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macOS 13.6.2

donderdag 9 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (release notes, full installer for M1 and M2, M3): This update has no published CVE entries. Available for MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023) Enterprise release notes: MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch computers with Apple silicon no l…

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watchOS 10.1.1

donderdag 9 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): Today’s update addresses an issue that is causing some Apple Watch models to drain battery more quickly than expected. Complaints about Apple Watch battery started after the launch of watchOS 10.1, a…

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Bike Outline Paths

woensdag 8 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesse Grosjean: Use outline paths to query your Bike outlines. Today they are used through AppleScript and Shortcuts actions. In the future they will be used to build new features such as stylesheets and outline filtering. There’s a video demonstrat…

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iOS 17.1 Lock Screen Photo Album Shuffle

woensdag 8 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Zachary McAuliffe: Apple introduced Photo Shuffle for lock screen in iOS 16. However, you could only choose categories of photos in your library and camera roll, like People and Pets, or you could use the Select Photos Manually option and go through…

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Mint.com Replaced by Credit Karma

woensdag 8 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Emma Roth (via Hacker News, Reddit): Intuit first acquired Mint in 2009, an app that has offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions. Now, Intuit is inviting users to Credit K…

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Apple’s Trademark Exploit

woensdag 8 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

GiovanH (via Hacker News): Apple puts its logo on the devices it sells: not just the outer casing, but also each internal component. The vast majority of these logos are totally enclosed and invisible to the naked eye. This seems like a strange prac…

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The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser, and Nishi Chitale (via Hacker News): Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering image…

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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly …

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Microsoft Finalizes Activision Blizzard Acquisition

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Milmo (Hacker News, MacRumors): Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£57bn) deal to buy Activision Blizzard, the maker of games including Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, after the UK’s competition watchdog cleared the acquisition.The Competiti…

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Swift Proposal: Pack Iteration

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SE-0408: Currently, it is possible to express list operations on value packs using pack expansion expressions. This approach requires putting code involving statements into a function or closure. For example, limiting repetition patterns to expressi…

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Mastering DOM Manipulation With Vanilla JavaScript

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Phuoc Nguyen (via Hacker News): Web development moves at lightning speed. I still remember when I first started using libraries like jQuery, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Zepto, and many more. Even with modern tools like Angular, VueJS, React, Solid a…

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Google Vertex AI Search

dinsdag 7 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brett Terpstra: So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s powe…

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Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to critics looked more like DRM for websites.[…]Apple incidentally has already…

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Apple’s Three Safaris

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises th…

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FTX Trial

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Molly White (via Nick Heer): We got our first glance at the FTX codebase on Friday. The prosecution brought out Github screenshots as they questioned cooperating witness Gary Wang, the former CTO of FTX who at various times was responsible for the c…

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Apple’s Q4 2023 Results

zaterdag 4 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors: The Company posted quarterly revenue of $89.5 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.46, up 13 percent year over year. “Today Apple is pleased to report a Sep…

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macOS 14: Separate iCloud Drive and CloudKit Switches

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: One important change in Sonoma is the distinction between apps accessing iCloud Drive (shown here) and those using CloudKit to share their databases (described below). […] To control the apps allowed to store their databases in iCloud…

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Apple’s Blue Ocean

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Siracusa (Hacker News): I just can’t shake the idea that a return to removable, user-accessible batteries has now become a blue-ocean opportunity just waiting for Apple to seize it.[…]There’s more headroom than there has ever been to accommodat…

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Ceasing Print Publication of ACM Journals and Transactions

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Association for Computing Machinery (via Hacker News): ACM has made the decision to cease print publication for ACM’s journals and transactions as of January 2024. The magazines Communications of the ACM, ACM InRoads, interactions, and XRDS: Crossro…

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Swift TO Is Closing Down

woensdag 1 november 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Newsome: A lot of forces seemed to work against us this year. This made organizing quite a difficult and emotional challenge at times. Unfortunately this included some mistreatment from Apple’s Developer Relations team. Apple dangled the idea o…

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iMac 2023

dinsdag 31 oktober 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): iMac with M3 is up to 2x faster than the prior generation with M1. And for those upgrading from an Intel-based iMac, the new iMac is up to 2.5x faster than the most popular 27-inch models, and 4x faster than the most powerful 21…

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