Andy Baio: For some people, colorblindness is a serious liability that closes doors on career dreams. It’s hard to become a pilot, train conductor, or pathologist if you can’t differentiate colors in critical instruments, signals, or tissue samples.…
Lees meerTony Parker (tweet): This preview provides a unified implementation of Foundation, written in Swift, that is faster, safer, and more approachable to new contributors.A new Foundation Workgroup will run reviews of proposed Foundation API and coordina…
Lees meerJordan Morgan (Mastodon): In an attempt to put an end to our StateObject woes in a more paradigmatic manner, Luca Bernardi let us know that Apple’s official documentation now tackles the matter. Specifically, there is now text detailing how to handl…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: You can use an iPhone or iPad almost anywhere in the world, but some iOS features are only available in specific places. In some cases, these restrictions are related to local regulations (such as FaceTime not being available in the…
Lees meerCitizen Lab (Hacker News): Our ensuing investigation led us to conclude that, in 2022, NSO Group customers widely deployed at least three iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains against civil society targets around the world. NSO Group’s third a…
Lees meerTom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft’s Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Apple’s Safari web browser first added support for extensions in version 5, and since then—we’re now at Safari version 16—there have been four different extension formats!Safariextz: 2010 Mac, 2019 RIPSafari content blocker:…
Lees meerChristiaan Brand (Hacker News, MacRumors): We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator, across both iOS and Android, which adds the ability to safely backup your one-time codes (also known as one-time passwords or OTPs) to your Goog…
Lees meerPedro Canahuati (Hacker News): 1Password is beginning an internal test of our new, privacy-preserving in-app telemetry system. […] We’re only interested in how people use the app itself, what features and screens they interact with – not what they s…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Netflix said that it would be increasing the video quality of its Basic With Ads tier to 1080p at no extra cost to subscribers. Additionally, it said it would increase the number of simultaneous streams from one to two. […] Netflix rev…
Lees meerSteve Yegge (via Hacker News, Mastodon): LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may…
Lees meerSarah Perez (Hacker News): In today’s decision, the appeals court panel affirmed the district court’s denial of antitrust liability and its corresponding rejection of Epic’s illegality defense to Apple’s breach of contract counter-claim, the ruling …
Lees meerThomas Bandt: So I pulled a Dell laptop from a drawer under my desk and set up Windows 11.[…]First, there was news about a mass shooting that had occurred only recently. In the middle of the search menu. The menu which was supposed to be one of the …
Lees meerOle Zorn: Apple has unfortunately rejected the Pythonista 3.4 update, citing 3 separate issues. Still trying to process it all, but it’s ridiculous that even a harmless link to the top 50 female names in Iran (courtesy of the faker module) triggered…
Lees meerStacy Elliott: [John Ray III] wrote in Sunday’s court filing that FTX “kept virtually all crypto assets in hot wallets.” To underline his point, Ray mentioned the unauthorized transactions that drained $432 million worth of funds from the company’s …
Lees meerIvan Mehta (MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Hacker News): After vehemently fighting “sideloading” alternative app stores on the iPhone, Apple is now apparently looking to allow them with iOS 17, which will come out next year, to comply with European laws. The r…
Lees meerPrivacy1St: In the last 30 days, I have been closely monitoring the Mac App Store and have made a disturbing discovery. In the midst of the OpenAI frenzy, several apps have surfaced that are copying the iconic OpenAI logo and color scheme in order t…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Microsoft last year said it would be ending support for SwiftKey on iPhone, then only weeks later it backtracked and asked users to "stay tuned" for the arrival of new features. The company has now lived up to its promise with a fresh …
Lees meerScott Yoshinaga: Apple finally released the Studio Display in 2022. My initial reaction was to purchase one, even with the starting price of $1599. I’ve really wanted a 27-inch 5K display for a while and wasn’t willing to go with the 5K 27-inch LG U…
Lees meerNicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern (MacRumors, Hacker News): Greg Frasca has been locked out of his Apple account since October, and he’ll do just about anything to get back in. He has offered to fly from Florida to Apple’s California headquarters to pr…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: HTML button elements don’t appear in Safari in Lockdown Mode.Most input elements don’t appear either! A reader writes: Since iOS 16.4 was released, HTML input elements have vanished from all sites and web views in apps, and so have att…
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