EFF (Hacker News): When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in spying inside the U.S., Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth a…
Lees meerAmazon: You can opt out of sending voice recordings to the cloud for devices that can process the audio of your Alexa requests locally (Echo (4th Gen), Echo Show 10 or Echo Show 15) or supported devices that are able to communicate with the devices …
Lees meerChristina Petrova: The first DMA browser choice screens started rolling out in the EU in March 2024. Since then, they have slowly started appearing for:New and existing Android smartphones and tablet users with Chrome pre-set as a default browser (t…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed (Hacker News, MacRumors, ArsTechnica): iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the l…
Lees meertreblewoe: A modest proposal for how Apple can come to dominate the AI race without ever actually matching with the current leaders[…][…]So what is Apple the platform vendor to do? Stop thinking like an app ecosystem participant or even an app store…
Lees meerMark Gurman (Hacker News, MacRumors): Robby Walker, who serves as a senior director at Apple, delivered the stark comments during an all-hands meeting for the Siri division, saying that the team was facing a bad period. Walker also said that it’s un…
Lees meerApplause (Reddit): After years of working on Strongbox independently, Mark McGuill has made the decision to entrust the future of this exceptional product to our team at Applause.Applause is a team of indie developers who’ve been building iOS and ma…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: The upcoming iOS 18.4 update introduces an option to set a default navigation app, other than Apple Maps, but unfortunately this new setting is limited to users in the EU. There, you can now set an app like Google Maps or Waze as your…
Lees meerAnders Hejlsberg (tweet, video, Hacker News): To meet those goals, we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10x, and substan…
Lees meerBrandon Titus: Instead of rejecting apps over tiny wording disputes, mentions of android, and business model disagreements could Apple PLEASE enforce 4.5.4:“Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless cus…
Lees meerSE-0463: The @Sendable annotation indicates that closure parameters are passed over an isolation boundary before they’re called. A missing @Sendable annotation in a library has negative effects on clients who call the function; the caller can unknow…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: Mozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department’s proposed ban on the very same Googl…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon, Bluesky, Hacker News, MacRumors, Mac Power Users, AppleInsider): But we didn’t see all aspects of Apple Intelligence demoed. None of the “more personalized Siri” features, the ones that Apple, in its own statement announcing t…
Lees meerMark Gurman (Mastodon, MacRumors): Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company’s history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone, iPad and Mac for a new generation of users. The revamp — due later this…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT app for macOS with the ability to directly edit code in popular development environments including Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains tools. The new feature allows the AI chatbot to make changes to code withou…
Lees meerApple (June 2024): Swift Assist serves as a companion for all of a developer’s coding tasks, so they can focus on higher-level problems and solutions. It’s seamlessly integrated into Xcode, and knows the latest software development kits (SDKs) and S…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon, Dithering, MacRumors, Slashdot): Reading between the lines, and based on my PhD-level fluency in Cupertino-ese, what Apple is saying here is that these “more personalized Siri” features are being punted from this year’s OS cyc…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (October 2024, MacRumors): As seen by 9to5Mac in an unlisted App Store article, Apple has developed a new system that will use all user reviews on the App Store to create a summary highlighting “the most common customer feedback” abo…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer/M4, IPSW/M4): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 includes important bug fixes and security updates, and it is recommended for all users. See also…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 18.3.2 update adds important bug fixes and security updates. On some devices, it fixes an issue that could prevent playback…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, security, no developer, no enterprise): According to Apple’s release notes, visionOS 2.3.2 provides important bug fixes, security updates, and addresses an issue that may prevent playback of some streaming content. Pre…
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