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December 2018

  1. Facebook’s Rulebook for Global Political Speech
  2. Netflix and Spotify No Longer Allow iTunes Billing for New Users
  3. The Case Against Marzipan
  4. How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
  5. Jason Snell on Apple’s 2018
  6. Safari Extensions in the Mac App Store
  7. Siri’s Performance on the HomePod in Second Loup Ventures Test
  8. We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
  9. Online Advertising’s ‘Willful Enshittening’
  10. Apple Promotes John Giannandrea to Executive Team
  11. Some Android Apps Using Facebook’s SDK Transmitted Sensitive User Data to Facebook
  12. Apple Says Some 2018 iPad Pros Ship Bent and They Don’t Consider It a Defect
  13. Faked Influence and Sponsorship Deals
  14. Facebook’s Corporate Partnerships Allowed Unregulated Private Data Sharing Without Explicit Consent
  15. The Danger of Data Brokers
  16. Sleeping Rough in the Mattress Economy
  17. Google Isn’t the Company to Which We Should Be Ceding Control of the Web
  18. Twitter’s Reverse-Chronological Timeline Toggle Is Rolling Out on iOS Today
  19. Apple Music Connect Pulls a Ping
  20. Negative Mount Pleasant
  21. Apple Will Build a New Campus in Austin
  22. Google and Congress Botch an Opportunity
  23. A Touch of Touch
  24. Super Micro Says Third-Party Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards
  25. The Equifax Breach Was Just as Infuriating and Dumb as You Thought
  26. Amazon’s Sneaky Ads
  27. Third-Party Apps on iOS and Android Share Granular Location Data With Advertisers and Hedge Funds
  28. Microsoft Building New Browser Based on Chromium
  29. Ron Johnson Interviewed on ‘Without Fail’
  30. Google Is Discontinuing Allo, One of Its Messaging Apps, in March
  31. Facebook Bought WhatsApp After Seeing Its Growth Through Onavo VPN
  32. Facebook Knew Android Call-Scraping Would Be ‘High-Risk’
  33. The Enormous Life of Anthony Bourdain
  34. Kuo: AirPods Are Apple’s Most Successful Accessory Ever
  35. Data for 100 Million Quora Users Compromised
  36. Marriott Discloses Data Breach Affecting Up to 500 Million Guests Since 2014

November 2018

  1. Bloomberg Is Still Reporting on Their ‘Big Hack’ Story
  2. Reports of Poor Mac Performance Without an SSD
  3. How Some Developers Are Gaming the App Store
  4. Greg Joswiak Says the iPhone XR Has Been the Top-Selling iPhone Since Its Launch
  5. Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple
  6. A Business With No End
  7. On Apple Portables in the Approximately $1,200 to $1,300 Price Range
  8. The Rands Travel Procedure
  9. ’Tis the Season
  10. Amazon.com is a Horrible Website
  11. Ryan Christoffel’s ‘Today at Apple’ Experience
  12. The Sextortion Bitcoin Email Scam
  13. What Does It Mean for Facebook to Be at War?
  14. For Nearly Two Years, Ajit Pai’s FCC Has Not Released a Previously-Annual Broadband Provider Report Card
  15. Gestures on the iPad
  16. Axios Interviews Tim Cook
  17. Kevin Alexander Found the Best Burger Place in America, Which Killed It
  18. Transmit 5, the Mac App Store, and Privileged File Operations
  19. Amazon Made a Voice-Activated Microwave
  20. Everything on Amazon is Amazon
  21. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Complains About Net Neutrality Laws Passed By States
  22. Amazon Selects Locations for Three New Offices
  23. Apple Confirms That the T2 Chip Can Lock Macs With Invalid Logic Board or Touch ID Repairs
  24. Sam Rutherford’s Flexible Phone Pricing Standards
  25. An Unzipping Shortcut for iOS
  26. Inside Apple’s New Macs
  27. Carrot Weather is the Best Weather App
  28. How to Find and Manage App Subscriptions on iOS
  29. Ars Technica Interviews Anand Shimpi and Phil Schiller About the A12X
  30. AT&T to Cut Off Some Customers’ Service in Piracy Crackdown
  31. The 2018 Mac Mini
  32. An In-Depth Look at Apple’s New Map Data
  33. Flickr Announces That It Will Only Keep Newest 1,000 Photos for Free Accounts Starting February 5, Alongside Service Improvements

October 2018

  1. Facebook’s Political Ad Transparency Efforts Are Woefully Poor
  2. Pioneer
  3. iOS 12’s Security Improvements Impede GrayKey Passcode Cracking Functionality
  4. Hundreds of Popular Android Apps Part of Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme
  5. Apple News’ Reliance on Human Editors Reduces Misinformation in the App
  6. Tim Cook Speaks About Privacy at ICDPPC
  7. iPhone XR Reviews Roundup
  8. Other News Organizations Have Tried But Are Not Able to Corroborate Bloomberg’s Story
  9. In Interview With Buzzfeed News, Tim Cook Calls for Retraction of Bloomberg ‘Big Hack’ Story
  10. Apple Announces October 30 Event in New York
  11. Chartbeat: Social Media Referrals Are Down, but Direct Traffic Is Up
  12. Christ, Article a Video
  13. Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Inflated Video Ad Viewing Times for Over a Year
  14. Concerns Linger About MacBook Pro Keyboards
  15. Facebook Acknowledges That Contact Details of Twenty-Nine Million Users Were Stolen
  16. Google Has Continued Its Growth in Europe Post-GDPR, While the Prevalence of Other Trackers Has Been Cut
  17. The Anatomy of a Click
  18. Two Angles on Apple Product Repairs
  19. Assorted Updates Regarding Bloomberg’s ‘Big Hack’ Story
  20. Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1
  21. Google Exposed Data of Half a Million Users Until March but Didn’t Disclose It Because They Feared ‘Regulatory Interest’
  22. After a Year of Stories Confirming the Logical Consequences of Collecting All of Your Personal Information, Facebook Introduces an Always-Listening Assistant With a Video Camera
  23. Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally or at the FBI Knows What’s Going on With Bloomberg’s Story
  24. Thinking About Bloomberg’s Report on Hardware Vulnerabilities in Servers Made in China
  25. Mainstream Advertising is Still Showing Up on Conspiracy and Extremist Websites
  26. MacOS Mojave Archaeology
  27. Increased Exclusivity Arrangements Correlates With the Reversal of a Downward Trend of File Sharing
  28. Vice News’ Interview With Tim Cook
  29. U.S. Justice Department Sues Hours After California Signs Strong Net Neutrality Law
  30. New Zealand Customs Authorities Can Now Demand Device Passwords, and May Copy and Review Data
  31. A Deep Exploration of the iPhone XS Camera System

September 2018

  1. At Least Fifty to Ninety Million Facebook User Accounts’ Access Tokens Compromised
  2. Silly Selfie Surreptitious Skin Smoothing Scandal
  3. Reading the Tea Leaves
  4. Facebook Is Allowing Ad Targeting Based on Contact Information You Have No Control Over
  5. Safari’s “Siri Suggested” Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Sites
  6. Instagram’s Co-Founders Are Leaving Amid Frustrations With Facebook
  7. Ars Technica’s Review of MacOS 10.14 Mojave
  8. Matt Birchler’s Review of WatchOS 5
  9. A Look at How the New Fire, Water, and Vapour Apple Watch Faces Were Made
  10. Joint CBC and Toronto Star Investigation Finds Ticketmaster Complicit in Ticket Scalping
  11. Alternative Influence
  12. John Gruber’s Review of the iPhones XS
  13. A History of Infinite Loop Told in Anecdotes
  14. The MacStories Review of iOS 12
  15. Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers
  16. Amassed Memories in Keychain Access
  17. Goodbye, iPhone SE
  18. Initial Thoughts on the iPhone XS, iPhone XR, and Apple Watch Series 4 Event
  19. European Parliament Gives Approval to Over-Broad Copyright Reform Bills
  20. Release Types Now Organized Differently in Apple Music
  21. A Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
  22. Purported Security Apps in the Mac App Store Found to Be Stealing User Data
  23. “Does Anyone’s Ideal World Have Social Media?”
  24. Apple Removes Adware Doctor From Mac App Store for Covertly Sharing User Browser History
  25. For Second Time in Three Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records
  26. Shooting and Editing Photos With Halide and Darkroom
  27. Google Purchased Bulk Transaction Data from Mastercard to Link Online Ads and Offline Purchases
  28. The Outline Lays Off Support Staff and Remaining Staff Writers
  29. Mozilla to Block Slow and Cross-Site Trackers in Firefox

