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Many apps already have a dark mode, but there still isn’t a unified standard for it on iOS and macOS. Steve Troughton Smith fand in macOS 10.14 gives a hint of exactly such a mode. Developer Steve Troughton Smith today tweeted photos of macOS 10.14 with some very juicy details about Apple’s upcoming operating system. The OS is very clearly sporting a fresh new dark theme, presumably a toggle-able setting, with the dark UI affecting all application chrome. You can also see an icon for a Mac News app in the Dock, as well as a first look at Xcode 10. — 9to5mac.com ...

Motherboard berichtet reported on a box capable of cracking an iPhone’s PIN. The GrayKey itself is a small, 4×4 inches box with two lightning cables for connecting iPhones, according to photographs published by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The device comes in two versions: a $15,000 one which requires online connectivity and allows 300 unlocks (or $50 per phone), and an offline, $30,000 version which can crack as many iPhones as the customer wants. Marketing material seen by Forbes says GrayKey can unlock devices running iterations of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 11, including on the iPhone X, Apple’s most recent phone. ...

Actually, the iPhone X is a real bargain. Source: @lukew The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

HomeKit is supported by an increasing number of IoT manufacturers. Until now, though, it hasn’t been easy to find out which devices specifically rely on HomeKit. With Projekt HomeKitty you can now get a nice overview of all HomeKit-enabled devices on the market. HomeKitty is a crowdsourced website that collects all accessories that support the HomeKit protocol. — HomeKitty Because it’s maintained Wikipedia-style — by users for users — new products are usually added quite quickly. Great project. ...

I want a new black MacBook → We already know Apple is fine with giving its smartphone the anodized color treatment, so why not the MacBook? In fact, I’d be happy if Apple even just offered a single additional color option for the most portable of the MacBook family, the MacBook Air. I want a black MacBook Air. I’d also like a black MacBook Air. I’ve always thought the black plastic MacBooks looked nicer than the more popular white ones. ...