OatmealDome (via Steve Troughton-Smith): Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store. This week, Delta, a multi-system emulator that was previously only available via AltStore, was released on the App Sto…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: This article demonstrates that the last of those isn’t necessarily true, and what happens when an App Store app ends up being translocated. The combination of an App Store app with a quarantine xattr is a particular problem for users,…
Lees meerTN3162: The CloudKit infrastructure is shared by all apps and services. The resources are finite, and so high utilization from one app can negatively affect others. To avoid this kind of impact and optimize the overall experience, CloudKit implement…
Lees meerJason Snell (Mastodon): I’m sad about the Ai Pin because it—and a similar AI hardware product, the Rabbit R1—shows just how much potential innovation is strangled by the presence of enormously powerful tech companies, most notably the Android-iPhone…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple seems allergic to saying that an iPhone won’t charge with MagSafe during Continuity Camera. However, it may not charge over USB either. Several users in a Reddit conversation reported that their iPhones lost charge during Continuit…
Lees meerHelge Heß: The new Foundation/#Swiftlang Predicates (and its expressions) seem a little weird because they can’t be constructed dynamically? Fly0strich: However, when I try to use that method inside of a #Predicate closure, it gives an error saying …
Lees meerErnie Smith (Hacker News): Simply put, Google has started adding “AI overviews” to many of its search results, which essentially throw pre-processed answers that often do not match the original intent of the search. If you’re using Google to actuall…
Lees meerApple: The Apple Developer Forums have been redesigned for WWDC24 to help developers connect with Apple experts, engineers, and each other to find answers and get advice. Apple Developer Relations and Apple engineering are joining forces to field yo…
Lees meerSriram Karra and Christiaan Brand (via Hacker News): We’ve received really positive feedback from our users, so today we’re making passkeys even more accessible by offering them as the default option across personal Google Accounts. This means the n…
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, the update addresses a bug with the Photos app that could cause deleted images to reappear. It’s really interesting that this bug also applies to tvOS, considering that, as far as I know, tvOS doesn’t…
Lees meerJonathan Deutsch: My 1 bugfix update got rejected because I link to my website.How are my fellow Mac app developers dealing with Apple’s last gasp crackdown at their anti-steering provisions?Are you making entirely separate versions of your website?…
Lees meerEdward Zitron (Hacker News): In emails released as part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, Dischler laid out several contributing factors — search query growth was “significantly behind forecast,” the “timing” of revenue l…
Lees meerMicrosoft (Hacker News, MacRumors, Ryan Jones): Now with Recall, you can access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory. Copilot+ PCs organize information like we do – based on relationship…
Lees meerTom Warren (MacRumors, Hacker News): Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked in secret with all of its top laptop partners to ready a selection of Arm-powered Windows machines that will hit the market this summer. Known as Copilot Plus PCs, th…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I’ve discovered today that unfortunately this issue—this bug, I would call it, though who knows whether Apple considers it a bug or “expected behavior”—still exists with the latest versions of macOS Ventura and Sonoma, 13.6.7 and 14.5 …
Lees meerAshley Belanger (Hacker News): After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by default sucks up customers’ data—including messages, content, and files—to train Slack’s global AI mode…
Lees meerJuli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the updates include a fix for an issue that could cause images to reappear in the Photos library even after being deleted. Mysk: MarketplaceKit updated in…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Pressing control-command-d (⌃⌘D) while hovering over a link in Safari opens a popup window containing a preview of the linked web page, just like pressing and holding down a link in Safari on iOS.Apple does say that you can …
Lees meerWade Tregaskis: They’re terser than using their otherwise more powerful cousins the Formatters, as they support a “fluent” style of property-based access, which tends to read more naturally and usually avoids having to define variables to hold the f…
Lees meerSigal Samuel (tweet): For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike announced their departures from OpenAI, the maker of Chat…
Lees meerJuli Clover: A Reddit user wiped an iPad following Apple’s guidelines in September of 2023 before selling it off to a friend. That friend updated the iPad to iPadOS 17.5 this week, and began seeing the Reddit user’s old photos reappearing in the Pho…
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