Karen Hao (via John Gruber): Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots and influence campaigns for a long time. Across US and foreign elections, natur…
Lees meerPeter Steinberger: Jailbreaking has a bad taste because it can be used to pirate apps. But there are many other, much more noble or interesting reasons why it’s worth exploring, like enhancing accessibility[…] This is a great collection of apps, twe…
Lees meerDylan Johnston (Hacker News): Repository-Level Tabs - use tabs to quickly navigate between multiple repositories Upgraded Commit UI - focus on what’s important with an upgraded commit UI Flexible Layouts - adapt the layout to fit your context and wo…
Lees meerEric Slivka: Over the past few hours, a number of MacRumors readers have reported seeing dozens or even hundreds of pending app updates showing in the App Store on their iOS devices, including for many apps that were already recently updated by the …
Lees meerAmmon Bartram: Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do…
Lees meerBBC (via Hacker News): The company said the notifications would be sent to those people who signed up with a credit card or other payment method, but have not watched anything in the year since signing up. It will do the same for other users who hav…
Lees meerOle Begemann: Problem: Face ID doesn’t work with face masks. You have to type in your passcode all the time during grocery shopping to check your shopping list. Solution: Open your shopping list app and activate Guided Access. Tada! Apple: Guided Ac…
Lees meerFrank McShan (Hacker News): The team behind the “unc0ver” jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 5.0.0 of its software that claims to have the ability to jailbreak “every signed iOS version on every device” using a zero-day kernel vulnerabil…
Lees meerJason Kottke: The solver himself calls it “a work of sublime genius” and “one of the most extraordinary puzzles we’ve ever seen”. It’s fascinating listening to him slowly uncover different aspects of the puzzle — watching him methodically figure out…
Lees meerAllan Odgaard (via Cocoa-Dev, Hacker News): In episode 379 of ATP both Marco Arment and John Siracusa described noticeable delays and stalls after upgrading to macOS 10.15. […] Another way to reduce the delays is by disabling System Integrity Protec…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Nilay Patel asked this of Siri on his Apple Watch. After too long of a wait, he got the correct answer — for London Canada. I tried on my iPhone and got the same result. Stupid and slow is heck of a combination. […] Worse, I tried on my…
Lees meerJesse Squires: However, if you do not use Interface Builder, then init(coder:) is irrelevant and will never be called. It is annoying boilerplate. But the real problem is that Xcode (and presumably other editors) will offer init(coder:) as an auto-c…
Lees meerSara Fischer: The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.[…]The Times will begin to offer clients 45 new proprietary first-party…
Lees meerLucas Shaw and Mark Gurman: Apple Inc. is ramping up its push into original podcasts by seeking an executive to lead the initiative and buying shows that would be exclusive to its services. The technology giant has begun acquiring two types of origi…
Lees meerMonica Chin (via Nilay Patel): Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, had just completed his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it …
Lees meerQualys (via Marcel Weiher, Matthew Garrett, Hacker News): Surprisingly, we re-discovered these vulnerabilities during a recent qmail audit; they have never been fixed because, as stated by qmail’s author Daniel J. Bernstein: This claim is denied. No…
Lees meerAlex Hern (via Julian Mair): A former Apple contractor who helped blow the whistle on the company’s programme to listen to users’ Siri recordings has decided to go public, in protest at the lack of action taken as a result of the disclosures. In a l…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.5, major updates that come more than a month after the launch of iOS and iPadOS 13.4.1. iOS 13.5 is a major health-related update that brings many features related to the ongoing public health cris…
Lees meerOlivia Solon (via John Gruber): Software called Hide UI, created by Grayshift, a company that makes iPhone-cracking devices for law enforcement, can track a suspect’s passcode when it’s entered into a phone, according to two people in law enforcemen…
Lees meerKevin Purdy (via Josh Centers): Most importantly, don’t try to use rice to “draw out the moisture.” It doesn’t work, at all. You’re giving water more time to corrode your laptop, and you’re probably getting rice inside your laptop or under your keys…
Lees meerJoe Rogan: Starting on September 1 the podcast will be available on Spotify as well as all platforms, and then at the end of the year it will move exclusively to Spotify… The podcast was already hugely financially successful, and it seems like this …
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