Jess Weatherbed: Specifically, the new additions include iTorrent, an iOS torrent client that can be used without jailbreaking iPhones or iPads, and qBitControl, a qBittorrent remote client for iOS devices. PeopleDrop is a dating-focused “social dis…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Spain’s competition authority has launched an investigation into Apple’s App Store over potential anti-competitive practices that could result in hefty fines (via Reuters).[…]If the CNMC’s investigation confirms these allegations, …
Lees meerC. Scott Brown: Meta is now scraping Facebook posts to train its AI model. While this isn’t surprising on its own, what is surprising is just how difficult Meta is making it for users to opt out of this process. Via X Daily News: Instagram is traini…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple Intelligence is still not available as of the fourth developer beta of iOS 18 this week, leading some to wonder if the features have been delayed. However, we have confirmed that Apple still plans to add some of the new Apple In…
Lees meerMatthew Bickham: Under the covers, Magic Lasso has been re-architected using SwiftUI which enables a shared but tailored UI implementation across the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. The move to SwiftUI delivers improved user accessibility including compl…
Lees meerDonny Wals (Mastodon): When you start learning about actors in Swift, you’ll find that explanations will always contain something along the lines of “Actors protect shared mutable state by making sure the actor only does one thing at a time”. As a s…
Lees meerLemon Squeezy Team (via Hacker News): In 2020, when the world gave us lemons, we decided to make lemonade. We imagined a world where selling digital products would be as simple as opening a lemonade stand. We dreamed of a platform that would take th…
Lees meerMarco.B: Today we are introducing the most extensive app redesign ever, creating an unprecedented streaming experience that allows listeners to organize their favorite playlists, stations, albums and more from over 100 services on one customizable H…
Lees meerSean Hollister: Last May, I told you how HP’s bestselling printer can lock you to the company’s own subscription ink for life, with no way to cancel, with its dastardly HP Plus scheme. But HP has decided to remove those shackles from future laser pr…
Lees meerWhat’s new in SwiftData: SwiftData makes it easy to add persistence to your app with its expressive, declarative API. Learn about refinements to SwiftData, including compound uniqueness constraints, faster queries with #Index, queries in Xcode previ…
Lees meerKylie Robison (Hacker News): OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet. The search engine starts with a large textbox that …
Lees meerEmanuel Maiberg (Hacker News): Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit, making one of the web’s most valuable repositories of user generated content exclusive to the internet’s already dominant search engine. If you…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: The European Union has accepted commitments from Apple to open its mobile payments system and give competitors access to the iPhone's NFC technology, bringing an end to a lengthy investigation by EU regulators into the technology. Acco…
Lees meerJordan Rose: You can also use AnyObject as a constraint on protocols: protocol MyDelegate: AnyObject. Now the implementers are known to have reference semantics, and with T: MyDelegate you can have weak references to T, as before. You can even have …
Lees meerFederico Viticci: So, uhm, the UI changes to the Books app for iPad are pretty concerning…?The app went from having a rich sidebar in iPadOS 17 with sections and collections always available to a simplified layout where sections are hidden away in a…
Lees meerJony Ive (Hacker News): Steve rarely attended design conferences. This was 1983, before the launch of the Mac, and still relatively early days of Apple. I find it breathtaking how profound his understanding was of the dramatic changes that were abou…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I’ve discovered a bug that unexpectedly causes Safari extensions in a profile to lose access to websites. I’ve reproduced the bug in Safari 17.5 on macOS 14.5 and in the Safari 18 beta on the macOS 15 beta. I haven’t yet been able to r…
Lees meerWhat’s new in SwiftUI: Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over i…
Lees meerGoogle: In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that time. This …
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Apple is in active talks to license more films from major Hollywood studios as it seeks to bolster Apple TV+, according to Bloomberg.Apple has traditionally focused on original productions for its streaming platform, but it is incr…
Lees meerAditya Kalra (via Ryan Christoffel): An investigation by India’s antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market for app stores on its iOS operating system, engaging “in abusive conduct and practices”, a confidentia…
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