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Lees meerCory Doctorow (via Bruce Schneier): Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Joseph Menn published an in-depth investigation into Trustcor, a certificate authority that is trusted by default by Safari, Chrome and Firefox:Menn’s report is alarming. Working f…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Apple today released iOS 16.1.1 for all users. While the release notes for the update say nothing about new features or major changes, there’s a significant one coming for users in China. Jess Weatherbed: Apple has placed time restr…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 16.1.1 fixes a few unspecified bugs that iPhone users have been dealing with, according to Apple’s release notes. Users have been afflicted with widespread Wi-Fi bug, for example. The Wi-Fi bug resulted in random disconnects, with s…
Lees meerJuli Clover (full installer, IPSW): macOS Ventura 13.0.1 is a bug fix update, and it addresses two security vulnerabilities that could allow for unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution by a remote user. Neither was known to have been …
Lees meerAffinity (Hacker News): Wielding hundreds of timesaving improvements and a completely redesigned UI that will optimise your workflow, V2 is heralding in a new creative era. […] Experience the full power of Version 2 of Affinity apps with the Univers…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: At the time, I suggested a workaround involving manual ejection of Time Machine backup snapshots[…] Looking in the hidden folder of snapshots on that Mac, there were no longer any listed as mounted for backups. Although that may not b…
Lees meerJason Snell: [There’s] no way to share albums in iCloud Shared Photos. All the photos can be shared, but the concept of an album is currently limited to a single Apple ID. […] Every item in the Photos library can be assigned a keyword, and keywords …
Lees meerThomas Germain: The iPhone Analytics setting makes an explicit promise. Turn it off, and Apple says that it will “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether.” However, Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, two app developers and security researche…
Lees meerTwitter has lots of problems, but it also has the advantages of lots of users I want to follow and some great client apps. I also haven’t been impressed with the alternatives. However, some people I follow are leaving for Mastodon and cohost, so I’m…
Lees meerJoel Bruner: Lockdown mode is new feature for macOS Ventura and for many MacAdmins we’ve been wondering how to detect this state. Why? Lockdown mode affects how macOS and Mac apps behave. This is something a helpdesk might like to know when trying t…
Lees meerRoger González Gutiérrez (via Hacker News): Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides.[…]Make a new slide with a title of your choice. Choose “Designer.” Look at your network traffic as you do.It makes sense: the tool is readin…
Lees meerWojciech Kulik (Hacker News): If you add @MainActor attribute to a function, it is not the same as wrapping the whole method in DispatchQueue.main.async. If your method contains await keyword, the code will be split into two pieces – one before awai…
Lees meerThis month Bart is joined by Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Podcast, and Scott Willsey from the Friends with Brews Podcast. The show starts
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