Celso Martinho and Tom Strickx (Hacker News): Social media quickly burst into flames, reporting what our engineers rapidly confirmed too. Facebook and its affiliated services WhatsApp and Instagram were, in fact, all down. Their DNS names stopped re…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Spotted on Reddit, an update to Apple’s “iCloud security overview” page has indicated that alongside Safari tabs and history, Safari bookmarks are now end-to-end encrypted, meaning no one, not even Apple, can access users’ saved Safari b…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: After being removed several years ago, Apple has restored the “Report a Problem” option on the App Store in an effort to flag issues and combat scams.Spotted by Richard Mazkewich and Kosta Eleftheriou and highlighted by The Verge, …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: The macOS Mojave to Big Sur upgrade is causing problems for some users. The progress bar is getting stuck, leaving the system in an unbootable state. The user is locked out of their data. This is especially relevant since Mojave didn’…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: Affected Siri domains include ride booking, configuration of vehicles via Siri over CarPlay, and third-party Photo Search. Many of these SiriKit intents were introduced when third-party Siri support was first added to the system back …
Lees meerMichael Ilseman (tweet): String processing is hard and the current affordances provided by the Swift Standard Library are underpowered. We propose adding two new declarative string processing APIs—a familiar Regex literal and a more powerful Pattern…
Lees meerPSPDFKit: PSPDFKit, the leading document processing and manipulation platform for developers and enterprise businesses, today announced its first strategic growth investment led by Insight Partners, a New York-based global venture capital and privat…
Lees meerChad Etzel (tweet): In the course of building Sticker Doodle (which you should go download right now), I ran into many brick walls and learned way too much about Core Data, iCloud sync, Collection and Table Views, and Diffable Data Sources.There is …
Lees meerJuli Clover: If you save a photo from a Messages thread and then go on to delete that thread, the next time an iCloud Backup is performed, the photo will disappear.Even though the image is saved to your personal iCloud Photo Library, it appears to s…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Unfortunately, the Shortcuts experience in iOS and iPadOS 15 is hindered by a variety of severe UI and performance bugs that have made this update the least stable and reliable one in recent memory. I believe Apple is aware of thes…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: 15-year-old “TopTechGeek” with a tip that blew my mind: iOS 15 Safari lets you select and drag multiple images from a web page. Cool video. You can also drag and drop to the Files app. Unfortunately, the feature only seems to work with …
Lees meerFederico Viticci: The most important addition to Apple’s assistant this year is that, starting with iOS and iPadOS 15, Siri will work offline by default. As announced by Apple at WWDC, the Neural Engine can now process your requests locally, on-devi…
Lees meerMatt Gemmell: The most amazing thing I’ve ever read is a guide to the SNES game Super Metroid. […] Lots of game guides are in plain text, by the way, like this one. No fancy formatting. […] See how virtually all the paragraphs are like solid blocks …
Lees meerChaim Gartenberg (via Hacker News): Amazon is refreshing the Kindle Paperwhite for the first time in nearly three years with an updated model, adding a bigger 6.8-inch E-Ink display that’s brighter and has adjustable color temperature, USB-C chargin…
Lees meerDavid Kopec: Today I launched a new novelty Mac app, Retro Dither. Retro Dither gives any photo a cool retro look using just black and white pixels. You may want this for artistic effect, or you may want to export your photo to MacPaint for display …
Lees meerJohnny Lin and Sean Halloran: Using the open source Lockdown Privacy app and manual testing, we found that App Tracking Transparency made no difference in the total number of active third-party trackers, and had a minimal impact on the total number …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Apple has released an update for Safari in Big Sur and Catalina, bringing it to version 15.0. This brings some of the new features coming in Monterey, including tab groups, redesigned tabs, a compact tab bar option, and automatic swit…
Lees meerDwayne Lafleur (via Hacker News): Google provided a distinct advantage to sites using AMP – priority placement on the world’s largest traffic source – Google search. I’ve had the pleasure of working with more than twenty thousand publishers in the f…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Microsoft today announced that it is opening up the Microsoft Store for Windows to third-party storefront apps, including the Epic Games Store and the Amazon Appstore. Epic and Amazon's stores will be discoverable on the Microsoft Store…
Lees meerBrian Krebs: When scanned, an AirTag in Lost Mode will present a short message asking the finder to call the owner at at their specified phone number. This information pops up without asking the finder to log in or provide any personal information. …
Lees meerImgur (Hacker News): Imgur remained an independent company for 12 years. Through it all, our goal has always been to build an authentic place online where people express themselves, feel good, connect, and discover the magic of the internet. Today I…
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