Swift Pitch: Observation

Philippe Hausler: There are already a few mechanisms for observation in Swift. Some of these include Key Value Observing (KVO), or ObservableObject; but those are relegated to in the case of KVO to just NSObject descendants, and ObservableObject req…

UNAlertStyle Restricted

Patrick Wardle: If a tool notifies the user via macOS’s notification center the style can no longer be programmatically set to alert …only banner.Banners are automatically dismissed which breaks security alert requiring user interaction! 🥲Note: Appl…

C xor C++ Programming

Aaron Ballman (PDF via John Regehr, Steve Canon): It is not uncommon to hear about C/C++ programming as a shorthand for “C and C++” programming. This implies that C and C++ are similar, but distinct, programming languages with the obvious interpreta…

Twitter Suspends Accounts of Numerous Journalists, Presumably for Pissing off the Boss

★ If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?

After more than a day of digging through the DMA, I conclude mostly that while it might be well intentioned, it’s horribly written.

Jason Snell: ‘Answering the Burning Questions About Apple’s Reported App Store Plans’

★ If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?

After more than a day of digging through the DMA, I conclude mostly that while it might be well intentioned, it’s horribly written.

★ If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?

After more than a day of digging through the DMA, I conclude mostly that while it might be well intentioned, it’s horribly written.

One More for the ‘Everything Is Going Just Fine at Twitter’ File

Apple Considering Dropping WebKit Requirement

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): As part of a larger story about Apple’s plans to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone and iPad in EU countries, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claimed that Apple is also considering removing its requirement for iPhone and…

Apple Working on Sideloading for Europe

Juli Clover (Hacker News, Ars Technica, Slashdot): Apple is planning to allow for alternate app stores on iPhones and iPads ahead of European legislation that will require the company to support sideloading, reports Bloomberg.The change would allow …

Reddit Photo Album Overflows Int32

wejustcallitfood (via Hacker News): Congratulations to our -2,147,483,648 post!

Xcode 14.2

Apple (download, command-line tools, additional tools): Xcode 14.2 includes Swift 5.7 and SDKs for iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1, and macOS Ventura 13.1. The Xcode 14.2 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 11 and later, tvOS 1…

One More for the ‘Everything Is Going Just Fine at Twitter’ File

Platformer: Twitter Considering Making Personalized Ads and Location Sharing Mandatory

‘The Meadows Texts: A Plot to Overturn an American Election’

The Future of Foundation: A Rewrite in Swift

U.S. Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough

Swift Pitch: Predicates

Jeremy Schonfeld: We propose creating a new value type, Predicate, as part of the FoundationEssentials package, that addresses these problems. These new constructions of predicates will be expressed using standard Swift syntax elements and are fully…

macOS 13.1

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): Today’s macOS Ventura update introduces the Freeform app, designed to allow users to sketch, draw, and write on a blank whiteboard-style canvas that can be used with…

iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2

Juli Clover (security, developer): Today’s iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 updates bring several notable features to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, including the Freeform app, which is a sort of digital whiteboard that you can use for anything, while also working c…