Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Outlook Copilot Bug Exposes Confidential E-mails
Sergiu Gatlan (Hacker News): Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. […] “A code issue is allowing items in the sent items and draft folders to be picked […]
Apple’s .car File Format
Ordinal0 (via Hacker News): In this post, I’ll walk through the process of reverse engineering the .car file format, explain its internal structures, and show how to parse these files programmatically. This knowledge could be useful for security research and building developer tools that does not rely on Xcode or Apple’s proprietary tools. As part […]
Searching for Apps With Spotlight
Brent Simmons: Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years. Now when I type something like Cal or Calendar or even Calendar.app I have to manually select the actual app in the list, if it even appears. I’ve never used Spotlight for this on macOS (preferring LaunchBar) but have […]
Versioning Your SwiftData Schema
Mohammad Azam: We started with a simple model. Then we added a new property and transformed existing data. Then we introduced a uniqueness constraint and cleaned up duplicates before enforcing it. Each change felt small in isolation. But every one of those changes altered the structure of data already stored on disk. […] SwiftData gives […]
iOS 26.4: Stolen Device Protection Enabled by Default
Juli Clover: Starting with iOS 26.4, Stolen Device Protection will be enabled by default and turned on for all iPhone users. […] Stolen Device Protection requires additional authentication through Face ID or Touch ID to access certain iPhone features like the Passwords app, Lost mode in Find My , Safari purchases, and more. Some features […]