Cory Doctorow (via Hacker News): What they didn’t know was that they’ve been given an asymptomatic infection – a malicious update that only kicked in five months later, after everyone had had a good long time to update. That update’s real purpose wa…
Lees meerChaim Gartenberg: And that smaller size is really nice to hold. iOS scales well to the 5.4-inch display, and the iPhone 12 design looks and feels just as nice on the slightly more compact version as it does on the full-sized model. If you liked the …
Lees meerDeskA: Since we moved parts of our codebase to swift, our compile times have effectively quadrupled. Trying to combat this, we’ve used the function and expression debug time flags to figure out if there’s something to be saved by simplifying express…
Lees meerJoshua Browder (Hacker News): Just got a call from Apple. The DoNotPay App will be removed by them in 5 minutes because “the app is too App Store like.” Each @DoNotPayLaw service needs to be a separate app and give 30% to Apple, violating guidelines…
Lees meerResynth (via Hacker News): The entire source code for the code hosting service used by developers, GitHub.com, has just been leaked to the public. In a suspicious commit to the official GitHub DMCA repository, an unknown individual uploaded the conf…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today seeded a macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 release candidate to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta coming one week after the first macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 beta was released. Note that macOS 11.0 has not been released to the …
Lees meerVincent Bénony: Hopper Disassembler for Apple Silicon is now available! […] I have recently decided to change how the future versions of Hopper will be distributed: starting with this new version, every purchase of a license will include a one year …
Lees meerMike Bombich: CCC 5.1.22 is officially qualified for macOS Big Sur. […] Thanks to these massive system changes and some bugs in the version of Big Sur that Apple intends to ship, nobody can make a proper copy of the System volume right now, not even…
Lees meerBen Cohen (via Joe Groff): Unlike a manifesto, which might describe multiple possible directions and in some cases unlikely directions, this document describes a single intended plan for tackling concurrency in Swift. The end state of these changes …
Lees meerObjective Development (also: MacRumors): The main focus in the development of Little Snitch 5 was on the integration of the new network filter technologies introduced by Apple in macOS Big Sur. The underlying filter engine was re-built from ground u…
Lees meerJuli Clover (also: Slashdot): Apple today announced the launch of a new service program for AirPods Pro sound issues, which is designed to address AirPods Pro units experiencing static or crackling sounds or problems with Active Noise Cancellation. …
Lees meerJason Snell (transcript, also: MacRumors): Apple announced its quarterly financial results today, with record Mac and Services revenue and a big drop in iPhone sales. Despite the tough iPhone quarter, revenue was a record for the company’s fourth fi…
Lees meerBenj Edwards (via Daniel Sandler): BeOS was unique among the computer operating systems of the ’90s due to its lack of legacy code. By the mid-’90s, Windows, Mac OS, OS/2, Solaris, Linux, and even NeXTSTEP, were evolutionary operating systems with a…
Lees meerRiccardo Mori: As I was saying before, I expected the first betas to be a rough design sketch, bound to be drastically improved upon (not simply refined) from beta release to beta release. Instead, all visual changes at the UI level so far have been…
Lees meerJon Baumann: What caused my issue was the fact that Apple was now defaulting to using “private Wi-Fi addresses” in iOS 14. This did not appear anywhere in the list of “All New Features” on the iOS 14 website, but there was some buzz about it for tho…
Lees meerJoshua Long (via Catalin Cimpanu, tweet, Patrick Wardle): For the second time in six weeks, Apple has been caught notarizing Mac malware.Intego previously reported that Apple inadvertently notarized more than 40 malware samples in August.This time, …
Lees meerJacob Eiting (via David Barnard): Turns out, the 85/15 split — which Apple is keen to mention anytime developers complain about the App Store rev share — doesn’t have a meaningful impact for most developers. Because churn. […] Top mobile apps like N…
Lees meerDiligent Robot (tweet): We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just released version 3.0.15 of MoneyWell for macOS. This is a minor update to fix a few bugs. The new developers haven’t charged for an update yet, but they’ve been responsive to support …
Lees meerRuss Frushtick (via Stephen Hackett): Around 2016 or 2017, a couple years after Apple launched its CarPlay service, allowing your vehicle to sync with iOS, I started noticing something odd. Whenever I got into a car and connected my phone, it would …
Lees meerJon Porter: Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has arrived, letting both free and paid users secure their meetings so that only participants, not Zoom or anyone else, can access their content. Zoom says E2EE is supported across its Mac, PC, iOS, an…
Lees meerSketch: Native apps bring so many benefits — from personalization and performance to familiarity and flexibility. And while we’re always working hard to make Cloud an amazing space to collaborate, we still believe the Mac is the perfect place to let…
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