Amy Graff (Hacker News): Bob Lee, 43, died after being found stabbed on the 400 block of Main Street in SoMa. Lee was chief product officer of MobileCoin[…] Romain Dillet: Before joining MobileCoin, Bob Lee worked at Google for the first few years o…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Today I’m introducing StopTheFonts, a Safari content blocker for web fonts on iOS and macOS, available now in the App Store.[…]There are a number of reasons to use StopTheFonts: to protect your privacy, because every web fon…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: The free version of Dark Noise includes eight sounds, continuous sound looping, Shortcuts support, Siri integration, and a timer. The Pro subscription increases the number of sounds to over 50 and adds custom sound mixes, alternate ap…
Lees meerra13 (via Hacker News): Around 14th February 2023 several Google Drive accounts started showing an error of “Upload Failed” for any creation action carried out. (Eg. creating a new empty folder).I faced the same on my Google Drive account (2 TB). My…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (via Federico Viticci): Recently, Alex Hay, the developer of Toolbox Pro and other apps, passed away after a battle with cancer.[…]In any creative field, though, there are always some people who stand apart from the pack. You don’t not…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): General Motors (GM) will phase out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its vehicles starting this year, shifting to a built-in infotainment system co-developed with Google (via Reuters). GM owns Buick, Cadillac, Chevrol…
Lees meerCabel Sasser (Mastodon, Hacker News): Very few people know these things because Apple tucks all of their important password features away in weird little Settings panels, instead of in a Proper Real App. I think this is a mistake. Passwords are prod…
Lees meerOpenAI (Hacker News): Users have been asking for plugins since we launched ChatGPT (and many developers are experimenting with similar ideas) because they unlock a vast range of possible use cases. We’re starting with a small set of users and are pl…
Lees meerAlexander Sandberg: Swift 5.8 enables you to start incrementally preparing your projects for Swift 6 by using upcoming features. By default, upcoming features are disabled. To enable a feature, pass the compiler flag -enable-upcoming-feature followe…
Lees meerApple: Clang and the build system support a new mode for building module dependencies called explicit modules which improves build performance, reliability, and correctness. The new mode is opt-in, and can be enabled by setting _EXPERIMENTAL_CLANG_E…
Lees meerTwitter (Hacker News, Slashdot): At Twitter 2.0, we believe that we have a responsibility, as the town square of the internet, to make our platform transparent. So today we are taking the first step in a new era of transparency and opening much of o…
Lees meerTwitter (tweet): We will offer two access tiers for developers via our website: Free For write-only use cases with the Twitter API Low rate-limit access to v2 tweet posting and media upload endpoints 1,500 Tweets per month posting limit - at the app…
Lees meerWe’ve been using an Amazon Echo Dot in our kitchen for several years, principally for timers and answering basic questions. Lately, it has not been responding as reliably. Also, it never worked well as a Bluetooth speaker for my iPhone because the p…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News): The downside to this increased complexity is that free space is dynamic and much of it can be temporary and conditional. Apple still has a way to go before users can have confidence in any of the estimates of free space …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple today launched Apple Music Classical, a brand-new standalone music streaming app designed to deliver the listening experience classical music lovers deserve. With Apple Music Classical, Apple Music subscribers c…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): Apple Pay Later allows users to split purchases into four payments, spread over six weeks with no interest and no fees. Users can easily track, manage, and repay their Apple Pay Later loans in one convenient location in Apple Wa…
Lees meerJay Peters and Sean Hollister: A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive,a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them…
Lees meerWebKit: This release is packed with 135 new web features and over 280 polish updates.[…]Deeply integrated with iOS and iPadOS, Web Push notifications from web apps work exactly like notifications from other apps.[…]WebKit on iOS and iPadOS 16.4 adds…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, the Studio Display Firmware Update 16.4 adds support for in-field recalibration of the display using the Pro Display Calibrator. It allows for specific color workflows that may require…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis (Hacker News): Though the precedent of time shifting existed for television, space shifting was still an emerging idea. The acronym for the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, was something of a new four-letter word due to …
Lees meerGordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Hacker News, MacRumors): By 1950, after transferring to the University of California at Berkeley from San Jose State University, Gordon had earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He and Betty were married that …
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