Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Apple Wins Musi App Store Removal Lawsuit
Tim Hardwick: A lawsuit brought against Apple by music streaming app Musi has been dismissed by a federal judge, after she ruled that Apple’s developer agreement gives it the right to remove any app from the App Store at any time, “with or without cause.” […] Musi claimed it complied with YouTube’s terms, but Apple […]
The Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator
John Gruber (Mastodon): One might presume that the dedicated indicator lights are significantly more secure than the rendered-on-display indicators. I myself made this presumption in the initial version of my MacBook Neo review last week. This presumption is, I believe, wrong. Later last week Apple published, and I linked to, a small update in their […]
Apple Exclaves
Random Augustine (2025, Hacker News, John Gruber): The kernel shared in common between iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS — named XNU — is based on a microkernel called Mach. However, the way XNU has been implemented places all system functions within the same privileged scope and it effectively operates as a monolithic kernel. The […]
Grief and the AI Split
John Gruber: But where I think Amodei’s remarks, quoted above, are facile is that it hasn’t played out as simply that lines of code that would have been written by human programmers are now generated by AI models. That’s part of it, for sure. But what’s revolutionary — a topic I’ve been posting about twice already today — is […]
macOS 26.3.1 (a)
Howard Oakley: Apple has just released its first public Background Security Improvement (BSI) for macOS 26.3.1 Tahoe, labelled as BSI (a)-25D771280a. Apple: Available for: iOS 26.3.1, iPadOS 26.3.1, macOS 26.3.1, macOS 26.3.2 Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may bypass Same Origin Policy Description: A cross-origin issue in the Navigation API was addressed with improved […]