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Alex Chan (Hacker News): Many of these outages were caused by a single bug, deep in SQLite.

Dave Nanian: The new version of SuperDuper is a ground-up rewrite, a tip-to-tail reinvention of what SuperDuper looks like, how it works, what it can do, and where I can take it in the future. […] Documents have been retired and replaced with Copy Jobs, w…

Thomas Claburn: Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated by future models it launches in the EU, as part of its effort to comply with content and transparency rules in the bloc’s AI Act. […] The move may further amplify the appeal of

Jay Peters: An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn’t just cause issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too.

Cindy Harper (Hacker News, ArsTechnica): Sony plans to wipe 551 movies and TV shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who paid full price for them.

Joshua Khane (Hacker News): Microsoft DELETED my account AND OneDrive!!??

Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk (Mastodon, Hacker News, MacRumors, Mac Power Users): WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can be configured to route all web traffic through proxy servers, which is how Tor browsers on iOS and our own Psylo work.

Michael Kan: US satellite internet provider Hughesnet has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after running low on cash and losing subscribers to Starlink.

[Update: See the retraction below.]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Tahoe 26.6.1 fixes a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to authenticate to Screen Sharing without valid credentials.

macOS 15.7.9 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.9 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.

Ruben Schade (Hacker News): This idea is so powerful—and so longed for—that it’s escaped containment among the Apple crowd.

Juli Clover: Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs.

Anurag Chawake: Apple faces a $32.5 billion lawsuit over how its Photos app scans and stores faces.

Juli Clover: Google Health (previously the Fitbit app) collects fitness, sleep, and wellness data from a connected wearable device.

Jeff Johnson (Hacker News): Nonetheless, when I send an email in Mail app, from a non-iCloud account to an non-iCloud account, Mail immediately triggers an iCloud connection, as revealed by Little Snitch. […] What could Mail be querying and saving in Clou…

Hartley Charlton (The Verge): Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store on Monday night after a review found content that violated its guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but restored the app a short while later, according to Re…

Sarah Perez (Hacker News): Apple is now seeking a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, which aims to stop the AI model maker from moving forward with developing an AI device or other products based on Apple’s technology. […] In…

Juli Clover: The way Apple combines work and personal iCloud accounts left some employees able to access confidential documents after departing the company, reports The Information.

Ryan Merket (Hacker News, PDF): The company said his performance was the reason, according to a lawsuit Boardman filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

Anthony Reimer: When you are shell scripting or working in Terminal, sometimes you want a quicker way to enter the path to a file or folder, particularly if you have already navigated to it in the Finder.

Wade Tregaskis: NSPasteboard mutates itself simultaneously from the main thread and the global concurrent Dispatch pool, w.r.t. to its internal type cache.

Apple (transcript, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. […] “Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services,…

John Voorhees: What sets Pastebot 3 apart is its addition of deep automation tools.

Marcin Wichary: The problem is that PAMS is drunk with power and flattens everything on its way[…] That includes: emphasis by italics or bolding links bulleted and numbered lists strike-through text headlines None of these are “style.”

Gus Mueller (release notes): A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders.

Sayan Sen (Hacker News): For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome.

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Released less than a month ago by an unknown developer, Chrome Browser Default has somehow become a top download in the United States Mac App Store, alongside well-known developers Amazon, WhatsApp/Facebook/Meta, and Microsoft[…]…

Marcus Mendes: Last April, Brazilian officials notified Apple and Google over an alleged lack of age controls in betting apps on their respective app stores. 9to5Mac: Brazilian users browsing the App Store rankings in categories such as Navigation, Travel,

I continue to have problems with Contacts in Tahoe.

Apple (Hacker News): Apple today announced Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program provided by Klarna for iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United State…

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, macOS Tahoe 26.6 includes security fixes for the Mac and it optimizes Spotlight for the release of macOS 27.

Marcus Mendes: Following the rollout of no less than seven Release Candidates, Apple has now finally released macOS Sonoma 14.8.8 and macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 officially. macOS 15.7.8 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes a…

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 include security fixes for the iPhone and iPad.

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 26.6 includes unspecified bug fixes and security updates.

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): No new features were found in tvOS 26.6 during the beta testing period, so it likely focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements.

Ryan Christoffel (no release notes): But beyond under-the-hood changes, you won’t find new features in these updates.

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple’s release notes say that visionOS 26.6 includes bug fixes and security improvements in addition to optimizing the Spotlight index for the upcoming visionOS 27 launch.

EagleFiler 1.9.21 is a maintenance release of my Mac digital filing cabinet and e-mail archiving app.

SmallCubed: AppleScript support makes it possible to automate message processing and connect Maven with other applications such as Hookmark, EagleFiler, Filemaker, and DEVONthink.

Joe Rossignol (PDF): The complaint alleges that Apple violated California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act and other laws by failing to adequately review and monitor apps distributed through the App Store, despite marketing it as “a safe and trusted place to

John Gruber (Mastodon): This to me is proof that Apple leadership is suffering from cognitive dissonance over their slide into advertising.

Wojciech Reguła: Looks like moving the user’s TCC db to /private/var/containers/Data/ProtectedSystem/[UUID]/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/ was not the only change in the whole privacy castle of macOS 27.