August 2018

  1. 9to5Mac Obtains Promotional Photos of Apple Watch Series 4, iPhone XS
  2. NetNewsWire Transferred Home to Brent Simmons From Black Pixel
  3. An Excerpt From a CNBC Interview with Nilay Patel and Jason Koebler
  4. Firmware Update Available for AirPort Express With AirPlay 2 Support
  5. Panic and House House Announce 2019 Launch of Untitled Goose Game
  6. Americans’ Views on News Content From Internet Companies
  7. Cryptocurrency Mining Now Accounts for Approximately One Percent of the World’s Energy Consumption
  8. Moderating the Planet
  9. Google Is Highlighting the Wrong Voter Registration Deadline for Several States
  10. Facebook Removes Onavo VPN From App Store After Apple Says It Violates Data Collection Policies
  11. The History of Aperture
  12. Thousands of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition Without Consent
  13. Prevalence of Third-Party Cookies Reduced Across European News Websites
  14. The Landowner and the Apartments
  15. Twitter Deprecates Parts of Their API, Forcing Third-Party Clients to Remove Key Features
  16. FCC Under Ajit Pai Resists Proposal to Raise American Broadband Standard
  17. Lifting All USB-C Boats
  18. Turning Off Location History in Google Maps Does Not Prevent Google From Keeping a History of Your Location
  19. The Creepy Ten-Year History of Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’ Feature
  20. A Generation Grows Up in China Without American Internet Giants
  21. Some Wireless Audio Equipment Rendered Obsolete By Reallocated RF Spectrum — Again
  22. Apple Responds to Congressional Questions About User Privacy
  23. First Amendment Experts Warn Facebook Banning InfoWars Could Set Completely Reasonable Precedent For Free Speech
  24. Google Maps’ Influence on Neighbourhood Names
  25. A Low-Power Mode for the Mac
  26. Sarah Jeong Joins the New York Times, Finds Herself the Subject of Coordinated Harassment
  27. Apple Removing iOS and Mac App Sales From Affiliate Program on October 1
  28. Mac Sales in Apple’s Third Quarter of 2018
  29. iPhone and iPad Sales in Apple’s Third Quarter of 2018

July 2018

  1. The Bullshit Web
  2. When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life
  3. iOS 12 Performance
  4. YouTube’s Poorer Performance in Non-Chrome Browsers
  5. Apple Releases Software Update to Address Throttling Bug on 2018 MacBook Pro Models
  6. The Decline of the Declarative Online Status Indicator
  7. Facebook Suspends Crimson Hexagon’s Access to User Data
  8. DuckDuckGoogle
  9. Allowing Customization of Default Apps on iOS
  10. Bringing Common UI Controls Nearer to the Bottom of the Screen
  11. Apple Confirms 2018 MacBook Pro Keyboard’s Silicone Membrane is Designed to Protect the Mechanism From Debris
  12. Winners of the 2018 iPhone Photography Awards
  13. TechCrunch’s Report on Control Over iCloud Data in China
  14. Venmo Transactions Are Public By Default
  15. For World Emoji Day, Apple Replaced Its Executive Portraits With Memoji
  16. Triangulating and De-Anonymization
  17. Apple’s App Store Continues to Generate More Revenue for Developers Than Google Play
  18. Instapaper Has a New Owner, Same As the Last Owner, Kind Of
  19. iFixit Found a New Silicone Membrane in the Mid-2018 Macbook Pro’s Keyboard
  20. Apple Discontinues Photo Printing Service
  21. Updated MacBook Pros With Performance Improvements, True Tone Displays, and ‘Hey, Siri’ Support
  22. Tenth Anniversary of MobileMe’s Launch
  23. The Power of Tech Giants
  24. Apple Combines Machine Learning and Siri Teams Under John Giannandrea
  25. Univision Says It’s Exploring Sale of Former Gawker Sites and the Onion
  26. I Think Halide Is the Best Third-Party Camera App for the iPhone
  27. Maintaining the Narrative
  28. Smart TVs in Millions of U.S. Homes Track Everything Users Watch
  29. ‘Stylish’ Browser Extension Shares Browsing History With SimilarWeb
  30. Facebook’s Political Rule Blocks Ads for Bush’s Beans, Singers Named Clinton
  31. Re-Emphasizing the Decentralized Feed
  32. Personal Data in 340 Million Records Leaked From Exactis Databases
  33. Some Third-Party Email Apps Let Employees Read User Emails
  34. 500px Nukes Over One Million Creative Commons Photos

June 2018

  1. Apple Is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up
  2. Apple Is Building a Media Platform Like Never Before
  3. Apple Rumoured to Be Considering a Combined Media Subscription
  4. The Butterfly Keyboard and Expensive Repairs
  5. Jack Dorsey Met With American Conservative Leaders and Media Personalities to Hear Their Complaints About Alleged Bias
  6. iTunes Remote Updated
  7. Apple News Says Its Midterm Elections Section Is More Trustworthy Because It’s Run by Humans
  8. MacOS Mojave Preview
  9. AT&T Reportedly Has a Special Working Relationship With the NSA Because of Its Deep Ties to Communications Infrastructure
  10. Two Keyboards at a Bar
  11. Mark Gurman’s Report on the Status of the AirPower
  12. Apple Launches Repair Program for Faulty MacBook and MacBook Pro Keyboards
  13. Long Product Cycles Are the Mac’s New Normal
  14. The GDPR and Browser Fingerprinting
  15. Turns Out Our Evil Tech Overlords May Be No Match for Europe’s New Privacy Laws
  16. Apple’s Colour Strategy
  17. After Sen. Wyden Investigation, American Cellular Carriers Pledge to Stop Selling Your Phone’s Location to Data Brokers
  18. Ajit Pai Now Trying To Pretend That Everybody Supported Net Neutrality Repeal
  19. Google Plus Is Apparently Pretty Popular — With Nazis
  20. Europe’s Proposed New Link Tax Will Enshrine Big Tech’s Stranglehold Over the Internet
  21. Why We Don’t Read, Revisited
  22. HomePod Can Now Read the News in Canada, France, and Germany
  23. Best Before
  24. Apple, Marzipan, Delight
  25. New App Store Guidelines May Impact Facebook’s Onavo App
  26. USB Type-C Is Still a Mess
  27. Federal Judge Clears AT&T’s Bid for Time Warner With No Conditions
  28. Facebook Filibustered Congress With a 450-Page Response to Its Questions
  29. Google Continues to Push AMP as an HTML Replacement
  30. Enthusiast
  31. Anthony Bourdain Dead at 61
  32. The Messy Split of Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
  33. Safari Extensions Deprecated in Safari 12; Developers Told to Switch to Safari App Extensions
  34. Edit for iOS
  35. Apple Announces MapKit JS
  36. iOS 12 First Beta Speed Test
  37. Updates to App Store Guidelines
  38. WatchOS 5 Adds Automatic Workout Detection, Walkie-Talkie, and More
  39. New Privacy Features in iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave
  40. Google and Facebook Are Benefitting From GDPR

