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Michael Tsai Blog
8h ago
Jess Weatherbed: Amazon is adding Apple TV Plus to Prime Video, a move that could help bolster the iPhone maker’s languishing streaming service. Apple TV Plus will be available on Prime Video in the US later this month as a $9.99 monthly add-on — the same you’d otherwise pay directly to Apple. The difference now ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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Lawrence Abrams (Hacker News): Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.[…]Hunt told BleepingComputer that the threat actor shared the Internet Archive’s authentication database nine days ago and it is a 6.4GB SQL file named ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
8h ago
Ricky Mondello (Mastodon): To make these passwords easier to type on suboptimal keyboard layouts like my colleague’s game controller, where the mode switching might be difficult, these new passwords are actually dominated by lowercase characters. And to make it easier to short-term have in your head little chunks of it to bring over to the ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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Matthias Gansrigler: If you’re using Yoink on macOS Sequoia, you might have encountered an issue where Yoink would not accept any files anymore.[…]Basically any app that handles file URLs and saves them as a security-scoped bookmark for later access can be bitten by this bug, currently occurring on macOS 15.0 and 15.0.1. DTS Engineer: What ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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Michael Buckley (Mastodon, Hacker News): At some unknown point in the future, Google will revoke Transmit’s access to Google Drive. Sometime after that, we’ll be releasing updates to Transmit and Nova that remove the ability to create Google Drive connections. […] In March, Transmit was re-approved for Google Drive access — but we were told ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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Ashley Belanger: Musi, a free music-streaming app only available on iPhone, sued Apple last week, arguing that Apple breached Musi’s developer agreement by abruptly removing the app from its App Store for no good reason.According to Musi, Apple decided to remove Musi from the App Store based on allegedly “unsubstantiated” claims from YouTube that Musi ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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Sean Hollister (PDF, Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
2d ago
Dave Winer: Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog.I did a roundup of thoughts when this blog turned 25. I stand by what I wrote then, but I’d add this. My blog started because I needed content to test a script I had written that sent emails on my Mac using Eudora, which was ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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St. Clair Software: When you set keyboard shortcuts for ejecting, sleeping and remounting, they are now shown in Jettison’s menu.Fixed a bug that could result in an error message when manually mounting a volume even though the volume mounts correctly.When an encrypted disk cannot be mounted because its password is not in the keychain, the ..read more
Michael Tsai Blog
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Jeremy Gray (Hacker News): In Photoshop Elements 2025, a new AI-powered Remove Tool makes it easy to erase and replace distracting objects in photos, including unwanted people and distracting objects. This new feature also includes an accompanying “Object Removal” Guided Edit to walk new users through the process.[…]Photoshop Elements has long included a range of ..read more