Jeremy Andrews (via Hacker News): Thirty years ago, Linus Torvalds was a 21 year old student at the University of Helsinki when he first released the Linux Kernel. His announcement started, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t b…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): The Company posted a March quarter record revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.40. […] “We are proud of our March quarter performance, which included revenue reco…
Lees meerKathy Kam (via Hacker News): Facebook Open Source is excited to announce our support of Rust Foundation at its highest member tier. Alongside the other fellow foundation members, Facebook is committed to sustaining and growing the Rust open source e…
Lees meerNicole Perlroth (via Hacker News): He was a respected practitioner of “penetration testing,” the business of compromising the security of computer systems at the behest of owners who want to harden their systems from attack. […] When Daniel was 11, …
Lees meerFacebook (via Hacker News): But while more advanced codecs like VP9 provide better compression performance over older codecs, like H264, they also consume more computing power. From a pure computing perspective, applying the most advanced codecs to …
Lees meerTim Ekl: It’s been just over two years since we first saw “Improving the UI of generics,” the discussion post about potential changes to make generic types easier to work with in Swift, and five years since the first version of the Swift Generics Ma…
Lees meerSuhail Doshi (tweet, Hacker News): We’re excited to finally unveil Mighty, a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud.After 2 years of hard work, we’ve created something that’s indistinguishable from a Google Ch…
Lees meerTed Kremenek: Swift 5.4 includes the following new language features:Support for multiple variadic parameters in functions, subscripts and initializers (SE-0284)Extend implicit member syntax (SE-0287)Result builders (SE-0289)Local functions supporti…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, ArsTechnica, Hacker News): iOS 14.5 brings exciting new features to iPhone, including the ability to unlock iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask, more diverse Siri voices, new privacy controls, skin tone options to bet…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Howard Oakley): macOS Big Sur 11.3 adds support for AirTag, includes iPhone and iPad app improvements for Macs with M1, introduces separate skin tone variations for emoji with couples, and adds more diverse voice options for Siri. …
Lees meerJeffrey Paul (Hacker News): Signal took that 4000x2667 JPEG image comprising precisely 3,916,886 bytes, encrypted it, and transmitted it to my friend. She received a different 4000x2667 JPEG image comprising 784,524 bytes: 80% smaller. […] Did you k…
Lees meerWatts Martin: Since then, I’ve seen a chorus of pundits, both professional and armchair (hi), push two theories that are either at odds or entwined, depending on how you look at them: Surely, a dystopian iOS-like future of only sanctioned App Store …
Lees meerJason Hellerman (Hacker News): You know all those times you “bought” movies on iTunes? Well, because of the way Apple licenses films from studios, you never really own them. You actually have rented them at a higher fee, for a longer time.[…]David A…
Lees meerZac Bowden: Furthermore, in addition to the new storefront, Microsoft is also planning to relax some of the policies around what kind of apps can be submitted to the Store by developers.According to my sources, there are three big changes coming to …
Lees meerSami Fathi: Apple is planning to boost its advertising business through a new ad slot on the App Store search page which will allow developers to promote their apps across the entire platform, rather than just when users search for a specific app, a…
Lees meerMarco Arment: Something’s up with the iTunes API (that most podcast apps use). This isn’t the first missing feedUrl I’ve seen on a public podcast. Removing this API will make Apple an enemy of open podcasting FAR more than optional paid subscription…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Spotify will announce a similar podcast subscription feature next week, but in contrast to Apple, the rival streaming service won’t be collecting revenue on any of the content it …
Lees meerMoxie Marlinspike: Since almost all of Cellebrite’s code exists to parse untrusted input that could be formatted in an unexpected way to exploit memory corruption or other vulnerabilities in the parsing software, one might expect Cellebrite to have …
Lees meerRob Griffiths (tweet): This handy $3 utility puts the frontmost app’s menu bar into a pop-up menu at your mouse’s location—say goodbye to those long trips to the menu bar; the main menu is now just a hot key away[…] There were several classic Mac OS…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: After a long period without major updates, Kaleidoscope has been acquired by Letter Opener GmbH, which is now committed to providing regular updates to the app with new features. Following the release of an update last month to redu…
Lees meerThe video of the senate judiciary hearing is here. Lauren Goode: Daru, from Tile, says that when Apple made changes in iOS for the rollout of Find My, Apple started showing people prompts to turn Tile off but not turn off Find My. Also says new “mag…
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