mthoms (via Kosta Eleftheriou): Most people don’t know this but the “Parent” (read:credit card holder) of a family sharing account can’t see, let alone cancel, any subscriptions a minor on the account has purchased.Let that sink in for a second. App…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): In light of spam causing potential issues with SMS forwarding, text message forwarding to linked numbers will stop on or after August 1. If you’re using a Google Voice number for 2FA, presumably you can still get the text m…
Lees meerFlickType (Hacker News): It’s with a heavy heart today that we’re announcing the discontinuation of our award-winning iPhone keyboard for blind users.Apple has thrown us obstacle after obstacle for years while we try to provide an app to improve peo…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet, 2): I’ve heard from several other people who started noticing the same issue yesterday too, one of whom helpfully referred me to this reddit thread with even more reports. On investigation, I found that the nsurlsessiond process…
Lees meerreimertz: Every time I do a screen recording, I have to go trough the hassle of converting the video to MP4 on my Apple computer. Even my iPhone can export to MP4 so I there is no reason for it not to work on my computer. In my experience, at least,…
Lees meerReed Albergotti: Apple has dropped its lawsuit against Corellium, which was scheduled to go to trial and was being closely watched by a security industry that feared it would have a chilling effect on research tools used to make software safer. Sami…
Lees meerMike Isaac (via Hacker News): Reddit, the virtual town square of the consumer internet, has raised a fresh $410 million in funding, valuing it at more than $10 billion, the company said on Thursday. The financing, which was led by Fidelity Investmen…
Lees meerSean Hollister: There was never any question what Epic Games wanted when it took Apple to court: the 48-second “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite” made it clear App Store hypocrisy was the agenda. But the justification for a parallel case against Google wasn…
Lees meerHarley Finkelstein: To our partners: on Aug 1st we are removing all revenue share on your first $1M. That means you will keep 100% of your first $1M when you sell on @Shopify’s app store. The best part? At the end of every year, the numbers reset. E…
Lees meerJeffrey Knockel and Lotus Ruan (tweet, Hacker News): We analyzed Apple’s filtering of product engravings in six regions, discovering 1,105 keyword filtering rules used to moderate their content. Across all six regions we analyzed, we found that Appl…
Lees meerJoseph Cox et al. (Slashdot, Hacker News, Reddit): On Wednesday, GitHub user AsuharietYgvar published details of what they claim is an implementation of NeuralHash, a hashing technology in the anti-CSAM system announced by Apple at the beginning of …
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: Over the years the system’s support for Touch Bar changed in ways that made Touché slowly become less reliable and, finally, to more or less not work on any Macs at all. I recently had some insights about how the Touch Bar support on …
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): Throughout the beta testing period, Apple has been tweaking the design of the Safari browser on the iPhone and in beta 6, there are further refinements. The bottom tab bar has been redesigned to appear below page content, and Ap…
Lees meerKeith Smiley: sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunchThis works fine locally, but when updating remote CI machines, entering the password can be troublesome. Furthermore if you want to support having CI machines automatically switch between Xcode versions w…
Lees meerHadi Partovi: 25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a startup. […] To motivate us more, I plastered the hall…
Lees meerTwitter: Today, we released a few changes to the way Twitter looks on the web and on your phone. While it might feel weird at first, these updates make us more accessible, unique, and focused on you and what you’re talking about Derrit DeRouen: In t…
Lees meerDave Verwer: Say hello to iOS Dev Jobs version 2.0! 🚀 It’s entirely new, and it now has native apps! 🎉 […] Whether a position is remote or on-site is by far the most important factor affecting whether you’ll consider it, so you can now filter by tha…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple’s desire to move to a single jack that could do double-duty for power and communications was the beginning of the end for MagSafe. USB-C offers those capabilities with a generally well-designed connector that is both slim and bidir…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Apple has released a new macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 update, delivering unspecified bug fixes for Mac users running the latest major operating system version. The update comes a little over two weeks after Apple released macOS 11.5.1. See also…
Lees meerDave Teare (tweet, MacRumors, Reddit): Categories now sit atop your item list as a simple dropdown filter, giving the sidebar plenty of room to show all your vaults and their accounts. You’ll also notice an indicator next to each shared vault, makin…
Lees meerjskidpix (via Hacker News): JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation. […] Just like the original Kid Pix, there’s no guide—have fun! Most of the tools support Shift (^) to enlarge. There a…
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