Daniel Jalkut: For these scenarios, Xcode provides a handy checkbox that can be used to automatically attach when one of an app’s XPC services is launched. Look deep in the “Options” tab of the scheme editor’s “Run Action” page[…] While this feature is great for XPC services in particular, there are many caveats. For example, […]

Matthew Prince (Hacker News): The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind. Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. That […]

Google (MacRumors, The Verge, Hacker News, model card, Hacker News): And now we’re introducing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, that combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.It’s state-of-the-art in reasoning, built to grasp depth and nuance — whether it’s perceiving the subtle clues in a creative idea, […]

Nikita Prokopov: But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.[…]This got so bad that when a program doesn’t ask you to create an account, it feels refreshing.[…]Everybody is checking for updates all the time. Some […]

Anthony Ha (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is getting serious about succession planning, according to a new report in The Financial Times.The company’s board and senior executives are reportedly preparing for the possibility that Tim Cook could step down as CEO as soon as early next year.[…]Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus is […]