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Apple Stops Staingate Repairs After 4 Years

Joe Rossignol: Apple continues to authorize free display repairs for eligible MacBook and MacBook Pro models with anti-reflective coating issues for up to four years after the affected notebook’s original purchase date, the company said in an intern…

Flickr Needs More Paying Users

Connie Loizos (Hacker News): In an email tonight to users of Flickr who pay roughly $50 annually for the service, MacAskill has basically asked them if they know anyone else who might be interested in a yearly subscription to Flickr, explaining that…

Mac Bug Bounty Program Opens

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): As part of Apple’s commitment to security, we reward researchers who share critical issues with us through the Apple Security Bounty. You can now earn up to $1,500,000 and report issues on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, wa…

Project Connected Home Over IP

Apple (via Hacker News): The goal of the Connected Home over IP project is to simplify development for manufacturers and increase compatibility for consumers. The project is built around a shared belief that smart home devices should be secure, reli…

The Cub Programming Language

Louis D’hauwe: Cub is an interpreted, dynamically typed, scripting language inspired by Swift. This project includes a lexer, parser, compiler and interpreter, all written in Swift.Cub is used for OpenTerm’s scripting feature. A language guide is av…

Apple expands bug bounty program, offers rewards for bugs located across all of its operating systems

Apple on Friday announced that the company has officially opened its bug bounty program to all security researchers. This follow announcements at this year’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that Apple would be expanding the program later …

Flow II Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones – Review

Flow II Wireless Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Over Ear Headphones Cleer Audio $250 U.S. Nemo’s MyMac Best New Audio Product of 2019 You will love The post Flow II Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones – Review appeared first on MyMac.com.

★ Catalyst, Two Months In

In short, I remain unconvinced that *standard* UIKit iPad apps are a good starting point for good Mac apps. But it’s pretty obvious — and should have been right from the start — that *nonstandard* not-really-using-UIKit iPad apps make for a terrible…

Apple’s Updated Platform Security Site

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Apple’s Updated Platform Security Site

Apple’s New Platform Security Site

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel (MacRumors): [The data] didn’t come from a telecom or giant tech company, nor did it come from a governmental surveillance operation. It originated from a location data company, one of dozens quietly collecting …

Swift Evolution Pitch: Modify Accessors

Ben Cohen: We propose the introduction of a new keyword, modify, for implementing mutable computed properties and subscripts, alongside the current get and set. The bodies of modify implementations will be coroutines, and they will introduce a new c…

ML Super Resolution in Pixelmator Pro

Pixelmator Team: Until now, if you had opened up the Image menu and chosen Image Size, you would’ve found three image scaling algorithms — Bilinear, Lanczos (lan-tsosh, for anyone curious), and Nearest Neighbor, so we’ll compare our new algorithm to…

Apple Platform Security Guide (Fall 2019)

Apple (PDF, via Rosyna Keller): This documentation provides details about how security technology and features are implemented within Apple platforms. It also helps organizations combine Apple platform security technology and features with their own…

What’s New in Vapor 4

Tanner (tweet): Vapor 4’s new dependency injection API is now based on Swift extensions rather than type names. This makes services offered by third party packages - and Vapor itself! - more discoverable and feel more Swift-native. […] Vapor 4 upgra…

WinterFest 2019

WinterFest: Winter is coming. It’s time to take a deep breath and roll up your sleeves. It’s the time for new plans and fresh projects and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, …

How Clean Re-installs Change in Catalina

Howard Oakley: Because you want to re-install macOS, the logical thing to do would be to wipe the System volume, which suggests that you could get away with retaining your own files on the Data volume through a clean re-install. Sadly, that’s wrong.…