FTC (complaint PDF, Hacker News): The Federal Trade Commission has secured agreements requiring Epic Games, Inc., creator of the popular video game Fortnite, to pay a total of $520 million in relief over allegations the company violated the Children…
Lees meerJohn Carmack (Hacker News): Quest 2 is almost exactly what I wanted to see from the beginning – mobile hardware, inside out tracking, optional PC streaming, 4k (ish) screen, cost effective. […] We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, bu…
Lees meerHamza Malik (via Felix Krause, Hacker News): Meter is currently tracking an issue that is affecting devices on macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura with M1/M2 Macbooks acutely affected — leading to slow internet connection, drops in Zoom calls, and enti…
Lees meerAnastasia Kazakova (Hacker News): Since the release of AppCode 1.0 11 years ago, we’ve been applying our expertise to make coding for iOS/macOS more enjoyable. We’ve had many accomplishments, including first-class C++ support (from which CLion, our …
Lees meerDave Nanian: In Ventura, on some systems, we’ve seen some cases where, post-replication (“Erase, then copy” in Big Sur and later), the destination volumes wouldn’t always re-mount. Sometimes an error would occur (referencing the ‘bsd’ info), sometim…
Lees meerJesse Squires: If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve likely noticed that my blog posts are automatically tweeted for me. There are multiple services you can use to do this, like Zapier and IFTTT. I use both services for various automations. Each has b…
Lees meerAndy Yen: Proton Drive’s mobile apps give you the freedom to access your files and folders from anywhere, anytime. You can upload your files and photos to Proton Drive using your mobile app and access them either on your mobile device or on your lap…
Lees meerPhilippe Hausler: There are already a few mechanisms for observation in Swift. Some of these include Key Value Observing (KVO), or ObservableObject; but those are relegated to in the case of KVO to just NSObject descendants, and ObservableObject req…
Lees meerPatrick Wardle: If a tool notifies the user via macOS’s notification center the style can no longer be programmatically set to alert …only banner.Banners are automatically dismissed which breaks security alert requiring user interaction! 🥲Note: Appl…
Lees meerAaron Ballman (PDF via John Regehr, Steve Canon): It is not uncommon to hear about C/C++ programming as a shorthand for “C and C++” programming. This implies that C and C++ are similar, but distinct, programming languages with the obvious interpreta…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (Hacker News): As part of a larger story about Apple’s plans to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone and iPad in EU countries, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claimed that Apple is also considering removing its requirement for iPhone and…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News, Ars Technica, Slashdot): Apple is planning to allow for alternate app stores on iPhones and iPads ahead of European legislation that will require the company to support sideloading, reports Bloomberg.The change would allow …
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Lees meerApple (download, command-line tools, additional tools): Xcode 14.2 includes Swift 5.7 and SDKs for iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1, and macOS Ventura 13.1. The Xcode 14.2 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 11 and later, tvOS 1…
Lees meerJeremy Schonfeld: We propose creating a new value type, Predicate, as part of the FoundationEssentials package, that addresses these problems. These new constructions of predicates will be expressed using standard Swift syntax elements and are fully…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): Today’s macOS Ventura update introduces the Freeform app, designed to allow users to sketch, draw, and write on a blank whiteboard-style canvas that can be used with…
Lees meerJuli Clover (security, developer): Today’s iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 updates bring several notable features to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, including the Freeform app, which is a sort of digital whiteboard that you can use for anything, while also working c…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple Pay’s tokenization process prevents Stripe, our payment processor, from knowing the expiration date for the actual card. Instead, Stripe—and the Paid Memberships Pro plug-in that we use to manage TidBITS accounts—displays a seeming…
Lees meerSimon Peyton Jones (via Ian Kettlewell, Hacker News, slides): Since joining Epic Games in late 2021, I have been involved in the design and development of Verse, a new, declarative programming language that Epic plans to use as the language of the m…
Lees meerOver the last month or two I’ve made several improvements to this blog: The CSS now adapts the colors for Dark Mode. I’ve adjusted the WordPress caching so that pages should load much faster. No matter what I did, I kept running into an issue where …
Lees meerTony Parker (tweet): The swift-corelibs-foundation project helped launch the open source Swift version of Foundation in 2016, wrapping a Swift layer around the preexisting, open source C implementation of Foundation. […] Today, we are announcing a n…
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