Juli Clover (download): macOS Monterey 12.2 is a bug fix update, and Apple’s release notes have no information other than generic bug fix information. We don’t yet have a full list of security updates, but we do know that macOS Monterey 12.2 address…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple will have a full list of security updates on its website, but today’s iOS and iPadOS 15.3 updates specifically address a recently publicized Safari exploit. Previously: Safari 15 IndexedDB Information Leaks iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2
Lees meerKeith Harrison: Unfortunately the documentation is not great so here’s a summary starting with date formatting.[…]In iOS 15 you apply the formatting directly to the Date without the need to create (and cache) a formatter. For example, the formatted(…
Lees meerJames Fallows (via Jason Snell): This post is a basic who-what-why primer on the controversy involving new 5G wireless networks, and airline operations at major U.S. airports. […] Short version: 5G versus the airlines is potentially a real issue, ra…
Lees meerTom Harrington: What is an “optional” anyway? It depends who you ask. Swift will give you one answer, but Core Data has other ideas. So what happens when you bring them together? […] Guess what, you just broke Swift’s initializer rules! Specifically…
Lees meerSami Fathi: The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has ruled that Apple’s plan to allow App Store dating apps to use third-party payment methods for in-app purchases does not sufficiently meet the requirements of a previous ruling. As a…
Lees meerEric Meyer: A few people, including Jen Simmons, gave credit to Igalia for implementing :focus-visible by means of a crowdfunding project (more on that in a moment). […] Nobody at Apple asked the crowd to fund anything. Nobody at Apple asked Igalia …
Lees meerGoodNotes: HTTP 503 is a temporary error code (“Service unavailable”) indicating iCloud servers aren’t responding correctly to requests from your devices. The error typically gets resolved as GoodNotes automatically retries, but we’re getting many r…
Lees meerEmily Dolson (via Hacker News): Uh, @googledrive, are you doing okay? This file literally contains a single line with the number “1”. Presumably nobody manually added the hash of that data to a list, so this is probably some sort of AI mistake. The …
Lees meerApple: In 2020, we chose to support apps and developers that needed to adapt services from in-person to digital as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we deferred App Store Review Guideline 3.1.1, which requires apps offering paid onlin…
Lees meerAtlassian: Our sole focus is ensuring you have the best possible experience with Jira so for that reason we are sunsetting the Jira Cloud for Mac app and focusing all energy on building outstanding performance across the most powerful versions of Ji…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If my Mac is capable of recognising the faces of friends in their photos, then it’s surely able to provide me with a little assistance in diagnosing the cause of an error, and suggesting what I can usefully do next. If Disk Utility ca…
Lees meerGoogle, in 2006: A standard edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is available today as a beta product without cost to domain administrators or end users. Key features include 2 gigabytes of email storage for each user, easy to use customization to…
Lees meerRene Ritchie: $1000 and the iPhone 13 Pro is still stuck at USB2 speeds. Never mind the $1100 iPhone 13 Pro Max. Why? Because, Lightning, and — wait for it — Lightning has pretty much been stuck at USB2’s half a gigabit per second, since… 2012. That…
Lees meerMakena Kelly: On Tuesday, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission launched a joint effort to modernize antitrust enforcement, seeking comment on how the agencies can apply current law in cases against tech companies like Meta (parent com…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Last week, MacRumors shared news that Apple had stopped releasing iOS 14 security updates and was pushing those still on iOS 14 to upgrade to iOS 15, an apparent reversal of a promise to allow users to stay on the iOS 14 operating syste…
Lees meerJeff Shiner (tweet, Hacker News): I’m delighted to announce that 1Password has raised $620 million in our latest investment round that values our company at $6.8 billion. This moment represents a lot of hard work by a lot of amazing people. Most day…
Lees meerTerry Lambert (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): I was the tech lead at Apple for making Mac OS X pass UNIX certification, and it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX™ trademark in advertising. […] W…
Lees meerTom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the troubled publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The deal will value Activision at $68.7 billion, far in excess of the $26 billion Microsoft paid to acquire LinkedIn …
Lees meerBounty Everything (PDF, via Bruce Schneier): Ellis and Stevens’s research offers a historical overview of bounty programs and an analysis of contemporary bug bounty platforms — the new intermediaries that now structure the vast majority of bounty wo…
Lees meerJosh Ginter (via Matt Birchler): Bartender provides other customization options to fit your needs. You can ensure specific icons are always visible, other icons always hidden, and you can put spacers between icons to provide breathing room. You can …
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