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December 2020

  1. Here Lies Flash
  2. Amazon’s Bait-and-Switch Reviews
  3. Objects of Power
  4. ‘20 Macs for 2020’ Concludes With the Correct Choice
  5. This Ass Cheek Follows You Around the Internet to Harvest Data
  6. The Oracle Shoe Drops
  7. Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2020 Jealousy List
  8. The Omnibus Spending Bill Passed by U.S. Congress Last Night Includes Some Copyright Nonsense
  9. Last Week’s Criminal Antitrust Accusations Were All About Google
  10. Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against iOS’ New Tracking Permissions Prompt
  11. Modified SolarWinds Network Management Tool Suspected to Be Vector for Sophisticated and Widespread Breaches Dating Back to March
  12. Facebook’s Attempt to Vilify Apple
  13. Substack Launches Reader, an Inbox for Its Newsletters and an RSS Client
  14. Every Morning, John Foley Wakes Up and Drinks Water From His Own Hands
  15. Understanding ProRAW
  16. Goodreads Plans to Retire API Access, Disables Existing API Keys
  17. Slippery Notifications
  18. A Bottomless Budget Without Bottomless Scenes
  19. A Brief Look at ProRAW
  20. Mistakes Often Made in Describing the Facebook Antitrust Case
  21. New Apple Maps, Including Look Around and Guides, Are Now Available in Canada
  22. Amazon’s Halo Wristband Seems Pretty Terrible
  23. Facebook Profits as Users Are Ripped Off by Scam Ads
  24. YouTube’s Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Controls What We See Online
  25. Apple and Google Require Developers to Remove X-Mode From Their Apps
  26. Shaking Up the Autonomous Car World
  27. Along Party Lines, U.S. Senate Votes to Confirm FCC Official to Stall Incoming Administration Priorities
  28. 20 Macs for 2020 — the Second-Generation MacBook Air
  29. Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Markets
  30. Apple’s ‘EDR’ Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays
  31. As TikTok Hawk Talks Balk, CIFUS Allows More Tick, Tock
  32. Apple’s Proposed Changes to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
  33. Warner Bros. To Release Entire 2021 Movie Slate Simultaneously on HBO Max and in Theatres
  34. Telegram’s Latest Beta Is the First Major Third-Party App to Support Announce Messages With Siri
  35. Extended Dynamic Range in Metal
  36. Salesforce Buys Slack
  37. Following Tradition, Ajit Pai Will Leave the FCC on January 20

November 2020

  1. AirPlay Frustrations
  2. The Penguin Random House–Simon & Schuster Merger Is About Amazon
  3. Adam Banks, Former Editor and Creative Director of MacUser Magazine, Has Died
  4. Report: U.S. Broadband Performance Nearly Doubled in 2020 Compared to 2019
  5. ‘Your Move, iPad’
  6. NYT: After the U.S. Election, Facebook Adjusted Its News Feed to Show News Instead of Hyperpartisan Pablum
  7. Apple and the Prevention of Forced Uyghur Labour
  8. Albertan Government Refuses to Allow Federal Exposure Notification App to Operate in the Province
  9. Finding Small Delights
  10. YouTube Ratchets Up Its Ad Display Again
  11. Top Images From the International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards
  12. The App Store ‘Small Business Program’
  13. Twitter Has Its Snapchat Stories Clone Because Elliott Management Group Wanted It
  14. Why Isn’t Susan Wojcicki Getting Grilled by Congress?
  15. John Gruber’s M1 Mac Review
  16. Reviewers See Simultaneous Gains in Performance and Battery Life With Apple’s First M1 Macs
  17. Apple Seeds First Beta of MacOS Big Sur 11.1 to Developers
  18. Parler, an Ostensibly Libertarian Twitter-Like Website, Is Funded by Rebekah Mercer
  19. GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA Demanded Its Removal
  20. Application Trust Is Hard, but Apple Does It Well
  21. In a Support Article, Apple Clarifies MacOS App Privacy Concerns
  22. MacOS App Security Histrionics
  23. Server Issues During Big Sur’s Launch Goobered Up Other MacOS Versions Due to Certificate Checks
  24. Foxconn Still Thinks People Are Buying Its Wisconsin Pipe Dream
  25. Assorted MacOS Big Sur Design-Related Observations
  26. In an Interview With the Independent, Craig Federighi Tempers Speculation of Touch Screen Macs
  27. First M1 Benchmarks
  28. Apple’s November 2020 Event by the Numbers
  29. Spotify, Learning From Google’s Domination of Every Part of the Data and Advertising Pipeline, Acquires Megaphone
  30. Understanding 5G
  31. Beginning in June, Google Docs Will Count Against Users’ Storage Limits
  32. It Is Time for Google’s Now-Annual Curtailing of Impressive but Unsustainable Services
  33. Mac ‘Greatness’ Ad
  34. TikTok Says the Trump Administration Has Forgotten About Trying to Ban It, Would Like to Know What’s Up
  35. Big Sursday
  36. M Powered
  37. Slingbox Is Shutting Down
  38. Sketch’s Mac App Manifesto
  39. Reviews of the iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
  40. MagSafe Duo Charger Reviewed
  41. Biden–Harris
  42. Apple Music’s ‘New Music Mix’ Is Confusing Today for Some People
  43. New Restrictions on CNAME Cloaking Practices in Safari and Brave
  44. Apple Releases iOS 14.2, Patching Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited in ‘Targeted’ Circumstances
  45. Hands-On With the iPhone 12 Mini and Pro Max
  46. Privacy Labels Required for App Store Apps No Later Than December 8
  47. An Oral History of ‘Marge vs. the Monorail’
  48. Ride Sharing and Delivery Drivers in California Will Not Be Classified as Employees
  49. In Praise of Copying
  50. iPhone 12 Camera Module Replacement Now Requires a Proprietary Configuration Tool
  51. Canada’s News Media Lobby Is Promoting Its Ill-Advised Digital Link Licensing Plan on Facebook
  52. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Is Buying Cellphone Geolocation Data to Track People

