Ryan Whitwam (Hacker News): Google’s oldest smart thermostats have an expiration date. The company has announced that the first and second generation Nest Learning Thermostats will lose support in October 2025, disabling most of the connected featur…
Lees meerPatrick Kennedy (via Hacker News): According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This i…
Lees meerHacker News is highlighting Adam Leventhal’s 2016 post (2016 comments) about Apple’s Leopard-era support for ZFS: A few weeks before WWDC 2007 nerds like me started to lose their minds: Apple really was going to port ZFS to Mac OS X.[…]ZFS was to br…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: The app in question is Virus Protection for Phone, which claims to be “Trusted by millions of users worldwide”. I don’t know whether that’s true, but for what it’s worth, the app is currently ranked #88 in the free utilities category o…
Lees meerGabriel Nicholas: To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosit…
Lees meerFederico Viticci (Mastodon): I’ve been thinking about this video by Theo Browne for the past few days, especially in the aftermath of my story about working on the iPad and realizing its best apps are actually web apps.I think Theo did a great job c…
Lees meerCory Doctorow (Hacker News, Amazon): I never would have read Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams’s tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta’s lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the original Apple Watch launching in the United States and eight other countries around the world. Adrienne So (Hacker News): While it seems hard now to recall a time when the Apple Watch, or so…
Lees meerEttore Software (Reddit): As previously teased, we’ve rebuilt our flagship app from scratch in Swift – fully sandboxed – with a speedy new engine, a revamped interface and a slew of new features. Our hair is a lot thinner and greyer than it was 3 ye…
Lees meerFoo Yun Chee and Jan Strupczewski (European Commission, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under la…
Lees meerDavid McCabe (PDF, via Hacker News): Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in aruling that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely invisible system of technology that pla…
Lees meerNora Deligter: It was around this time when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot. At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot by using t…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: I have a new app out that lets you sweep things under the rug – virtually: DeskMat for Mac.With DeskMat, you cover the mess of files and folders on your Desktop with a single click – and show them again in just the same way.It m…
Lees meerJason Snell: Some people, whether you’re in the media or software development or technical support, take and publish a lot of device screenshots. And while an image straight from an iPhone or Apple Watch looks fine, it often looks much better to be …
Lees meerJesse Squires: Meeting the requirements for screenshots is a frustrating experience. On iOS, tooling like SimulatorStatusMagic, Nine41, and fastlane snapshot help make the process easier. However, on macOS there is much less support (and, sadly, dem…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 includes important bug fixes and security updates, and is recommended for all users. The enterprise relea…
Lees meerJuli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): There have been complaints about issues with CarPlay and deleted apps being restored, and iOS 18.4.1 includes several bug fixes. According to Apple’s release notes, the u…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple today released tvOS 18.4.1, a minor update to the tvOS 18 operating system that came out last September. It fixes the same security bugs as iOS 18.4.1. Previously: tvOS 18.4
Lees meerApple: This update includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 18.4
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no developer, no enterprise): According to Apple’s release notes, visionOS 2.4.1 includes bug fixes and security updates, and the software is recommended for all users. Previously: visionOS 2.4
Lees meerRandy Parker (via TidBITS-Talk): For longer replies in Messages, I would often compose my message on my computer, email it to myself, and then copy and paste it from the Mail app on my iPhone into the Messages app.As a Windows user, I’d have to live…
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