David Pierce (Hacker News): The AI Pin is an interesting idea that is so thoroughly unfinished and so totally broken in so many unacceptable ways that I can’t think of anyone to whom I’d recommend spending the $699 for the device and the $24 monthly…
Lees meerEric Migicovsky (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): I’m excited to announce that Beeper has been acquired by Automattic. This acquisition marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter as we continue our mission to create the best chat app on earth. [……
Lees meerJordan Rose (Mastodon): There are only three ways to get run-time polymorphism in Swift. Well, three and a half. […] Calling a function value (closure) Calling a class member Calling a protocol requirement Manually testing the type of a value […] Ge…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: The App Store app on macOS is the default handler of URLs with the macappstore: scheme. App Store preview web pages automatically open the App Store app by setting the location of an HTML element to a macappstore: URL. My free open so…
Lees meerNick Heer: Earlier this week, Dave Kendall of documentary production company Prairie Hollow and formerly of a Topeka, Kansas PBS station, wrote in the Kansas Reflector an article criticizing Meta. Kendall says he tried to promote posts on Facebook f…
Lees meerBrandon Saltalamacchia (Hacker News, Dennis): The main source of our traffic was through Google Search. Whenever you searched for something retro gaming-related, our hope was that you would stumble across our website for advice, as we have invested …
Lees meerAinsley Bourque Olson: For anyone running the Pro edition of OmniFocus, this release also introduces some very exciting new custom perspective rules that support filtering based on dates, repeats, and more: New “Has date in range” rule type enables …
Lees meerJason Koebler: The New York Times has filed a series of copyright takedown requests against Wordle clones and variations in which it asserts not just ownership over the Wordle name but over the broad concepts and mechanics of the word game, which in…
Lees meeriSoftware Updates (via Sebastiaan de With): Looks like Apple accidentally set the deployment dates for the 2.0.73 AirTag firmware to “m/d/24” instead of “m/d/2024” that has used in previous versions and which the AirTag update system uses as date fo…
Lees meerNikita Prokopov (Hacker News): I have five clocks in my house. All of them I have to change manually twice a year: one hour back in the Autumn and one hour forward in the Spring. Today was one of these days. Each clock presents a unique puzzle. Thre…
Lees meerAimee Picchi: The moon could soon get its own time zone. The White House is directing NASA to work with other government agencies to develop a lunar-based time system called Coordinated Lunar Time, abbreviated as LTC. The Biden administration has gi…
Lees meerJonathan Mosen: Unfortunately, the relationship between Voice Dream Reader’s new owners and its engaged user base got off to a rocky start. Members of the online blind community did not find out about the sale of Voice Dream Reader last year from ei…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): 3.1.1(a): Updated to include Music Streaming Services Entitlements. The new guideline reads: 3.1.1(a) Link to Other Purchase Methods: Developers may apply for entitlements to provide a link in their app to a website the develope…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News): 4.7: Added games from retro game console emulator apps to the list of permitted software, and clarifies that mini apps and mini games must be HTML5. Sweet! The new guideline reads: 4.7 Mini apps, mini games, streaming games, cha…
Lees meerJoe Heck (Mastodon): I expected documentation at least, and was hoping for an update in Xcode – specifically the xcodebuild command – to add an option that accepted a path to a manifest and included it appropriately. So far, nothing from Apple on th…
Lees meerJamf Threat Labs: While searching for “Arc Browser” on Google, it was brought to our attention that following the sponsored result for what seems to be the legitimate Arc web browser, actually brings you to a malicious site aricl[.]net that imitates…
Lees meerReed Albergotti (via Eric Migicovsky): One of the first stories I covered then was Apple’s lawsuit against Qualcomm, which was accused of having a wireless modem monopoly and overcharging companies for the device. Apple paid Qualcomm about $7 per ph…
Lees meerChance Miller (Hacker News): As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it at one point considered creating an Apple Watch for Android. The company tells me that it spent three years working on bringing Appl…
Lees meerDavid Pierce: Google Podcasts is dead. It has been dying for months, since Google announced last fall that it was killing its dedicated podcast app in order to focus all its podcasting efforts on YouTube Music. This is a bad idea and a big downgrade…
Lees meerPaul Ducklin (tweet): The security vulnerablities themselves turn out to be a single bug, or at least to be covered by a single bug identifier, CVE-2024-1580, which was found and reported by Nick Galloway, a researcher in Google’s Project Zero bug-h…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: macOS Sonoma 14.4 and 14.4.1 updates have been prompting some users to create a new FileVault Recovery Key. If you see this as your Mac completes an update, here’s what you should next. […] If your Mac has FileVault turned on, and you…
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