second Term

The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser, and Nishi Chitale (via Hacker News): Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering image…

iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly …

Microsoft Finalizes Activision Blizzard Acquisition

Dan Milmo (Hacker News, MacRumors): Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£57bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard, the maker of games including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, after the UK’s competition watchdog cleared the acquisition.The Competiti…

Swift Proposal: Pack Iteration

SE-0408: Currently, it is possible to express list operations on value packs using pack expansion expressions. This approach requires putting code involving statements into a function or closure. For example, limiting repetition patterns to expressi…

Daniel Dilger Was Rescued After a Bad Accident Thanks to Apple Watch Crash Detection

OpenAI DevDay Keynote

OpenAI DevDay Keynote

Mastering DOM Manipulation With Vanilla JavaScript

Phuoc Nguyen (via Hacker News): Web development moves at lightning speed. I still remember when I first started using libraries like jQuery, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Zepto, and many more. Even with modern tools like Angular, VueJS, React, Solid a…

Google Vertex AI Search

Brett Terpstra: So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s powe…