Disabled Safari Extensions Are Not Fully Disabled
Jeff Johnson: The good news is that when you navigate to a new page in a Safari tab after disabling the extension, its content script won’t get injected into the new page. The bad news is that if you...
View ArticleDave Cutler Interview
Dave Plummer (via Hacker News): Dave Cutler is a seminal figure in computer science, renowned for his contributions to operating systems. Born in 1942, he played pivotal roles in the development of...
View ArticleComputational Bridal Photo
Matt Growcoot: A woman says that “the fabric of reality crumbled” after she looked at an iPhone photo of herself trying on a wedding dress and noticed that her reflection looked different.Standing in...
View ArticleAmazon Employees Returning to Offices
Jane Thier (via Hacker News): Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, reportedly told members in an internal meeting that when it comes to returning to the office, “it’s...
View ArticleSony Removing Purchased Discovery TV Shows
PlayStation Store (via Hacker News, Reddit): As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously...
View ArticleSmaller and Faster Updates With Sonoma
Howard Oakley (Hacker News): When a user accepts Software Update’s invitation to upgrade to macOS 13 or 14, rather than downloading a full installer app of about 12 GB, Ventura or Sonoma will instead...
View ArticleiMessage Contact Key Verification
macOS 14.2 Beta: With iMessage Contact Key Verification, users can choose to further verify that they are messaging only with the people they intend. iMessage Contact Key Verification uses Key...
View ArticleCastro May Be Dying
Jason Snell: The cloud database that backs the service is broken and needs to be replaced. As a result, the app has broken. (You can’t even export subscriptions out of it, because even that function...
View ArticleKeyboard Cowboy 3.19
Christoffer Winterkvist (Reddit): With Keyboard Cowboy, users can automate repetitive actions, launch applications and scripts, control system settings, manipulate files and folders, and perform a wide...
View ArticleSlower Chrome Extension Updates
Ron Amadeo (via Hacker News): Google’s war on ad blockers is just gearing up, with YouTube doing its best to detect and block ad blockers and Chrome aiming to roll out the ad block-limiting Manifest V3...
View ArticleAds When You Start Your Fire TV
Luke Bouma (Hacker News): Amazon is adding full-screen video ads that will play when you start your Fire TV unless you quickly perform an action on it.This new update will be rolling out to all Fire...
View ArticleFilmic’s Entire Staff Laid Off
Jaron Schneider (Hacker News): Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off the entire team including the company’s founder...
View ArticleEmergency SOS via Satellite Pricing
Adam Chandler: Garmin had a few benefits Apple’s hardware did not thanks to a larger antenna and dedicated hardware. My InReach could be tracked by my wife anywhere. She could see my location instantly...
View ArticleNSFileManager’s File Copy Error Messages Lie
Jeff Johnson: The error says that the source file InstallHistory.plist doesn’t exist, but the file does exist! The true reason for the copy failure is that the destination directory...
View ArticleMisinformation About NameDrop
Juli Clover: As noted by The Washington Post, there have been warnings about NameDrop popping up on FaceTime. Police departments in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio, and other states have been suggesting...
View ArticleiCloud Advanced Data Protection Uptake
John Gruber: Back in August I ran a poll on Mastodon, asking my followers if they have iCloud Advanced Data Protection enabled. iCloud Advanced Data Protection was announced two years ago this week,...
View ArticleGovernments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from the tech giants to track smartphones. The traffic flowing from apps that send push notifications put...
View ArticleStandalone Beeper Mini Brings iMessage to Android
Beeper (Hacker News, MacRumors): It’s our beautiful new Android app built specifically to send and receive blue bubble messages to friends with iPhones.[…]Full end-to-end encryption.It’s a standalone...
View ArticleFastSpring Risk Screening
I received a pair of e-mails from one of my payment processors, FastSpring, which included this text: Our implemented process is designed to ensure full alignment and compliance with regulatory...
View ArticleFiling Mail Messages on Sonoma Using the Keyboard
Adam Tow: As I continue to investigate how to bring MsgFiler to macOS Sonoma, here’s a tip from a user that allows you to file messages via the keyboard on Sonoma. It also works on previous versions of...
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