Adi Robertson (tweet): Google considered buying Epic Games as the companies sparred over Epic’s Fortnite Android app, according to newly unsealed court filings. […] Epic claims Google was threatened by its plans to sidestep Google’s official Play St…
Lees meerSteve Tibbett (includes video): Flipping tabs in the new Safari is terrible. The flipping of the chrome colour makes it even harder to see what tab is selected. This isn’t an artificial test, these were the tabs I had open. John Gruber: Mind-bogglin…
Lees meerThis, from Bryan Braun, is great (via Hacker News). Matt Birchler: Younger readers may not be familiar, but After Dark was a piece of software you could get for your Mac that had a bunch of screensavers you could enjoy. The most iconic, as far as I …
Lees meerCloudflare: The Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) Scanning Tool allows website owners to proactively identify and take action on CSAM located on their website. By enabling this tool, Cloudflare will compare content served for your website through t…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (iMore): The App Store feature on the Australian App Store, first highlighted by Beau Nouvelle on Twitter, is called “Slime relaxations” and reportedly features apps that are non-functional and seek to charge disproportionately cost…
Lees meerNick Heer: The Store page, launched yesterday, seems to fix the clunkiness of that previous redesign. You can tell it is important because it is the first menu item after the Apple logo. It also, unfortunately, makes liberal use of horizontal scroll…
Lees meerJon Brodkin (MacRumors, Bruce Schneier): Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent of users. The settlement between Zoom and th…
Lees meerArkadiy Tetelman (via Hacker News): As part of the investigation, Amnesty International wrote a blog post with their forensic analysis of several compromised phones, as well as an open source tool, Mobile Verification Toolkit, for scanning your mobi…
Lees meerKeith Smiley: As of macOS Big Sur, instead of shipping the system libraries with macOS, Apple ships a generated cache of all built in dynamic libraries and excludes the originals. This tool allows you to extract these libraries from the cache for re…
Lees meerSwift Language Reference: There are two kinds of attributes in Swift—those that apply to declarations and those that apply to types. An attribute provides additional information about the declaration or type. For example, the discardableResult attri…
Lees meerCal Stephens (tweet): guard captures behave like weak captures (e.g. guard captures do not retain the captured value), but the closure body is only executed if the captured objects still exist.[…]As of SE-0269, strong and unowned captures of self en…
Lees meerGriffin Jones (via John Gruber): The Apple Desktop Bus Keyboard is first to include a power button, the Snow White design and the ADB port, three welcome additions. The lower key travel makes sustained typing a little easier. The mechanism has a ver…
Lees meerJuli Clover: When you track a friend or a family member using the Find My app, it now shows continuous streaming updates on their location rather than updating with a new location every few minutes. […] Devices that have been turned off can still be…
Lees meerAkshat Patel: Once we had a list of the flaky tests, we tried to go through each one and determine why they were failing. We found that some UI elements such as menus and popovers were particularly prone to flakiness — they would sometimes be dismis…
Lees meerPanic (Hacker News, Slashdot): The Playdate store is now open. Juli Clover: Priced at $179, the Playdate is a pocket-sized gaming system that has a unique design. It features a black and white display, bright yellow chassis, a d-pad, A+B buttons, an…
Lees meerThomas Reed: We had a free Safari app extension rejected by an App Store reviewer last night, because such software is only allowed from “reputable companies.” […] We are reputable enough to have the kext signing entitlement and the EndpointSecurity…
Lees meerClaudia Zimmer: Many users who used to enjoy free and unlimited high quality photo storage have found themselves having to pay or migrate their images to another service. […] Starting with version 1.4, Avalanche adds the ability to transfer Google P…
Lees meerGabriel Theodoropoulos (via Dave Verwer): What I mentioned above is definitely good news, but it regards evolvements that are going to be working in macOS Monterey and above. That’s nice, but what about backward compatibility? What if we wanted to m…
Lees meerZack Whittaker (via Hacker News): His Windows laptop was one of several devices seized by the FBI, which investigators said was protected with a password but could be unlocked using Reffitt’s face. […] Reffitt’s lawyer told the court that his client…
Lees meerMatthew Langlois: In July 2020, we announced our intent to require the use of token-based authentication (for example, a personal access, OAuth, or GitHub App installation token) for all authenticated Git operations. Beginning August 13, 2021, we wi…
Lees meerClare Duffy: President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the US economy. It includes a provision directing the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules preventing manufacturers from imposing restr…
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