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Apple has been in the news this week because of iPhone security. As noted by Katie Benner of the New York Times, Attorney General William Barr stated that he needed Apple's help to access information on an iPhone used by...

Fun With Charts: A Decade of Apple Growth

Steve Bannon: ‘If I Were the Guys at Apple I Would Pay Attention to the President’s Tweets. I Would Treat His Tweets as a Papal Bull.’

Steve Bannon: ‘If I Were the Guys at Apple I Would Pay Attention to the President’s Tweets. I Would Treat His Tweets as a Papal Bull.’

Wireless Networks Pose No Known Health Risk

AppleScript to Export Open Safari Tabs to OmniFocus

Jesse Squires: I am often in a situation where I have a number of tabs open in Safari. I may be reading a collection of blog posts about how to implement a new iOS API, or I may be researching something I need, like new running shoes. I cannot alway…

Typewriter Keylogger

Kyle Mizokami (via Espionage News): The NSA eventually shipped all of the electronics located at the embassy back to the U.S. for study. They struck gold: parts inside an IBM Selectric typewriter had been cleverly duplicated but rigged to transmit t…

Why Wireless Networks Pose No Known Health Risk

Glenn Fleishman: More recently, the Chicago Tribune published the results of testing from a firm it had hired to check if emissions from modern smartphones truly fell below FCC safety limits. In those tests, many appeared to exceed regulatory limits…

Bluetooth LE Audio

Bluetooth SIG (MacRumors, Hacker News): As the names suggest, Classic Audio operates on the Bluetooth Classic radio while LE Audio operates on the Bluetooth Low Energy radio. […] LE Audio will include a new high-quality, low-power audio codec, the L…

Low Power Mode for Mac Laptops

Marco Arment: In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction, I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. […] Apple’s customers don’t u…

The Security of Safari Extensions

Jeff Johnson: Every Safari extension that runs JavaScript — in other words, almost every Safari extension — will have these same warnings, so what are users supposed to do with the warnings? Avoid Safari extensions entirely? Then why does Apple prov…

Aerial Screensaver and Catalina

Guillaume Louel (via Tanner Bennett): In macOS Catalina, 3rd party screensavers are now running in a sandboxed container which limits everything. As of right now there are no workarounds for many of the restrictions. […] Aerial can only write in the…

The Dark Side of Dark Mode and Night Shift

Adam Engst (tweet, Hacker News): Unfortunately, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mode’s benefits fly in the face of the science of human visual perception. Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way. The hum…

‘We Reject the Characterization That Apple Has Not Provided Substantive Assistance in the Pensacola Investigation’

Barr Asks Apple to Unlock Pensacola Killer’s Phones, Setting Up Clash

‘We Reject the Characterization That Apple Has Not Provided Substantive Assistance in the Pensacola Investigation’

Barr Asks Apple to Unlock Pensacola Killer’s Phones, Setting Up Clash

Disney+ Was the Most Downloaded App in the US in Q4 2019

Astros Manager and G.M. Fired Over Cheating Scandal

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Apple’s One Remaining Use of the Word ‘Macintosh’