Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware
$2M Top Payout Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Apple Doubles Security Bounty Rewards to $2 Million Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RCE vulnerabilities Ti...
Bluesky says it added 500K new users in a day this week after X announced plans for controversial changes, including basically getting rid of the block feature
Here's Why Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups Dylan R. Coyle / Android Police : X users are seemingly flocking to Bluesky after Twitter's latest snafu Sam Courtne...
Unity announces fees based on a game's installations and the developer's plan tier, starting on January 1, 2024, joining Unreal Engine, which has similar fees
Yesterday Unity announced that starting next year … Scott Hayden / Road to VR : Epic Games is “exploring native Unreal Engine support” for Apple Vision Pro Stephen Totilo / Axios : Unity rushes to cla...
Twitter plans to discontinue free access to its API starting on February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and launch a “paid basic tier” instead
This week I spent too many minutes watching Nothing, Forever, which is a Twitch stream that runs 24/7. Mastodon: Kate Starbird / @katestarbird@mstdn.social : Looks like Twitter is eliminating free acc...
A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential
the only platform that actually supports Safari *and* competing browsers. @satefan : An open letter to Tim Cook signed by all iOS browsers builders (big and small), an alliance, writing code to prove ...
Zuckerberg says Apple is one of Facebook's “biggest competitors” and uses its dominant position to preference apps like iMessage against WhatsApp and Messenger
and it'll protect users like never before Tweets: Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Zuckerberg took a few minutes on this call to bash Apple's stance on privacy, and say that WhatsApp is “superior” to iMes...
The current state of Apple's developer documentation, in which many parts of the ecosystem are entirely undocumented, is shocking
If you want developers to love your platform, then you need to take this seriously. If it isn't documented, it isn't done. Tweets: @chiefsucker , @grady_booch , @damienpetrilli , @upfrontezine , @mig...