May 2018

  1. The 2013 Mac Pro, Five Years Later
  2. Rumours About Running iOS Apps on MacOS
  3. Bitcoin Miners Stress Power Grids
  4. Vermont Passes Regulation on Data Brokers
  5. Facebook’s GDPR-Related Dark Patterns
  6. Apple Releases iOS 11.4 With AirPlay 2, Messages in iCloud, and More
  7. In Email Obtained by MacStories, Phil Schiller Explains Steam Link App Rejection
  8. Apple’s Emoji Search Is Bad
  9. Vevo Gives Into YouTube, Will Shut Down Site
  10. Notes on Notifications
  11. GDPR Hall of Shame
  12. Instagram Adds a Mute Button
  13. Illustration in the App Store
  14. Comcast Preps All-Cash Offer for 21st Century Fox
  15. Amazon Rekognition Allows for Real-Time Identification From Photos and Video
  16. ‘60 Minutes’ Reports on Google’s Dominance
  17. Ironically-Named LocationSmart Leaked Live Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers on Its Website
  18. Basic Questions About Google Duplex
  19. Twitter Is Executing Its 2012 Vision
  20. Favstar Is Shutting Down in June
  21. Hacker Breaches Now-Ironically-Named Securus, a Company That Provides Cellphone Location Monitoring Software
  22. Future of Many Third-Party Twitter Apps in Question as New API Pricing Is Shared With Developers
  23. Notifications on Android P vs. iOS 11
  24. UIs That Amass Memories
  25. The Media’s Paywall Obsession Won’t Work for Most
  26. The Toronto Star’s Plan to Save Itself
  27. GDPR and the Adtech Bubble
  28. Google Duplex and AI Ethics
  29. Despite Announcing Otherwise, Google’s Revised Privacy Policy Still Permits It to Mine Users’ Gmail Accounts for Advertising
  30. Apple Cracking Down on Applications That Send Location Data to Third-Parties
  31. Securus Software Can Track Location of Cellphone in U.S. With Little Oversight
  32. Tesla Adds Fremont Factory to Its Line of Credit Collateral
  33. Microsoft’s New Fee Structure for App Developers
  34. The Equifax Breach That Can’t Get Any Worse Gets Worse Again
  35. What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy?
  36. VI Months With the iPhone X
  37. Requests for Personal Data From Apple, Google, and Facebook Compared
  38. Twitter Logged a Bunch of Users’ Passwords in Plain Text
  39. Lie of the Day: ‘Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down’ Notifications
  40. Google Launches .app Top-Level Domain
  41. Publisher Groups Rebuke Google’s Interpretation of E.U. Privacy Law
  42. Overcast 4.2

April 2018

  1. Subscriptions Should Be Easier to Manage on iOS
  2. It Has Been 229 Days Since the AirPower Charging Mat Was Announced
  3. Apple Officially Exits the WiFi Router Business
  4. Facebook’s Privacy Scandal Appears to Have Little Effect on Its Bottom Line
  5. Google Debuts a Standalone To-Do App, Google Tasks
  6. Google’s Mass Data Collection
  7. SmugMug Acquires Flickr
  8. ‘Design Canada’ Trailer
  9. Tim Cook Reiterates That Apple Isn’t Going to Merge the iPad and the Mac
  10. ‘Login With Facebook’ Data Hijacked by JavaScript Trackers
  11. U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn Favourably Compares Internet Fast Lanes to TSA Precheck
  12. Blogging Is Most Certainly Not Dead
  13. The Facebook Media Backlash
  14. Dieter Bohn’s Suggestions for Improving iOS Notifications
  15. Gurman: Apple Plans a News Subscription Service
  16. Mignon Clyburn Steps Down From FCC
  17. Fifty Shades of Grey
  18. The Hilarious Life and Agonizing Death of Online Comedy
  19. Techniques for Locking Down Your Privacy and Security Online
  20. Personalized ‘Hey, Siri’
  21. The Other Irresponsibility
  22. Gurman: HomePod Sales Are Middling So Far
  23. Behind the Music
  24. The Joys of Data Hygiene
  25. Updates From Indonesia
  26. Rethinking the Apple Watch Platform
  27. Mark Zuckerberg’s Fourteen-Year Apology Tour
  28. This Could Revolutionize That
  29. Remember the Mac Mini, Too
  30. The Story of Windows’ Decline
  31. Apple’s Next Mac Pro Will Arrive Next Year
  32. Facebook Says Data on Most of Its Two Billion Users Vulnerable
  33. Apple Hires John Giannandrea
  34. Drivers Report That Google Maps Isn’t Reliable in Indonesia
  35. Apple Music Doesn’t Let Users Search for Composers

March 2018

  1. It’s Weirdly Hard to Steal Mark Zuckerberg’s Trash
  2. Apple Releases iOS 11.3
  3. Apple’s ‘New’ Education Strategy
  4. Apple’s Education-Focused Updates
  5. Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data for Years Without Users’ Explicit Consent
  6. Facebook’s Abdication of Responsibility
  7. Facebook Pathetica
  8. Nick Heer Uses This
  9. Facebook’s Surveillance Machine
  10. ‘Hey’ Used to Be for Horses
  11. Fifty Million Facebook Profiles Harvested for Cambridge Analytica
  12. Alexa’s New ‘Brief Mode’
  13. Protecting Against HSTS Abuse
  14. HomePod as a Personal Apple Hub
  15. The World Wide Web Turns Twenty-Nine
  16. After Washington State Passes Net Neutrality Laws, California Proposes Its Own
  17. The Information Looks at the History of Siri
  18. YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
  19. The Original Siri App Compared to Siri Today
  20. Farhad Manjoo Unplugged From the Internet for His News Apart From in All of the Ways He Didn’t
  21. FBI Director Imagines a World of Unicorns, Dragons, and Secure Encryption That Can Be Sidestepped by Law Enforcement
  22. In Defence of Surfing the Insecure Web
  23. The Ways in Which Facebook Builds User Data Profiles for Targeted Advertising
  24. California Becomes Eighteenth State to Introduce ‘Right to Repair’ Legislation
  25. Notes on Analytics and Tracking in Onavo Protect for iOS
  26. iTunes LP and the iPad
  27. Amazon Admits Alexa Is Creepily Laughing at People and Is Working on a Fix
  28. Apple to Discontinue ‘iTunes LP’ Format
  29. European Union Plans to Tax Tech Giants on Local Revenue
  30. In Addition to Cellebrite, a Second Firm Offers Late-Model iPhone Unlocking Services
  31. Facebook Surveys Users to Find Out Whether Men Soliciting Sexual Images of Children Should Be Allowed on the Platform
  32. Delayed Disgratification
  33. Jack and the Mean Talk
  34. Twitter Launches Bookmarks

February 2018

  1. Forbes: Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Recent iPhones, Including the iPhone X
  2. Timers, Reminders, and Alarms
  3. Some iCloud Storage Infrastrucure Has Been Switched From Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud
  4. For Chinese Users, Apple Moves to Store iCloud Keys in China
  5. On the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’
  6. Happy ‘International Blog Remembrance Day’, a New, Made-Up Holiday
  7. The FCC’s Order Gutting Net Neutrality Is Now Official
  8. ‘Trending’ on Social Media Is Worthless
  9. Bloomberg: Apple Is Negotiating the Purchase of Cobalt Directly From Miners
  10. Your ‘Lite’ App Should Be Your Only App
  11. ‘Loading Accessories and Scenes’
  12. Trusting Third Party Code
  13. Ad Filtering in Google Chrome
  14. AMP for Email Is a Terrible Idea
  15. Chartbeat: Google AMP Traffic Has Doubled Since January 2017
  16. Good vs. Better at Bad
  17. Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
  18. Under the Guise of Security, Facebook is Promoting Their VPN in Their iOS App
  19. Google Announces AMP For Email Spec
  20. Apple Reportedly Focusing Less on Monolithic Annual iOS Updates
  21. Autocorrect Based on Contacts and Apps
  22. A Third-Party Script Used by Government Websites Was Compromised to Mine Cryptocurrency
  23. Equifax Continues to Be Useless and Terrible at Absolutely Everything
  24. An Apple Intern Reportedly Stole iOS Source Code and Leaked It to His Friends
  25. Everything Easy is Hard Again
  26. Reports of Google’s Newfound Design Prowess Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
  27. The Facebook Flattening
  28. On the Internet, Everyone is a Creator
  29. FCC Says Releasing ‘Jokes’ It Wrote About Ajit Pai Colluding With Verizon Would ‘Harm’ Agency
  30. The Apple Music Long Game
  31. Apple’s Mysterious Search Engine Already Exists
  32. HomePod Review Roundup
  33. Ajit Pai’s FCC Cites Obama-Era Broadband Investments
  34. In the U.S., Apple Music is Growing Faster Than Spotify in Paid Users
  35. Reuters: CFPB Investigation Into Equifax ‘Put on Ice’
  36. Major Publishers Are Turning Away From Facebook Instant Articles
  37. Women Once Ruled Silicon Valley
  38. WeChat, Already Deeply Entrenched in China, Begins Program to Integrate With National ID
  39. Increase in Apple Music Commission Rate, But Decrease for iTunes Music
  40. Wired Launches Their Paywall
  41. Nintendo Comfirms Mario Kart Tour Game for Smartphones

