Matthias Gansrigler (tweet): It’s complicated, or at least cumbersome, to get logs that predate you clicking “Start streaming” in Console.app – Apple’s recommendation for it is to create an entire system diagnostics report and look for files in ther…
Lees meernoyb: In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (“Datenschutzbehörde” or “DSB”) has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR. This is the first decision on the 101 model…
Lees meerMartin Bajanik (Hacker News, MacRumors): In this article, we discuss a software bug introduced in Safari 15’s implementation of the IndexedDB API that lets any website track your internet activity and even reveal your identity.[…]In Safari 15 on mac…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet): In a message posted on its developer site late on Friday, Apple announced that it will comply with a Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) ruling that compels the company to allow third-party payment service…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple in August announced plans to pay $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit levied by U.S. developers, and as of today, the website that will allow developers to submit a claim for a payout has gone live. […] Developers need to…
Lees meerMikael Thalen (via John Wilander): “Photo Ninja uses a novel series of steganography, detection perturbation, visible overlay, and several other AI-based enhancement processes to shield your images from reverse image searches without compromising th…
Lees meerJon Fingas: Printer makers have long used chips to thwart third-party ink cartridge sales and drive you toward their own products, but they’re now feeling the sting of those restrictions. The Register and USA Today note Canon has had to ship toner c…
Lees meerMarc Barrowclift (via Dave Mark): There’s new and exciting developments every year in the realm of iOS third-party music players, and 2021 was no exception. While 2019 enjoyed an explosion of new players like Power Player and Albums that through tim…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Researchers have figured how how to intercept and fake an iPhone reboot[…] […] I see this as another manifestation of the security problems that stem from all controls becoming software controls. Back when the physical buttons actual…
Lees meerJosé Adorno (PDF): In the US, PUBG’s developer sued the maker of another popular battle royale game, Free Fire. Not only that but Krafton has also named Apple and Google in the lawsuit, alleging that Apple and Google have refused to stop selling rip…
Lees meerSteve Barnegren (tweet): It was difficult to gracefully integrate new Swift code into existing Objective-C classes and systems. A year down the line we still had a mostly Objective-C code base. Almost anything of any real importance was still in Obj…
Lees meerJesse Squires: Periodically, the order of folders in App Library changes. Why?! It is incredibly disorienting. I’m not sure if this is a bug or a “feature” where recently-used or most-used categories move toward the top? The order of category folder…
Lees meerChris Welch: Uber has quietly shut down its Apple Watch app, with the software now showing a message that instructs people to “please switch to the Uber mobile app.” The company is “no longer supporting the Apple Watch app,” according to the text, w…
Lees meerChance Miller (tweet): Earlier today, a report indicated that some European carriers were blocking the Private Relay feature introduced by Apple with iOS 15. This feature is designed to give users an additional layer of privacy by ensuring that no o…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut, in 2010: If you imagine a world where the sum of all things you can do with a computer is exactly matched, and locked down for all time with what you can do inside a browser, then the arguments for the web are persuasive. Why write fo…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…
Lees meerMoxie Marlinspike (Hacker News): web3 is a somewhat ambiguous term, which makes it difficult to rigorously evaluate what the ambitions for web3 should be, but the general thesis seems to be that web1 was decentralized, web2 centralized everything in…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Kosta Eleftheriou has found another apparently multi-million-dollar-grossing app that’s been on the App Store for over three years: a shitty music “volume boosting” music player named AmpMe that costs $10 per week after the three-day tr…
Lees meerJames Vincent (via Nilay Patel): Google has accused Apple of benefiting from bullying as part of a deliberate strategy to make Android users into second-class citizens on the iPhone-maker’s iMessage service.Apple’s messaging service includes a numbe…
Lees meerJulio Ojeda-Zapata: [There] are good reasons that the $199 Beats Fit Pro, not the $179 AirPods, may be your next Apple earbuds.For an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the Apple earbud landscape, consult a mega-chart I created to compare features…
Lees meerJohn Gordon: Photos said it could not open the Aperture library. It did not say why. I then regenerated full sized previews per Apple’s directions and I tried again. This time the import proceeded. I could see the Version of my original photo but no…
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