October 2020

  1. Apple Will Replace AirPods Pro Models With Crackling or Unexpected Noise
  2. Privacy Commissioners Rule Cadillac Fairview’s Use of Facial Recognition Was a Breach of Customers’ Consent
  3. Regarding That FT Report About Apple’s Search Engine Ambitions
  4. Today’s U.S. Senate Hearing Was a Waste of Everyone’s Time
  5. Privacy and Security Risks in Link Previews
  6. Lightroom’s New Colour Grading Tools
  7. iPhone 12 Pro First Impressions
  8. The ‘Songs of Innocence’ Debacle Will Never End
  9. A Seamless Whole
  10. Tesla Begins Rolling Out a Software Product Called ‘Full Self-Driving’ That Does Not Fully Self-Drive the Car
  11. The ‘Proxy War’ Between YouTube and Stream Rippers
  12. Apple Removes ‘TV Remote’ App in Favour of Control Centre Feature
  13. Live Music for a Time Without Stages
  14. Foxconn’s Empty Buildings, Empty Factories, and Empty Promises in Wisconsin
  15. First the Cloud Giveth
  16. Quibi Is Shutting Down
  17. Quibi Launches Apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Google TV
  18. Fourth Beta of iOS 14.2 Includes New Wallpapers
  19. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Case Against Google
  20. iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Reviews Are Live
  21. Aundre Larrow’s Portrait Photography on the iPhone 12 Pro
  22. Charging Bricks and Headphones Now Sold Separately
  23. Apple Begins Taking Pre-Orders for the New iPad Air
  24. The 2020 Gadget Boom
  25. Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
  26. When You Browse Instagram and Find Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Passport Number
  27. FCC Chair Ajit Pai Engages in Some Meaningless CDA Section 230 Bootlicking
  28. Point Person
  29. 5G Is Still Mostly Made of Unwarranted Hype
  30. Discourse Moves From a Paid Email Newsletter to a ‘Web Site’
  31. Subprime Day
  32. New iPhone Day 2020
  33. University of Michigan Study Indicates Effect of Stay-At-Home Orders on Noise Exposure
  34. Seven Countries Jointly Issue Statement Calling for Encryption Back Doors
  35. Apple Shares More Details About Its A14 Processor
  36. Four Million Canadians Have Installed the National COVID Alert App
  37. The New York Times Reviews ‘The Tangled Web We Weave’
  38. Wired Reviews ‘Subprime Attention Crisis’
  39. Podcasts Are a New Resource for Ad Tech Firms to Strip-Mine
  40. Ahead of U.S. Presidential Election, Twitter Introduces Features Designed to Slow the Spread of Misinformation
  41. Microsoft Told Employees It Plans to Bring Xbox Game Pass to iOS Through the Web
  42. Assorted Thoughts on the Big Antitrust Report
  43. Fear and Loathing of App Review
  44. Enthusiast
  45. All Consuming
  46. Danny Hall’s Stolen Instagram Account
  47. U.S. House Antitrust Subcommittee Investigating Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Issues Report
  48. Apple Pulls Third-Party Headphones From Online and Retail Stores
  49. Under Intensifying Antitrust Scrutiny, Facebook Begins Merging the Infrastructure of Its App Family
  50. Two Years After ‘The Big Hack’
  51. Apple Rolls Out New Maps and Look Around Throughout U.K. and Ireland
  52. A Look at Quality Management in Apple’s System Updates Over Time
  53. Apple Suggests Restoring iPhone and Apple Watch to Fix WatchOS 7 Bugs

