Bruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and h…
Lees meerDell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to t…
Lees meerJon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertar…
Lees meerohoj Software: Ducklet makes using SQLite databases easy for everyone, whether you’re a developer, data analyst, or just curious. We’ve designed a user-friendly interface for a smooth and intuitive experience, so you can focus on your data.[…]Experi…
Lees meerTower: Sync Action: This action synchronizes your HEAD branch with a remote branch by pulling and then pushing commits (if pulling was successful). If you are not using the default toolbar item set, you can add the Sync action to your toolbar by run…
Lees meerArnold Kim (2011): One of the most requested features for Apple’s MacBook Pro line has been for the integration of some sort of built-in 3G cellular data to allow for anywhere wireless connectivity. MacBook Pro users presently need to purchase a sep…
Lees meerEugene Kim (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest products directly sold by Amazon have a much cleaner page layout on Amazon with no ads or recommendations until the very bottom of the page, an Insider review of the e-commerce site shows. Most other bran…
Lees meerAdi Robertson and Sean Hollister (Hacker News): Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments, according to new testimony in the Epic v. Google trial. On the stand, Google h…
Lees meerRon Amadeo (via Hacker News): Last Tuesday, Nothing Chats—a chat app from Android manufacturer “Nothing” and upstart app company Sunbird—brazenly claimed to be able to hack into Apple’s iMessage protocol and give Android users blue bubbles. We immed…
Lees meerMeredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund (Hacker News): Signal is also a nonprofit, unlike almost every other consumer tech company. This provides an essential structural safeguard ensuring that we stay true to our privacy-focused mission. To put it blunt…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Looking at the packet trace, the share menu attempts to fetch the icon files favicon.ico, apple-touch-icon.png, and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png from the site.[…]And of course your IP address is leaked.My belief is that a website s…
Lees meerMy apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Affinity Akismet AllTrails Appfigures Astro CYME Corel Deckset (INDIE-APP-SALES) DisplayBuddy (INDIE…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple began adding a globe icon to the Fn keycap a few years ago and, starting in macOS 14 Sonoma, began to call it the Globe key. This is likely for consistency with iPad keyboards, which dropped the lowercase “fn” letters entirely in f…
Lees meerHandBrake (Hacker News): Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures[…]Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once[…]Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on m…
Lees meerThomas Stringer (via Hacker News): But… in the back of my mind I know that I have open source projects that need some attention. One happens to be heavily used. I’m nearly 3/4 million downloads, and it’s something that people seem to think has some …
Lees meerRic Ford: It’s now clear that a new Mac, purchased directly from Apple, can fail completely and suddenly without any warning after running fine for a few weeks. Apple’s proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failur…
Lees meerOpenAI (Hacker News): Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. […] Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the b…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.0.2 greatly improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. By reading Mail’s database directly, instead of using AppleScript, SpamSieve is able to work much faster, with no overhead in Mail i…
Lees meerTucky Wong: While Daylite, including the Daylite Mail Assistant, is compatible with macOS Sonoma, we strongly recommend that you hold off on upgrading to Sonoma at this time. Our recommendation is based on feedback from early adopters, which has hig…
Lees meerLance Ulanoff (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple will finally add RCS messaging standard support to the iPhone through a software release early next year, the company told TechRadar.[…]“Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profi…
Lees meerSancarn (via Hacker News): From these data, we can clearly see that the majority of people who use VBA do so mainly because they have no other choice. Many organisations run their entire business processes with Excel, and when a little bit of automa…
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