Mike Mika: On Dec 15th, we lost Chuck Peddle, the lead designer of the MOS 650x series microprocessor and the Commodore PET. His processor was the heart of the Atari 2600/5200/400/600/800, Apple II, NES, VIC-20, C-64, Kim-1, Master System, Lynx, BBC…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple continues to authorize free display repairs for eligible MacBook and MacBook Pro models with anti-reflective coating issues for up to four years after the affected notebook’s original purchase date, the company said in an intern…
Lees meerConnie Loizos (Hacker News): In an email tonight to users of Flickr who pay roughly $50 annually for the service, MacAskill has basically asked them if they know anyone else who might be interested in a yearly subscription to Flickr, explaining that…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors): As part of Apple’s commitment to security, we reward researchers who share critical issues with us through the Apple Security Bounty. You can now earn up to $1,500,000 and report issues on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, wa…
Lees meerApple (via Hacker News): The goal of the Connected Home over IP project is to simplify development for manufacturers and increase compatibility for consumers. The project is built around a shared belief that smart home devices should be secure, reli…
Lees meerLouis D’hauwe: Cub is an interpreted, dynamically typed, scripting language inspired by Swift. This project includes a lexer, parser, compiler and interpreter, all written in Swift.Cub is used for OpenTerm’s scripting feature. A language guide is av…
Lees meerStuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel (MacRumors): [The data] didn’t come from a telecom or giant tech company, nor did it come from a governmental surveillance operation. It originated from a location data company, one of dozens quietly collecting …
Lees meerBen Cohen: We propose the introduction of a new keyword, modify, for implementing mutable computed properties and subscripts, alongside the current get and set. The bodies of modify implementations will be coroutines, and they will introduce a new c…
Lees meerPixelmator Team: Until now, if you had opened up the Image menu and chosen Image Size, you would’ve found three image scaling algorithms — Bilinear, Lanczos (lan-tsosh, for anyone curious), and Nearest Neighbor, so we’ll compare our new algorithm to…
Lees meerApple (PDF, via Rosyna Keller): This documentation provides details about how security technology and features are implemented within Apple platforms. It also helps organizations combine Apple platform security technology and features with their own…
Lees meerTanner (tweet): Vapor 4’s new dependency injection API is now based on Swift extensions rather than type names. This makes services offered by third party packages - and Vapor itself! - more discoverable and feel more Swift-native. […] Vapor 4 upgra…
Lees meerWinterFest: Winter is coming. It’s time to take a deep breath and roll up your sleeves. It’s the time for new plans and fresh projects and great new ideas. Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Because you want to re-install macOS, the logical thing to do would be to wipe the System volume, which suggests that you could get away with retaining your own files on the Data volume through a clean re-install. Sadly, that’s wrong.…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Hacker News): I’ve discovered that on Catalina, pasting a file from Finder not only outputs the file path in Terminal, it also invisibly and permanently grants Terminal access to the file, bypassing any macOS privacy protections![…]Not…
Lees meerWojciech Reguła (via Patrick Wardle): To bypass the Transparency, Consent, and Control service (TCC), we need an Electron application that already has some privacy permissions. As it turns out, you probably have at least one such app installed - loo…
Lees meerJay Peters (MacRumors): Rewound, the basic music player app released last week that you could skin to make your iPhone look remarkably like an iPod Classic, has been pulled from the App Store, according to Rewound blog post published on Medium. Rewo…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: When I covered the updated Shortcuts app in my iOS and iPadOS 13 review earlier this year, I argued how, thanks to parameters, Shortcuts actions provided by third-party apps could become native features of the Shortcuts app.With hi…
Lees meerWalt Mossberg (via John Gruber): How do you replace a legend like Steve Jobs and, at the same time, adapt to the slow decline of your most important, most iconic product? Those were the twin challenges Apple faced in the 2010s. Under CEO Tim Cook, t…
Lees meertomerd (via Benjamin Mayo, Hacker News): @IanPartridge and @Chris_Bailey let the group know that following a review by IBM of its open source priorities, it has been decided that they will not be continuing to work on Swift in 2020. As a result, the…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: “Editing storyboards with BBEdit, why do you ask?”Let me put it another way:Both the current and beta versions of Xcode can’t make text in a storyboard accessible with dynamic type. Your tools can’t build apps that adapt to a cust…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you’ve updated to macOS Catalina 10.15.2 [actually, 10.15.1 —MT] and installed any notarized apps since, you might have noticed that something has gone missing. Do you remember that dialog shown by Gatekeeper when you first open a …
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