September 2020

  1. What Is It Like to Be a Smartphone?
  2. The Google Play Movies & TV Android App Is Now Called Google TV but It’s Not the Same Google TV That Runs on Android TV
  3. ‘The Social Network’ Ten Years Later
  4. ‘The Social Dilemma’ Dilemma
  5. Misaimed Moderation on the App Store
  6. Google Changes Billing Policies, Requiring Apps Use In-App Payment Mechanism With Thirty Percent Commission
  7. People Tolerate Bugs and Problems Because Technology Is Still Confusing
  8. The Peculiar Rise of the Paid Email Newsletter
  9. Apple Describes Its Video Partner Program
  10. Fortnite in Limbo
  11. Thirteen Years Too Late, Google’s Acquisition of DoubleClick Is Being Scrutinized
  12. Widgets and Shortcuts Allow for a New Era of Jailbreak-Free iOS Customization
  13. Sales of the Xbox One X Jumped by Hundreds of Percentage Points on Amazon During Today’s Xbox Series X Preorders
  14. Apple’s New Back Tap Feature in iOS 14 Is Cool, but It Isn’t ‘Hidden’
  15. Spotify’s New-Generation SEO-Juiced Muzak
  16. It’s September 21, So Here’s a Demi Adejuyigbe Interview
  17. The Oracle–TikTok Potemkin Sale
  18. Widgets in iOS 14
  19. Department of Commerce Orders Removal of TikTok and WeChat From U.S. App Stores on Sunday
  20. The Very Colourful Apple Watch Series 6
  21. In TikTok Deal, Treasury Won’t Be Taking Illegal ‘Key Money’ Payment Proposed by Trump
  22. A Visual History of System Preferences
  23. Comparison of Website Speed by Core Technologies
  24. Panic Launches Nova
  25. Bundled ‘Apple One’ Subscription Announced
  26. Apple’s New iPad Air
  27. Oracle Proposes Becoming TikTok’s U.S. ‘Trusted Tech Partner’
  28. Be on Time for Things
  29. New App Store Guidelines Clarify Rules Around Streaming Gaming Services, Add Complexity to In-App Purchasing
  30. Amazon’s Goodreads Is a Poor Excuse for a Book-Based Social Network
  31. The White House Insisted It Had Thousands of Social Media Bias Complaints, but the FTC Has No Record of Them
  32. A Step Back
  33. Just in Time for the End of Summer, Poolside.fm Launches an iOS App
  34. Wildfire Smoke Conditions in California Are Too Extreme for Automatic White Balance to Accurately Represent
  35. The Money Store
  36. David Graeber Dies Aged 59
  37. Tests Show 5G Networks in U.S. Are Rarely Fast and Wildly Overhyped
  38. With the Departure of the Williamses, There Are No More Family-Run Formula One Teams
  39. Consumer Reports Reviews Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’
  40. The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen
  41. Apple Publishes Document Outlining Its ‘Commitment to Human Rights’ After Criticism of Actions in China
  42. Twitter and Facebook Wrestle With Handling the U.S. President’s Encouragement of Voter Fraud
  43. For Sale: Millions of Back Doors
  44. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s ‘Long Way Up’
  45. On Twitter Usernames and ‘Bots’
  46. Sandboxing and Default URL Handlers
  47. Ad Platforms, Like Those From Facebook and Twitter, Avoid Apple’s Thirty Percent Commission
  48. Facebook Here — May We Interest You in Some Transparency?

