John Gruber: Twitter’s kneecapping of third-party clients didn’t just mean that their future revenue was gone — it meant revenue they’d already collected from App Store subscriptions would need to go back to customers in the form of prorated refunds…
Lees meerSelome Hailu: All episodes of “Arrested Development” are set to leave Netflix on March 15 — including Seasons 4 and 5, which Netflix produced itself. […] Netflix co-produced Seasons 4 and 5 with 20th Television and Imagine Entertainment, and the lic…
Lees meerAnnalee Newitz (in 2009): Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle …
Lees meerJohn Sundell: So, regardless of whether we want to change the styles or structure of a view, or introduce a new piece of state, it’s starting to become clear that SwiftUI views and modifiers have the exact same capabilities. But that brings us to th…
Lees meerChance Miller (Hacker News): As reported by The Verge, the Phone Link app for Windows is meant to mirror your phone on your PC for things like notifications, phone calls, and messages. The app has historically only supported Android devices, but tha…
Lees meerLeah Nylen et al. (Hacker News): The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Adobe Inc.’s $20 billion acquisition of startup Figma Inc., people familiar with the matter said.[…]The deal also faces an antitrust review in…
Lees meerLemke Software (product page): With the new Metadata Juggler dialog you can effortlessly combine several editing steps, save them and open them again at any time, just as you already know from the actions. Your advantage: You can, for example, delet…
Lees meerLucas (Hacker News): I found my submission rejected with the following message citing guideline 4.3 Design: Spam of the App Store Review Guidelines[…] I can see how Pagi is similar to other apps in the App Store as it features a full screen text edi…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: This permission prompt is new in macOS 13 Ventura. To see it, just Print this web page, Open in Preview, and click any link.Preview app shipped with Mac OS X 10.0. In fact, Preview was carried over to Mac from NeXTSTEP. I don’t know wh…
Lees meerMia Sato (in June 2022): PayPal is putting new limits on a feature in its payment system that allows people to receive money without paying extra fees, the company recently announced. Starting July 28th, only personal PayPal accounts will be able to…
Lees meerJoanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): Using a remarkably low-tech trick, thieves watch iPhone owners tap their passcodes, then steal their targets’ phones—and their digital lives. […] With only the iPhone and its passcode, …
Lees meerJames R. Hagerty: John J. Boyer, raised on a Minnesota farm family with 12 children, was born blind and lost most of his hearing by the time he was 10 years old. Kelly Meyerhofer (via Hacker News): Boyer went on to develop a software program that co…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: And now iOS and macOS users will have another great third-party option for accessing the social network from their devices with Mammoth, a new free client for Mastodon. […] Unsurprisingly, those who have used Aviary in the past will…
Lees meerObjective-See: KextViewr is a utility with a simply goal; display all currently loaded kernel modules (or “kexts”). While Apple’s commandline tool kmutil can provide similar information, it’s nice to have a UI version, with filter, search, and expor…
Lees meerStephen Wolfram (via Hacker News): And the remarkable thing is that when ChatGPT does something like write an essay what it’s essentially doing is just asking over and over again “given the text so far, what should the next word be?”—and each time a…
Lees meerSarah Perez (via John Gruber): Q&A platform Quora has opened up public access to its new AI chatbot app, Poe, which lets users ask questions and get answers from a range of AI chatbots, including those from ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, and other companies…
Lees meerSundar Pichai (via John Gruber, Hacker News): We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard. And today, we’re taking another step forward by opening it up to trusted testers ahead of makin…
Lees meerJames Vincent (Hacker News): In demos today the company showed what it’s calling “the new Bing” working in various configurations. One of these shows traditional search results side-by-side with AI annotations (above), while another mode lets users …
Lees meerNoor Al-Sibai (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorit…
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith: At this point, I really would appreciate a tool that just parses an Xcode SceneKit .scn scene and spits out a built-in-code representation of it. Xcode’s SceneKit editor has been a liability for years, and it exhausts all my e…
Lees meerI was recently setting up a High Sierra test partition, and this error popped up after the installer had rebooted the Mac to complete the installation. At first, I thought it was another variant of the “This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan appli…
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