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AirPods Pro 2022

woensdag 7 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): With the power of the new H2 chip, AirPods Pro unlock breakthrough audio performance — including major upgrades to Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency mode — while also offering a unique way to experience Spatial Audio that…

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Apple Watch Ultra

woensdag 7 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple Watch Ultra introduces a 49mm titanium case and flat sapphire front crystal that reveals the biggest and brightest Apple Watch display yet. A customizable Action button offers instant access to a wide range of u…

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Apple Watch SE 2022

woensdag 7 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): The new Apple Watch SE delivers the core Apple Watch experience, including Activity tracking, high and low heart rate notifications, and Emergency SOS, as well as the new Crash Detection feature and a completely redesigned back ca…

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Apple Watch Series 8

woensdag 7 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors): With all-day 18-hour battery life, Apple Watch Series 8 builds on best-in-class health and safety features like the ECG app and fall detection by introducing temperature-sensing capabilities, retrospective ovulation estimates, Cra…

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Using Environment Variables to Find Escaped Processes

maandag 5 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Martin: Now what happens when the program crashes during a test? The developer is happy because they found a bug before submitting it. But the machine may not be. This type of crash will often leave behind child processes which will quickly gunk…

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PayPal Phishing Scam Invoices

maandag 5 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brian Krebs: While the phishing message attached to the invoice is somewhat awkwardly worded, there are many convincing aspects of this hybrid scam. For starters, all of the links in the email lead to paypal.com. Hovering over the “View and Pay Invo…

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Peter Eckersley, RIP

maandag 5 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Seth Schoen (via Hacker News): I’m devastated to report that Peter Eckersley (@pde), one of the original founders of Let’s Encrypt, died earlier this evening at CPMC Davies Hospital in San Francisco.Peter was the leader of EFF’s contributions to Let…

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Cloudflare Blocks Kiwi Farms

zondag 4 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ernesto Van der Sar: For years, Cloudflare had a policy not to remove any accounts without a court order, so when it kicked out Daily Stormer and later 8Chan as well, eyebrows were raised. For example, copyright holders wondered why the company coul…

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High-Pitched Buzzing Sound With Studio Display

zondag 4 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: There are complaints on Twitter, Reddit and the Apple Support Community dating back to June, and more recently on the MacRumors forums, about the issue, which is variously described as an “electrical buzzing” and “constant ringing” tha…

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The SwiftUI Render Loop

zondag 4 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rens Breur: We will first look into a number of examples of such cases where it is useful to know how the SwiftUI render loop works. Then we will explore the render loop in more detail and ask questions such as: when exactly is the body of a SwiftUI…

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iPhone User Base Overtakes Android in U.S.

vrijdag 2 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Apple’s iPhones have overtaken Android devices to account for more than half of all smartphones used in the United States, according to data from Counterpoint Research (via Financial Times).The active installed base of iP…

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Apple Settles FlickType Lawsuit

donderdag 1 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sarah Perez (MacRumors): An app developer’s lawsuit over App Store rejections, scams and fraud has ended in a settlement agreement after court filings show a request to dismiss the suit earlier this summer. The plaintiff, app developer and former Pi…

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SQLite and DuckDB

donderdag 1 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Simon Willison (Hacker News): SQLite: Past, Present, and Future is a newly published paper authored by Kevin P. Gaffney, Martin Prammer and Jignesh M. Patel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and D. Richard Hipp, Larry Brasfield and Dan Kenned…

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Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available

donderdag 1 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Xcode Cloud, the continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode, accelerates the development and delivery of high-quality apps. Get started by configuring a workflow in Xcode and receive 25 compute hours…

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Clip Control on the Apple GPU

donderdag 1 september 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alyssa Rosenzweig: Here’s a little secret: there are two graphics APIs called “Metal”. There’s the Metal you know, a limited API that Apple documents for App Store developers, an API that lacks useful features supported by OpenGL and Vulkan. And the…

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Making the “The Swift Programming Language” Book Open Source

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kyle Murray: We’re happy to announce that “The Swift Programming Language” book is now an open source project. This new project will be the basis of publishing the book on Swift.org in the future […] and will use the open source DocC tool.[…]When th…

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Active Mac Malware Scans

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years. It has now gone fully pre-emptive, as active as many commercial anti-malware products[…] […] These are orchestrated by XProtec…

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Claris Pro, Go, Server, and Studio

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: Claris will rename FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go (for deploying FileMaker apps on the iPhone and iPad), and FileMaker Server (for hosting multi-user FileMaker apps) to Claris Pro, Claris Go, and Claris Server. A new Web-based development e…

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Janet Jackson Music Crashed Laptop Computers

dinsdag 30 augustus 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Raymond Chen: And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video! […] It turns out that the song contained one of …

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Lighter.swift

vrijdag 26 augustus 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Helge Heß: Lighter is a set of technologies applying code generation to access SQLite3 databases from Swift, e.g. in iOS applications or on the server. Like SwiftGen but for SQLite3.[…]Lighter builds upon the database schema and hence directly knows…

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Sandboxing a Command Line Tool With Paths As Arguments

vrijdag 26 augustus 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alexandre Colucci: In order to get access to random files outside of the app container, you can ask the user to select a folder using an Open dialog. The app will then be allowed to access any file inside this selected folder… as long as the app is …

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