Cat Ferguson (via Hacker News, Reddit): Unless you’re in one of the few states using it, you may not have heard of VAMS. But it was supposed to be a one-stop shop where employers, state officials, clinics, and individuals could manage scheduling, in…
Lees meerGeoffrey A. Fowler (Hacker News, MacRumors): I downloaded a de-stressing app called the Satisfying Slime Simulator that gets the App Store’s highest-level label for privacy. It turned out to be the wrong kind of slimy, covertly sending information —…
Lees meerSamuel Groß (via Hacker News, MacRumors): One of the major changes in iOS 14 is the introduction of a new, tightly sandboxed “BlastDoor” service which is now responsible for almost all parsing of untrusted data in iMessages (for example, NSKeyedArch…
Lees meerJason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. […] The iPhone i…
Lees meerJay Peters (via Slashdot, Hacker News): Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgruntled Robinhood users organized campaigns to give the app a on…
Lees meerChristophe Combette (via Nick Heer): Apple’s upcoming App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy will require developers to ask for permission when they use certain information from other companies’ apps and websites for advertising purposes, even if th…
Lees meerProtonMail (via Hacker News): In December 2020, The Council of the European Union released a five-page resolution that called for the EU to pass new rules to govern the use of end-to-end encryption in Europe. We strongly oppose this resolution becau…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): The Company posted all-time record revenue of $111.4 billion, up 21 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.68, up 35 percent. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Facebook today shared its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2020, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s opening remarks were focused on Apple’s upcoming anti-tracking privacy changes that will impact the advertising industry and companies…
Lees meerApple: January 28 is Data Privacy Day, a time to raise awareness about the importance of protecting people’s personal information online. Apple is commemorating Data Privacy Day by sharing “A Day in the Life of Your Data,” an easy-to-understand repo…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: A few weeks ago, Apple added the new M1 model to their support page listing the power consumption and thermal output of all Mac Mini models (including the 2005 original, which used a PowerPC G4 CPU). The numbers from 2014 onward are rat…
Lees meerAnimesh Jain (via David Smith, Hacker News): Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain root privileges on the vulnerable host. […] In other words, set_cmnd() is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, bec…
Lees meerHector Simpson (via Ryan Jones): Ultra high-resolution wallpapers, inspired by an OS X classic — available in several wide-gamut color editions, with easy installation on macOS, and a collection available for mobile devices. The desktop versions of …
Lees meerApple: Xcode 12.4 includes SDKs for iOS 14.4, iPadOS 14.4, tvOS 14.3, watchOS 7.2, and macOS Big Sur 11.1. The Xcode 12.4 release supports on-device debugging for iOS 9 and later, tvOS 9 and later, and watchOS 2 and later. Xcode 12.4 requires a Mac …
Lees meerCorellium (tweet): While we have previously supported virtual iPhone and iPad devices for Enterprise accounts, our Individual accounts only offered virtual Android devices. Now, both individuals and enterprises can virtualize both iOS and Android de…
Lees meerChris Liscio: Looking at the crash logs, I noticed that invoking -[AVAudioEngine mainMixerNode] would fire some kind of internal exception. The API does not return any kind of error, nor is it documented that an exception could get raised. Theoretic…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (Tapbots): Tapbots, the maker of Tweetbot, has released version 6 of the app, introducing a new subscription pricing model along with a handful of timeline and design updates.The subscription costs $0.99 per month or $5.99 annually. Ma…
Lees meerMarques Brownlee: I still edit 99 percent of everything. I have the motion graphics artist and cinematographer, Vinh and Brandon, who will just go in on eight hours of editing for the first seven seconds of the intros and fun stuff like that. But I’…
Lees meerAlexey Naumov (via Peter Steinberger): So I decided to build ViewInspector, a library that allows for inspecting the SwiftUI view hierarchy at runtime.[…]And as it turned out, there were many pitfalls waiting for me on the way:All types in reflectio…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: In the Facebook/Android style, a down-pointing chevron is a button you tap to expand more content, and an up-pointing chevron is a button you tap to collapse it. In the iOS/Mac style, a right-pointing chevron (or triangle, depending on …
Lees meerPaul Kim: The biggest problem at launch was some users getting an “Unidentified developer” alert when opening the dmg. I had various users send in logs, but it was only when someone found a log message pertaining to the rpath for one of the binaries…
Lees meer