Tim Hardwick: Apple has been informed by China’s cyberspace regulator that it must remove the Didi Chuxing ride hailing app from the Chinese App Store following concerns about the Uber rival’s possible misuse of personal data. The app in question is…
Lees meerJason Kottke (also: David Pogue, Hacker News): A new iOS app called Brickit has been developed to breathe new life into your old Lego pile. Just dump your bricks out into a pile and the app will analyze what Lego bricks you have, what new creations …
Lees meerYan Zhu: the new search engine we’ve been working on at @brave is now in public beta! search.brave.comwe don’t track clicks or querieswe don’t profile youfor localized results, we only use IP and don’t store itwe show you what % of results are serve…
Lees meerSam Chandler: Today, I’m excited to announce Nitro’s acquisition of PDFpen, the much-loved suite of PDF productivity apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone developed by Smile, Inc.[…]With the acquisition of PDFpen, we have found the perfect complement and ad…
Lees meerKristin Hostetter (via Matt Stoller): Pocket Outdoor Media (parent company to SNEWS, Backpacker, and nearly 30 other active living brands) announced news that will catapult the Boulder-based company into a powerful position in these industries: It h…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): In ongoing antitrust discussions about App Store competition, Apple has maintained that allowing users to install apps outside of the App Store would have dire privacy consequences, but European Union digital competition chief M…
Lees meerMark Graham (via Hacker News): As part of the Internet Archive’s aim to build a better Web, we have been working to make the Web more reliable — and are pleased to announce that 9 million formerly broken links on Wikipedia now work because they go t…
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (via Peter Steinberger): Now the font file is in the project but there is still more work to do. […] Now go to the Info.plist file. Right-click in the blank space below the existing entries and select “Add Row” from the popup menu. In…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (tweet): This article stems from Thomas Tempelmann’s (@tempelorg) observation on Twitter that, if you name a volume in Disk Utility, it can remain in Unicode normalized Form C, which isn’t compatible with the rest of macOS, which expec…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The macOS Monterey Public Beta is available to anyone with a compatible Mac and it does not require a developer account. This guide walks you through some simple steps on installing the beta software. Before downloading the update, it's…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: I don’t think iOS and iPadOS 15 are massive updates like iOS and iPadOS 13 or 14 were. There are dozens of interesting new features in both updates, but none of them feels “obvious” to demonstrate to average users like, say, dark m…
Lees meerC. Scott Brown (via Hacker News): Starting in August 2021, Google will require all new Android APKs to land on the Play Store as App Bundles instead. This will invariably result in smaller file sizes and other boons for the end-user. […] However, th…
Lees meerJesse Squires (tweet, Hacker News): The problem with DocC is hosting and distribution — arguably the most important aspect of this type of tool! What’s the point of generating amazing docs for your library or SDK if you can’t easily distribute or pu…
Lees meerBob Lefsetz: I got the following e-mail from a producer/engineer: I just want to try and alert you to the potential seismic scam happening with this Atmos roll out. Atmos catalog remixing is being done by the truckload in a handful of Nashville, LA,…
Lees meerMark Wilson: A new version of The Oregon Trail—out now for iOS devices that subscribe to Apple Arcade—begins to wrestle with this tension. Developed by an Australian team at Gameloft, a prominent mobile game developer, the new version mostly plays l…
Lees meerApple: All programs and dylibs built with a deployment target of macOS 12 or iOS 15 or later now use the chained fixups format. This uses different load commands and LINKEDIT data, and won’t run or load on older OS versions. Noah Martin: The app bin…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you as a user make a snapshot of the System volume, you’ll get an unsealed replica of the System volume that can’t be used to replace the new sealed snapshot, and hasn’t even been blessed to make it bootable. Trying to roll back to…
Lees meerAdobe (via Agen Schmitz): Super Resolution enables you to get the most out of your images by intelligently improving image quality while maintaining sharp edges and color accuracy. Powered by AI technology, Super Resolution increases the width and h…
Lees meerNat Friedman: We spent the last year working closely with OpenAI to build GitHub Copilot. We’ve been using it internally for months, and can’t wait for you to try it out; it’s like a piece of the future teleported back to 2021. GitHub (Hacker News):…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News): Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained c…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Apple has never been flexible when it comes to iOS updates. While users can choose not to install an update, you will be left without security fixes if you don’t install the latest version of iOS available. Although Apple still upda…
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