Joseph Cox (tweet): I hadn’t been SIM swapped, where hackers trick or bribe telecom employees to port a target’s phone number to their own SIM card. Instead, the hacker used a service by a company called Sakari, which helps businesses do SMS marketi…
Lees meerrachelbythebay (Hacker News): A couple of weeks ago, I read a post about how the “sealed system” on Big Sur was hurting people. I kind of skimmed through it and figured it was mostly complaining about the size of the download. For whatever reason, t…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The first gigabyte or so of the update has to be downloaded direct from Apple’s servers[…] For M1 Macs these are marked out so that they can’t be obtained from the Content Caching Server. The size of this additional directly downloade…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Amazon even called their rip-off the same name — “Everyday Sling” — although they’ve since changed the name to “Camera Bag”. The crew at Peak Design did the right thing in response: they mercilessly mocked Amazon in this video. Previous…
Lees meerWilliam Turton and Mark Gurman: When it initially removed Parler from the App Store in January, Apple asked the social network to change its moderation practices. Apple said that Parler’s new community guidelines, released when the service came back…
Lees meerTim and David discuss Cassette Tapes and the inventor, Lou Ottens who recently passed away, faux-AirPods, iPod vs iPhone as a music player, and The post TechFan Podcast 452 – Cassette appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerRecorded 7th March 2021 This week Simon is joined by Nick, Jim and Steve (of Geeks Corner) to ponder the demise of the iMac The post Essential Apple Podcast 212: So long iMac Pro appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerI often share stories of people who used an Apple Watch in a dire circumstance, and this one has a new twist: ice. A teacher in New Hampshire who is an experienced ice skater fell through the ice and could...
Lees meerI often share stories of people who used an Apple Watch in a dire circumstance, this one has a new twist: ice. A teacher in New Hampshire who is an experienced ice skater fell through the ice and could not...
Lees meerBen Thompson: In short, Roblox isn’t a game at all: it is world in which one of the things you can do is play games, with a persistent identity, persistent set of friends, persistent money, all disconnected from the device that you use to access the…
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