Andrew Liszewski (Hacker News): Amazon announced new versions of the Kindle Scribe today, including the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which features a larger version of the customized E Ink screen technology that Amazon uses in its color e-reader. The ne…
Lees meerPaul Samuels: My approach when needing to figure out what an old regex was doing was to paste it into whatever the top search result for “Explain regular expression” was.Something that I’ve been doing for a while but hadn’t really thought about was …
Lees meerToxicLand (via Hacker News): Using an M1 Max MacBook Pro, having Electron-based apps open / not minimized causes a huge lag.CPU and GPU usage remains low, but if I have Discord and VS Code open, moving windows, scrolling is stuttery. It happens even…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, iOS 26.0.1 addresses a bug that could cause aberrations in photos captured with the iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 Pro models. It…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 addresses a bug that was preventing Mac Studio machines with an M3 Ultra chip from being upgraded …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Note that watchOS is 26.0.2 because there was a watchOS 26.0.1 update designed to add Messages and Find My support to the Apple Watch Ultra 3 in Mexico.According to Apple’s release notes, the software provides bug fixes and important se…
Lees meermacOS 15.7.1 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.1 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Previou…
Lees meerPatreon: Autopilot is an easy and automatic way to give your fans promotional offerings to drive your growth on Patreon.[…]Autopilot is now automatically enabled for all creators. To change this setting, check the Autopilot section in the Promotions…
Lees meerMario Guzmán: All throughout the beta of #macOSTahoe, the Mac App Store app doesn’t show me updates. I have to use Latest.app to update my Mac App Store purchases. I was hope it would only be a beta issue but it seems to affect the RC as well. Anyon…
Lees meerApple: The DMA requires Apple to make certain features work on non-Apple products and apps before we can share them with our users. Unfortunately, that requires a lot of engineering work, and it’s caused us to delay some new features in the EU: Live…
Lees meerApple: Xcode 26.1 beta requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later.[…]The ‘devicectl’ command line tool now supports gathering a sysdiagnose from a connected device. To use this functionality, run ‘xcrun devicectl device sysdiagnose’[…]When e…
Lees meerApple: Xcode 26.0.1 requires a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later. […] Fixed: Icon Composer documents that use “Lighten”, “Darken” or “Screen” blend modes incorrectly encode as “Normal” when compiled. Blend modes will look correct in Icon Compo…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Facebook deliberately failed to fix a bunch of security flaws, in violation of its 2019 settlement agreement with the Federal Trade C…
Lees meerI’ve recently been using Screen Time more to manage my son’s Mac and iOS usage, and it’s been really frustrating. On the Sonoma Mac where he plays Minecraft, we wanted to restrict which Web sites could be viewed. But this doesn’t just affect what yo…
Lees meerMykola Grymalyuk (PDF, via Mr. Macintosh): The talk was a look into Apple’s Rapid Security Response system unveiled back at WWDC2022, discussing the design and challenges of the system. But Apple seemingly abandoned the system a year after its intro…
Lees meerAndré Arko (via Reddit): As chronicled by my teammate Ellen, the RubyGems team is no more. I wish the best of luck to everyone taking on the herculean task of keeping package management functional and working for the entire Ruby community. Ellen Das…
Lees meerAaron Patterson (via Hacker News): I’m pretty sure I’d been getting corrupted images for a while, but it would only be 1 or 2 images out of thousands, so I thought nothing of it (it was probably my fault anyway, right?)But the problem really got me …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Back in August, Australia’s federal court ruled that the Apple App Store had violated competition laws by prohibiting sideloading and alternative payment methods.At the time, the court had not shared a written judgment, but now the 900-…
Lees meerAllison Smith (via Hacker News): Amazon revealed at its annual Accelerate seller conference in Seattle that it is shutting down its long-running “commingling” program — a move that drew louder applause from sellers than any other update of the morni…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: When setting up FileVault, you used to be presented with two choices:View the Recovery Key, write it down, and keep it safe. It’s never presented again. (But as long as you can log in, you can toggle FileVault and get a new key.)Use…
Lees meerJamie Lang (Hacker News): Vimeo, once the internet’s most prestigious stage for independent filmmakers and animators, is being acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal. The sale, expected to close later t…
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