Apple (Hacker News, ArsTechnica, MacRumors): Apple today debuted iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, designed with aerospace-grade titanium that’s strong yet lightweight to deliver Apple’s lightest Pro models ever. The new design also features cont…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, ArsTechnica, Hacker News, Slashdot): Both models feature the Dynamic Island, and an advanced camera system designed to help users take fantastic photos of everyday moments in their lives. A powerful 48MP Main camera enables super-h…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple Watch Ultra 2 offers all of the features users love about Ultra, plus the powerful new S9 SiP, a magical new double tap gesture, Apple’s brightest display ever, expanded altitude range, on-device Siri, Precision Finding for …
Lees meerApple (ArsTechnica, MacRumors): Apple Watch Series 9 is powered by custom Apple silicon in the all-new S9 SiP. Apple’s most powerful watch chip yet delivers systemwide improvements and brand-new features, including a new double tap gesture and on-de…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.9. […] Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploit…
Lees meerKagi (Hacker News): While there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain. This concept often evoke…
Lees meerJamie Zawinski (Mastodon): People keep telling me how email is a great federation success story.[…]Here’s the current top ten from the last ~2 years since our post-lockdown re-opening[…] Gmail and Yahoo are dominant, with still a large number of AOL…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Until Ventura 13.2.1, encrypted sparse bundles seem to have worked as advertised. Although Disk Utility has never offered an easy way to change their passwords, that could be accomplished interactively using hdiutil in Terminal. […] W…
Lees meerJoshua Long: A couple months ago, we covered several suspicious apps that were in Apple’s iOS App Store. One mimicked the new “Threads, an Instagram app,” and others were unethical loan apps. At the time we published the article, Apple had removed t…
Lees meerDylan Smith: Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed “the fairy godmother of the web,” has died at age 60.[…]She was a prolific author and regular speaker about the “open web,” advocating for access…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): [A] maliciously crafted image could lead to arbitrary code execution, allowing a hacker to gain access to the operating system with a simple picture. […] As reported by Citizen Lab, the vulnerabilities are part of a “BLAST…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): macOS Ventura 13.5.2 focuses on minor bug fixes and security improvements, and it does not include any notable new features. See also: Mr. Macintosh and Howard Oakley. Previously: BLASTPAS…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): The launch of iOS 16.6.1 comes over a month after the release of iOS 16.6, an update that brought bug fixes. Previously: BLASTPASS macOS 13.5.2 iOS 16.6 and iPadOS 16.6
Lees meerMatt Massicotte: A suite of performance tests for macOS text viewsEvery year, I check in on TextKit 2 to see how things are going. It was introduced in macOS 12, and I found it basically unusable. With macOS 13 it was better, but still rough. So far…
Lees meerTN3155: To test your universal links behavior, paste a link into your Notes app and long-press it (iOS) or control-click it (macOS) to see your options for following the link. If universal links have been configured correctly, the option to open in …
Lees meerMozilla (via Dan Gillmor, Hacker News): Car makers have been bragging about their cars being “computers on wheels” for years to promote their advanced features. However, the conversation about what driving a computer means for its occupants’ privacy…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: To put it simply, if you haven’t visited Twitter in the past 7 days, then Safari will automatically delete your Twitter settings, including your font size, color scheme, and timeline behavior![…]On macOS, enable “Show Develop menu in m…
Lees meerEuropean Commission (Hacker News): The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services pro…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Yes, a box cutter/utility knife that costs about $100. […] A few weeks ago, though, my pals at Studio Neat sent me a pre-production Keen. I prefer it to the Palmer in every single regard. First, it’s thinner and smaller, but in no way t…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple is developing a low-cost MacBook series to compete with Chromebook models in the education sector that could be launched as early as the second half of 2024, claims a new report out of Taiwan.According to DigiTimes’…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: APFS major version numbers change with each major version of macOS[…] Changing version numbers thus aren’t any indication of the scope or magnitude of changes made to APFS. As Apple seldom provides any information on changes made to A…
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