Rogue Amoeba (via Peter Steinberger, Jeff Johnson): In MacOS 11 (Big Sur), the initial installation of ACE requires a bit more set-up. The in-app installer provides an overview of the process, and is likely all you need. This page lists the full seq…
Lees meerThomas Reed (tweet): One of the common sub-groups of PUPs we detect are antivirus programs that show unwanted behaviors meeting certain criteria. As an example, a program that requires payment, but the antivirus engine it uses is available for free …
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: I hate to be a downer when it comes to improved technology that actually does what it says on the tin. 5G networks will provide substantial improvements in throughput and availability that we will notice—in a year or maybe two. Unti…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci: When iPhone OS 1.0 was released in 2007, it redefined the smartphone with a limited set of core features. Nowadays iOS 14 contains an incredible amount of components. By looking at them based on their size, we can determine the mo…
Lees meerMike Stern: SF Symbols 2.1 is out. Over 40 new symbols, improved symbol localization, design refinements, and various software fixes. Geoff Hackworth (tweet): Apple’s SF Symbols app has no release notes and the What’s New category doesn’t contain th…
Lees meerThomas Reed: What the hell, Apple? You won’t give me and other security researchers the EndpointSecurity entitlement, but you give f***ing MacKeeper the entitlement?!?! What in the hell is wrong with you? 🤬🤬🤬 Phil Dennis-Jordan: The macOS entitlemen…
Lees meerMarcel Weiher (Hacker News): The M1 is apparently a multi-die package that contains both the actual processor die and the DRAM. As such, it has a very high-speed interface between the DRAM and the processors. This high-speed interface, in addition t…
Lees meerJoshua Harris and Sam Haveson: To help people feel more comfortable, we’ve been working on a lower pressure way for people to talk about what’s happening. Today, we’re launching Fleets so everyone can easily join the conversation in a new way – with…
Lees meerRich Trouton: With Apple now officially selling Apple Silicon Macs, there’s a design decision which Apple made with macOS Big Sur that may affect various Mac environments: At this time, macOS Big Sur does not install Rosetta 2 by default on Apple Si…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: Here are more details on how iPhone and iPad apps will be installed on M1 Macs: Managed by the Mac App Store Toggle in search ‘Designed for iPhone/iPad’ badge Included in "curated selections" Steve Troughton-Smith: With everything …
Lees meerCraig Federighi: I gotta tell you when we released Big Sur, and these articles started coming out saying, “Oh my God, look, Apple is preparing for touch”. I was thinking like, “Whoa, why?” We had designed and evolved the look for macOS in a way that…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Launching January 1, 2021, the industry-leading new App Store Small Business Program is designed to accelerate innovation and help propel your small business forward. The program has a reduced commission rate of 15% o…
Lees meerJP Simard: Pop Quiz, what does this Swift program print? 5 years on, it still takes me a few tries to properly reason through this. Especially in the real world when the code is a bit more spread out or complex to fit in a tweet. Greg Titus: What is…
Lees meerCallum Booth (via Hacker News): For all of Apple’s talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak doesn’t match up with what it’s actually doing. And the latest example? Well, it’s Apple apps on Big Sur bypassing firewalls and VPNs. Norbert …
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: If you’re a developer with a Mac app, you’ve likely heard both of the following support requests in the past few days:1) “Can you put the old icon style icon back?”2) “When are you going to update to the new icon style?”It’s clear…
Lees meerDavid Sparks: I like the new notification system a lot better than the prior one. Notifications are grouped better. Both notifications and widgets are on the same screen. Widgets also feel more intentional with the new iOS influenced widget system. …
Lees meerErnesto Van der Sar: Over the past several years, major music labels have taken legal action against several key players. YouTube-MP3 was shut down after a legal battle while 2Conv and FLVto are currently being sued. At the same time, rightsholders …
Lees meerFrakeTrain: Still on Catalina 10.15.7 SuppUp and just installed Safari 14.0.1 (15610.2.11.51.10) over 14.0 today, and all my .webloc icon previews are blank. That includes desktop icons, folder icons, and Get Info Preview icons. Both my .webloc and …
Lees meerHartley Charlton (tweet, Hacker News): A large number of late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro owners are reporting that the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their machines. A MacRumors forum thread contains a significant number of users report…
Lees meerChance Miller: Apple has updated its TestFlight beta testing application for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV to version 3.0. The update brings support for automatic updates, as well as stability improvements and bug fixes. Craig Hockenberry: New version …
Lees meerFrank McShan (tweet, Hacker News): The new Rosetta 2 Geekbench results uploaded show that the M1 chip running on a MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM has single-core and multi-core scores of 1,313 and 5,888 respectively. Since this version of Geekbench is …
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