January 2018

  1. The Mac, the Myth, the Legend
  2. Counterpoint to Rumours of the Nature of a Snow Leopard-Esque iOS Release
  3. Telephone X
  4. Axios: Apple Is Delaying iOS Features Previously Planned for This Year and Prioritizing Quality
  5. Virtual Assistants and Voice Feedback Verbosity
  6. Toggling iCloud Requires a Full Sync of iCloud Photo Library
  7. App Annie’s Comparison of App Downloads and Revenue on Google Play and the App Store
  8. Google to Let Users Hide Individual Remarketing Ads
  9. Grading Apple’s 2017
  10. AT&T’s Push for a Fake Net Neutrality Law Begins in Earnest
  11. Government Accountability Office to Investigate Sketchy Net Neutrality Comments Left on the FCC’s Website
  12. Coding as a Universal Language
  13. More Secure Email Isn’t Ready for Consumers Yet
  14. Apple Releases Updates for MacOS El Capitan and Sierra to Patch Spectre and Meltdown CPU Flaws
  15. HomePod Preorders Begin January 26 for February 9 Availability in U.S., U.K., and Australia
  16. FCC Report Keeps Faster Definition of Broadband
  17. The iPad’s Graduation
  18. iOS 11 Adoption Reaches 65%
  19. Once There Was an Internet We Were Happy to Be On
  20. Tim Cook Promises That a Future iOS Update Will Allow Users to Disable Degraded Battery-Triggered Performance Throttling
  21. BMW’s Apple CarPlay Annual Fee Is Next-Level Gouging
  22. On the Receiving End of Being De-Prioritized in Facebook’s News Feed
  23. BMW to Make Apple CarPlay a Subscription Service on New Models
  24. Apple Announces a New U.S. Campus and Increased Manufacturing Investment Fund
  25. A Brief Critique of the Horrible UI of Hawaii’s EMA Alert System
  26. The Awl Ends
  27. Apple Music’s Album View
  28. Facebook’s News Feed to Deemphasize Publishers, Video
  29. Missed Click Panic in Hawaii
  30. Photos From Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
  31. Birdcage Liners
  32. Google’s Increasingly Creepy Suggestions
  33. The Biggest Tech Show in the World Is Hopelessly Retrograde
  34. Apple Starts Selling Linksys Mesh WiFi System, Comments on AirPort Lineup
  35. Turning Nothing Into Money With Shopify, AliExpress, and Instagram
  36. Criteo Cuts Their Revenue Projections for 2018 by 22%
  37. AMP Letter
  38. Hands-On With the First Phone Featuring a Fingerprint Reader Behind the Display
  39. How to Disable Nagging MacOS Update Notifications
  40. Google Consolidates Google Wallet and Android Pay Into the Singular Google Pay Brand
  41. The App Store’s Giant Pool of Money
  42. Twitter Obliquely Responds to Complaints About Their Handling of Donald Trump’s Account
  43. The Internet Association Will Participate in Legal Action Against the FCC’s Rollback of Net Neutrality Rules
  44. Mark Zuckerberg To Do Job
  45. Apple’s Custom Mac Processors
  46. FCC Prepares to Weaken Their Definition of Broadband
  47. Researchers Discover Three Major Security Flaws in CPUs
  48. January 1 Marks Twenty Years of No New Works Entering the Public Domain in the U.S.
  49. A Malfunctioning Roof Heating Element and the Broken Coverage of Apple’s Problems
  50. Anger But No Action After Equifax Breach
  51. Some Advertiser Scripts Found to Use Browser Password Manager for User Tracking

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December 2017

  1. Apple to Reduce Cost of Replacement Batteries and Improve User Communication of Battery Issues
  2. Commodification and Luxury in the Smartphone Market
  3. Michael Tsai’s Roundup of Articles Related to Apple’s Throttling of iPhones With Degraded Batteries
  4. How Extended Validation SSL Certificates Can Be Used to Scam End Users
  5. Apple Acknowledges That Peak Performance May Be Limited on Older iPhones to Prolong Device Life
  6. Google Maps’ Data Moat
  7. Facebook Will Now Alert Users When It Recognizes Them in Photos They’re Not Tagged In
  8. Slow Down
  9. Carrier Fees and Surcharges Are Coming for LTE Apple Watch Owners
  10. 2016 FCC Report Refutes ‘Obama-Led Internet Takeover’ Narrative
  11. FCC Elects to Repeal Net Neutrality Regulations on Party Line Vote
  12. How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
  13. Giant Telecoms Would Prefer You Didn’t Worry About the Demise of Net Neutrality
  14. The T2 Chip in the iMac Pro
  15. iMac Pro to Begin Shipping December 14
  16. Matt Birchler’s Pixel 2 and Android Oreo Review
  17. Andy Rubin Has Returned to Essential From a ‘Leave of Absence’
  18. FCC Net Neutrality Repeal to Also Undo 2015 ISP Pricing and Service Quality Disclosure Requirements
  19. Amazon Launches a Terrible Apple TV App
  20. Changing Minds Towards Net Neutrality Regulations
  21. Techno Moral Panic
  22. Recode: Oracle Quietly Seeded Story About Android Location Tracking to Quartz
  23. Contributors to Popular Websites Have Taken Payments for Inserting Brands Into Stories
  24. MarsEdit 4
  25. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos Officially End ‘Every Frame a Painting’
  26. The Stationary Smart Speaker Mirage
  27. The Power of RAW Photography on the iPhone
  28. Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 11.1 and MacOS 10.13.1

November 2017

  1. Smithsonian Magazine’s Interview With Jony Ive
  2. British Group Files Class Action Suit Against Google for 2012 Safari Targeting Workaround
  3. Facial Recognition Mania Mania
  4. Apple Issues Statement and Fix for High Sierra Root User Authentication Bug
  5. Ben Thompson Is Wrong About the Deregulation of ISPs
  6. Desert Bus, Now in VR
  7. MacOS High Sierra’s Authentication-Free Root Account
  8. This Week in Apple Input Bugs
  9. Bang for Your Buck, iPhone X Edition
  10. Robert Graham’s Bad Take on Net Neutrality
  11. CCamera
  12. Google Has Been Collecting Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled
  13. The FCC Ignored Virtually All Public Feedback on Their Proposed Net Neutrality Rollback
  14. MailChimp Switches to Single Opt-In By Default
  15. The FCC Gets the History of ISP Regulation Wrong
  16. FCC Will Also Order States to Scrap Plans for Their Own Net Neutrality Laws
  17. Ajit Pai’s Giant Middle Finger
  18. Making the Worst of a Bad Thing
  19. Comcast Said to Be in Talks to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets
  20. Gizmodo’s Review of the Google Pixel Buds
  21. HomePod Launch Delayed Until Early Next Year
  22. FCC Reportedly Plans December Vote on Net Neutrality Rules
  23. Comparing Charging Speeds With ‘Faster Wireless Charging’ in iOS 11.2
  24. SafeGraph’s 17 Trillion Data Points
  25. Facebook Is a Dingleberry on Democracies
  26. The iPhone X
  27. How Not to Make Coffee
  28. Not Every Article Needs a Picture
  29. Apple Releases Clips 2.0
  30. Wallpaper’s Guided Tour of Apple Park With Jony Ive
  31. The Case for RSS
  32. The Secret Life of Hedy Lamarr
  33. Equifax’s CEO Doesn’t Know if Customer Data Is Presently Being Encrypted
  34. Jesus Diaz, Mountaineer of Molehills
  35. Dvorak’s Vistake
  36. Facebook Workers, Not an Algorithm, Will Look at Volunteered Nude Photos First in an Effort to Stop Revenge Porn
  37. Equifax and Yahoo Executives Skirt Questions at Senate Hearing
  38. Warby Parker Is Testing the ARKit Waters
  39. Apple Music Needs Better Searching
  40. Apple Pay for iMessage Debuts in iOS 11.2 Beta 2
  41. Slate’s Incorrect Claim That Apple Is Going to Share Face ID Data With Third Parties
  42. Today in Apple Input Bugs
  43. Criteo’s Earnings Report After the Release of Safari With Intelligent Tracking Prevention
  44. Google Docs Glitch That Locked Out Users Underscores Privacy Concerns
  45. Seeking Trust

