Juli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, the macOS Big Sur update prevents 2019 or later MacBook Pro models and 2020 or later MacBook Air models from being damaged when connected to certain third-party, non-compliant powered USB-C hubs and d…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: How much of your time at your job is actually spent on writing the logic, and how much of it is spent preparing an environment in order for that logic to run? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I found out that 98% of my time was spe…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut (tweet): I’ve noticed folks on Twitter and in developer Slack’s coming up with the same problem. I don’t know if something has changed in the code signing toolchain, or we’re just having an unlucky break, but I thought I’d blog about i…
Lees meerNick Heer: I am finding it difficult to adapt to increasingly unified applications on my Mac and iPad. I am not sure if this is an age and experience thing — I am used to switching between apps with multiple documents or windows open. Aside from web…
Lees meerRegina Cobb and Leo Biasiucci: The status quo is failing Arizonans, forcing us to pay inflated prices. It’s failing entrepreneurs, who are being forced to jump through hoops simply to get products to their customers. In fact, the only folks who seem…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller (also: AppleInsider, ArsTechnica, Hacker News): Epic Games just reduced the potential risk it incurs from its antitrust dispute with Apple over its App Store business terms: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District …
Lees meerSE-0302 (forum): This proposal describes an approach to address one of the challenging problems in this space — how to type check value passing between structured concurrency constructs and actors messages. As such, this is a unifying theory that pr…
Lees meerJohanna Romero (via ChrisLTD): Back in November, we reported on how in Q3 of 2020 Chrome OS growth was exploding across the globe. Now, the newest report by Strategy Analytics has shown that this impressive growth has continued throughout Q4, to the…
Lees meerRiccardo Mori: So, I used Snow Leopard on my 2009 MacBook Pro for about three years, and then again on a 2010 Mac mini that a friend gave me to maintain, as a sort of offsite backup. That Mac mini was kept on Mac OS X 10.6.8 for the whole four years…
Lees meerEric Slivka (tweet): Google today finally updated its YouTube iOS app for the first time in over two months, becoming one of the highest-profile Google apps to see an update since early December when Apple began requiring that developers disclose pr…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: It looks like Apple has started to crack down on scam attempts by rejecting apps that look like they have subscriptions or other in-app purchases with prices that don’t seem reasonable to the App Review team. […] We were initially s…
Lees meerTyler Hall (tweet): It’s always difficult to tell when Apple charges you for something and what it was for. Because unlike every other online retailer, they queue up email receipts for an indeterminate amount of time. […] Huh. I have no idea what th…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Safari features support for WebM video playback in the second beta of macOS Big Sur 11.3 Beta, indicating that Apple’s browser will finally support the format after failing to do so for almost 11 years. […] WebM also has a sister p…
Lees meerTaha Broach (via Hacker News): Apple’s privacy push is much more widespread than it seems at the surface. A perfect example is the new privacy feature in iOS 14.5 Beta 1 (V2) which redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through Apple’s own proxy ser…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee (via Hacker News): A federal judge has ruled that Citibank isn’t entitled to the return of $500 million it sent to various creditors last August. Kludgey software and a poorly designed user interface contributed to the massive screwup…
Lees meerDan DeMichele (via Jason Koebler, MacRumors, Hacker News): LastPass offers access across two device types – computers (including all browsers running on desktops and laptops) or mobile devices (including mobile phones, smart watches, and tablets). S…
Lees meerMalwarebytes Labs (MacRumors): Overall Mac detections decreased by 38%, though Mac detections for businesses increased 31% Malware accounted for just 1.5% of all Mac detections in 2020—the rest can be attributed to Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP…
Lees meerJohn Gordon: In our case Ben and Emily both have non-admin accounts on her M1 Air running Big Sur 11.2.1 with fast user switching enabled. When Ben logs out Emily’s Mail search stops working. There’s no error message, but search does nothing and Sma…
Lees meerQuinn: codesign should choose the signing format based on the deployment target: If your deployment target is 10.11 or later, you get sha256. If your deployment target is earlier, you get both sha1 and sha256. This problem crops up because, when bui…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (tweet): In recent years, I’ve grown concerned – as many of you have – at the increasing number of obvious bugs in release versions of macOS. In the last week or so, I’ve come across some real howlers: the Rich Text Spotlight importer …
Lees meerKapeli (tweet): The interface was updated to feel more native, especially in macOS Big Sur […] The most requested feature is here. I think I finally found a way to make full-text search fit well within Dash, alongside the results coming from the doc…
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