Florian Köhler (via Ken Harris): For whatever reason, a few months later, in September 2002, a MySQL developer decided to push a one-byte commit UTF8 now works with up to 3 byte sequences only to the repository and change the allowed bytes from six …
Lees meerAshley Carman: All the industry’s major players have, over the past two years, acquired companies focused on one feature: inserting ads into podcasts. […] The industry is sprinting toward this programmatic advertising future. However, there are some…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (Hacker News): Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the pr…
Lees meerPhilip Elmer-DeWitt, quoting Bernstein (via Dave Mark, Hacker News): We now forecast that Google’s payments to Apple might be nearly $15B in FY 21, contribute an amazing ~850 bps to Services growth YoY, and amount to ~9% of company gross profits. [……
Lees meerThe first episode of the In the News podcast for 2022 is now available. After talking about Apple's 15 years of supporting PRODUCT(RED), Brett and I discuss one of the big themes from CES this past week: new home automation...
Lees meerKuba Suder (tweet): It was hard to figure out the purpose and intended use of each kind of button, and there were hardly any clues inside Xcode itself. So I decided to do some research to find some tips about what each button is for. I put together …
Lees meerZak Doffman (via John Wilander): Facebook goes even further, using the accelerometer on your iPhone to track a constant stream of your movements, which can easily be used to monitor your activities or behaviors at times of day, in particular places,…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple’s former Director of Mac System Architecture Jeff Wilcox this week announced that he has left Apple to take on a new role at Intel. As noted on LinkedIn (via Tom’s Hardware), Wilcox was part of Apple’s M1 team and he…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers today granted Apple’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the company by Jay Freeman, creator of an alternative App Store known as Cydia for “jailbroken” iPhones and iPads. Previously: Cydia Sues App…
Lees meerTechieFreddie (via Dave Mark): macos used to have intro videos, here’s their history! These are the videos that would play during installation, from Mac OS 8 through Snow Leopard. Previously: Default macOS Wallpapers 21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs…
Lees meerTrying to move podcasts to web-like “industry standard advertising” is worse than violating the spirit of *If it ain’t broke don’t fix it* — this is breaking something that definitely works for something we know doesn’t.
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