October 2017

  1. Mashable’s Interview With Apple Executives About the iPhone X
  2. Consumer Reports Unceremoniously Shitcans Consumerist.com
  3. Apple’s Intriguing New PR Strategy for the iPhone X
  4. The Onion’s New Layout Feels Like a Deep Betrayal
  5. Google Responds to Pixel 2 XL Display Complaints
  6. iPhone X Pre-Order Demand
  7. The Most Revolutionary Thing About Tesla and Uber Would Be Their Long-Term Success
  8. Equifax Was Warned
  9. A Tale of ‘Trons’
  10. Apple Rumoured to Be Pushing for More Family-Friendly Original Programming
  11. On Bloomberg’s Report That Apple Downgraded the Accuracy of Face ID to Improve iPhone X Production Speed
  12. The Zuckerberg Bargain
  13. Apple Says That the iPhone X Will Have Walk-in Availability
  14. The FBI Can’t Stop Fearmongering About Encryption
  15. The Essential Phone Gets a $200 Price Cut
  16. The Mac Mini Is Three Years Old
  17. The Best Photo Editing App for the iPhone
  18. Sarah Jeong Profiles William Alsup, the Judge on Oracle v. Google
  19. Tech Companies Are Resistant to Attempts to Scrutinize Employee Diversity
  20. A Workaround for Broken Media Keys in High Sierra
  21. The Pixel 2 XL Has a Really Crappy Display
  22. Apple Posts Knowledgebase Article Advising the Deletion of Touch Bar Data Before Selling a MacBook Pro
  23. Queries From the Curious and Answers to Them
  24. Key Press Latency of Popular Keyboards
  25. Google’s Pixel Buds
  26. Dust and Tedium
  27. Sketchy Mattress Review Websites
  28. Major Security Vulnerabilities Now Have Marketing Campaigns
  29. Twitter’s Abuse Problem Comes Down to a Failure of Leadership and a Reliance on Algorithms
  30. A Decade of Airlines Ignoring Hyphenated Names
  31. Google Disables Touch Functionality on Home Mini After a Reviewer’s Device Recorded Ambient Audio Constantly
  32. Denise Young Smith at the One Young World Summit
  33. Seven Years and One Month Since Microsoft’s Funeral for the iPhone
  34. Uber’s iPhone App Had Screen Recording Capabilities
  35. App Review Should Screen Apps for Discrepancies In Device Requirements
  36. Boy, Do I Feel Naïve
  37. Apple Releases High Sierra Security Update
  38. MacOS High Sierra Vulnerability Exposes Passwords of Encrypted APFS Containers
  39. The Verge’s Preview of Google’s New Pixel 2 Phones
  40. iPhone 8 and Qi Inductive Charging
  41. Designing Apps for the iPhone X’s Notch
  42. IRS Awards Multimillion-Dollar Fraud-Prevention Contract to Equifax
  43. Yahoo Announces That All Three Billion User Accounts Were Compromised in 2013
  44. There’s an Easy Apple Maps Joke Here, I Just Know It
  45. Taking Responsibility for Algorithms
  46. Senate Confirms Ajit Pai to New Five-Year Term at FCC
  47. Equifax Announces More Americans Impacted by Security Breach
  48. Western Digital Bungled Their Attempt to Purchase Toshiba’s Flash Storage Business
  49. Documenting Our Experiences

September 2017

  1. The Equifax Investigation So Far
  2. High Sierra and EFI Verification
  3. Twitter Tells Congress It Found 200 Russian Accounts That Overlapped With Facebook
  4. You Can Help Fire Ajit Pai
  5. The Rise of Instagram-Friendly Art Installations
  6. Equifax CEO Dick Smith to Retire With Up to $90 Million Severance
  7. The Cost of a ‘Pivot to Video’
  8. Apple Releases More Information About the TrueDepth Camera and Face ID Security
  9. A Fix for Missing Stand Reminders After Upgrading to WatchOS 4
  10. Text Replacement Syncing Is, Anecdotally, iCloud’s Buggiest Feature
  11. Credit Reporting Firms’ Dark Marketing and Information Gathering Tactics
  12. Siri and Search on iOS, and Spotlight and Siri on MacOS (But Not Siri Image Search) Switch to Google From Bing
  13. MacOS Reportedly Vulnerable to Keychain Exfiltration Bug
  14. Sharing Links in iOS 11
  15. More on the iPhone 8’s Camera System
  16. Austin Mann Takes the iPhone 8 Plus to India
  17. Anatomy of a Moral Panic
  18. The ‘PC Guys Are Not Going to Just Figure This Out’ of Watches
  19. Lillian Ross Dies Aged Ninety-Nine
  20. Designing Elements for the Bottom of the iPhone X’s Display
  21. Motherboard’s Overreaction to the Bluetooth and WiFi Toggles in iOS 11
  22. Equifax Sent a Fake Security Advisory Site to Some Customers Inquiring via Twitter
  23. Toggling Bluetooth and WiFi From Control Centre Doesn’t Switch Them On or Off in iOS 11
  24. Reviews of the Apple Watch Series 3 and WatchOS 4
  25. iOS 11: The Pixel Envy Review
  26. Carriers and the LTE Apple Watch
  27. I Shot the Serif
  28. Hate-Based Algorithmic Advertising
  29. New App Store Review Guidelines Cover Face ID, ARKit, and More
  30. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
  31. Apple Advises High Sierra Beta Testers That APFS Won’t Be Supported for Fusion Drives at Launch
  32. The David Carr Generation
  33. iPhone 8 and X Models Support USB-C Fast Charging
  34. Disney Is the Only Major Hollywood Studio Not Backing Apple’s $20 4K Movie Distribution Plan
  35. Ron Amadeo’s Hot Take on Face ID Sucks
  36. Equifax’s Argentinian Affiliate Poorly Secured a Decade’s Worth of Customer Disputes
  37. iTunes 12.7 Discontinues Support for iOS Apps, Ringtones, and More
  38. New Apple Developer Videos
  39. Apple Posts Human Interface Guidelines for Apps on iPhone X
  40. Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
  41. John Risby’s Apple Support Experience
  42. D22 and iOS 11 GM Leaks
  43. Equifax’s Breach Response Is Inadequate, Insecure, and Dangerous
  44. Siri Is Transforming Into the Glue for Apple’s Next Ecosystem
  45. Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes for a Miserable Summer
  46. Arbitration Clauses Lean on the Scales of Justice
  47. On Equifax’s Offer of Their Own Credit Monitoring Service
  48. 143 Million Americans’ Highly Sensitive Data Leaked From Equifax
  49. The Long-Term Price of AMP
  50. Behind Siri’s New Voice
  51. ‘An Incredibly Destructive Force’
  52. Shiva Ayyadurai’s Idiotic Lawsuit Against Techdirt Has Been Dismissed
  53. Facebook Discloses Information About 2016 Presidential Election Ads Linked to Russian Company
  54. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Watch
  55. David Von Drehle’s Stupid Clickbait Article in the Washington Post
  56. Samsung’s Facial Recognition Feature Is Unreliable
  57. The Persistence of Facebook
  58. International Limitations on Apple Services
  59. Questions About the Reliability of Scheduled Tasks in MacOS Sierra
  60. The Time When Google Got Forbes to Pull a Published Story
  61. Behind the Scenes of AMP at Condé Nast
  62. A Serf on Google’s Farm

August 2017

  1. On the Intercept, Conflicts of Interest, and Journalistic Independence
  2. The FCC’s Website Was Accepting Uploads of Virtually Any File Type
  3. Garbage Report Funded by ISPs Claims That Net Neutrality Comments on the FCC’s Website Are Worthless
  4. Essential Accidentally Starts a Mass Thread of Identification Requests
  5. Spotify Won’t Enable Two-Factor Authentication
  6. Tim Cook on Apple’s Moral Responsibilities
  7. Revisiting the Touch Bar
  8. AMP Spec Advises Platforms to Share Canonical Link When Possible
  9. WiFi Location Privacy
  10. Martin Shkreli Continues His Quest to Be an Irredeemable Asshole for Fun and Sport
  11. AccuWeather Removes Reveal Mobile From Their iOS App
  12. The Problems With Abandoned Apps
  13. The Ruinous Sameness of Kinja and Medium Websites
  14. The Village Voice’s Print Edition Bites the Dust
  15. Verizon Will Soon Limit Their Unlimited Plans
  16. CrashPlan Discontinues Their Consumer Remote Backup Service
  17. Sebastian Sztabzyb on Building Phil & Sebastian
  18. AccuWeather’s iOS App Is Sending Location Information to a Data Monetization Firm
  19. Apple Releases Videos Showcasing iOS 11 on the iPad
  20. Android Oreo
  21. App Developer Estimates That iMessage Is One of the Most Popular Social Networks for U.S. Teens
  22. The Time Britons Spend on the World Wide Web
  23. Privately Public
  24. Pinterest’s Boring New Logo
  25. History Explains Tech’s Diversity Problem
  26. Apple’s Planned Original Programming Efforts Rumoured to Have a $1 Billion Budget
  27. Some Content About Content
  28. Drang bulk
  29. Ming-Chi Kuo Echoes LTE Apple Watch Rumours
  30. Welcome to Macintosh Season 3 Coming Next Week
  31. This Idiotic Anti-Diversity Manifesto Thing Refuses to Go Away
  32. Benchmark Capital Sues Travis Kalanick for Fraud
  33. The Generational Effect of Smartphone Use
  34. Understanding Apple’s Services
  35. The Touch Bar After Ten Months
  36. Facebook and Google’s Ad ‘Duopoly’ Seems to Be Going Nowhere
  37. The Flaws With ‘I Think, Therefore I Am Entitled to My Opinion’
  38. Disney to End Agreement With Netflix, Will Offer Own-Brand Competitor
  39. Property Managers, Not Private Residents, Allegedly Largest Airbnb Beneficiaries
  40. An Anti-Diversity Manifesto Is Circulating Within Google
  41. HomePod Firmware Reveals Scene Detection Features
  42. The Notch
  43. The Matter of High-End iPad Growth
  44. Decrypting Amber Rudd
  45. The iPad’s Comeback Tour
  46. Amber Rudd’s Ruddy Dumb Case Against Encryption
  47. Ostensibly Anonymous Browsing Data Can Be Easily Exposed
  48. Fact Checking Snopes on Its Own Claims of Being ‘Held Hostage’ by ‘A Vendor’
  49. Apple in China
  50. Tech Company Executives Won’t Commit to a Congressional Testimony for Net Neutrality

