Apple: (MacRumors, Hacker News) Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference virtually, beginning June 22, in the Apple Developer app and on the Apple Developer website for free for all developers.[…]Developers are e…
Lees meerApple (Phil Schiller, Hacker News): Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever on a Mac notebook and doubled the storage across all standard configurations, del…
Lees meerSiguza (via Steve Troughton-Smith, Hacker News): Yesterday Apple released iOS 13.5 beta 3 (seemingly renaming iOS 13.4.5 to 13.5 there), and that killed one of my bugs. It wasn’t just any bug though, it was the first 0day I had ever found. And it wa…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Customers who have purchased the new 2020 iPhone SE have found a surprising missing feature - Haptic Touch does not work with notifications. On the 2020 iPhone SE, long pressing on a notification in the Notification Center or on the Loc…
Lees meerManuel Grabowski: I figured there must be some way to find out what data exactly changed inbetween two TM snapshots. There is. I let that script run (for almost an entire day) and in the resulting output I was quickly able to find the directory that…
Lees meerJuli Clover: In the iOS 13.5 beta, released this morning, Apple has streamlined the speed with which the passcode pops up when a person wearing a mask is detected, making it easier to get into an iPhone with a passcode when Face ID fails.Speedier ac…
Lees meerCurtis Herbert: Wait...what? The new NSProgress stuff on NSOperationQueue says you have to call super.start() to contribute towards progress, but Foundation docs for NSOperation say to never call super.start() O.o NSOperation.h: The progress propert…
Lees meerBrent Simmons: The benefits of components and being careful with dependencies are clear — but why use actual frameworks? After all, a conceptual module doesn’t have to translate to an actual separate library target. I’ve found that it’s easier, when…
Lees meerThe App Coalition: The App Coalition is the first organization devoted to developing forward-looking policies to protect consumers in line with their increasing reliance on apps and to ensuring that consumers have unfettered access to the content of…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky (tweet): In English, this is the first iPhone that can generate a portrait effect using nothing but a single, 2D image. […] The new iPhone SE can’t use focus pixels, because its older sensor doesn’t have enough coverage. Instead, it ge…
Lees meerMax Seelemann’s App Store upload failed because the high-resolution versions of the icon were missing: It turns out, the icons actually were not there… but obviously we had them in the source asset catalog. We didn’t change the asset catalog or how …
Lees meerPhil Dennis-Jordan: I’ve spent a fair bit of the last 2 weeks with DriverKit, i.e. macOS 10.15’s device-drivers-in-userspace tech. I really wanted to like it, but so far I’m not impressed at all. It’s yet another one of those things where Apple clea…
Lees meerJustin Proulx: The scenario pictured mentions a generic disease. This scenario has existed since 2018. Apple just called me, saying I can’t have it in the App Store anymore due to COVID-19, despite it existing before the virus […] Apple is now targe…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Apple Watch launching on April 24, 2015. To mark the occasion, below we reflect on some of the key features added to the Apple Watch over the last five years. Juli Clover: To celebrate the devi…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: One of the strangest and most irritating bugs with sparse bundles in APFS format is the unreliability of their estimates of size and free space. Whether you look at free space shown in the Finder or in Disk Utility, there is no correl…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): Normally, when a sandboxed app writes to a file, the file is quarantined. If the file is a shell script, then the quarantine extended attribute would prevent the script from running. However, when an app such as TextEdit with t…
Lees meerStephen Cass (via Josh Centers): This hack allows digital systems without specialized graphics hardware to produce color images by exploiting quirks in how TVs decode analog video signals. NTSC artifact color was used most notably by the Apple II in…
Lees meerNorbert Doerner: If you connect an iPhone or iPad to your Mac, and use Image Capture to transfer the photos you took with the device to the Mac, you have the option to convert the HEIC photos taken by iOS to more standard JPG files. This requires yo…
Lees meerBlockBlock 1.0 is a complete rewrite that uses Endpoint Security Framework (tweet). Previously: BlockBlock 0.9.9.4
Lees meerMark Gurman at al. (tweet, Hacker News, Slashdot, AppleInsider, MacRumors): The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is working on three of its own Mac processors, known as systems-on-a-chip, based on the A14 processor in the next iPhone. Th…
Lees meerDion Almaer: Do you charge your Macbook on the left or right side? Turns out right is better! Adam: Occasionally my machine will have a kernel_task instance max out the CPU[…] This can last from minutes to sometimes hours. The machine is effectively…
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