Jon Henshaw (via Jeff Johnson): Jon Henshaw: I got pretty excited when Zuckerberg and Meta were being serious about integrating ActivityPub into Threads. And a lot of people I knew were just like, “It’s not going to happen,” and “They’re going to sc…
Lees meerSam Roberts: David Lerner, a high school dropout and self-taught computer geek whose funky foothold in New York’s Flatiron district, Tekserve, was for decades a beloved discount mecca for Apple customers desperate to retrieve lost data and repair fr…
Lees meerJim O’Leary: Secure backups let you save an archive of your Signal conversations in a privacy-preserving form, refreshed every day; giving you the ability to restore your chats even if you lose access to your phone. Signal’s secure backups are opt-i…
Lees meerKen Macon (Hacker News): European governments have taken another step toward reviving the EU’s controversial Chat Control agenda, approving a new negotiating mandate for the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation in a closed session of the Council of the Eur…
Lees meerRichard Speed: French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company’s servers over concerns about France’s approach to digital privacy.The project posted on X (formerly…
Lees meerInternet Archive (via Matt Mullenweg): Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin designed to combat link rot—the gradual decay of web links as pages are moved, changed, or taken down. It automatically scans your post content—…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The Finder can display more information about files than their size and datestamps, and for some types of file can extend to a lot of useful metadata. These are shown in the Preview pane containing the file’s QuickLook thumbnail, in t…
Lees meerTim Hardwick (2024): [British consumer group] Which? alleges that the company makes it difficult for customers to use alternative cloud storage providers “by giving its iCloud storage service preferential treatment,” and “‘trapping’ customers with A…
Lees meerMariella Moon: Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The plaintiffs, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Ro…
Lees meerJohn Gruber has a great post with new details about exactly what’s happening with sharing iPhone Wi-Fi network information in iOS 16.2. In brief, I think this turns the story on its head. The way this has been reported and discussed since November 4…
Lees meerMy apps are on sale for Black Friday, and here’s a list of deals that I found and that developers submitted. I’ll add more deals throughout the week as I see them. Apps: Adobe Creative Cloud Aiko Airfoil (PUMPKINSPICE) Astro Audio Hijack (PUMPKINSPI…
Lees meerMarcel Weiher: So Tahoe apparently has a new Contacts app.Unusably slow.So slow that you think it has crashed.Why am I not surprised that otool -L shows a SwiftUI dependency?[…]Oh, and it flickers and has visual glitches.Not just when scrolling, als…
Lees meerMatt Massicotte (Mastodon): Swift 6.2 gives you the ability make MainActor the default isolation. Unlike the rest of the features introduced as part of “Approachable Concurrency”, this is a long-term mode. It is optional and will remain so. However,…
Lees meerRobert Hart and Dominic Preston (Hacker News, MacRumors): Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — including simplifying its infamous …
Lees meerFreddie Harrison (Mastodon, Pieter Omvlee): Early on in the process, we prototyped various approaches to the sidebar and Inspector, including floating options (the new default in Tahoe) and glass materials. Ultimately, we went custom here, with fixe…
Lees meerEugen Rochko (via Hacker News): After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit. Over the course of my time at Mastodon, I have centered myse…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: For these scenarios, Xcode provides a handy checkbox that can be used to automatically attach when one of an app’s XPC services is launched. Look deep in the “Options” tab of the scheme editor’s “Run Action” page[…] While this feature…
Lees meerMatthew Prince (Hacker News): The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to outpu…
Lees meerGoogle (MacRumors, The Verge, Hacker News, model card, Hacker News): And now we’re introducing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, that combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.It’s state-of-the-art in reaso…
Lees meerNikita Prokopov: But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.[…]This got so bad that when a program doesn’t ask you to create an…
Lees meerAnthony Ha (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is getting serious about succession planning, according to a new report in The Financial Times.The company’s board and senior executives are reportedly preparing for the possibility that Tim Cook could step…
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