Adam Codega: Apple does not inspect or analyze the contents of what you paste. Even harmless text like "hello world" will trigger the warning under the right conditions. Instead, Terminal checks where the clipboard content came from. It does this by calling a private API _sourceSigningIdentifier on the NSPasteboard, which reveals the code-signing identity of […]

Marco Arment (Mastodon): I urge you, on behalf of everyone who loves computers as much as we do, to protect and cultivate this spirit of Apple’s founders as the company’s top priority: We love computers. We don’t hide that — we celebrate it! We use computers to enhance our minds, lives, and abilities — not […]

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): There are countless small, practical, mostly uncontroversial ways in which Apple could improve the App Store for developers, yet the App Store has changed relatively little in the 18 years since it was hastily cloned from the iTunes Music Store. […] These changes to the App Store would not require a huge […]

Jason Snell: Last December I complained that Apple was withholding iOS 18 security updates from iPhones capable of running iOS 26, leaving users who didn’t want to upgrade to Apple’s latest OS version yet in some security peril. […] The good news: As of Wednesday April 1, Apple is pushing out iOS 18.7.7 to all […]

MacRumors (9to5Mac): In a new support document, Apple said new purchases, in-app purchases, and subscription renewals are no longer available in Russia unless a user already has funds in their Apple Account balance, which can continue to be used. […] Apple reportedly took this action in response to an order from the Russian government, which […]