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tvOS 18.3.1

dinsdag 11 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover (release notes, no security, no developer): This update addresses an issue that may prevent playback of some streaming content on Apple TV 4K (3rd generation). Previously: tvOS 18.3

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Tricked Into Installing macOS Update

dinsdag 11 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: Over the last few years, many have reported that their Macs spontaneously updated or even upgraded macOS when they didn’t expect them to, and often against their wishes. This can occur when Software Update in System Settings has Insta…

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Purgeable Disk Space

dinsdag 11 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: The Finder was certain there was nearly 228 GB available, but also claimed that 852 GB was used. Did that mean that my 1 TB SSD had grown in size overnight to just over 1.08 TB? What was this “83.71 GB purgeable”, and had the Finder a…

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NSFileWrapper Sometimes Changes Modification Date to the Past

dinsdag 11 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matteo Rattoti (via Christian Tietze): This repository demonstrates a bug in NSFileWrapper where overwriting a file with the same content using -[NSFileWrapper writeToURL:options:originalContentsURL:error:] sometimes causes the file’s modification d…

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Weak M4 Mac mini Wi-Fi

dinsdag 11 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mike Wuerthele: Hours after the new Mac mini hit customers’ desks, some users started complaining that when they hooked up a hard drive or SSD to the unit, they’d see Wi-Fi speeds drop, or be cut entirely. The reports were almost always followed up …

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Brother Denies Blocking Third-Party Toner

vrijdag 7 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Tyson: Louis Rossmann has shared a new video encapsulating his surprise, and disappointment, that Brother has morphed into an “anti-consumer printer company.” More information about Brother’s embrace of the dark side are shared on Rossmann’s wi…

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Brazilian Court Mandates iOS Sideloading

vrijdag 7 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito (via Dare Obasanjo): As reported by Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico (via O Globo), a federal judge in Brazil ruled on Wednesday that Apple will have to open up the iOS ecosystem to third-party apps in Brazil just like the company…

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Digg Returns

vrijdag 7 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Reuters (YouTube): Digg founder Kevin Rose has teamed up with former rival Alexis Ohanian to buy the once-popular content aggregator as they bet on an artificial intelligence-powered revival of the platform that once drew around 40 million monthly v…

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Private GitHub Data Lingers in Copilot Training

vrijdag 7 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Carly Page: Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. […] Lasso co-founder Ophir Dror told TechCrunc…

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Alexa Plus

donderdag 6 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ina Fried: Amazon on Wednesday showed off Alexa+, a generative AI version of its digital voice assistant that draws on a variety of models and works with many of the company’s older Echo devices.[…]Alexa+ will be available in late March and cost $19…

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Lightroom Classic 14.2

donderdag 6 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adobe: The Adaptive profiles help with image-adaptive adjustments in color, tone, and contrast of raw images.[…]The Lightroom Classic 14.2 update introduces substantial performance improvements for interactive editing tasks, delivering a smoother, f…

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Chrome Warning About Manifest V2 Extensions

donderdag 6 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn: This story starts in 2019 when Google detailed its plans to improve extensions’ security and privacy features with a project it called Manifest V3 (MV3) that changes the way extensions use various APIs. MV3 is currently being rolled …

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Ladybird Browser

donderdag 6 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Brockmeier (via Hacker News): Ladybird is an open-source project aimed at building an independent web browser, rather than yet another browser based on Chrome. It is written in C++ and licensed under a two-clause BSD license. The effort began as…

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Mac Studio 2025

woensdag 5 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Mac Studio with M4 Max is up to 3.5x faster than Mac Studio with M1 Max, and is up to 6.1x faster than the most powerful Intel-based 27-inch iMac.[…]Mac Studio with M3 Ultra pushes demanding workflows to a whole new level. It delivers nearly …

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Apple M3 Ultra

woensdag 5 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): M3 Ultra is built using Apple’s innovative UltraFusion packaging architecture, which links two M3 Max dies over 10,000 high-speed connections that offer low latency and high bandwidth. This allows the system to treat …

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MacBook Air 2025

woensdag 5 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors, ArsTechnica): Apple today announced the new MacBook Air, featuring the blazing-fast performance of the M4 chip, up to 18 hours of battery life, a new 12MP Center Stage camera, and a lower starting price. It also offers…

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Leitmotif Acquires Taska

woensdag 5 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Albrecht: Taska is a beautiful and versatile Mac native app for issue tracking. Since working on issues typically is a team effort, it’s not an isolated or proprietary app. Instead, it acts as a frontend to the popular services GitHub and Gi…

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iPad Air (M3, 7th Generation)

dinsdag 4 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (Hacker News): iPad Air with M3 empowers users to be productive and creative wherever they are, from aspiring creatives using demanding apps and working with large files, to travelers editing content on the go. The powerful M3 chip offers a nu…

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iPad (11th Generation)

dinsdag 4 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple: Apple today also updated iPad with double the starting storage and the A16 chip, bringing even more value to customers. The A16 chip provides a jump in performance for everyday tasks and experiences in iPadOS, while still providing all-day ba…

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Premium Hardware, Subpar Software

dinsdag 4 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Eliseo Martelli (via Hacker News, Reddit): As a long-time Apple user, I’ve always appreciated the integration of hardware and software, signature of the Apple ecosystem. However, recent experiences with my iPad Air 11" M2 has left me questioning whe…

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Linus Sebastian Switches to iPhone for 30 Days

dinsdag 4 maart 2025 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Linus Tech Tips: Linus takes a long-overdue trip back into the iOS ecosystem. Will daily-driving a shiny new iPhone 16 Plus for an entire month convert him into Apple’s newest fan?[…]“I started to look a little differently at the Apple users in my l…

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