★ Wonder Twin Powers

Telling an app to `activate` via AppleScript only brings the app’s frontmost window forward in MacOS 12.

‘Not a Damn Thing’

The Facial Recognition Search Engine Apocalypse Is Coming

Atlanta Apple Store Employees Drop Bid for Union Vote Next Week

Apple Developer App 10.0

Apple (MacRumors): Welcome to the latest version of the Apple Developer app — your resource to help you create great apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, and the best way to experience WWDC. […] The Developer app now supports Share…

DuckDuckGo Browser Allows Microsoft Trackers

thezedwards: The new @DuckDuckGo browsers for iOS/Android don’t block Microsoft data flows, for LinkedIn or Bing. Shivan Kaul Sahib (via Hacker News): DuckDuckGo has a search deal with Microsoft which prevents them from blocking MS trackers. And the…

Turning a Basic Task Into a Complicated Nightmare

John Gruber: Last weekend The Verge ran a piece by Sean Hollister under the headline “Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery”. […] One possible explanation for the complexity and heft of Apple’s self repair toolkit …

AirPods Amber Alerts Lawsuit

Juli Clover: Apple’s AirPods ruptured the eardrums of a 12-year-old boy in 2020 when a loud Amber Alert was issued, according to a lawsuit filed against Apple in California (via Law360).[…]The AirPods Pro were allegedly set at a low volume, but an A…

Texas Police Lieutenant Says Cops Were Reluctant to Engage Gunman Because ‘They Could’ve Been Shot’

The Good Guys With Guns Did Nothing While Texas Gunman Murdered 19 Fourth Graders and 2 Teachers; Unarmed Mother Rescued Kids on Her Own

Yankees and Rays Collaborate Social Media Accounts to Talk About Gun Violence in America

In the News

June starts in just a few days, and in celebration of Pride month, Apple has released two new Pride Edition bands for the Apple Watch in support of the LGBTQ+ community. Rikka Altland of 9to5Mac shows what the new bands...

‘Dry Martini’

★ The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task

If you could properly replace an iPhone battery with a couple of simple tools, Apple would surely just send you the simple tools. But if that were the case there’d be no need for this program.

DuckDuckGo Browser — But Not Search — Special-Cases Microsoft Trackers Due to Search Agreement

★ The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task

If you could properly replace an iPhone battery with a couple of simple tools, Apple would surely just send you the simple tools. But if that were the case there’d be no need for this program.

Code Injection with Dyld Interposing

Noah Martin: Swizzling handles Objective-C methods, but cannot be used for C/C++ functions. Non-Obj-C lower level calls can be useful for reverse engineering iOS apps, but sometimes you need to intercept them in an app that you don’t have the source…

Swift @_assemblyVision

Karl (via Ron Avitzur): There is a super-hidden feature in the compiler which gives you insight in to all kinds of optimisation decisions: such as the cost-benefit calculations for inlining, where exclusivity is enforced, where ARC operations happen…

DOJ Will No Longer Charge Security Researchers

Adi Robertson (in June 2021): The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a controversial anti-hacking law which bans “exceeding authorized access” on a computer system, was narrowed by the Supreme Court on Thursday in a 6-3 ruling. The court said the …

Will Disk Utility Ever Work Properly?

Howard Oakley: When Apple developed APFS, it decided neither to make it open source, nor to document it sufficiently to help third parties develop their own utilities for its maintenance. In doing so, it made a commitment to its users that Apple its…

‘Our Moloch’