Tim Hardwick: The European Commission has initiated two specification proceedings to guide Apple towards compliance with its interoperability obligations under the DMA. These latest proceedings focus on iOS connectivity features for connected device…
Lees meerOliver Reichenstein (Mastodon, Hacker News): A couple of months ago, Google changed its API policy and revoked iA Writer’s access to Google Drive on Android. By freezing up Android’s main storage option, our app was frozen in carbonite. It still liv…
Lees meerFatbobman: However, in SwiftData, there is currently no similar property or method to directly determine the [temporary] state of a PersistentIdentifier. Since SwiftData’s mainContext defaults to the autoSave feature (developers do not need to expli…
Lees meerMike Masnick: Among the key reasons Elon Musk insisted he had to buy Twitter were (1) that it was too political in how it was managed and how content moderation was done, (2) the company was not as transparent as it should be, and (3) it was too qui…
Lees meerGerald Lynch: After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart I announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore.[…]I would like to take this moment to thank everyone from the iMore community, past and p…
Lees meerDropDMG 3.6.8 is a maintenance update to my app for creating and working with Mac disk image files. In addition to various updates and bug fixes, it adds the ability to control how many operations DropDMG performs simultaneously and to set the name …
Lees meerMeta (via Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, we unveiled Orion, previously codenamed Project Nazare, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made. Orion combines the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses with the immersive ca…
Lees meerDeepa Seetharaman et al. (Hacker News): OpenAI is planning to convert from a nonprofit organization to a for-profit company at the same time it is undergoing significant personnel changes, including the resignation Wednesday of its chief technology …
Lees meerJuli Clover: With the iPhone 15 models that came out last year, Apple added an opt-in battery setting that limits maximum charge to 80 percent. The idea is that never charging the iPhone above 80 percent will increase battery longevity, so I kept my…
Lees meerBen Sandofsky (Hacker News): The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn’t descriptive enough.I don’t know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions. If you th…
Lees meerPaul Sawers: Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”Mullenweg criticized the company — which has been commercializing the open source Wo…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive has officially confirmed his involvement in an artificial intelligence hardware project with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The confirmation appeared in a profile of the designer by The New York Times…
Lees meerNilay Patel: It’s also notable what isn’t present on the iPhone this year: there’s no generative AI wackiness at all. There’s no video boost or face-swapping, no adding yourself to group photos, no drawing to add stuff with AI like on the Pixel or G…
Lees meerRich Trouton: On macOS Sequoia, running the [sudo spctl –global-disable] command to disable Gatekeeper produces the following output: Globally disabling the assessment system needs to be confirmed in System Settings. This seems to be an intentional …
Lees meerToomas Vahter: DateFormatter is used for converting string representation of date and time to a Date type and visa-versa. Something to be aware of is that the conversion loses microseconds precision. This is extremely important if we use these Date …
Lees meerBen Thompson: Stratechery has, from the beginning, operated with a great degree of reverence for tech history; perhaps that’s why I’ve always been a part of the camp cheering for Intel to succeed. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that the need …
Lees meercohost (via Hacker News): We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. […] cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort…
Lees meerxyzeva (via Hacker News): firestore is a database-as-a-backend service that allows for developers to not care about writing a backend, and instead write database security rules and make users directly access the database. this has of course sparked …
Lees meerI’m not adopting Swift Concurrency yet—it’s not even available on the OS versions I’m targeting—so my plan was to take advantage of the Swift 5 language mode of the Swift 6 compiler: The Swift 6 language mode is opt-in. Existing projects will not sw…
Lees meerAutomattic (via Sarah Perez, Slashdot): Since Automattic acquired Tumblr we’ve made it more efficient, grown its revenue, and worked to improve the platform. But there’s one part of the plan that we haven’t yet started, which is to run Tumblr on Wor…
Lees meerJohn Gordon (Hacker News): Over the past few years there have been a slowly increasing number of pinboard outages with less communication. While debugging the last outage I purged my local history from the 3rd party Pins iOS app and found that Pinbo…
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