Ken Glueck, Oracle VP: As we discussed in a previous post, this case is not about innovation, it is about theft. Google copied verbatim more than 11,000 lines of software code, and now attempts post hoc to change the rules in order to excuse its con…
Lees meerDan Luu: On the other hand, companies compete relatively directly when recruiting, so being more compelling relative to another company has value to them; replicating the playbook Cloudflare or Segment has used with their engineering “brands” would …
Lees meerMarcel Bischoff (via Isle of the Kakapo): A curated list of shell commands and tools specific to OS X. “You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.” (John Brunner) Previously: Henrik’s Favorite Command…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: If you use News, our @macstoriesnet channel is back to being a standard RSS one. Performance of the Apple News Format plugin for WordPress was horrible and not worth our time improving it. Luckily, News Support reverted us to the…
Lees meerNYU (via Hacker News): This is a story about how the most sophisticated copyright filter in the world prevented us from explaining copyright law. It doesn’t involve TikTok dance moves or nuanced 90s remixes featuring AOC. No, it involves a debate at…
Lees meerCabel Sasser: Apple removed resource forks/PICT support in Catalina so we’re on the absolute edge of being able to rescue Audion faces from displaying easily ever again. Michael Buckley: [Audion faces are] an important part of Panic’s history that h…
Lees meerJason Snell: This chart covers the era of 15-inch laptops, from the original Titanium PowerBook G4 in 2001, and also includes the 16-inch MacBook Pro (2019). I chose the last top-of-the-line 15-inch laptop to be released in a given year, and no, I d…
Lees meerDieter Bohn: But there was one line on Google’s support page for the update that caught my eye (emphasis mine): “In addition to long press, you can now firmly press to get more help from your apps more quickly.”“Firmly press” sets off alarm bells be…
Lees meerJim Salter (via Bruce Schneier): On Leap Day, Let’s Encrypt announced that it had discovered a bug in its CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) code.The bug opens up a window of time in which a certificate might be issued even if a CAA record …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today updated its support document on cleaning Apple products with new information that confirms it’s okay to to use a 70 percent isopropyl alcohol wipe or Clorox Disinfecting Wipes for the purpose of cleaning germs from your devi…
Lees meerJosh Centers: If you’re looking for a new distributed computing project to join (calling Bob Lauterbach), the 20-year-old Folding@home project is still going strong. Folding@home is dedicated to “understanding protein folding, the diseases that resu…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: 10 years ago today, Samsung made this slide deck detailing 126 things the iPhone OS did better than the original Samsung Galaxy S operating system. Rene Ritchie: The Galaxy Note 10 is here. I spoke all about it with Daniel Bader from …
Lees meerThe New York Times: Attorney General William Barr and his British and Australian counterparts are set to push Facebook for a back door to its end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms, which would give investigators access to n…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is set to pay up to $500 million to settle a United States lawsuit over the iPhone battery performance throttling debacle of 2018.Via Reuters, Apple agreed to a preliminary settlement in legal documents …
Lees meerCharlie Sorrel: In iPadOS and iOS 13, you can kinda replace the stock Apple apps on your iPhone or iPad. For instance, anytime you tap the Mail icon, Spark could launch instead. Or, and this is probably the most useful, when you tap the lock-screen …
Lees meerJenna Tsui: Many Apple users know Cult of Mac as a tech news site, but fewer think of it as a site that will buy back Apple gear. In 2015, however, the site launched the Cult of Mac Buy-Back Program, which claims to give people more money for their …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: As a result of the change in format from safariextz to app, Safari extensions have been decimated. There are significantly fewer Safari extensions available. The developer program membership cost factor is obvious, so I won’t spend any…
Lees meerWojtek Pietrusiewicz: As you can see, the DSKY has a black keypad with white legends, yellow indicator lights, and a green electroluminescent seven-segment display. Commands were entered numerically, as two-digit numbers — called Verb and Noun. The …
Lees meerRyan Christoffel: Today Twitter announced a test, limited to Brazil, of a major new feature for the social service: Fleets, which take their inspiration from the Stories feature found on Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook.Fleets, short for “fleeting …
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: Apple is reporting that some cloud services including iMessage, iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Even when the status page is green, I receive iMessages out of order and with incorrect …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today informed developers that it has released updated App Store Review Guidelines, with changes that cover reviews, spam, push notifications, Sign in with Apple, data collection and storage, mobile device management, and more. He…
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