Roger McNamee: Recent news reports alleging mistreatment of some employees, internal policies that conflict with the company’s outward-facing stance on privacy, and efforts to prevent the passage of state laws to enable competition with the AppStore…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Big Sur improves the security of macOS and is recommended for all users. Apple has also released security update 2021-005 for macOS Catalina, and both updates address an issue that could allow a…
Lees meerLily Hay Newman (Hacker News): These “zero-click” attacks can happen on any platform, but a string of high-profile hacks show that attackers have homed in on weaknesses in Apple’s iMessage service to execute them. Security researchers say the compan…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): This update brings long-awaited media syncing functionality for WordPress blogs. After you refresh your blog in MarsEdit 4.5, all the existing images and files from your blog will be available for re-insertion from the Media M…
Lees meerDieter Bohn: Apple’s app store policies have caused controversy and consternation many times over the years, but few periods have been as active and strange as the last two weeks. For the first time, we are seeing Apple being forced to react directl…
Lees meerJay Peters (Fortnite, Hacker News): Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate its Fortnite developer account so it can release the game in South Korea, following the passage of a bill that will force Apple and Google to let apps use alternative paymen…
Lees meerRussell Brandom (via Nilay Patel, Hacker News, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Slashdot): Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a permanent injunction in the Epic v. Apple case on Friday morning, putting new restrictions on Apple’s App Store rules and bringing mo…
Lees meerDieter Bohn (Hacker News): The idea is simple enough: it allows you to use the keyboard and trackpad on a Mac to directly control an iPad, and even makes it simple to drag and drop content between those devices. What made the demo so impressive is h…
Lees meerChris Welch: Amazon is officially in the TV business. The company has announced its first lineup of Amazon-branded 4K Fire TVs, which will begin shipping in October. This is a major expansion from the company’s “Fire TV Edition” collaborations, wher…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple offers a bug bounty program that’s designed to pay security researchers for discovering and reporting critical bugs in Apple operating systems, but researchers are not happy with how it operates or Apple’s payouts in comparison to…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Unfortunately, AccountEdge was built on a 30-year-old, 32-bit code base that wasn’t compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina. MYOB tried and failed to update AccountEdge to be a 64-bit app, and eventually stopped selling it. Tonya didn’t min…
Lees meerJames Dempsey (tweet): The tabs at the top of apple.com have been around for over two decades now. Looking at the changes over time shows changes in Apple products, priorities, and design. For long-time Apple watchers it also provides a walk down me…
Lees meerZac Hall: For some reason, Apple’s Weather app on iPadOS 15 doesn’t have exactly the same design. Information is still organized into blocks, but a lot of the blocks are weirdly not about weather conditions. The top of the Weather app for iPad inclu…
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced that it is working with several states across the country, which will roll out the ability for their residents to seamlessly and securely add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet on their iPhone and Apple Watch. …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Twitter today announced the official launch of Super Follows, a new feature that allows creators to provide subscriber-only content that requires a paid fee to access. Hartley Charlton: Each Twitter Super Follow subscription is an indiv…
Lees meerNatasha Lomas and Romain Dillet (Hacker News, 3): ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis (tweet): We want to be sure to our customers who previously purchased Fission via the Mac App Store are taken care of as well. To that end, we will be transitioning you over to our directly distributed version. […] For almost twenty yea…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (tweet, Hacker News, The Verge, MacRumors, TechCrunch): “Last month we announced plans for features intended to help protect children from predators who use communication tools to recruit and exploit them, and limit the spread of Child Se…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Tapbots today released version 6.3 of Tweetbot for the iPhone and iPad, with the key new feature being a “Behaviors” menu in the app’s settings that contains several toggle switches for fine tuning your Tweetbot experience. I like the…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Providing your Mac with a reliable filtered AC supply is very important to protect it from sustaining damage during electrical storms, when there’s utility maintenance underway, or some idiot trips a circuit-breaker or pulls the mains…
Lees meerDavid Sacks: Today is the public launch of Callin, the first app to offer a new experience we call “Social Podcasting.”[…]Callin lets you create, discover, and consume live and recorded audio content in one place. It combines the best aspects of soc…
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