Jeff Johnson: Despite my history of uncovering App Store frauds, I rarely go looking for these things intentionally! They re just so pervasive and obvious, they jump out at me. In this case, I was looking at the list of top paid Safari extensions in the Mac App Store, because two of my own extensions are [ ]
Alex Chan (Hacker News): Many of these outages were caused by a single bug, deep in SQLite. It took months of intense forensics to track it down. [ ] This lack of reliable trigger conditions meant we couldn t reproduce the bug synthetically. Instead, we had to rely on deploying passive, forensic telemetry in our live environment [ ]
Dave Nanian: The new version of SuperDuper is a ground-up rewrite, a tip-to-tail reinvention of what SuperDuper looks like, how it works, what it can do, and where I can take it in the future. [ ] Documents have been retired and replaced with Copy Jobs, which are stored internally and organized by source. If you [ ]
Thomas Claburn: Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated by future models it launches in the EU, as part of its effort to comply with content and transparency rules in the bloc s AI Act. [ ] The move may further amplify the appeal of open weight models and alienate Claude customers, who don t [ ]
Jay Peters: An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn t just cause issues for people trying to play digital games it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox s status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or [ ]
Cindy Harper (Hacker News, ArsTechnica): Sony plans to wipe 551 movies and TV shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who paid full price for them. The deletion is coming on September 1 and so far the company has said nothing about giving anyone their money back. [ ] Anyone who hit buy on one [ ]
Joshua Khane (Hacker News): Microsoft DELETED my account AND OneDrive!!?? After ACKNOWLEDGING that I m the owner of the account and that it was compromised??? 25 fucking years of data, thousands of euros spended on games?? My son s baby pictures? GONE! Scott: This is EXACTLY why cloud providers should be building (and might need to FORCED [ ]
Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk (Mastodon, Hacker News, MacRumors, Mac Power Users): WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can be configured to route all web traffic through proxy servers, which is how Tor browsers on iOS and our own Psylo work. We found three WebKit features DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and [ ]
Michael Kan: US satellite internet provider Hughesnet has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after running low on cash and losing subscribers to Starlink. Hughes Network Systems filed in a US bankruptcy court on Sunday, but the company notes it ll continue serving its satellite internet customers during the restructuring period. I used Hughesnet before DSL was [ ]
[Update: See the retraction below.] Terry Godier: On the web, if I build something that works within the standards, it works. Whether people use it is up to them. On iOS, there is another question entirely: whether Apple decides it should exist. [ ] In the past couple of years I ve built three apps that were [ ]
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Tahoe 26.6.1 fixes a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to authenticate to Screen Sharing without valid credentials. See also: Adam Engst and Mr. Macintosh. Previously: macOS 26.6 Update (2026-08-14): Bill Toulas: In an update to the initial advisory, the Dutch agency [ ]
macOS 15.7.9 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.9 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. These seem to fix the same screen sharing bug as the macOS 26.6.1 update. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 15.7.8 [ ]
Ruben Schade (Hacker News): This idea is so powerful and so longed for that it s escaped containment among the Apple crowd. I ve seen everything from Linux distro to phone updates referred to as Snow Leopard releases, when their vendors cite stability and bug fixes over new features. Likewise, people plead with their vendors for a Snow Leopard [ ]
Juli Clover: Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs. Microsoft asked for the feature using Apple s EU interoperability request system for developers, which Apple implemented to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Apple began evaluating the request in March, and on June [ ]
Anurag Chawake: Apple faces a $32.5 billion lawsuit over how its Photos app scans and stores faces. A federal judge cleared the case to proceed as a class action late last month, allowing millions of Illinois iPhone owners to join. The case has been years in the making, and Apple has fought to shut it [ ]
Juli Clover: Google Health (previously the Fitbit app) collects fitness, sleep, and wellness data from a connected wearable device. Steps, distance traveled, heart rate, sleep, and more can now be added to Apple Health. As noted on Reddit, some data such as HRV doesn't transfer over. [ ] Syncing can be enabled after downloading the update [ ]
