Brent Simmons reported to me that my blog’s RSS feed wasn’t updating in recent versions of NetNewsWire. They’ve added support for the Cache-Control response header, and, for reasons unknown, my site was returning an interval of 2 days: $ curl --head…
Lees meerGuru Baran (via Ric Ford, PDF): The research team from Korea University, led by Hyerean Jang, Taehun Kim, and Youngjoo Shin, presented their findings in a paper titled “SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen: The LG UltraFine 6K Monitor, model 32U990A, surfaced on Monday as part of the 2025 CES Innovation Awards, as an honoree in imaging. The monitor is described as the first in the world to have a 6K resolution display that also uses Thund…
Lees meerGraham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article clai…
Lees meerJason Snell: Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site Coding Font, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it’s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, …
Lees meerJuli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 18.2.1 addresses important bugs, and it is recommended for all users.Apple is also testing iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, updates…
Lees meerKeith Harrison: Swift Testing calls the test function once for each value in the arguments collection. […] If you pass a second argument, Swift Testing generates test cases for all combinations of the two arguments. […] You’re limited to at most two…
Lees meerMichael Burkhardt: Sonuby is a different kind of weather app, designed for users who often partake in outdoor activities. For example, if you often snowboard, you can have a weather forecast that places snow conditions front and center. Weather need…
Lees meerJames Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes arou…
Lees meerKyle Wiggers (Hacker News): Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the ligh…
Lees meerAdi Robertson (Hacker News): Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloom…
Lees meerAutodesk (via Hacker News): To keep our community efficient and up to date, we’ll be archiving content older than 10 years. We built a policy around document retention to stay relevant to our users and customers.[…] The archiving process will start …
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: As noted by many users on the Apple Community forums, Reddit and even corroborated by a 9to5Mac reader, the M4 Macs seem to break support for some ultrawide monitors. More specifically, those with 5K2K (5120 x 2160) resolution.Accor…
Lees meerMattt Thompson (tweet): This core insight — that configuration should be separate from code — led to the widespread adoption of .env files.[…]You add this file to .gitignore to keep it out of version control, and load these variables into your envir…
Lees meerEncyclopedia Macintosh (p. 65, via Alex Rosenberg, rezmason): HFS and MFS disks can be distinguished by the presence or absence of the HFS pixel. You can tell if a drive or disk is formatted as HFS or MFS by looking for the “HFS pixel” in the upper-…
Lees meerPierre Igot: 1) In the Finder, select an item and make its name editable.2) WHILE THE NAME IS EDITABLE, click on the window of ANY ANOTHER APP to leave the Finder in the background.3) Click on ANOTHER Finder window to bring the Finder back to the fo…
Lees meerCharles Rollet (Hacker News): Bench, a Canada-based accounting startup that offered software-as-a-service for small and medium-sized businesses, has abruptly shut down, according to a notice posted on its website.[…]The company’s entire website is c…
Lees meerMark Alldritt and Shane Stanley: January 2025 marks Script Debugger’s 30th anniversary. It’s been a very long run for a two-person effort. Script Debugger began as a Classic MacOS product, survived Apple’s near-death experience, transitioned to macO…
Lees meerScott Knaster: I worked in Silicon Valley for many years with brilliant people at amazing companies that changed the world. A lot of my stories are about those people and places. But some of them are about something unexpected I saw on a walk around…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News, Reddit, 2, The Verge, Yahoo): This morning while perusing the settings of a bunch of apps on my iPhone, I discovered a new setting for Photos that was enabled by default: Enhanced Visual Search. […] There appear …
Lees meerDavid Nield: Honey, which is owned by PayPal, is a popular browser extension—with 19 million users on Chrome alone—but the shopping tool is being accused of some seriously shady practices, including keeping users away from the lowest online prices a…
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