Bruce Schneier: Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. Presumably the…
Lees meerApple: Ever wonder what location you’re watching in an Aerial screen saver? While the location is playing, just tap the Touch surface on your Apple TV Remote. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work if, like me, you’ve turned off the touch surface of the r…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: Browsing the Core Image headers, I did find functions for these filters where you could just call let filter = CIFilter.colorPosterize()Yet every time I tried, it never worked and would give me an error that CIFilter has no memb…
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Lees meerZoe Kleinman (Hacker News): Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.Advanced Data Protection (ADP) means only account holders…
Lees meerMysk: The Passwords app now categorizes the network requests to download the icons as “websites visited in app” and this way the number of requests sent isn’t included in the main count in the #privacy report.This new categorization makes the reques…
Lees meerKagi: Orion includes a built-in Password Manager that makes it easy to store and automatically fill your usernames and passwords.[…]As an alternative to importing passwords from Safari into Orion, you can also access your Safari passwords in Orion d…
Lees meerPaulo Andrade (Mastodon): One major issue preventing some users from adopting [passkeys] is that neither Apple’s Passwords app nor many password managers offer an option to export them, making it harder to switch platforms or password managers.Secre…
Lees meerBruno Brito: Now you can create, check out, and manage Worktrees directly from within your favorite Git client! 🫡 […] The git-worktree feature was introduced in version 2.5.0 of Git. The main advantage is that it allows you to have multiple working …
Lees meerBrian Hall (via Hacker News): Which leads us directly to the goal: let’s make sense of all this and go from complete Git novice up to intermediate! We’ll start off easy (allegedly) with commands mixed in with some theory of operation. And we’ll see …
Lees meerKaleidoscope 5.1: Kaleidoscope 5.1 comes with a URL scheme, yet another new way to integrate with other apps on your Mac. […] There’s a very specific use case we had in mind when adding this feature: running tests within Xcode, in particular snapsho…
Lees meerNathan Manceaux-Panot: Get sprawling diffs under control with commit splitting. Break down oversized commits into granular, meaningful ones. While editing any commit, unstage some of its changes, then confirm the edit. The changes will be moved to a…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price. iPhone 16e delivers fast, smooth performance and breakthrough battery life, thanks…
Lees meerPaul Butler (GitHub, via Andy Baio): This tool allows you to encode a hidden message into an emoji or alphabet letter. You can copy and paste text with a hidden message in it to decode the message. It does this by encoding the text as a sequence of …
Lees meerRoss Anderson (via Bruce Schneier): Today we are releasing Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities, a paper describing cool new tricks for crafting targeted vulnerabilities that are invisible to human code reviewers.Until now, an adversary wanting …
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann (Mastodon, tweet): There is a fine but important difference between the two - they behave differently if the item is a hard linked file.If, especially on a APFS formatted volume, you have multiple hard links for the same file conte…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Speaking of adjustments, BenQ hasn’t skimped here. The stand offers a comprehensive range of movement: height adjustment up to 150mm, -5° to 20° tilt, and smooth 60° swivel capabilities. This versatility comes as standard - no $400 upg…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Amazon): There aren’t too many 5K displays on the market that can compete with Apple’s Studio Display, but ASUS recently came out with the ASUS ProArt Display 5K, which is a solid competitor. The ProArt Display 5K features a 27-inch 5K …
Lees meerSt. Clair Software (Mastodon, tweet): Jettison now asks you to give it permission for Full Disk Access in your system’s privacy controls. This is necessary because macOS will sometimes refuse to let Jettison mount external USB drives unless it has t…
Lees meerBenny Kjær Nielsen: I’ve been very quiet here, but I’ve actually been working on MailMate during all that time — which should be obvious based on the other blog post today about the latest beta and its release notes. For years now, the main focus ha…
Lees meerSE-0453: This proposal introduces a new type to the standard library, InlineArray, which is a fixed-size array. This is analogous to the classical C arrays T[N], C++’s std::array, and Rust’s arrays [T; N].[…]It’s important to understand that Array i…
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