The Information: Apple in Early Talks With NFL for ‘Sunday Ticket’ Streaming Rights

Pulse Network Logger Goes Open Source

Alex Grebenyuk (tweet): Pulse is a powerful logging system for Apple Platforms. Native. Built with SwiftUI. Record and inspect network requests and logs right from your iOS app using Pulse Console. Share and view logs in Pulse macOS app. Logs are re…

Open-sourcing the Micro.blog Apps

Manton Reece: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the longevity of Micro.blog and where we need help to continue to grow the platform and community. As we approach 4 years since the public launch, there are some parts of the platform and supportin…

Apple Music Lobotomizes Siri

Dave Scocca: I have an iTunes library of almost 15,000 songs, mostly ripped from my CDs but with a number of iTunes store purchases. I have a 256 GB iPhone to allow me to have my music with me, and my new-ish Civic has CarPlay. It used to be great–I…

Woz on Right to Repair

Derek Wise (Hacker News): Apple is often brought up when talking about right to repair, usually in reference to their anti-repair practices. In response to a Cameo request, Steve Wozniak spoke for almost 10 minutes on the importance of right to repa…

Migrating 2FA Codes From Authy to iCloud Keychain

Dan Moren: Nice as it would be if Apple’s new system could simply import all your codes from Authy—or other apps like Google Authenticator—it doesn’t seem as though that’s an option for that at present, which isn’t entirely surprising given the secu…

Another Western Digital 0-Day

Brian Krebs (Hacker News): But there is a similarly serious zero-day flaw present in a much broader range of newer Western Digital MyCloud network storage devices that will remain unfixed for many customers who can’t or won’t upgrade to the latest o…

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Generic Test Classes in Xcode 12.5

Jon Reid: Once or twice in my career, I’ve written an abstract test suite as a superclass, where the subclasses provide some sort of factory method. Then all the test cases in that suite get repeated for the specific instances. I do this all the tim…

Panic’s 2016 App Store Feedback

Internal Tech Emails: Panic’s @cabel shares App Store thoughts with Phil Schiller Some of these sentences seem very familiar, so I wonder if this e-mail has been published before, though I can’t seem to find the link. In any event, what a good commu…

Microsoft’s April 1998 Meeting With Steve Jobs

Internal Tech Emails has an interesting letter from Microsoft’s Ben Waldman that discusses negotiations over ClarisWorks (Apple agreed not to advertise their own product and instead preload a video promoting Microsoft Office), QuickTime, and Interne…

WWDC 2014 Video With Larry David

Sam Henri-Gold: today’s vibe: scrapped WWDC 2014 intro film feat. Larry David, JB Smoove, and Evan Spiegel See also: YouTube. John Gruber: One joke that might have played as funny in 2014 but wouldn’t in 2021 is the central conceit of the video — th…

Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787

Ruben Santamarta (PDF): IOActive has documented our detailed attack paths and component vulnerabilities to describe the first plausible, detailed public attack paths to effectively reach the avionics network on a commercial airplane from either non-…

Backblaze Computer Backup 8.0

Yev Pusin: Our latest version is pretty great: It cranks up the speed—letting you upload at whatever rate your local system can attain—all while reducing stress on key elements of your computer by an order of magnitude. […] We’ve also re-architected…

iOS: Closing of the Frontier

Francisco Tolmasky: I think the @AppStore may represent a “Closing of the Frontier” moment (in the American history “Frontier Thesis” sense) that may in part explain the dramatic slowdown in UI and UX innovation in iOS (and even more so in iPadOS) f…

GitHub Copilot and Copyright

Rian Hunter (via Hacker News): I do not agree with GitHub’s unauthorized and unlicensed use of copyrighted source code as training data for their ML-powered GitHub Copilot product. This product injects source code derived from copyrighted sources in…

GitHub Copilot and API Keys

Mohammed Abubakar: For starters, it’s an assistant that can help you with better code suggestions, but it has been recently brought to notice that the AI is leaking API keys that are valid and still functional. First reported by a SendGrid engineer,…

Trump Files Class Action Lawsuits Targeting Facebook, Google, and Twitter Over ‘Censorship’ of Conservatives

Apple to Decentralize From Silicon Valley

Mark Gurman: Just a few years after completing the multibillion-dollar Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. is ramping up efforts to decentralize out of Silicon Valley. I’m told that executives at the highest levels of the co…

Audacity’s New Privacy Policy

Tim Hardwick: Two months ago, Audacity was acquired by Muse Group, which owns other audio-related projects including the Ultimate Guitar website and the MuseScore app. According to Fosspost, changes to the privacy policy section on the Audacity webs…