July 2017

  1. FTC Complaint Filed Over Google’s Store Sales Measurement Technology
  2. Spoiler Alert
  3. The Video Pivot
  4. P&G Cut Over $100 Million in Digital Ad Spending With No Effect on Business
  5. Automatic Lens Correction for RAW Files in Photos
  6. FCC Chairman Won’t Change His Mind on Net Neutrality
  7. Apple Discontinues the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano
  8. A Conversation With Trent Reznor
  9. The Evolution of Trust
  10. WSJ Magazine Visits Apple Park
  11. Trump Said That Tim Cook Says That Apple Will Build Three U.S. Factories
  12. Politics, Not Necessarily Business, Is Helping Shape Foxconn’s American Manufacturing Plans
  13. The ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ as a Decaying Digital Artifact
  14. Adobe Announces Flash’s End of Life in 2020
  15. Photos Posted in Public Are Not Necessarily Free to Use, Obviously
  16. Restaurants and Bars Are Designing Themselves for Instagram Fame
  17. Verizon Wireless Is Testing Capping Streaming Video at 10 Mbps
  18. Subscription Blues
  19. Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing
  20. Apple Launches Machine Learning Journal
  21. Clips, Four Months Later
  22. In ‘Error’, HTC’s Default TouchPal Keyboard Was Displaying Ads
  23. The Lightroom Manifesto
  24. Panic Launches Transmit 5
  25. Creation and Consumption
  26. We Are Still in Notification Hell
  27. The 2017 iPad
  28. No, Steve Jobs Didn’t Mislead the Audience at Macworld 2007
  29. ISPs Support Internet Legislation Because They Know They’ll Get to Help Write It
  30. Designed Lines
  31. Comcast and Verizon, Counting on Ignorance, Claim to Support Net Neutrality
  32. Google Has Reportedly Been Paying Academic Researchers for Favourable Policy Papers
  33. KeyBanc Capital Markets: Next iPhone Might Not Have Apple Pay at Launch, and Other Tales of Fiction
  34. Major Tech Companies to Participate in Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’
  35. Apple pro
  36. Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone Misses June Release
  37. SMS Two-Factor Authentication Doesn’t Protect Against Human Error
  38. Rob Marquardt Buys a Kitchen Faucet
  39. Amazon’s Echo Look Reviewed
  40. AdAge: Apple to Begin Allowing Third-Party Ads in Apple News
  41. Haunted by Data, Television News Edition
  42. Intel Inside, Without the Sticker Outside
  43. Password Strength Indicators Help People Make Ill-Informed Choices
  44. Apple’s Taste in Television
  45. Data Brokers Are Pervasive in Daily Life and Growing
  46. Google DeepMind Trial Failed to Comply With U.K. Data Protection Act
  47. WSJ: With Bixby Delayed in U.S., Samsung Is Working on a ‘Smart’ Speaker
  48. What It’s Like Raising Money as a Woman in Silicon Valley
  49. Women Frankly Describe Rampant Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley

June 2017

  1. Winners of the 2017 iPhone Photography Awards
  2. Jay-Z Releases ‘4:44’ Exclusively for Sprint Customers and Existing Tidal Users
  3. Canada’s Top Court Rules That Injunctions Concerning the Web Can Have Global Effect
  4. McMansion Hell Is Back Online and Zillow Won’t Sue After EFF Legal Response
  5. On the Blame for iOS 11’s Active Location Services Status Bar
  6. Oversimplifying the E.U. Google Antitrust Case
  7. Misleading and Egregious Reporting of Alleged WhatsApp Encryption Vulnerabilities by the Guardian
  8. iOS 11 Will Show a Blue Status Bar When an App Is Always Using Your Location
  9. E.U. Fines Google €2.4bn Over Abuse of Search Dominance
  10. Bob Murray’s Very Silly Lawsuit Against John Oliver
  11. Amazon’s Box With Screen Gets Reviewed
  12. Nobody Speak
  13. Gmail Will Stop Using Emails for Ad Targeting
  14. The Apps Are Too Damn Big
  15. Snowballing App Sizes
  16. iMac Pro Firmware Indicates a Secure Enclave
  17. Susan Fowler Proved That One Person Can Make a Difference
  18. The Fraught History of FireWire
  19. Reviewing the First iPhone
  20. John Markoff’s Interview With Scott Forstall and Three Original iPhone Team Members
  21. Kalanick Out
  22. Third-Party Companies Are Collecting Form Data Without User Consent
  23. Inside Apple’s Fight Against Leaks
  24. PayPal Says They’ll Soon Begin Supporting Instant Bank Transfers, Including in Venmo
  25. Andrew Cunningham Has Left Ars Technica
  26. Personal Details of 198 Million American Voters Leaked
  27. Lyft Invents Bus
  28. The Radium Girls
  29. Women Are Paying a Steep Price for Our Digital World
  30. CRTC Rules Against Carrier Locking, Unlocking Fees
  31. The iPod Hi-Fi
  32. Wistron CEO Says the New iPhone Will Have ‘Wireless Charging’
  33. With This Year’s OS Updates, Apple Will Improve Encryption of iMessage Backups
  34. After Gawker’s Demise, the ‘Inventor of Email’ Targets Techdirt
  35. Charles Thacker, Dead at 74
  36. Quirks in Apple’s Mac Pricing Strategy
  37. Mixed Messages in an Excerpt From ‘The One Device’
  38. The iPad’s Other Shoe Has Dropped
  39. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Takes a Leave of Absence
  40. User Frustration With Different Online Advertising Techniques
  41. The Talk Show Live From WWDC
  42. Emil Michael, Uber’s SVP of Business, Resigns
  43. Appholes
  44. The iPad’s Renaissance
  45. Will Uber Fire Travis Kalanick?
  46. WSJ Gains Subscribes While Fading in Search Results
  47. Siri’s Complicated and Fraught Life So Far
  48. Police in China Detain Twenty-Two Over iPhone Information Theft
  49. The 2017 Apple Design Award Winners
  50. An Uber Executive Accessed and Shared a Rape Victim’s Medical Records
  51. A Eulogy For CAPTCHA
  52. More on Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention
  53. Uber Hires Bozoma Saint John, Fires Over Twenty Harassers and Bullies
  54. Intelligence Contractor Charged With Leak After the Intercept Publishes Documents
  55. New Versions of Safari Block Autoplaying Videos, Remarketing
  56. Google Relaunches Contributor Service
  57. MacOS, APFS, and Time Machine Possibilities
  58. WWDC Bingo
  59. Pinboard Acquires Delicious

