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Ben Lovejoy: It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user content for training purposes … The deal is said to be worth around $60M per year, and comes at a time when the company is seeking t…
Lees meerVatsal Manot: Folks, if you’re also frustrated with the state of Swift Macros (w.r.t. compile times), please engage on the forums thread here. I can’t think of any other language where such a fundamental feature is dependent on a heavy source packag…
Lees meerFTC (via Lina Khan): The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its …
Lees meerNeil Long (2023, Slashdot, MacDailyNews): In the 15 years since it launched the App Store, Apple has proved again and again that it cares very little about games – though it is happy to make billions from them. I should know: I was an App Store game…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy: Jony Ive tried to persuade Apple to cease making the MacBook Air, leaving a redesigned MacBook Pro as the only portable Mac.[…]Mossberg’s source said this led to a huge battle between Ive’s design team and the product managers, and was …
Lees meerKuba Suder: For the past 10 months, I’ve been a pretty active user of Bluesky. I enjoy it a lot, and I’ve managed to learn a lot about how it works, what works well and what doesn’t, and also what’s likely coming next.I’ve decided to write down some…
Lees meerBruce Dixon: We create and produce outstanding original content true to the Vice brand. However, it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously. Moving forward, we will look to partner with es…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple today introduced Apple Sports, a free app for iPhone that gives sports fans access to real-time scores, stats, and more. Designed for speed and simplicity, the app’s personalized experience puts users’ favorite leagues and t…
Lees meerSarah Perez: The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share 30% of their income with Apple — its commission o…
Lees meerJesse Squires: On macOS 14 Sonoma there is a regression in Swift 5.9 which causes Swift scripts that import Cocoa frameworks to fail. […] The current workaround (also posted by @rdj) is to update the shebang, #!/usr/bin/swift, by replacing it with t…
Lees meerMahdi Bchatnia (via Daniel Jalkut): A simple Mac app for symbolicating macOS/iOS crash reports.Supports symbolicating:.crash and .ips crash reportssample and spindump reports
Lees meerAdam Wiggins (via Peter Steinberger): You’ve probably seen the meme about product distribution, and I went into this venture knowing that productivity software is particularly difficult to market.[…]I’m deeply grateful to the folks inside the App St…
Lees meerJason Snell (Hacker News): John Gruber wrote: “By the end of the year, every single Mac in the lineup, save one [the Mac Pro], is arguably in the best shape that model has ever been. […] Matt Deatherage wrote: “It’s difficult to ding Apple’s Mac per…
Lees meerAppleVis (via Shelly Brisbin): The 2023 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card reveals slightly decreasing satisfaction with VoiceOver features and user experience across iOS, iPadOS and macOS compared to 2022, contrasted by mostly improved ratings …
Lees meerApple (via Ivan Krstić, because there is no RSS feed, Hacker News, MacRumors): Today we are announcing the most significant cryptographic security upgrade in iMessage history with the introduction of PQ3, a groundbreaking post-quantum cryptographic …
Lees meerRandall Sarafa (Mastodon, Hacker News): If you use Signal, your phone number will no longer be visible to everyone you chat with by default. […] If you don’t want to hand out your phone number to chat with someone on Signal, you can now create a uni…
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: Now I have several pieces of text in Kaleidoscope, each represented by an entry in the File Shelf. In this case, we can see that “files” in File Shelf can also be temporary clipboard content. Further on in this post, we will also s…
Lees meerJuli Clover (2023): Apple has been embroiled in a patent dispute with VirnetX for well over a decade, and the company today won an appeals verdict that could ultimately save it from having to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in patent infringement fees.[……
Lees meerJeff Shiner: Why would 1Password acquire a device health and contextual access management solution? The reality is that access isn’t secure if the device doing the access isn’t secure. This is part of the complexity of the modern way we work. Every …
Lees meerJuli Clover: Epic Games today announced plans to bring the Epic Games Store to iOS in the European Union, with Apple reinstating the company’s developer account.[…]The Epic Games Store will launch on iOS in the EU at some point in 2024, and it will …
Lees meerMade by Windmill (via John Gruber): A native Mac app for GitHub and GitLab Issues. […] Change task titles, assignees, and labels, all on one line. No need to leave your keyboard — just enter “@” for assignees and “#” for labels. […] Intuitively chan…
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