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I saw these a bunch in beta 2, and none at all in beta 3. I suspect it was a bug, and not a new feature.

Some popups were even for system services (a long no-space process with "blastdoor" in the name for iMessage, etc).

(fwiw, blastdoor is the XPC process used by iMessage to render the little rich previews. It is heavily sandboxed in case the contents are malicious)

9 days later--but yeah, that's why I'm pretty sure this is a spurious popup. There's no way Apple would show a popup with an internal service process name to a user.

It’s incredibly naive for this journalist to be reviewing beta software as if it’s a final product, let alone calling obviously unintended behavior as if it’s a new “feature”.

Adding another domain to my “news” block list.

The article author is not a journalist, he's a Mac developer. His bio is in the sidebar of the blog post.

Your sneering is incredibly misguided and ignorant.

That’s even worse as I’d expect a developer to know better.

Whatever you think he doesn't know, he actually does know.

The ignorant one here is you, and now you're doubling down on it, sadly.

And whatever you think I don’t know, I do know. See how this works?

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