May 2017

  1. Inside the U.S. Congressional Campaign to Halt Internet Privacy Rules
  2. Apple’s Aborted Story Arcs
  3. The Boutique Smartphone
  4. A Year of Maps
  5. More on iCloud Backups and Encryption
  6. Google Launches Free Attribution Product to Associate Offline Purchases With Online Ads
  7. Mossberg Out
  8. These Are the Misleading and Wrong Arguments Against Net Neutrality
  9. Device Backups in iCloud Should Be Encrypted
  10. Destroying Internet Freedom
  11. Design Before You Minify
  12. Nike Unveils New Apple Watch Bands
  13. Facebook’s Been Making It Up All Along
  14. Notes From an Emergency
  15. Facebook’s Internal Rulebook for Moderators
  16. Google’s Proprietary Fork of HTML Is Taking Over the Open Web
  17. Disabling Slack Indexing Seems to Improve Spotlight Performance on iOS
  18. Boring Google
  19. FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality
  20. Cultured Code Launches Things 3
  21. Twitter Increases Ad Tracking, Now Ignores Do Not Track
  22. JSON Feed
  23. Frank panic source code
  24. BGR: Apple to Discontinue iPad Mini
  25. Inside Apple Park
  26. Apple’s New Retail Store at Piazza Liberty
  27. Sending iTunes to a Farm Upstate Somewhere
  28. Reports of the MP3’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
  29. How to Accidentally Stop a Global Ransomware Attack
  30. Today’s Global Ransomware Attack Justifies Apple’s Stance in the San Bernardino iPhone Case
  31. Alexa Doesn’t Support Caller Blocking
  32. Apple’s Long-Term Investment in Corning
  33. The Software Security Model Is Broken
  34. Is the Gig Economy Working?
  35. The FCC Pretends to Support Net Neutrality and Privacy While Moving to Gut Both
  36. Analyzing a Counter-Intelligence Operation
  37. The FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal Is Being Spammed
  38. Amazon Announces $229 Box With Screen
  39. Go FCC Yourself
  40. JP Morgan: Free AirPods With the Next iPhone
  41. iCloud Is a Magical Black Box
  42. Trust in Apple’s Services
  43. Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop
  44. Analysis of Internal Facebook Code Submissions Reveals Gender Bias
  45. Travis Kalanick Cancelled His Code Conference Interview
  46. ‘Dok’ Malware on MacOS

April 2017

  1. A New Vocabularity for Net Neutrality
  2. Tech Companies Should Stop Hiding Behind Shady Privacy Policies
  3. The Circle Is Our Boring Dystopia
  4. Twitterrific Update Rejected for Alternative User-Selectable Icons
  5. Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
  6. FCC Chair Ajit Pai to Propose Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules
  7. The Value of Twitter
  8. Amazon Echo Look
  9. Silicon Valley Investors Are Getting Pickier
  10. The Internet Archive and Robots.txt
  11. Apple Cuts Affiliate Commissions on Apps and In-App Purchases
  12. Unroll.me’s CEO Responds to Backlash
  13. A Profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
  14. Net Neutrality Is Alive and Well in Canada
  15. Sleep and the Quantified Self
  16. The Guardian Pulls Out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News
  17. WSJ: Google Plans Ad-Blocking Feature in Chrome
  18. Apple Plans to Make Devices Entirely From Recycled Materials
  19. Lawsuit Alleges Bose Headphone App Silently Provided Users’ Listening Habits to Advertisers
  20. When You Think About It, a $400 Bag Squeezing Machine Is Kind of Silly, Really
  21. Photographers Used iPhones to Shoot New Condé Nast Covers
  22. Phishing With Unicode Domains
  23. Today’s Next-Generation iPhone Clickbait Brought to You by Gizmodo
  24. The American Retail Shift
  25. A Time Capsule for the Web
  26. The Moderators
  27. How to Make a Backup of a FFFFOUND Account
  28. iTunes Podcasts Directory Rebranded as Apple Podcasts
  29. Apple Music Adds New ‘House of Strombo’ Video Show
  30. Lies, Damned Lies, and Numeric Ratings
  31. Robbing a Bank by DNS
  32. Big Tech Companies Lobby FCC to Preserve Net Neutrality Rules
  33. Zac Hall’s WatchOS 4 Wishlist
  34. Facebook Faces Increased Publisher Resistance to Instant Articles
  35. Samsung Says Bixby Voice Assistant Is Delayed
  36. The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners
  37. Spotify, Apple Boost Music Business to Best Year in Two Decades
  38. Comcast Reportedly Planning a Netflix Rival
  39. Walt Mossberg Will Retire in June
  40. Details Begin Leaking About FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s Plans for Net Neutrality
  41. Google’s Search Quality Crisis
  42. Jay Z Has Removed His Records From Spotify, Apple Music
  43. The 2016 Panic Report
  44. Why Pro Matters
  45. Apple Releases Clips App
  46. Google Commissions Teen Study That Says Google Is Cool
  47. Failures at Uber, Yahoo, and Twitter Are Not PR Problems
  48. FCC, FTC Bosses Pen Misleading Washington Post Editorial
  49. Oath, the Product of Verizon’s Ownership of Yahoo and AOL, Will Be a Privacy Nightmare
  50. The Web Looks Like Shit
  51. DisplayMate’s Review of the Samsung Galaxy S8’s Display
  52. The Great Laptop Stagnation
  53. Woman Who Drinks Six Cups of Coffee Per Day Trying to Cut Down on Blue Light at Bedtime
  54. Apple Is Working on a New Mac Pro, iMac, and External Display
  55. iPad Sales by Screen Size
  56. Notes on the Touch Bar
  57. New Apple Watch Ad: ‘Live Bright’

March 2017

  1. A Universal Theory of Ride Sharing Startups
  2. Twitter Is Ditching the Default ‘Egg’ Avatar
  3. Apple to Eliminate Several Business-Related Retail Positions
  4. This Is Almost Certainly James Comey’s Twitter Account
  5. Debunking the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Joint Resolution
  6. The Deck Ad Network Is Shutting Down
  7. iWork Updates for MacOS, iOS, and the Web
  8. Joint Resolution to Eliminate ISP Privacy Rules Passes in Congress
  9. The Facebook Model of Innovation
  10. U.S. House of Representatives Set to Vote on Privacy-Killing Resolution Tomorrow
  11. Apple’s 2017 Supplier Responsibility Report
  12. Apple Releases iOS 10.3
  13. The FCC Doesn’t Consider Cybersecurity or Privacy Their Problem
  14. Google to Discontinue Gchat, Replace With Hangouts
  15. Apple Says Exploits Described in Latest WikiLeaks Dump Are All Old
  16. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death
  17. Drawing Connections Between Apple’s Acquisitions of Workflow and Siri
  18. U.S. Senate Republicans Vote to Lift Key Internet Privacy Protections
  19. Apple Acquires Workflow
  20. Pixure and PanelKit
  21. iTunes 12.6 Adds Cross-Device Movie Rentals
  22. Clips
  23. Apple’s Spring Cleaning
  24. Connecting the Conversation
  25. Recode: Anthony Levandowski Was Hired as a Consultant at Uber While He Founded Otto
  26. On a Commitment to Diversity at Apple
  27. Uber President Jeff Jones Quits After Six Months on the Job
  28. iMessage App Store Growth Slows, According to Sensor Tower
  29. Google Says They Will Revamp Ad Policies After Boycotts
  30. When an Ad Is Not an Ad
  31. Alphabet’s Autonomous Cars Had to Be Adjusted in Every Mile They Drove
  32. The Guardian Pulls All Google Advertising
  33. Google Says That the Ad That’s Running on Some Home Devices Isn’t an Ad
  34. Genius Will De-Emphasize Web Annotations in Favour of Video
  35. Justice Department Lays Charges in Yahoo Intrusion
  36. Hacking Back
  37. Silicon Valley Is Failing Many, Including Women and Persons of Colour
  38. Report Claims Lowest Sales Ever on DSLRs and Mirrorless Cameras in 2016
  39. The Uber Bombshell About to Drop
  40. Prevent Videos From Auto-Playing in MacOS Web Browsers
  41. ShatChat
  42. Marissa Mayer Would Get $23M Severance Package After Verizon Deal Closes if She’s Fired or Leaves for ‘Good Cause’
  43. MacOS Sierra Logging Spew
  44. Apple Tops Laptop Magazine’s Tech Support List for Third Consecutive Year
  45. WikiLeaks’ Sensationalized Press Release and Rushed Reporting Created Misleading Stories
  46. How Siri Learns
  47. More Google Rich Snippets Gold
  48. Apple Reportedly Ends Cupertino-Based Genius Bar Training
  49. Uber Says It Won’t Use ‘Greyball’ to Evade Local Authorities Anymore
  50. Twitter for iOS Gains New Option for Clearing Cache
  51. Uber Employees Are Losing Faith in the Company, but Are Finding It Hard to Leave
  52. Google Is Lying to You About Onions and Blaming Tom Scocca
  53. Mouse and Keyboard Bugs in MacOS Sierra
  54. CIA and MI5 Allegedly Had the Capability to Use Samsung Smart TVs as Bugs
  55. Poor Reporting on the CIA Documents Released by WikiLeaks
  56. Facebook Updates Messenger Bots With Menus
  57. Kickstarter for Design Canada, a New Documentary
  58. Pico Camera
  59. Bad Answers From Google’s Featured Snippets
  60. Uber VP Resigns Amidst Widespread Allegations Against the Company
  61. JetSmarter Tried to Extort the Verge for Positive Coverage
  62. Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities
  63. The Economist’s Internet Affordability Rankings
  64. Starbucks Stores Overwhelmed By Mobile Orders
  65. After Five Years of Security Breaches, Yahoo Fires Its Top Lawyer, for Some Reason
  66. Ming-Chi Kuo Says All 2017 iPhones Will Have Lightning Connectors With USB-C Fast Charging
  67. Tech Service Guilt
  68. Spotify Is Preparing to Launch a Lossless Tier
  69. Activity Tracking and Airplanes
  70. Video Emerges of Travis Kalanick Arguing With His Uber Driver About Falling Fares

