Apple Cracks Down on Apps With ‘Irrationally High Prices’ as App Store Scams Are Exposed

‘Smart’ TVs Track Everything You Watch

Nomination for Lede of the Year

Pfizer’s Vaccine Works Well With One Dose

Tucker Carlson Detects Other Suspicious Behaviors

‘Smart’ TVs Track Everything You Watch

Roku Streaming Devices Default to ‘Scary’ Privacy

Bruce Blackburn, Designer of Ubiquitous NASA Logo, Dies at 82

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

‘Smart’ TVs Track Everything You Watch

Roku Streaming Devices Default to ‘Scary’ Privacy

Apple TV+ Is Now Available on Google TV

‘Facebook Calls Australia’s Bluff’

‘The Bizarre Reaction to Facebook’s Decision to Get Out of the News Business in Australia’

Citibank’s $500 Million UI Lesson

Timothy B. Lee (via Hacker News): A federal judge has ruled that Citibank isn’t entitled to the return of $500 million it sent to various creditors last August. Kludgey software and a poorly designed user interface contributed to the massive screwup…

LastPass Pricing Changes

Dan DeMichele (via Jason Koebler, MacRumors, Hacker News): LastPass offers access across two device types – computers (including all browsers running on desktops and laptops) or mobile devices (including mobile phones, smart watches, and tablets). S…

2021 State of Mac Malware

Malwarebytes Labs (MacRumors): Overall Mac detections decreased by 38%, though Mac detections for businesses increased 31% Malware accounted for just 1.5% of all Mac detections in 2020—the rest can be attributed to Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP…

Mail Search vs. Big Sur’s Fast User Switching

John Gordon: In our case Ben and Emily both have non-admin accounts on her M1 Air running Big Sur 11.2.1 with fast user switching enabled. When Ben logs out Emily’s Mail search stops working. There’s no error message, but search does nothing and Sma…

Code Signing When Building on Apple Silicon

Quinn: codesign should choose the signing format based on the deployment target: If your deployment target is 10.11 or later, you get sha256. If your deployment target is earlier, you get both sha1 and sha256. This problem crops up because, when bui…

Why Reporting Bugs to Apple May Harm Software Quality

Howard Oakley (tweet): In recent years, I’ve grown concerned – as many of you have – at the increasing number of obvious bugs in release versions of macOS. In the last week or so, I’ve come across some real howlers: the Rich Text Spotlight importer …

‘I Miss My Bar’