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UK Again Wants iCloud Backdoor

Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News, Reddit, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): The UK government is reportedly once again demanding that Apple provide it with backdoor access to encrypted iCloud user data, following claims that the effort had been abandoned in August. The Financial Times reports that a new technical capability notice (TCN) was issued by the UK Home Office […]

Adobe Premiere for iOS and iPadOS

Adobe: Adobe announced that the company is bringing its industry leading Adobe Premiere video editor to mobile in a powerful new iPhone app that empowers creators to make pro-quality video on the go. The Adobe Premiere mobile app makes it fast, free and intuitive for creators to edit their videos with precision editing on a […]

Electronic Arts Acquired by Private Equity

Juli Clover (2022): Apple is one of several companies that have held talks with Electronic Arts (EA) about a potential purchase, according to a new report from Puck.EA has spoken to several “potential suitors,” including Apple, Amazon, and Disney as it looks for a merger arrangement. Nicholas G. Miller and Lauren Thomas (Hacker News, MacRumors): […]

Kindle Scribe 2025

Andrew Liszewski (Hacker News): Amazon announced new versions of the Kindle Scribe today, including the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which features a larger version of the customized E Ink screen technology that Amazon uses in its color e-reader. The new Scribes feature a major redesign that does away with the asymmetrical chin on one side, making […]

Explaining Regex Locally With Xcode

Paul Samuels: My approach when needing to figure out what an old regex was doing was to paste it into whatever the top search result for “Explain regular expression” was.Something that I’ve been doing for a while but hadn’t really thought about was using Xcode’s Refactor > Convert to Regex Builder as a way to […]