Jeff Johnson (Hacker News): Nonetheless, when I send an email in Mail app, from a non-iCloud account to an non-iCloud account, Mail immediately triggers an iCloud connection, as revealed by Little Snitch. [ ] What could Mail be querying and saving in CloudKit when I ve disabled Mail in iCloud? [ ] As you can see in my [ ]
Hartley Charlton (The Verge): Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store on Monday night after a review found content that violated its guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but restored the app a short while later, according to Reuters. It seems like this was a symbolic gesture. Removing the app didn t affect any [ ]
Sarah Perez (Hacker News): Apple is now seeking a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, which aims to stop the AI model maker from moving forward with developing an AI device or other products based on Apple s technology. [ ] In a new filing, Apple is requesting expedited discovery from the accused OpenAI [ ]
Juli Clover: The way Apple combines work and personal iCloud accounts left some employees able to access confidential documents after departing the company, reports The Information. The site spoke to more than half a dozen former Apple employees who were unknowingly left with access to sensitive content. [ ] Apple told The Information that the OpenAI [ ]
Ryan Merket (Hacker News, PDF): The company said his performance was the reason, according to a lawsuit Boardman filed in San Francisco Superior Court. Boardman says that explanation was a pretext. His version of the story begins three years earlier, inside Apple s technical relationship with the largest wireless carriers in the United States, with a [ ]
Anthony Reimer: When you are shell scripting or working in Terminal, sometimes you want a quicker way to enter the path to a file or folder, particularly if you have already navigated to it in the Finder. One way that works in Terminal is to drag the file or folder from the Finder onto the [ ]
Wade Tregaskis: NSPasteboard mutates itself simultaneously from the main thread and the global concurrent Dispatch pool, w.r.t. to its internal type cache. This is surprisingly trivial to reproduce (sample code below) by just dropping, e.g. a file promise (such as by opening a PNG in Preview, revealing the thumbnails sidebar, and then dragging the thumbnail [ ]
Apple (transcript, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. [ ] Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services, and in every geographic segment, said Tim Cook, Apple s CEO. Jason Snell: iPhone revenue was up [ ]
John Voorhees: What sets Pastebot 3 apart is its addition of deep automation tools. Not only does the update add MCP support, making it an excellent tool to use with Claude or ChatGPT/Codex, but it includes a brand new CLI that you or an agent can use from Terminal or incorporate into scripts you build. [ ]
Marcin Wichary: The problem is that PAMS is drunk with power and flattens everything on its way[ ] That includes: emphasis by italics or bolding links bulleted and numbered lists strike-through text headlines None of these are style. This is actual information that should not be removed. Sometimes, Paste and Match Style is what you want, [ ]
Gus Mueller (release notes): A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders. It includes an option for velocity thinning , where the faster you draw your brush strokes, the thinner the lines. A new acorn shell tool that you can use to send JavaScript to Acorn, as well as start an MCP server. [ ]
Sayan Sen (Hacker News): For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how [ ]
Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Released less than a month ago by an unknown developer, Chrome Browser Default has somehow become a top download in the United States Mac App Store, alongside well-known developers Amazon, WhatsApp/Facebook/Meta, and Microsoft[ ] [ ] Chrome Browser Default is the top search result for Google Chrome in the Mac App Store. Chrome itself [ ]
Marcus Mendes: Last April, Brazilian officials notified Apple and Google over an alleged lack of age controls in betting apps on their respective app stores. 9to5Mac: Brazilian users browsing the App Store rankings in categories such as Navigation, Travel, and Weather have noticed a growing number of poorly made games appearing among the top results, [ ]
I continue to have problems with Contacts in Tahoe. The latest issue is that the Messages app constantly displays a banner showing that one of my contacts has updated her poster. I don t want to use it; I want to keep the photo that I chose. But clicking the × button does not dismiss the [ ]
Apple (Hacker News): Apple today announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United States. [ ] Apple Upgrade offers 12- and 24-month leasing options for iPhone and [ ]
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple s release notes for the update, macOS Tahoe 26.6 includes security fixes for the Mac and it optimizes Spotlight for the release of macOS 27. Mr. Macintosh: Additionally a fix addressed where some notifications incorrectly displayed deprecation notices for some apps identified as [ ]
