Spencer Dailey (via Hacker News): A couple of weeks ago I noticed my pair of AirPods Pro 2 aggressively switching me into Transparency mode. It seemed like a bug. Again and again I would have to manually switch back out of Transparency mode. Annoyin…
Lees meerJuli Clover: If you’ve been hearing a chiming sound from your AirPods Pro 2 case when the AirPods are charging, it’s a feature that Apple added with the launch of Hearing Health last year.[…]Apple says that the AirPods Pro may play a sound every so …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I asked Tony Fadell and he confirmed to me it was him, saying it was back in the very earliest days of Sonos, when Sonos was set to debut with a device featuring an obviously iPod-like scroll wheel for input. Jobs wanted to sue (of cour…
Lees meerRonald Oussoren: This release has two major features:Support for the macOS 15.2 SDK, including new bindings for the frameworks MediaExtension and DeviceDiscoveryExtensionExperimental support for GIL-less operation in the free-threaded build of Pytho…
Lees meerMacStories: Bezel [Web site] is one of those simple, easy-to-use apps that feels like it should have been made years ago. The one-line summary of Bezel is that it mirrors your iPhone screen to your Mac. But it actually does much more than that, elev…
Lees meerJoseph Cox: Hackers claim to have compromised Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel which has sold masses of smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers said they have stolen a massive amount of data, including customer lis…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito (AppleInsider): Apple and Google have been fined R$19 million (about US$3.1 million) in Brazil after a judge ruled that the companies contributed to allowing the controversial photo editor FaceApp to improperly collect data from its …
Lees meerLawrence Abrams (Slashdot): Chinese state-sponsored threat actors hacked the U.S. Treasury Department after breaching a remote support platform used by the federal agency.[…]“Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a China…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, …
Lees meerMario Guzmán (Mastodon, Bluesky): The following sections are general guidelines that describe fundamental Toolbar layout and design principles for Mac applications. Following these guidelines will help you create functional and aesthetically pleasin…
Lees meerJohn Siracusa: Has anyone successfully enabled Fast Directory Sizing on a directory on an APFS volume in macOS and then confirmed that it works using dirstat_np? Jim Luther: That’s one of those promised features I was referring to that never really …
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou: Building a design that’s responsive to both its contents and its environment is a one of the primary challenges of robust user interface programming. There are some false gods out there and some legitimate best practices. However, I…
Lees meerMichael Crider (Hacker News): The big story in PC gaming for the last three years has been the Steam Deck. This low-power, portable, relatively inexpensive machine is clearly something the market has been waiting for, exciting gamers and energizing …
Lees meerEvan Carroll (via Hacker News): On Stack Exchange, all of the contributions on the site are contributed under a license maintained by a third party called Creative Commons; Creative Commons provides a license which states that licensed content must …
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News): Passkeys—the much-talked-about password alternative to passwords that have been widely available for almost two years—was supposed to fix all that. When I wrote about passkeys two years ago, I was a big believer. I remain c…
Lees meerBruce Crumley (via Hacker News): The increasing challenge to government agencies’ authority to regulate businesses gained momentum this week, after an appeals court suspended application of the Federal Communications Commission‘s (FCC) ruling restor…
Lees meerTim Culpan: TSMC Arizona has picked up a second Apple product. In addition to the A16 processor for iPhones, which I shared with you in September, the fab is now producing SiPs (Systems-in-Package) for the Apple Watch, according to my sources. This …
Lees meerTom Warren (tweet, Hacker News): Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot …
Lees meerBrandon Vigliarolo (via Hacker News): Buried within Edge’s browser settings on Windows PCs is code that goes well beyond a one-time import of favorites and stored passwords, and has been present in some form as far back as mid-2022 at least. It give…
Lees meerLexmark (via Hacker News): Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) today announced it has agreed to acquire Lexmark International, Inc., from Ninestar Corporation, PAG Asia Capital, and Shanghai Shouda Investment Centre in a deal valued at $1.5 bil…
Lees meerNorbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the…
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