August 2020

  1. Apple Notarized Commonly-Used MacOS Malware
  2. ‘A Travelogue of Monopoly’
  3. The Room
  4. Apple Once Again Rumoured to Be Working on a Web Search Engine
  5. Uber and Lyft Are Counting on Automation
  6. First Impressions of the Microsoft Surface Duo Hardware
  7. Unredacted Suit Shows Google’s Own Engineers Were Confused by Privacy Settings
  8. Alberta Government Gives Green Light to Calgary–Edmonton Hyperloop Project
  9. Uber and Lyft’s AB-5 Fight Reveals Their Reliance on Full-Time Drivers
  10. App Store Desire Paths
  11. Trade Organization Representing American Press Pushes for Same App Store Rate as Amazon
  12. Apple Disabled a Long-Time Developer’s Account and Remotely Nuked His Apps
  13. Instagram Rolls Out Suggested Posts to Create an Infinite Feed
  14. Longplay, a Music App for Complete Albums
  15. Uber and Lyft Consider Becoming Transportation Businesses for Real
  16. Apple Says Epic Games’ Developer Account Will Be Terminated in Two Weeks, Threatening the Viability of Games Built on Unreal Engine
  17. The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
  18. The Cult of the Free
  19. Brand New Will Shift to a Subscription Model
  20. The Case of the Top Secret iPod
  21. As CRTC Reassesses Wholesale Broadband Rates, Federal Cabinet Puts Its Thumb on the Scale
  22. Despite Similar Platform Restrictions, Epic Games Is Not Suing the Makers of Game Consoles
  23. Typography for the Biden-Harris Campaign
  24. Popcorn Popping in Super Slow Motion
  25. Fortnite Was Removed From the Google Play Store, Too, So Epic Games Is Suing Google
  26. Epic Games Introduced a Direct Payment Mechanism in Fortnite, So It Was Kicked Out of the App Store
  27. Reuters: ByteDance Censored Anti-China Content on BaBe News App in Indonesia
  28. Bloomberg: Bundled Apple Services Are Coming Later This Year
  29. Facebook Adds Speed Bump Intended to Slow Down Pandemic Post Virality
  30. A Problem With RSS Is That It Needs Explaining
  31. Layoffs at Mozilla
  32. TikTok Tracked Android Users’ MAC Addresses Without Consent
  33. In MacOS Big Sur and iOS 14, Apple News Plus Subscribers See Links to Some Publishers Opening in Apple News Instead of a Web Browser
  34. Apple’s New ‘Everything’ Gift Cards
  35. White House Executive Order on WeChat Risks Snarling Global Business
  36. How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley
  37. ‘The United States Has Embroiled Itself in a War It Cannot Win and Has No Business Fighting’
  38. John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers Explain Apple’s Machine Learning Strategy
  39. U.S. Government Contractors Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phone Locations
  40. The Case Against Automotive Bloat
  41. Judge Agrees to End Paramount Consent Decrees
  42. The 2020 iMac and the Osborne Effect
  43. U.S. ‘Clean Network’ Campaign Attempts to Wall Off Chinese Hardware, Software, and Cloud Services
  44. Apple Is Prohibiting Cloud-Based Gaming Services From the App Store Because It Cannot Review or Approve Each Game
  45. Facebook and Twitter Moderate Trump Campaign Accounts for Posting Covid-19 Misinformation, But YouTube Does Nothing About the Source Interview
  46. Cutting Out the Adtech Middlemen
  47. White House Retracts Renomination of FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly
  48. Fellow Apple Fellows
  49. Greg Joswiak Is Apple’s New SVP of Worldwide Marketing, While Phil Schiller Becomes an Apple Fellow
  50. iMac Range Updated With SSDs and T2 Chips, and Faster Processors and Better Displays in the 27-Inch Models
  51. U.S. President and Wispy-Haired Bag of Angry Wasps Donald Trump Demands ‘Key Money’ Cut of Microsoft’s Proposed TikTok Acquisition
  52. Say Hello to the ‘Hustle Economy’
  53. Stephen Fry’s Seven Deadly Sins

