22 posts tagged ‘Open Source’
Forked
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Drew McCormack (Mastodon): I’m launching a new Swift framework called Forked for working with shared data, both on a single device, and across many.[…]The merging that @ForkedModel provides is pretty powerful. It does property-wise merging of structs, and if you attach the @Merged attribute, you can add your own custom merging logic, or use the […]
MIST (macOS Installer Super Tool)
Ric Ford: MIST – macOS Installer Super Tool – is a remarkable Mac app from Nindi Gill that greatly simplifies the processes of downloading macOS and firmware versions that Apple itself complicates and makes difficult (especially with older releases). See also: SUS Inspector. Previously: Apple Manuals, Specs, and Downloads How to Reinstall Safari for Mac […]
Microsoft Donates the Mono Project to Wine
Mono (via Hacker News, Slashdot): The Mono Project (mono/mono) (‘original mono’) has been an important part of the .NET ecosystem since it was launched in 2001. Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin in 2016. The last major release of the Mono Project was in July 2019, with minor patch […]
Retrofitting Spatial Safety to Hundreds of Millions of Lines of C++
Google Security: Based on an analysis of in-the-wild exploits tracked by Google’s Project Zero, spatial safety vulnerabilities represent 40% of in-the-wild memory safety exploits over the past decade[…][…]A key element of our strategy focuses on Safe Coding and using memory-safe languages in new code.[…]However, this transition will take multiple years as we adapt our development […]
Swift Format in Xcode 16
Sarah Reichelt (Mastodon): In Xcode 16, Apple quietly introduced the ability to format your Swift files using Swift Format. I’m a long-time user of SwiftLint, but having such a tool built into Xcode would be a great convenience, so I decided to give it a try. Here is my description of why I use such […]
Security Research on Private Cloud Compute
Apple (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): In the weeks after we announced Apple Intelligence and PCC, we provided third-party auditors and select security researchers early access to the resources we created to enable this inspection, including the PCC Virtual Research Environment (VRE). Today we’re making these resources publicly available to invite all security and privacy researchers […]
Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs
David Goldsmith (1994, PDF, via Hacker News): If you browse the computer section of any technical bookstore, you’ll find many good books offering advice on how to do object-oriented design—books dealing both with general design principles and with design principles specific to C++. Why then does the industry need another book, one targeted not only […]
Apple’s Ferret MLLM
Mike Wheatley (Hacker News, Reddit): Artificial intelligence researchers from Apple Inc. and Cornell University quietly unveiled an open-source and multimodal large language model last October known as Ferret, which is said to use parts of images as queries.According to VentureBeat, the release of Ferret on GitHub in October went completely under the radar, with no […]