Privacy and Security in macOS 14

WWDC 2023 session 10053: Even though the photos look like they are part of your app, they are rendered by the system and only shared when selected, so the user’s photos always remain in their control.[…]Prior to macOS Sonoma, when a user wants to sc…

ODNI Report on Commercially Available Information

Byron Tau and Dustin Volz: The vast amount of Americans’ personal data available for sale has provided a rich stream of intelligence for the U.S. government but created significant threats to privacy, according to a newly released report by the U.S.…

Snowden Ten Years Later

Matthew Green (in 2019, Hacker News): Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did Snowden just embaras…

Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)

Scott Forstall (Hacker News): I just discussed with Mark [Zuckerberg] how they should not include embedded apps in the Facebook iPad app--neither in an embedded web view or as a directory of links that would redirect to Safari.Not surprisingly, he w…

Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit Is Already Showing Results

Time Flies, Reddit-Scale

Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit Is Already Showing Results

Counterpoint: Flip Phones Are a Dumb Idea

Time Flies, Reddit-Scale

Microsoft Edge Sends Images You View to Microsoft

Taras Buria (via Slashdot): Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view…

Reddit API AMA and User Revolt

Sarah Perez (Hacker News): Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the i…

RIP Apple Mail Plug-ins

Adam Tow: I understand Apple’s reasoning behind this decision, and I am by no means advocating for the boycott of Apple, Mail, or anything like that.However, MailKit has not been improved enough to serve as a viable alternative for Mail Plug-In deve…

iA Presenter 1.1.2

John Gruber: iA Presenter is a presentation/slide deck creation tool where you write your deck using Markdown. But even though you’re creating with plain text, iA Presenter is, as you’d expect, an exquisite design tool. Information Architects: With …

Wiki-Style Links Between Notes in Apple Notes in iOS 17 and MacOS 14

[Sponsor] Kolide — Device Trust for Okta

Wiki-Style Links Between Notes in Apple Notes

Vision Pro Displays Run at 90 Hz, and 96 Hz for 24 FPS Video

Microsoft Edge Removes Button to Delete Cloud Data

Venkat (via Hacker News): Starting version 114, Microsoft Edge, no longer offers “reset sync” button that deletes data from Microsoft Servers. The button has been replaced with “Re-sync now” option. So if you’re privacy conscious, beware, there is n…

YouTube Tries to Shut Down Invidious

Andy Maxwell (via Mike Rockwell): The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube’s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTu…

Investing 10% to Pay Back Technical Debt

Alex Ewerlöf (via Christian Tietze, Hacker News): Almost everyone in the team had less experience than me (at least on paper) yet a simple task would take me multiple days longer than I thought. Yet, I felt dumb and helpless. […] You see, the leader…

SwiftData

Apple (Hacker News): Combining Core Data’s proven persistence technology and Swift’s modern concurrency features, SwiftData enables you to add persistence to your app quickly, with minimal code and no external dependencies. Using modern language fea…