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Asahi Linux Gets Alpha GPU Drivers on Apple Silicon
After two years of work to reverse engineer Apple Silicon GPU instruction set and to implement the kernel driver, Asahi Linux has finally got an alpha-quality release of its GPU driver that is already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games, Asahi developers Alyssa Rosenzweig and Asahi Lina say.
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Apple Adds Core ML Support for Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon
Apple released a set of optimizations to Core ML to enable running the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model on Apple Silicon-powered devices running the latest iOS or macOS versions, respectively iOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1.
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Swift 5.7 Brings New Generics Implementation and Reference Counting Improvements
Announced at WWDC 2022, Swift 5.7 is now officially available. It includes major improvements to the compiler internals, and many syntax and standard library additions, including String regex, concurrency updates, and more.
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New Asahi Linux Release Brings Support for Apple M1 Ultra and M2 CPUs
When Apple adopted their new ARM-based CPUs collectively dubbed Apple Silicon, it made all existing Linux distributions incompatible with its most recent hardware. This is changing thanks to the hard work of the Asahi Linux team, that recently introduced preliminary support for Apple M1 Ultra and M2 CPUs.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build and Test on macOS
AWS recently announced the general availability of the EC2 M1 Mac instances based on the Apple ARM-based processor and designed for CI/CD of Apple-based applications. The M1 Mac option is faster and cheaper than the existing x86-based Mac version but still requires a minimum 24 hours commitment.
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Apple Introduces Lockdown Mode to Secure Its OSes against Cyberattacks
The new Lockdown Mode announced by Apple, available now in the latest betas of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura, aims to provide a further level of protection to users at risk of highly targeted Cyberattacks.
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New PACMAN Vulnerability Affecting Apple Silicon CPUs
Uncovered by a team at MIT CSAIL, PACMAN is a new vulnerability affecting a defense mechanism available in Apple Silicon processors and known as pointer authentication code (PAC). While Apple downplayed the severity of this finding, the researchers hint at the fact that PACMAN brings an entire new class of attacks.
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JFrog Artifactory Supports Binary Dependencies for Swift
JFrog has announced its Artifactory repository can be used as a binary package registry for Swift dependencies using the Swift Package Manager.
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SwiftUI Brings Charts, Data-Driven Navigation, and More
At WWDC 2022 Apple has announced a new iteration of SwiftUI, its declarative framework to build UIs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Among the most significant highlights are SwiftUI new charting capabilities, refined navigation, new controls, and more.
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Augury is a Novel Microarchitectural Attack Affecting Apple Silicon
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Washington, and the Tel Aviv University have described an attack, dubbed Augury, that leaks data at rest on recent processors from Apple, including the A14 and the M1 family.
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Research Finds over 1.5 Million "Abandoned" Mobile Apps
On the heels of a recent discussion sparked on the Web by Apple's policy aimed to remove outdated apps from the App Store, analytics company Pixalate released a report providing insight into how many iOS and Android apps are outdated and for how long they have not received any update.
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Apple to Remove Outdated Apps from the App Store
After several iOS developers reported Apple warned them it would remove a number of their apps, Apple has confirmed and clarified its policy about removing outdated apps from the App Store. The policy has been enforced since 2016 and affects apps that have not been updated within the last three years.
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An Overview of Apple's Unified Logging System in Swift
In a recent series of articles, iOS independent developer Majid Jabrayilov focused on the importance of logging to enable the analysis of bugs hard to catch in the debugger as well as to better understand user behaviour through the app.
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SwiftLint Now Supports Swift 5.6
The latest stable release of SwiftLint brings support for Swift 5.6 and Xcode 13.3 to developers and organizations aiming for better code consistency. Additionally, a pre-release version integrates SwiftSyntax as a replacement of SourceKit.
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Apple Open Sources GCGC: a Tool to Analyze Java GC Logs
Apple has open-sourced GCGC, a tool for Java Garbage Collector (GC) logs visualization based on Python 3 and pandas. GCGC uses a Jupyter notebook to analyze and visualize GC log files.