I’ve recently been using Screen Time more to manage my son’s Mac and iOS usage, and it’s been really frustrating. On the Sonoma Mac where he plays Minecraft, we wanted to restrict which Web sites could be viewed. But this doesn’t just affect what you can do in Safari; it also restricts which network connections […]

Mykola Grymalyuk (PDF, via Mr. Macintosh): The talk was a look into Apple’s Rapid Security Response system unveiled back at WWDC2022, discussing the design and challenges of the system. But Apple seemingly abandoned the system a year after its introduction. Filipe Esposito (Aaron): With iOS 26.1 beta 1, which was released to beta testers on […]

André Arko (via Reddit): As chronicled by my teammate Ellen, the RubyGems team is no more. I wish the best of luck to everyone taking on the herculean task of keeping package management functional and working for the entire Ruby community. Ellen Dash (PDF, Lobsters): On September 9th, with no warning or communication, a RubyGems […]

Aaron Patterson (via Hacker News): I’m pretty sure I’d been getting corrupted images for a while, but it would only be 1 or 2 images out of thousands, so I thought nothing of it (it was probably my fault anyway, right?)But the problem really got me upset when last year I went to a family […]

Juli Clover: Back in August, Australia’s federal court ruled that the Apple App Store had violated competition laws by prohibiting sideloading and alternative payment methods.At the time, the court had not shared a written judgment, but now the 900-page document has been published and additional information on the court’s decision is available. In a statement […]