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Swift demonstrates impressive growth in January 2015 rankings

Apple’s Swift programming language is growing. Per Cult of Mac’s Twitter post and RedMonk, the Swift programming language is gaining ground on GitHub and Stack Overflow, Besides the noted plot, which can be difficult to parse even at full size, we offer the following numerical rankings. As will be observed, this run produced several ties […]

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iDict brute-force security tool for hacking iCloud account passwords becomes available on GitHub

This may be worth keeping an eye on if you’re concerned about iCloud security. Per 9to5Mac, a new tool submitted to developer web site GitHub claims to be able to perform password dictionary attacks on any iCloud account, seemingly able to evade detection from Apple’s rate-limiting security that is supposed to prevent such dictionary attacks […]

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Perian development to end, final version to fix remaining bugs

Perian, the iconic, free, incredibly useful open source video utility project that’s allowed QuickTime to handle nearly every video format possible, will soon be coming to an end. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, the project’s developers have stated that Perian is reaching the end of the road. Today, the Perian dev team announced that the […]