Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Mail app on macOS has a privacy setting Block All Remote Content that prevents downloaded emails from connecting to the internet. For example, HTML emails frequently include image links, which can be used for tracking: when …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I worry that import and export aren’t priorities for Apple. Apple Notes can import RTF and plain text files, but its only option for exporting is, bizarrely, PDF — which is a file format Notes can’t import. A good system for import/expo…
Lees meerAlexander Martin (via Damien Petrilli): Apple declined to issue a bug bounty to the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab after it disclosed four zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhone software that were allegedly used to spy on Kaspersky employee…
Lees meerI always want releases focused on bug fixes, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. If we’re dreaming big, how about something like virtual memory for iOS so that it stops losing my Safari tabs? Cihat Gündüz: From a SportsKit API and .zoom modi…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy (via John C. Randolph): A change to Adobe terms & conditions for apps like Photoshop has outraged many professional users, concerned that the company is claiming the right to access their content, use it freely, and even sub-licence it t…
Lees meerMysk: Several iOS apps installed from alternative marketplaces stopped working after some time. Some are grayed out and can’t be opened or deleted. Others crash on launch because MarketplaceKit can’t renew the license. How would users recover their …
Lees meerLaura Pippig (via Hacker News): Before PC users can enjoy everything Windows 11 has on tap, they must first enter an e-mail address that’s linked to a Microsoft account. If you don’t have one, you’ll be asked to create one before you can start setti…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Reddit, Hacker News, Mac Power Users Talk, AppleInsider): Popular Mac app Bartender appears to have been quietly sold approximately two months ago, with neither the prior owner nor the current owner providing customers or potential cust…
Lees meerJoanna Stern (tweet): Porn, violent images, illicit drugs. I could see it all by typing a special string of characters into the Safari browser’s address bar. The parental controls I had set via Apple’s Screen Time? Useless.Security researchers repor…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Typically, Mac firmware is updated whenever a new version of macOS is installed, but if something goes wrong in the process, the Mac can be left with outdated firmware. When automatic firmware updates fail, the solution is to “revive” or…
Lees meerPatrick Breyer (via Hacker News): The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto. This is reported by Eura…
Lees meerBasic Apple Guy: 10 Years Ago: Apple Announced Swift Brian Webster: 10 year anniversary of Swift being announced at WWDC. Chris Lattner: Wow that’s right. This was a big day and Swift has come a long way in the intervening decade: Congrats to everyo…
Lees meerHelge Heß: Ugh, inverse SwiftData relationship updates do not seem to trigger Observation, that feels like a biggie 😳 […] This feels really bad, because the relationships are the thing which make an ORM worthwhile. I.e. you’d usually have a network …
Lees meerKevin Beaumont (via Stephen Hackett): Microsoft told media outlets a hacker cannot exfiltrate Copilot+ Recall activity remotely.Reality: how do you think hackers will exfiltrate this plain text database of everything the user has ever viewed on thei…
Lees meerJosh Whiton: A crazy experience — I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out. But the new wired, iPhone, lightning-cable headphones didn’t work. Strange.[…]By now the gift shop people and…
Lees meerICQ (via Hacker News): ICQ will stop working from June 26 You can chat with friends in VK Messenger, and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace Wes Davis: ICQ was started in 1996 by Israeli company Mirabilis, which AOL bought in 1998. ICQ grew to 100 milli…
Lees meerElisha Fieldstadt (via Hacker News): An Apple AirTag led to the arrest of an airline subcontractor accused of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of items from luggage at a Florida airport.[…]Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies investigating both su…
Lees meerBrian Krebs: Both Apple and Google operate their own Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPS) that obtain certain hardware identifiers from all wireless access points that come within range of their mobile devices. Both record the Media Access Control …
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple and Google have worked together to create an industry specification — Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers — for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both iOS and Android if suc…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Yesterday I took the M1 MacBook Pro to my local Apple-authorized service provider that I’ve been going to for many years, who performed all of the work on my Intel MacBook Pro, including the battery replacements and a Staing…
Lees meerJuli Clover: YouTube is the latest company to introduce mobile games that are available outside of the App Store, today announcing the official launch of “Playables” in the YouTube app.[…]YouTube is focusing on “lightweight, entertaining games,” so …
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