Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the software updates contain unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Apple also released iOS 18.7.8 for older iPhones that are not updated to iOS 26. Juli Clover (Hacker News): A flaw with notification services allowed notifications that were supposed to be […]

Connor Jones (Hacker News, Reddit): A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode. […] This is because iOS 18 was the last operating system version that allowed iPhone users to enter the special character – in this […]

Christian Bender: I decided to use eBPF for traffic interception at kernel level. It’s high performance and much more portable than kernel extensions. The main application code is in Rust, a language I’ve wanted to explore for quite a while. And the user interface was built as a web application. That last choice might seem […]

AppleVis: Our survey results indicate that across almost all categories, satisfaction with Apple’s accessibility offerings for blind, DeafBlind, and low vision users decreased when compared to 2024. (You can see all 2025 ratings in the “Ratings At-a-Glance” section below, as well as in the sections for each category.) Many categories saw their lowest individual ratings […]

Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. The hoodies are a new model from Bella Canvas, the manufacturer. Our previous hoodies were “heather gray” and the fabric was a blend of 50% polyester, 37.5% cotton, and 12.5% rayon. That model is being phased out. So we’ve switched to a new model that’s 85% cotton, 15% polyester, and a darker “heather black” color. The old ones were good, but the new ones feel even better.