This week's episode of the In the News podcast starts with a short discussion of the release of iOS 15.6 and a related discussion on AirTags. Next, we discuss iPhone privacy: should the government be allowed to force users to...
Lees meerBrandon Williams and Stephen Celis: An interesting feature of NavigationPath is that it is capable of encoding and decoding itself to JSON, even though all of its type information has been erased. This is powerful because it makes state restoration …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I believe this issue started with iOS 14 and macOS 11, but in any case it definitely happens now with every iOS 15 and macOS 12 update, including today’s iOS 15.6 and macOS 12.5 updates, on every device I own. (I think Apple stopped re…
Lees meerCatherine Thorbecke (via Hacker News): In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become so widespread that an entire generation of consumers may not be able to remember a time without i…
Lees meerSAP: Privileges for macOS is designed to allow users to work as a standard user for day-to-day use, by providing a quick and easy way to get administrator rights when needed. When you do need admin rights, you can get them by clicking on the Privile…
Lees meerTextExpander: TextExpander, a developer of productivity software, today announced a $41.4 million financing round and the addition of SaaS industry leader J.D. Mullin as the company’s new CEO. The financing is led by global growth equity investor Su…
Lees meerReuters, in February: Zendesk Inc (ZEN.N), the software company under activist shareholder pressure to abandon its $3.9 billion all-stock acquisition of the parent of online survey portal SurveyMonkey, said on Thursday it had rejected an acquisition…
Lees meerTomas Kafka: Interactive chart, just in time for summer trips! Need to know the exact conditions for a given hour? Long press the chart to show all the data, or press and slide your finger over the chart to “scrub” through the forecast. Between this…
Lees meerJuli Clover: macOS Monterey 12.5 adds a bug fix for a Safari tab issue and it adds the option to restart, pause, rewind, or fast-forward a live sports game that’s in progress. Apple’s release notes for the update are below. You can download the inst…
Lees meerGannon Burgett: Drobo was founded in San Jose, California back in May 2005 under the name Data Robotics. Over the years, its line of Drobo products took hold in the data storage market, offering simple solutions for anyone needing to store and back …
Lees meerIgniteTech (via Rich Siegel, Hacker News): IgniteTech™, the company “Where Software Goes to Live™,” today announced a transition of two software products from the ESW Capital portfolio to IgniteTech. Two solutions previously managed under the DevGra…
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