Ben Lovejoy: Twitter’s latest bonehead move has led to a flurry of scam authenticator apps, with at least one of them using App Store advertising to figure prominently in search results – and then sending all scanned QR codes to the developer’s anal…
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Lees meerJoe Rossignol: The latest cautionary tale was shared this week by a Reddit user in California, who claimed that the iPhone 14 Pro Max and Apple Watch Ultra they ordered through Apple’s online store with same-day delivery was falsely marked as delive…
Lees meerWe’ve known that Google pays Apple billions for Google searches from Safari, but I had missed that Google is also paying for searches made through Chrome. Bloomberg (in 2020, via Chance Miller): Apple also gets a slice of revenue from searches made …
Lees meerBrady Eidson and Jen Simmons (Hacker News): Today also brings the first beta of Safari 16.4. It’s a huge release, packed with over 135 features in WebKit — including RegExp lookbehind assertions, Import Maps, OffscreenCanvas, Media Queries Range Syn…
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Lees meerMiles Wolbe: Some contacts would not export to vCard from Contacts.app, instead exhibiting the following behavior:when clicked and dragged alone, the resulting file, “Contact.vcf”, was zero KBwhen clicked and dragged with unaffected contact(s), affe…
Lees meerSteve Bennett (Hacker News): Today, Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the costs for developers utilising the Bing Search API starting from 1st May 2023, and the rise is quite substantial in a move that shows some similarities to what T…
Lees meerMark Zuckerberg (Hacker News): [This] week we’re starting to roll out Meta Verified -- a subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to b…
Lees meerTim and David discuss the bloatware in Samsung phones, GameStop’s latest problems, faux-AI chatbot, entitled YouTube creators, YouTube Music, Apple Music, PS VR2, and
Lees meerWell it’s been an interesting week in which potential calamity after calamity occurred and we’re tempted to say thank you, since not much else
Lees meerWho’d have thought Bing would be the hottest and most talked-about tech product in 2023?
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (MacRumors): Whereas previously installing an iOS beta required a special profile, that process will now be tied to the developer’s Apple ID. […] “Your iPhone or iPad must be signed in with the same Apple ID you used to enroll in the…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: As before, when you’re viewing a Mastodon page in another instance, clicking the extension icon in Safari’s toolbar opens that page in your own instance. On the other hand, when you’re viewing a Mastodon page in your own instance, clic…
Lees meerJim Carroll: People also need to understand they can do their own instance and avoid all this server migration stuff in their Mastodon home going down or becoming unstable. Having a domain-name-related instance that belongs to you negates any of the…
Lees meerSveinbjörn Þórðarson (Hacker News): Sloth is a native Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files and sockets. It’s open-source. See als…
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