Craig Silverman (tweet, also: Nick Heer): Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps for Android and iOS…
Lees meerChris Parnin and Matt Shipman (via Hacker News, 2, 3): A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate h…
Lees meerSwift by Sundell (tweet, Reddit): Dave Abrahams joins John to talk about Protocol-Oriented Programming and how to make the most out of the Swift Standard Library. Also, discussions on Swift’s overall design, why it puts such a strong emphasis on val…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Slashdot, Hacker News): As Apple CEO Tim Cook gears up to testify in an App Store antitrust hearing before the House Judiciary Committee next week, Apple has commissioned a study from Analysis Group [PDF] that’s designed to demonstrate …
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): The Security Research Device (SRD) is intended for use in a controlled setting for security research only. Shell access is available, and you’ll be able to run any tools and choose your entitlements. Otherwise, the SRD behav…
Lees meerDrew McCormack: You may be wondering why the Entry type includes a UUID identifier. It already has a timestamp, which is an identity of a sort. Isn’t that timestamp unique enough? Maybe, but you will sleep better at night if you assume it is not uni…
Lees meerKickstarter (via 9to5Mac): AnyBackup is capable of reading, backing up, transferring, and restoring your documents, contacts, photos, videos, and data from all the popular social media channels. Shawna: The Maktar Qubii Pro is an automatic flash dri…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: For apps built with Xcode, the version returned depends on which version of its SDK they were built with. SDK 10.15 and earlier will consistently respond that Big Sur is major version 10 and minor version 16. This ensures that all exi…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (tweet): If your keyboard doesn’t have a dedicated Enter key, you can type the Enter key by pressing Fn-Return. That’s why some Return keys have “Enter” printed in small type above the word “Return”. If your keyboard has neither a dedica…
Lees meerZac Bowden (tweet): VAIL, the technology Microsoft uses to virtualize legacy Win32 programs on Windows 10X via containers, has been removed from the latest internal builds of the OS. I’m told that this is a deliberate change as the company moves to …
Lees meerChance Miller: In addition to the visual redesign, however, macOS Big Sur completely overhauls the sound effects. A pair of new videos on YouTube from channel Pomamitia offer a detailed walkthrough of the new system and alert sounds in macOS 11 Big …
Lees meerFederico Viticci: A trait of iPadOS 14 that immediately stands out is how this year’s changes to the iPad experience do not come in the form of shiny new pro apps or reimagined multitasking. Apple didn’t showcase iPad-specific versions of Xcode, Fin…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 13.6 also brings support for Car Key, a feature available in both iOS 13 and iOS 14. Car Key is designed to allow an iPhone or an Apple Watch to be used in lieu of a physical key to unlock an NFC-enabled vehicle.[…]In the Health app…
Lees meerOle Begemann: swift-reflection-dump is cool! For example, this command dumps 78,000 lines of information about SwiftUI types and their stored properties: ./swift-reflection-dump --arch=x86_64 --binary-filename= […] If you don’t want to build the com…
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann (tweet): This is an analysis tool meant for developers and advanced users. It uses the macOS Launch Services API to perform lookups of bundle IDs and file extensions. Additionally, it has a browser for the current system’s UTI hier…
Lees meerRichard C. Moss: In recognition of its service to content creators and consumers of all stripes, of its contribution to the proliferation of online video and multimedia, and of that divisiveness that’s followed the platform around, the time has come…
Lees meerTwitter (via Hacker News): With this new foundation, developers can expect to see:A cleaner API that’s easier to use, with new developer features like the ability to specify which fields get returned, or retrieve more Tweets from a conversation with…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (also: Jack Dorsey, Twitter Support, Jason Koebler, SwiftOnSecurity): A Twitter insider was responsible for a wave of high profile account takeovers on Wednesday, according to leaked screenshots obtained by Motherboard and two sources who…
Lees meerKen Case (tweet): With sign-in licensing (coming very soon), you will no longer have to keep track of license codes: to access purchases, you can simply log into our apps using your Omni Account. A single Omni Account can be used across all devices …
Lees meerApple (also: MacRumors, Mr. Macintosh, Howard Oakley): macOS Catalina 10.15.6 introduces local news in your Today feed in Apple News and improves the security and reliability of your Mac. Unlike macOS 10.15.5, this does include a new version of Appl…
Lees meerApple (via MacRumors, Hacker News): If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances. Covering the built-in camera…
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