Timothy B. Lee (via Hacker News): When I clicked through to individual product pages, I found that most of those hundreds of positive reviews were for products other than can openers[…] […] Apparently, shady merchants gain control of Amazon pages fo…
Lees meerWojciech Reguła: This vulnerability has been disclosed on @Hack in Saudi Arabia in 20+ Ways To Bypass Your Macos Privacy Mechanisms presentation. In the end, it allowed impersonating TCC entitlements of any application installed on the device. […] A…
Lees meerAndy Kroll (via Bruce Schneier): But in a previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone, the bureau claims that it’s particularly easy to harvest data from Facebook’s WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage services, as long as the FBI has a wa…
Lees meerSteve Hayman (Hacker News, MacRumors): In retrospect, the tech involved in the merger wound up being so one-sided that many people say “NeXT actually bought Apple for negative $400,000,000.” A few years later, something like 70% of Apple’s VPs were …
Lees meeriA Writer: We get a lot of support requests because, on installation, @Grammarly for Mac kills system spell-checking in all other apps (including iA Writer). Deleting Grammarly won’t restore the spell-checking. You have to manually do it using Termi…
Lees meerParty Time (Oh no, sorry… Essential Work Meeting). Jeff Gamet, GazMaz, Patrice Brendamour and Mark join the regulars Nick, Simon and Jim to just The post Essential Apple Podcast 248: Essential Christmas Party Work Meeting appeared first on MyMac.com…
Lees meerNathan Leamer: Four years ago today the FCC rightly repealed #netneutrality regulations. And guess what? The Internet works fine. But never forget the hyperbolic predictions. Thread below Karl Bode (tweet): This week a coalition of infotainment outl…
Lees meerAnish Athalye (via Hacker News): Microsoft PhotoDNA creates a “unique digital signature” of an image which can be matched against a database containing signatures of previously identified illegal images like CSAM. The technology is used by companies…
Lees meerJustine Tunney (Hacker News): The SectorLISP project has achieved its goal of creating a LISP that’s tiny enough to fit in the master boot sector of a floppy disk. To the best of our knowledge, this is the tiniest LISP to date. Since a master boot r…
Lees meerRoss Cohen (via Hacker News): If a string substitution is attempted for any reason on the following string, it will trigger an infinite recursion, and the application will crash: ${${::-${::-$${::-j}}}}. This is fixed in Log4j 2.17. xg15: So, let me…
Lees meerLuca Bernardi (via Dave Verwer): SwiftUI has a new, pretty cool, debugging utility to help you understand what is causing a view to be reevaluated. Call Self._printChanges() inside the body of a view to print out the changes that have triggered the …
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