Twitter (via Dave Mark, Hacker News): As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we’re updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.” Under our existing …
Lees meerZoe Schiffer: While Apple’s corporate offices take a proactive, deliberate approach to product development, Apple’s customer support function operates in a reactive mania, using a vast array of processes and metrics to keep employees on task. If wor…
Lees meerRoblox (via Hacker News): Luau (lowercase u, /ˈlu.aʊ/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.It is designed to be backwards compatible with Lua 5.1, as well as incorporating some features from future …
Lees meerHamish Sanderson: Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57. Shriram Krishnamurthi: Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he …
Lees meerTaras Glek: Unfortunately reading files started from ending precludes readahead. It is also suboptimal to read files from zip in random order. The following creative interpretation of Zip spec results in optimized zip files[…] […] Thus we have a seq…
Lees meerRob Mayoff: In case you’re looking for a Thunderbolt 4 dock for your new MacBook Pro, here’s the list I made when I was shopping for one. I bought with the Kensington. It’s fine but the OWC is what I’d buy now (it’s $50 less for the same ports but w…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: To streamline the process, I turned, of course, to Shortcuts itself. In total, I’ve created four shortcuts to help me deploy my favorite shortcuts across macOS:Script Builder: Generates .scpt files that can be incorporated in other ap…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: These appear to be part of long-standing problems with Apple’s wireless trackpads and keyboards, which can also occasionally result in the doubling of letters and other glitches. Although these have improved to the level of occasional…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): The madness in this case is Safari background tabs spontaneously coming to the front again, an obviously undesirable behavior. The initial report was for an obscure (to me) web site in New Zealand, but then I asked around, and …
Lees meerNick Heer: Amazon does not promise to turn around its files nearly as quickly. It says that it can take up to thirty days to create the exported data. When it does become available, you are presented with a list of individual downloads labelled and …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Although updates to XProtect’s data files and to MRT always have been irregular, a year ago they occurred quite frequently, with XProtect updates every 7-21 days, and MRT every month or so. As of today, the last XProtect update was pu…
Lees meerBjango: Snowflake is an incredibly detailed weather app, covering almost everything you could possibly want to know about current conditions and forecasts. I’m not sure why I haven’t heard much about this app, but I was glad to discover it recently.…
Lees meerSami Fathi: In association with CIT as the financing partner, Apple has launched a new Mac Upgrade Program for small businesses and Apple business partners that allow companies to easily distribute and upgrade their fleets of MacBooks at an affordab…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: The breaking up of a bunch of old-school industrial conglomerates is leading some to question the very long-term prospects of the “new conglomerates” – tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. But a piece in the WSJ argues …
Lees meerZhenyi Tan (via John Gruber): YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube player (written in Flash) with an HTML tag. And now the YouTube player situation has gotten bad enough th…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): After a lot of trial and error, I came across the strangest observation: if I invoke “xcodebuild” from within my Python-based build script, the warning is emitted. If I invoke it directly from the Terminal, it isn’t. In fact, …
Lees meerCatalin Cimpanu (via Hacker News): Google says Rowhammer attacks are gaining range as RAM is getting smaller A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that b…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++. […] No measurable overhead compared to calling Metal Object…
Lees meerJason Snell: Which brings me to page-turn buttons. The Paperwhite still doesn’t have them. Amazon has decided that page-turn buttons are a premium feature that should only be available on its $270 Oasis. (This is one of the reasons I recommend the K…
Lees meerApple (PDF, Hacker News, Reddit): Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims…
Lees meerTom Warren: Snazzy Labs owner Quinn Nelson has posted two videos on Twitter demonstrating some of the early notch issues. The main video demonstrates what appears to be a bug in macOS. Status bar items like Apple’s battery indicator can get hidden u…
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