Big Sur’s Hidden Containers Folder
Rico Becker: Apple has restricted access to ~/Library/Containers/ in Finder on macOS Big Sur. It’s only showing one folder in my case. In Terminal I can see that everything is still there. This was...
View ArticleSim Genie 1.0
Curtis Herbert: Sim Genie is a Mac app that is built for those of us that spend our days in Xcode. Apple has been adding a lot of hidden capabilities to the Xcode simulator, but they haven’t been...
View ArticleCanceling Apple Arcade Games
Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier (also: MacRumors): Apple Inc. has shifted the strategy of its Apple Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some games in development while seeking other titles...
View ArticleUpgrade Interviews Bob Borchers and Ronak Shah
Upgrade: This week we welcome Apple’s Bob Borchers and Ronak Shah to the show to discuss macOS Big Sur, including all the new features in Safari. There’s also an awful lot of follow-up from the busy...
View ArticleBoot and Recovery Mode on Apple Silicon Macs
Jason Snell (also: MacRumors): With the advent of Macs running Apple-designed processors, things will get a whole lot simpler. As described Wednesday in the WWDC session Explore the New System...
View ArticleSafari Privacy Protections Bypass
Jeff Johnson (tweet, Hacker News): The privacy protections system (also known as TCC: Transparency, Consent, and Control) was introduced in macOS Mojave, and one of its purposes is to protect certain...
View ArticleApp Store Requires Opting Out After Trial Subscription
Down Dog (Reddit, Hacker News): Apple is rejecting our latest update because we refuse to auto-charge at the end of our free trial. They can choose to steal from their customers who forget to cancel,...
View ArticleA Huge Year for SwiftUI
Swift by Sundell: Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal...
View ArticleUsing SVGs in Asset Catalogs
Marc Edwards: SVGs can now be used as assets for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS apps. The most exciting part of this new feature is that there’s not much to say — it’s full SVG support, and it just...
View ArticleTikTok iOS Clipboard Snooping
Juli Clover (also: Hacker News): A new feature in iOS 14 alerts users when apps read the clipboard, and it turns out some apps have been reading clipboard data excessively. TikTok users who upgraded to...
View ArticleLinkedIn iOS Clipboard Snooping
Don (via Hacker News): LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard every keystroke. IOS 14 allows users to see each paste notification. I’m on an IPad Pro and it’s copying from the clipboard of my...
View ArticleBig Sur’s Narrow Alerts
Craig Hockenberry: Why do I have this huge ass screen on my Mac and am now reading alerts with four or five words in each line? Seems like a bad idea when a majority of Macs have a display with...
View Articlemount_apfs TCC Bypass and Privilege Escalation
Csaba Fitzl (tweet): We could mount the entire file system through APFS snapshots as read-only, with the noowners flag, which enables us accessing (almost) every file in the file system, including data...
View ArticleOptimizing the Objective-C Runtime in Big Sur
WWDC 2020: Dive into the microscopic world of low-level bits and bytes that underlie every Objective-C and Swift class. Find out how recent changes to internal data structures, method lists, and tagged...
View ArticleAirPods vs. AirPods Pro
Adam Engst: Wearing the AirPods Pro doesn’t hurt, but I notice them constantly and breathe a sigh of relief every time I take them out. […] I’m torn here—the AirPods Pro have significantly more...
View ArticleAirPods Pro: Rattlegate
MacRumorsRanger: So there appears to be a widespread issue with the AirPods Pro: they seem to eventually develop a rattling noise when Noise Cancellation or Transparency is in use. It is believed to be...
View ArticleH.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
Fraunhofer HHI (via Hacker News): This new standard offers improved compression, which reduces data requirements by around 50% of the bit rate relative to the previous standard H.265/High Efficiency...
View ArticleVisual Comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur
Andrew Denty: All of the screenshots below are taken on a default install of macOS and the Catalina version is always on the left. I made a conscious effort not to resize any windows or change any...
View ArticleWhat Changes Might Be Coming to New Mac Hardware?
Jason Snell: When the Intel transition happened, Apple was extremely restrained. The first Intel Macs were more or less the existing PowerPC Macs, but with Intel processors inside. The message was...
View ArticleApple Silicon and Virtualization
bmalehorn (via Hacker News, Reddit): Why can’t you update the Docker image to also support ARM? You theoretically could switch your backend to run ARM Linux. However, this would take months - renting...
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