Ghost in the Shell (2017), directed by Rupert Sanders, is based on the Japanese manga by Masamune Shirow. Scarlett Johansson plays Major Mira Killian, a woman whose brain is placed inside a fully synthetic body, making her the first of her kind and a weapon against cyber crime.
Apple released Swift 3.1 as a minor update that keeps source compatibility with Swift 3.0.
Handy defaults write commands for the mouse, controlling tracking speed, scrolling, and button behaviour.
If you see secinitd running on your Mac, here is what this security process does when apps launch.
If you see PowerUIAgent running on your Mac, here is what this power notification process does.
If you see nehelper running on your Mac, here is what this network extension process does.
Monthly update 322 • February 2017 • 2017-02-01 - 2017-02-28
February 2017 paired sloppy corporate data leaks with a hardening of government surveillance at the border and in the courts.
If you see touchbarserver running on your Mac, here is what this Touch Bar process does.
Swift 4 is a major release set for fall 2017. It focuses on source stability for Swift 3 code and essential features for binary stability, with big updates to generics and the String type.
If you see mediaremoted running on your Mac, here is what this media control process does.
Allied (2016), directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a wartime thriller set during the Second World War. Brad Pitt plays Max Vatan, a Canadian intelligence officer who falls in love with a French resistance fighter during a mission in North Africa.
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows John as a blood oath from his past forces him back into the world he tried to leave. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, who must travel to Rome to fulfil a debt he cannot refuse.
Monthly update 321 • January 2017 • 2017-01-01 - 2017-01-31
January 2017 opened the Trump era with an order stripping privacy protections from non-citizens, while ransom crews wiped exposed databases and surveillance vendors learned they could be hacked too.
Build times in Xcode projects that mix Objective-C and Swift rise due to the Swift compiler re-processing large bridging headers for each Swift file.
Apple announced the new Swift Evolution status page as a central spot for details on proposed changes to Swift.
If you see datastored running on your Mac, here is what this CloudKit data storage process does.
Sherlock is a British crime drama series. It aired on BBC One from 25 July 2010 to 15 January 2017. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created it. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective in modern day London who solves cases the police cannot.
December 2016 closed the year with record breaches, a landmark European ruling against mass data retention and fresh state-sponsored hacking that pushed surveillance and security to the centre of the privacy debate.
Monthly update 320 • December 2016 • 2016-12-01 - 2016-12-31