Howard Oakley: When an app that supports versioning saves a file, the current version is added as a dataless file to a folder in AllUIDs, with its UUID as its name, its data are added to the ChunkStoreDatabase, and its details are added to the database in db-V1. Chunk sizes typically range up to just […]

Apple (Ivan Krstić, Hacker News): Arm published the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) specification in 2019 as a tool for hardware to help find memory corruption bugs. MTE is, at its core, a memory tagging and tag-checking system, where every memory allocation is tagged with a secret; the hardware guarantees that later requests to access memory […]

Apple: Final Cut Camera 2.0 unlocks unprecedented recording capabilities on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, the first smartphones capable of capturing ProRes RAW. This allows users to record pristine RAW data directly from the camera sensor for maximum creative freedom in post-production. The update also introduces open gate recording, which uses the […]

Basecamp (via Lobsters, Hacker News, Reddit): Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you’d expect, including:Multiple rooms, with access controlsDirect messagesFile attachments with previewsSearchNotifications (via Web Push)@mentionsAPI, with support for bot integrations[…]Campfire’s Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional, single-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching, file […]

Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the RC coming after nine rounds of betas. Who can tell from the release notes what’s changed in the last few builds? Steve Troughton-Smith: I don’t honestly know why Apple provides OS release […]