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Weak Self: Closure Rules of Thumb

Christian Tietze: In Swift, you can weak-ify references to self in escaping closures, and then you need to deal with the case that the reference is gone when the block is called. Last month, Benoit Pasquier and Chris Downie presented different takes…

Amazon to Support ePub

Jason Snell: For years, Amazon has used the Mobipocket format (.mobi) rather than the ePub format for Kindle books. Recently it developed its own format, KF8 (and now KFX), and has been using that instead. Everyone else uses ePub. Publishers sell bo…

Time Machine Evolution and APFS

Howard Oakley: You don’t have to prepare an APFS volume, as Time Machine will do that for you, but I prefer to make one ready using Disk Utility. […] Time Machine will then prepare its backup volume by making another APFS volume using the case-sensi…

‘Watching You’ — New Privacy Ad From DuckDuckGo

‘Data Auction’ — New Privacy Ad From Apple

‘Data Auction’ — New Privacy Ad From Apple

Tim Cook's commencement speech to Gallaudet graduates (full text)

This past Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony for Gallaudet University, a university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students located in Washington, D.C. As Lauren Lumpkin of the Washington Post reports, A…

Molly White, Interviewed by Harvard Business Review: ‘Cautionary Tales From Cryptoland’

Matt Levine on ‘Yield Farming’

Bike 1.0

Jesse Grosjean (tweet, Hacker News): Bike is a macOS (11 and later) native outliner. Bike has good performance on big outlines. Bike uses open file formats and is scriptable too. Use Bike to record and process your ideas. […] Outliners are powerful …

Opt-Out App Store Subscription Increases

Apple (via Mark Gurman): Currently, when an auto-renewable subscription price is increased, subscribers must opt in before the price increase is applied. The subscription doesn’t renew at the next billing period for subscribers who didn’t opt in to …

PasswordWallet 4.8.13 for Mac

Selznick Scientific Software: The Toolbars now look correct in mac OS Big Sur.Ready for Apple Silicon! (M1)Improved Bonjour support for discovering other PasswordWallets on your local network.Fixed an issue with the Entry Editor when in “separate-wi…

Xcode 13.4

Apple: Xcode 13.4 includes SDKs for iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and macOS Monterey 12.3. The Xcode 13.4 release supports on-device debugging for iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and later. Xcode 13.4 requires a Mac r…

iOS 15.5 makes it easier to spend money

Apple's annual WWDC conference is just a few weeks away, and on June 6, 2022, I expect Apple to preview iOS 16, which should be released this Fall. But that doesn't mean that Apple is done with iOS 15 yet,...

Nicholas Weaver: ‘Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”’

iOS 15.5 makes it easier to spend money

Apple's annual WWDC conference is just a few weeks away, and on June 6, 2022, I expect Apple to preview iOS 16, which should be released this Fall. But that doesn't mean that Apple is done with iOS 15 yet,...

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Apple Platform Security Guide (May 2022)

Apple (PDF): Unless otherwise noted, this documentation covers the following operating system versions: iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, and watchOS 8.5. Apple: Topics added:Paired recoveryOS restrictionsLocal Operating System Version (…

Studio Display Firmware 15.5

Juli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, the firmware refines camera tuning, offering improved noise reduction, contrast, and framing. We tested out the firmware update when it was in beta, and there is a clear difference in camera quality, …