Apple’s Ferret MLLM
Mike Wheatley (Hacker News, Reddit): Artificial intelligence researchers from Apple Inc. and Cornell University quietly unveiled an open-source and multimodal large language model last October known as...
View ArticleMellel 6 Leaves the Mac App Store
Mellel (via Agen Schmitz): This significant update, more than a year and half in the making, brings Dark Appearance support, Split View, improved Find & Replace and a multitude of enhancements to...
View ArticleBeeper and the Centurion Lounge
John Gruber: Here’s the analogy I’ve been thinking best applies. American Express operates Centurion Lounges at a few dozen airports around the world, exclusively for the use of their Platinum Card...
View ArticleJapanese Consumption Tax and the App Store
David Smith (2012): The Japanese government requires that Apple withhold 20% of your profits from App Store sales unless you have filed forms demonstrating that you are a foreign company and taxable...
View ArticleOperation Triangulation Details
Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to...
View ArticleThe New York Times Sues OpenAI
Emma Roth (Hacker News): The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the...
View ArticleCrashing iPhones With a Flipper Zero
Dan Goodin (via Bruce Schneier): To van der Ham’s surprise and chagrin, the same debilitating stream of pop-ups hit again on the afternoon commute home, not just against his iPhone but the iPhones of...
View ArticleSpamSieve 3.0.3
SpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained....
View ArticleApple Music Replay’s Broken Record
Joe Rosensteel: The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame or remorse, it says “Go to site”. You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes...
View ArticleGitMounter
Julia Evans: has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit? Jordan Rose: And I did in fact do...
View ArticleJust Get a Brother
ifixcoinops (via Hacker News): Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going “Just get a Brother, they’re fine” and manMANLike this is actually kinda fascinating...
View ArticleBeeper’s Final Fixes and Government Investigations
Juli Clover: On Reddit, the Beeper Mini team says that the Mac-based fix coming on December 20 stabilizes iMessage for Beeper Cloud and Mini, and it “works well” and “is very reliable.”[…]Beeper has...
View ArticleHow to Control the World
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (2018, via Christian Tietze): While unconventional, we hope that it’s obvious that this solution of controlling dependencies is superior to the traditional solutions...
View ArticleWeChat’s HotspotHelper Entitlement
Yingyu (via Hacker News): Since the introduction of iOS 9 in 2015, Apple has included an API call named “HotspotHelper,” enabling developers to request a capability for their apps to assist the system...
View ArticleiOS 17 Autocorrect
Juli Clover: The machine learning technology that Apple is using for autocorrect has been improved in iOS 17. Apple says it has adopted a “transformer language model,” that will better personalize...
View ArticleState Restoration With NSSecureCoding on Sonoma
Milen Dzhumerov: AppKit state restoration behaviour changed on macOS 14 Sonoma in a subtle way that can lead to apps not restoring their state correctly. The change can lead to silent breakages which...
View ArticleHow to Change a New iPhone Passcode If You Forget It
Tim Hardwick: In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, it is now possible to reset an iPhone or iPad’s new passcode with the previous passcode you used for up to three days after the change is made. In other words,...
View ArticleManual AutoFill in Safari
Dan Moren: In a very clever move, Apple has introduced essentially a manual mode for AutoFill. You’re no longer dependent on Safari recognizing that, yes, these are fields where you can put your...
View ArticleTriggering Swift Property Observers From Initializers
Natalia Panferova: In Swift, property observers such as willSet and didSet are not called when a property is set in an initializer. This is by design, as the initializer's purpose is to set up the...
View ArticleDictation and Predictive Text in macOS Sonoma and iOS 17
Kirk McElhearn: It may seem counterintuitive to dictate and type at the same time, but there is a reason for this. As you dictate, you will find that the accuracy of the transcription is far from 100%....
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