July 2020

  1. Mac Catalyst 2.0: Doubling Down on the Alignment of the Mac and iPad
  2. One Month After Being Acquired by Google, North’s Smart Glasses Will Stop Working
  3. Deadspin Staffers, Who Quit in Protest, Start Defector
  4. Checking Up on Promises Made During Tech Company Acquisitions
  5. Quarterly Earnings Announcements From All Four Tech Companies Represented at Wednesday’s Antitrust Hearing
  6. Antitrust Finally Gets Its Hearing
  7. Ben Thompson’s Questions for Tech Company CEOs
  8. Despite Virtual Testimony From Tech Company CEOs, It Was In-Person Congressmen Who Departed From Reality
  9. Big Tech’s Power Comes Under Fire at Congressional Antitrust Hearing
  10. A Preview of Wednesday’s Big Tech Antitrust Hearing
  11. Uzi Nissan, Internet Domain Owner Who Fought Nissan in Court for a Decade, Has Died of Covid-19
  12. The Icons of Big Sur
  13. Reuters Interviews Phil Schiller Ahead of U.S. Antitrust Hearing
  14. Apple’s Thirty Percent Cut
  15. A Bloomberg Report Says That Twitter Has Struggled for Years to Control Internal Access to High-Profile Accounts
  16. WaPo Reporter Emphasizes Nondisclosure Agreements in Article About Apple’s ‘Find My’ Spec
  17. User Interfaces for Streaming Video Apps Are Almost Universally Terrible
  18. What Happened to Digital Contact Tracing?
  19. Apple Pledges to Be Carbon Neutral by 2030
  20. Republicans Call on Jack Dorsey to Testify During Monday’s Antitrust Hearing
  21. Apple’s Security Research Device Program, Announced Last Year, Is Now Accepting Applicants
  22. Studies Offer Conflicting Impressions of Uber and Lyft Driver Pay
  23. An Apple-Funded Study Compares App Store Commission Rates to Other Digital and Physical Platforms
  24. Twitter Begins Limiting the Spread of QAnon Conspiracy Theories, Bans Seven Thousand Harassing Accounts
  25. Microsoft President Brad Smith Raised Apple Issues to House Antitrust Group
  26. Apple Wallet Car Keys Are Live
  27. Seven No-Logging VPN Providers Publicly Exposed Over a Terabyte of Logs
  28. Defeating Spy Pixel Workarounds in Email
  29. John Lewis Dies at 80
  30. Twitter’s Preliminary Investigation Reveals That a Backup of Eight Accounts’ Data Was Downloaded in Its Entirety
  31. The Breach of Dozens of High-Profile Twitter Accounts May Be the Work of ‘OG’ Profile Hijackers
  32. Prominent Organizations, Including Github and Apple, Are Dropping Exclusionary Developer Terminology
  33. Today’s Twitter Breach Reveals How It Is Often Used as Critical Infrastructure
  34. Today’s Breach of High-Profile Twitter Accounts Was Enabled by an Employee
  35. Google’s Abuse of Its Dominant Position Isn’t Only Maybe Illegal, It Also Makes for Worse Products
  36. WindowSwap
  37. Two Bills Before the U.S. Senate, EARN IT and LAED, Threaten Online Speech, Security, and Safety
  38. Auditors Hired by Facebook Highlight Decisions That ‘Represent Significant Setbacks for Civil Rights’
  39. Facebook Moves Fast, Breaks Apps Again
  40. App Review Rejects Information Superhighway
  41. Safari and Edge Offer Performance and Battery Life Improvements Over Chrome
  42. On Standards
  43. The Visual Storytelling of Run the Jewels
  44. Pinboard Turns Eleven
  45. Elon Musk Once Again Says Tesla Is ‘Very Close’ to Full Autonomy This Year, for Real This Time
  46. The Internal Tension of New Web APIs
  47. Los Angeles Becomes ‘Blade Runner’ in Illegal Fireworks Aerial Video
  48. Harper’s Gives Prestigious Platform to Famous Writers So They Can Publicly Whine About Being Silenced
  49. European Data Protection Laws Enshrine Many Rights That Americans Should Expect of Their Own Government
  50. Internal Law Enforcement Bulletin Advises Use of iOS Shortcut to Record Police Encounter May Be Suspicious
  51. In a Statement to the Verge, Apple Confirms That It Will Support Thunderbolt in ARM-Based Macs
  52. The Wild Wild Web
  53. The Variety of ‘Facial Recognition’ Technologies Necessitates Nuanced Legislation
  54. Climbing Up the Walls
  55. Reef, a Parking Company, Ushers in Our Ghost Kitchen Future
  56. ‘Cronk Rules Everything Around Me’
  57. The Collapse of Nortel and the Rise of Huawei
  58. Apple’s Subscription Requirements Continue to Be Confusing for Third-Party Developers
  59. Reporters Describe Their Experiences Covering Facebook
  60. Apple Declined to Implement Sixteen New Web APIs in Safari Due to Privacy Concerns

