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macOS 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes With Virtualization

Hartley Charlton (tweet): Users of virtualization software have reported that macOS 10.15.6 crashes repeatedly when running virtual machines.A regression in the App Sandbox component of macOS 10.15.6...

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MarsEdit 4.4

MarsEdit 4.4 now supports Micro.blog and can search the values of custom fields. However, there seems to be a regression that causes the app to beachball for 30 seconds each time I publish a post....

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Schiller Interview Before the App Store Hearing

Stephen Nellis (via MacRumors): But when the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers,...

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Tim Cook’s App Store Testimony

Juli Clover (also: 1, 2): Apple CEO Tim Cook is today participating in an antitrust hearing with the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO...

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Dropbox Dark Pattern

Nick Heer: While the biggest tech CEOs testifying before some of the dumbest people are stymied by WebEx problems, I want to direct your attention to this Dropbox screen. Would you assume that both of...

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Exposure Notification Update

Howard Oakley (Hacker News): According to figures obtained by the BBC, of the 83 million people in Germany, only around 16 million have downloaded this app since it launched in June. That’s less than...

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Keeping Dropbox

David Sparks: iCloud Drive and sharing have not failed me. On the contrary, they have worked better than I expected. […] The trouble is those instances where I am not in control. For example, I have...

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macintosh.js

Felix Rieseberg: This is Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Yes, it's the full thing. Via Dan Moren: I fired it up to take it for a spin and it worked pretty...

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Speculation in JavaScriptCore

Filip Pizlo: This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine. Speculative compilation is ideal for making dynamic...

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