February 2017

  1. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai at MWC
  2. Amazon S3 Is Down
  3. Third-Party iPhone Screen Repairs No Longer Fully Void Your Warranty
  4. FCC Chair Ajit Pai Has No Plans to Review AT&T–Time Warner Merger
  5. Google OnHub and WiFi Devices Temporarily Knocked Offline, Reset
  6. Amit Singhal, SVP at Uber, Leaving After Failing to Disclose Sexual Harassment Allegation at Google
  7. FCC to Halt Data Privacy Protection Rule for ISPs
  8. Jim Lynch Wants to Be the Asshole of the Week Too
  9. Gene Munster Is the Asshole of the Week
  10. Women at Uber to Kalanick: ‘There Is a Systemic Problem’
  11. Instagram Posts Can Now Contain Up to Ten Photos and Videos
  12. FCC Votes to Reduce Transparency Requirements of Mid-Sized ISPs
  13. Silicon Valley Firms Condemn Rescinding of Federal Transgender Protections
  14. Inside the Uber Cesspool
  15. Apple’s New Campus Will Officially Be Called ‘Apple Park’
  16. How to Lock Down a Compromised Skype Account
  17. Chicago’s Ethics Board Fines Uber’s Former Strategist $90,000
  18. Mark’s Manifesto
  19. A History of Uber Since January 2014, in Excerpts
  20. Techdirt Files a Motion to Dismiss Shiva Ayyadurai’s Lawsuit
  21. Acquisitions in Tech Have a Checkered History
  22. ‘Quasistatic Cavity Resonance for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer’
  23. Vice: Apple to Fight Right to Repair Legislation in Nebraska
  24. Canada and E.U. Set to Ratify CETA
  25. WWDC 2017 Is June 5–9
  26. Stuart McLean Dies Aged 68
  27. The Fake Market Tactic
  28. Yahoo Notifies Users of Security Breach, in News That Is Not a Repeat From 2012, 2013, and 2014
  29. First Look at Planet of the Apps
  30. Facebook to Begin Autoplaying Video With Sound in News Feed
  31. Potential National Security Lapses by Flashlight
  32. The Life of Apps Outside of the Mac App Store
  33. Google Launches Shareable Location Lists in Maps
  34. Deleted Browser History Was Being Synced With iCloud
  35. The Web Really Sucks if You Have a Slow Connection
  36. Sufficiently Great
  37. Apple’s Goals for the Mac Operating System
  38. FCC Chair Ajit Pai, Telecom Companies’ Best Friend
  39. The State of iBooks and Companion Software
  40. The Best WordPress Client for the Mac
  41. Deteriorating Belief in Silicon Valley
  42. The Neglected Touch Down State
  43. Seven Years of ‘A Big iPhone’
  44. Bundled Lightning Cables Are Still USB-A Models
  45. Amicus Brief Filed by 127 Companies Opposing Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
  46. Vizio Fined $2.2M for Quietly Collecting Customer Data
  47. Apple Adds ‘Ultra Accessory Connector’ to MFi Program
  48. An Interview With Ex-FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
  49. The FCC Has Closed Its Investigation Into ‘Zero-Rating’ Data Policies
  50. Jawbone Set to Exit Consumer Market
  51. Lawsuit Claims Apple Forced Users to Upgrade to iOS 7 by Breaking FaceTime
  52. LG Is Fixing the WiFi Interference Problem in Their 5K Displays
  53. FBI Says That It Can’t Release Documents That It Had Already Released
  54. Cellbrite Tools for Cracking Older iPhones Leaked
  55. Power Nap Features Rumoured to Be Moved to Custom ARM Chip
  56. Charting on the Mac App Store With a Single Sale
  57. The Wrong Future

January 2017

  1. Apple’s Q1 2017 Results
  2. Silicon Valley’s Responses to Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders
  3. Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10% Last Year
  4. LG’s UltraFine 5K Display Can Exhibit Issues When Placed Near a Wireless Router
  5. Apple’s New ‘Shot on iPhone’ Campaign
  6. ‘Rogue’ Twitter Accounts and Confirmation Bias
  7. On Jailbreaking the Apple Watch
  8. A Picture of Samsung’s Forthcoming Galaxy S8
  9. Ajit Pai Will Head the FCC and Likely Kill Net Neutrality
  10. MacOS 10.12.4 Sherlocks F.lux, Adds Jaundice Mode
  11. iOS 10.3 Upgrades the File System to APFS
  12. Apple.com Switching to San Francisco Font
  13. Apple Releases the First Beta of iOS 10.3
  14. What’s Left Unanswered After Samsung’s Battery Investigation
  15. Google’s Communication Breakdown
  16. Tidal May Have Inflated Its Subscription Numbers
  17. Hands-On Impressions of the Leica M10
  18. Google Contributor Has Been Shut Down Without a Replacement
  19. Apple Releases iOS UI Templates for Photoshop and Sketch
  20. Requiem for the Thunderbolt Display
  21. Secure and Trusted Phishing
  22. Google’s Custom Server Security Silicon
  23. Chelsea Manning’s Sentence Commuted
  24. Dribbble Acquirrred
  25. The Mac Mini Family Tree
  26. South Korea Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Samsung Chief
  27. Barack Obama on Reading and Writing
  28. Canadian Apparel
  29. Andy Rubin’s New Venture: ‘Essential’
  30. Behind the Scenes of the Project Ara Modular Smartphone
  31. The Influence of Partisanship on Gullibility
  32. Consumer Reports Retests the New MacBook Pro Lineup
  33. App.net and Micro.blog
  34. Apple’s 2016 Report Card
  35. Techdirt’s Fight
  36. The Logic of a Rumoured 10.5-Inch iPad
  37. Apple Reportedly Loses Another High-Profile Employee to Tesla
  38. Chris Lattner Is Leaving Apple
  39. Google Pulls Ads From Fark for Five Weeks Over Misinterpretation
  40. Apple’s Statement on Consumer Reports’ MacBook Pro Battery Tests
  41. The Post-Acquisition Yahoo IP Holding Company Will Be Called ‘Altaba’
  42. The Case for Transparency at Twitter
  43. Adrian Curry‘s Favourite Movie Posters of 2016
  44. ‘The Best 1.0 in Tech History’
  45. Man Who Didn’t Invent Email Sues Techdirt for Saying So
  46. Apple Celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of the iPhone’s Launch
  47. The Humans and Machines That Built New York’s Second Avenue Subway
  48. Instagram Gains Support for Live Photos, Wide Colour Gamut
  49. Medium’s Pivot Caught Its Publishing Partners by Surprise
  50. DJI Reportedly Acquires Majority Share in Hasselblad
  51. Missing WatchOS Updates
  52. Weather Line Updated With Today Widget
  53. Comparing the Mac Pro’s Price and Performance in 2006
  54. It’s About Trust
  55. Gamifying Health With the Apple Watch
  56. Insurance Firm to Replace Human Workers With IBM’s Watson
  57. The Leap Second
  58. France Gives Workers the Legal Right to Ignore Out-of-Hours Email

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