June 2020

  1. WWDC and My Wish List
  2. Marques Brownlee in Conversation With Craig Federighi
  3. As Major Companies Pull Advertising, Facebook Executives Admit to ‘Trust Deficit’
  4. Microsoft Announces Closure of All but Four Retail Stores
  5. Barr’s Interest in Google Antitrust Case Keeps It Moving Swiftly
  6. The Talk Show WWDC 2020 Special With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
  7. iOS 14 Requires Apps to Ask Permission to Use IDFA to Track Users
  8. A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists
  9. Republican Senators Introduce Bill to Destroy End-to-End Encryption
  10. ARM Macs Will Not Support Boot Camp
  11. Accidental Tech Podcast’s WWDC 2020 Special
  12. Only Apple
  13. Developers Will Be Able to Dispute App Store Rules, and Bug Fix Updates Won’t Be Used as Leverage
  14. Apple Drops Force Touch in WatchOS 7
  15. Fifteen Years and Two Weeks Ago, Apple Announced the Switch to Intel
  16. Apple, Hey, and the Path Forward
  17. An Oracle BlueKai Database Containing Billions of Records of Raw Web Browsing Data Was Not Password Protected
  18. Allies of Whiteness
  19. Hey, Wait, I’ve Got a New Complaint
  20. Apple Stands by Its Rejection of Hey
  21. An American Spring of Reckoning
  22. Hey, Nah
  23. An Apple-Funded Study Indicates Over $500 Billion in ‘Facilitated’ Commerce in 2019
  24. Apple Publishes More Information About WWDC 2020 Labs, Adds Mac Version of Developer App
  25. Norway Pulls Its Contact Tracing App After Privacy Watchdog’s Warning
  26. Apple Asked Developers About Their App Store Experiences
  27. Despite Global Reach, Big Tech Companies Still Lack Diversity
  28. Pocket Casts and Castro Podcasts Removed by Apple From App Store in China Upon Government Request
  29. iCloud, Backups, and Time Machine — Oh My
  30. Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
  31. Location Permissions in Android 11 Mimic Those in iOS
  32. Say Goodbye to iTunes U and iBooks Author
  33. Sonny Dickson Says a Redesigned iMac Is Coming at WWDC
  34. The President Parrots an Insane Conspiracy Theory About the Elderly Activist Shoved to the Ground by Police Officers Last Week
  35. Bloomberg: Apple Set to Announce ARM Transition for the Mac at WWDC
  36. Sarah Cooper, the Trump Lip-Sync Genius
  37. The Kind of Rebel We Need
  38. Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘Reflections on the Color of My Skin’
  39. Supercuts of Police Brutality Against Demonstrators Are Receiving Millions of Views
  40. Google Sued for $5 Billion for Tracking People in Incognito Mode
  41. HBO Max Won’t Hit AT&T Data Caps Because AT&T Owns HBO
  42. A Coward Takes a Walk to a Photo-Op
  43. Amazon Order Emails No Longer Include Item Details
  44. Black Journalists and Covering the Storm That Never Passes
  45. iOS 13.5.1 Fixes the Zero-Day Bug Enabling the ‘Unc0ver’ Jailbreak
  46. Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide Against Protesters of Police Brutality

