Ben Cohen: Non-copyable generics aren’t for every-day code – but we’ve put a lot of care into making them stay out of your way until you need them, and then keeping them usable once you do. They will allow libraries to unlock more performance and sa…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed (Hacker News, MacRumors, Mac Power Users): Web-based design platform Canva has acquired the Affinity creative software suite, positioning itself as a challenger to Adobe’s grip over the digital design industry. Canva announced the de…
Lees meerEuropean Commission (via Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple’s rul…
Lees meerJoshua Long: On Tuesday, [March] 12, a researcher named Kedsayahm noticed that an app that featured pirated TV shows and movies was quickly climbing the charts in the App Store. The app was already #1 in the Entertainment category in Egypt at the ti…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Rarely, the Recovery volume becomes deleted, or the secure disk image it should contain gets removed. Unfortunately the only means of restoring it is to perform a macOS update, and even then some Macs seem unable to recover Recovery w…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: The FPAN is the “funding primary account number” and it’s the 15-18 digit number printed on your physical card. The DPAN is your “device primary account number”. […] It’s notable that it’s called a DPAN and not “the Apple Pay number” …
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry (Mastodon): An app that can monitor your device is a great thing to have when you need it, but can get in the way when you don’t. On iOS we solved this problem by using Picture in Picture technology.[…]iPulse for iOS/iPadOS literal…
Lees meerApple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.6. There does not seem to be an update for Monterey. Previously: macOS 14.4.1 macOS 13.6.5 and macOS 12.7.4
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, the macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 update fixes an issue that could cause USB hubs connected to external displays not to be recognized. It a…
Lees meerStephan Casas: AppKit includes a private category on NSApplication that adds _eventFirstResponderChainDescription — a string describing the current responder chain. This can be a really useful debugging tool!When your views aren’t handling input eve…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (Mastodon): Apple has consolidated documentation for its products, including manuals, technical specifications, and downloads on a new webpage that was first discovered by the Japanese-language website Mac Otakara and reported on this …
Lees meerJon Brodkin (Hacker News): Epic Games yesterday urged a federal court to sanction Apple for alleged violations of an injunction that imposed restrictions on the iOS App Store. Epic cited a 27 percent commission charged by Apple on purchases complete…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security “coming soon”, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 17.4.1 update includes important security updates and bug fixes. Mr. Macintosh: macOS ??? 😰 Previously: iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4
Lees meerDavid McCabe and Tripp Mickle (PDF, CourtListener, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Justice Department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, the federal government’s most significant challe…
Lees meerNick Moore (via andy4222): PopClip’s almost 13-year journey on the Mac App Store has come to an end. The reason? I can’t update PopClip with new features on the Mac App Store any more. This is due to Apple’s sandboxing policy. […] The review team di…
Lees meerJon Reid: For apps with an application delegate, I’ve written How To Switch Your iOS App Delegate for Improved Testing. This lets us set up a separate launch sequence for test runs that does only the bare minimum. Can we do the same thing for SwiftU…
Lees meercellio (via Hacker News, Reddit): Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your account. They do not care that this puts people at risk with thei…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of effective prompt injection strategies. It seems as if the most…
Lees meerMicrosoft: Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025. After that date it will not be possible to sign in with your user account nor make API calls. Lyubomir Ganev: Don’t you just love it when a big tech company buys one …
Lees meerDean Takahashi: Scopely announced that Monopoly Go has generated $2 billion in revenue just 10 months after launch and three months after hitting $1 billion.The reimagined take on Hasbro’s iconic board game has garnered a massive player base, solidi…
Lees meerKay Jebelli: Big day today as the [European] Commission kicks off its second round of DMA compliance workshops, this time focused on specific gatekeepers, their compliance reports, and the feedback of third-parties.[…]Interesting detail: the EC told…
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