Marcus Mendes: Following the rollout of no less than seven Release Candidates, Apple has now finally released macOS Sonoma 14.8.8 and macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 officially. macOS 15.7.8 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.8 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is [ ]
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 include security fixes for the iPhone and iPad. The updates also optimize the Spotlight index in preparation for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. There are a lot of security fixes. Rosyna Keller: Yay, iOS 26.6 is out. And it fixes a privacy [ ]
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): According to Apple s release notes, watchOS 26.6 includes unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Previously: watchOS 26.5
Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): No new features were found in tvOS 26.6 during the beta testing period, so it likely focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements. Previously: tvOS 26.5
Ryan Christoffel (no release notes): But beyond under-the-hood changes, you won t find new features in these updates. It still doesn t play all my purchased music. Previously: audioOS 26.5 HomePod Late Adopter
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple s release notes say that visionOS 26.6 includes bug fixes and security improvements in addition to optimizing the Spotlight index for the upcoming visionOS 27 launch. Previously: visionOS 26.5
EagleFiler 1.9.21 is a maintenance release of my Mac digital filing cabinet and e-mail archiving app. It can now capture the selected messages from MailMaven, including all their metadata, and can link back to the original message. The capture key now works with the Helium browser, and importing from Mariner Paperless and Microsoft Outlook is [ ]
SmallCubed: AppleScript support makes it possible to automate message processing and connect Maven with other applications such as Hookmark, EagleFiler, Filemaker, and DEVONthink. Almost anything you normally do by interacting with MailMaven s interface, such as searching for messages, tagging, filing, flagging, and composing, can now be automated. [ ] AppleScript makes it possible to control…
Joe Rossignol (PDF): The complaint alleges that Apple violated California s Consumers Legal Remedies Act and other laws by failing to adequately review and monitor apps distributed through the App Store, despite marketing it as a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps. Due to these assurances in Apple s marketing, the complaint said the [ ]
John Gruber (Mastodon): This to me is proof that Apple leadership is suffering from cognitive dissonance over their slide into advertising. They re conflating cause and effect. The Apple brand stands for high-quality superior user experiences because the devices and software Apple makes traditionally deliver high-quality superior user experiences. The work Apple ships is what makes [ ]
Wojciech Reguła: Looks like moving the user s TCC db to /private/var/containers/Data/ProtectedSystem/[UUID]/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/ was not the only change in the whole privacy castle of macOS 27. (What btw was a great move as now attackers with full disk access permissions can t modify your privacy settings)macOS 27 quietly ships a new privacy mechanism I hadn t seen…
Jeff Johnson: Although you can hide and unhide apps in your App Store purchase list, it turns out that hiding an app in the App Store purchase list does not hide the app in the updates list! I honestly can t figure out the benefit of hiding an app in the App Store. The list of [ ]
Marcin Wichary: This instruction is a fever dream of three weird things in sequence: What on earth is QuickTime ? I am recording with a player? Why can t I choose the option [ New Screen Recording ] that describes exactly what I want to do? [ ] It s noticing this kind of complexity, places where an easy way was [ ]
AP (Hacker News): A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. [ ] Bestselling thriller novelist Andrea Bartz first brought the suit with two other authors in [ ]
Tim Hardwick (Wired): Google was today fined 890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for breaching antitrust rules with regard to its search and Google Play store services. The European Commission found that Google had broken the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by using its dominant position in the search market to favour its own [ ]
Ryan Whitwam (PDF, Reddit): Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent the intervening years challenging that decision, but the continent s highest court has put a stop to that. The Court of Justice of the European Union has [ ]
Marcus Mendes: Apple s requests to overturn a $634 million patent verdict and secure a new trial in its long-running legal battle with Masimo were denied. Wesley Hilliard: There doesn t appear to be any other path for appeal or recourse, as the judge rejected both requests for either a new judgement or trial. [ ] In the [ ]