Romain Cointepas (Hacker News): A suitable name for this method would be CNAME Cloaking, and it is used to disguise a third-party tracker as first-party tracker. In this case, they are also purposely obfuscating this behind a random subdomain, with …
Lees meerAlex Cranz (Hacker News): The last vestiges of Nvidia and Apple’s long-term relationship are ending shortly. On Monday Nvidia published the release notes for the next update of its CUDA platform and noted that “CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) …
Lees meerAmber Neely (Slashdot): AppleInsider received a tip from a reader who had noted the buyer review section was missing on Apple’s online retail store page. The user also pointed out that the pages have been removed from U.S., U.K., and Australian Appl…
Lees meerOmniGroup: Data Corruption — Changed how LinkBack data is stored to avoid corruption on save when running macOS Catalina. This does not fix files already corrupted by the bug, which presents itself with error details that start with “Error Domain=NS…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (tweet): All of the solutions presented here have a flaw in one way or another. The root of the problem is that there’s no correlation between your permission to know about a window (via the name in the window list), your permissio…
Lees meerMark Gurman (tweet, Hacker News): Apple Inc. is overhauling how it tests software after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iPhone and iPad operating systems, according to people familiar with the shift. Software chief Craig Federighi and lieutenants …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you’ve ever accessed the unified log in macOS Sierra or later, you’ll have seen the many log entries whose crucial information is censored with . Apple introduced this to prevent leakage of protected information into the log, which…
Lees meerSteven Levy (Hacker News): With that, Pichai not only ended an era at Google, he symbolically closed the shutters on a dream held widely in the tech world—that one can scale a company to global ubiquity while maintaining the camaraderie of an ideali…
Lees meerPhil Schiller (9to5Mac): You don’t envision a future where [Mac and iPad] merge? No, that’s not our view. Because then you get this in-between thing, and in-between things are never as good as the individual things themselves. We believe the best pe…
Lees meerSFViewer: Are you a designer or developer who wants to view, compare or export SF Symbols on your iPhone or iPad? Check out SF Viewer here. Aaron Pearce: Just received a phone call from Apple regarding SF Viewer. They have made the decision to remov…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo (tweet): After about two weeks of waiting, I decided to call developer support, which sounds easy, but I couldn’t find any phone number to reach them anywhere on the public part of the developer site. The only way to get on the phone…
Lees meerMatthew Gault (via Jason Koebler, MacRumors): Tuesday, Kyle Andeer, Apple’s Vice President of Corporate Law, answered those questions. In its testimony, Apple repeatedly denied accusations it was making it hard for people to repair their own phones …
Lees meerSpeaking of outsourcing and contracting what should be a core competency, scott writes: It’s important to know that once you drop your devices off at the Apple store, they’ll ship them off to a subcontractor for repairs. These facilities are run lik…
Lees meerAlexis Beingessner (tweet, Hacker News): For those who don’t follow Swift’s development, ABI stability has been one of its most ambitious projects and possibly it’s defining feature, and it finally shipped in Swift 5. The result is something I find …
Lees meerMany Tricks: The biggest new feature is that you can now create independent sequences based on some common metadata, such as parent folder name. Now each set of files within a folder can have a sequence number that starts with “1,” instead of contin…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Backups now include three volumes: the read-only System volume, the Data volume, and the Recovery volume. Strategies for determining what needs to be backed up now include both FSEvents and snapshot differences for APFS volumes. backu…
Lees meerAdam Engst: The moral of the story? If you have, for some reason, resisted getting the free airline apps, I can say that using them is absolutely worthwhile. From what I can tell, both the American and United apps provide similar features, and other…
Lees meerJustin O’Beirne: All of this suggests that Apple might be using iPhone probe data to determine which roads to show on its map. And if that’s the case, it helps explain why so many rural and less traveled roads have been downgraded or dropped from ce…
Lees meerIn a future compiler version: A direct property specifier is added (@Property(direct) type name) These attributes / specifiers cause the method to have no associated Objective-C metadata (for the property or the method itself), and the calling conve…
Lees meerKirsten Grind et al. (via Sam Schechner, Hacker News): Over time, Google has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far greater degree than the company and its executives have acknowledged, a Wall Street Journal investiga…
Lees meerDevran Uenal (via Hacker News): OpenSwiftUI is an OpenSource implementation of Apple’s SwiftUI DSL (Domain-specific language. The project’s goal is to stay close to the original API as possible. The actual rendering of UI elements can then be implem…
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