Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2024
This report covers hrev57901 through hrev58042. R1/beta5 was of course released just a few days ago, and many (though not all) of the changes in this report made it in to the release. Applications madmax fixed a crash in AboutSystem caused by an incorr...
Apple @ Work Podcast: Day 1 ready
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C++ Alliance takes aim at C++ memory safety
Concerns about C++ memory safety soon could be in the past. The C++ Alliance, a charity whose mission is to make the C++ language accessible and useful, is working to add memory safety features to C++, through its Safe C++ Extensions proposal. The all...
FreeBSD 13.4 released
FreeBSD 13.4 has been released. This is already the fifth release in the FreeBSD 13 series, and contains the usual set of security fixes, driver updates, important updated packages, like openssh, LLVM, clang, and so on. If you’re running FreeBSD ...
iOS 18.1 brings spatial photo capture to iPhone 15 Pro
Today’s release of iOS 18.1 beta 4 makes the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max camera even better, with support for capturing spatial photos. Apple announced spatial photo capture for the iPhone 16 lineup last week, but the feature is also coming t...
A brief history of QuickTime
We all know about the Desktop Publishing revolution that the first Macs and their PostScript LaserWriter printers brought in the late 1980s, but many have now forgotten the Desktop Video revolution that followed in the next decade. At its heart was sup...