May 2020

  1. Over Employee Protests and Frustration, Mark Zuckerberg Confirms Facebook Will Not Remove Trump Post Inciting Violence
  2. Trump’s Executive Order Is About Facebook, Not Twitter
  3. Mark Zuckerberg, Proud of Facebook’s Fact Checking Work, Says That Fact Checking Is a Bad Idea
  4. The Trump Executive Order Claiming to Regulate Social Media Networks Is Legally Meaningless and Distracting
  5. MacOS Catalina’s Hidden Additional Typeface Families
  6. Grubhub Should Be Thriving Due to the Pandemic’s Restrictions — But It’s Not
  7. Three-Judge Panel Dismisses Nonsense Lawsuit Alleging Infringement of First Amendment Rights by Tech Companies
  8. Recent Firmware Updates for Texas Instrument Graphing Calculators Removes ASM Support
  9. WWDC 2020 Wish Lists
  10. Local U.S. News Stations Aired an Amazon-Produced Promotional Video, Most Without Acknowledging Its Source
  11. Amnesty’s Security Lab Finds Qatari Mandatory Contact Tracing App Exposed Sensitive Data Such Like Name and Location
  12. Tenet, the Movie, and Tenet, the Bicycle Company
  13. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Announces Canada Will Adopt Apple–Google Exposure Notification API
  14. The Early Build of iOS 14 That’s Floating Around Was Likely Extracted From a Stolen Development iPhone
  15. Sandwich Made a New Ad for Slack, Using Slack
  16. Siri Turns Nine This Year
  17. Contact Tracing App Used by North and South Dakota Shares Location Data With Foursquare and Google
  18. Twitter Is Testing Settings That Allow Users to Limit Who Can Reply to Individual Tweets
  19. How to Decode a Data Breach Notice
  20. National Advertising Review Board Recommends AT&T Discontinue Fake 5G Branding
  21. New York Times to Stop Using Third-Party User Data for Advertising by 2021
  22. Spotify Pays Good Money to Stop Seeing Joe Rogan’s Face Everywhere
  23. MusicSmart Puts the Spotlight on Music Credits
  24. Apple’s Statement Regarding the FBI’s Successful Unlocking of the Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone
  25. U.S. Department of Justice Once Again Able to Extract iPhone Data Without Compromising Security of All Users
  26. On Doing More Harm Than Good
  27. Security Theatre in Safari Download Permissions
  28. With Acquisition of Giphy, Facebook Buys Tracking in Unexpected Places
  29. VR in Our Virus-Altered Reality
  30. The Problem of Third-Party SDK Creep
  31. The Pandemic Is Launching the Era of Online Platform Regulation
  32. Mitch McConnell Moves to Explicitly Permit Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Web Browsing Activities
  33. Eight Years in, Messages on MacOS Still Sucks at Search
  34. RSS Readers and App Store Requirements
  35. The Streaming Model for Music Doesn’t Work for Artists When They Do Not Earn Live Performance Income
  36. The Ideal First-Run Experience for an iPhone App Is None at All
  37. The Ethics and Questionable Efficacy of Contact Tracing Apps
  38. Designing the World’s First Home Computers
  39. Reading Between the Lines of Apple’s Latest Releases
  40. NSO Group Did Not Protect the Server It Used to Demonstrate Location-Based Centralized Contact Tracing in Israel
  41. Federico Viticci Interviews Craig Federighi About iPadOS Improvements
  42. Dithering
  43. It’s Been a Few Months So Google Is Trying to Figure Out Its Messaging Apps Again
  44. FT: NHS Exploring Shift to Native Exposure Notification API Built by Apple and Google
  45. Desktop Pictures Taken by Steve Jobs
  46. Doctors and Scientists are on the Brutal Receiving End of Conspiracy Theories
  47. Employee Surveillance Applications Are an Intrusive Waste of Time
  48. European Data Protection Board Updates GDPR Guidelines to Clearly Prohibit Cookie Walls and Implied Consent
  49. Apple Announces That WWDC 2020 Will Kick Off June 22, Free for All Registered Developers
  50. Streaming Follows a Trail Paved by Thieves and Pirates
  51. Tim Bray’s Exit From Amazon Echoes the Criticism Levelled by Former Executives at Facebook
  52. Artists Earned $7.1 Million From Bandcamp Sales Last Friday
  53. In a Withering Blog Post, Tim Bray Announces He’s Leaving His VP-Level Position at Amazon
  54. Credit Is Owed to Casey Johnston and Joanna Stern
  55. Today’s 13-Inch MacBook Pro Update Ends the Butterfly Keyboard on the Mac
  56. Elon Musk Said a Lot of Really Dumb Stuff This Week
  57. ImageCaptureCore Framework Apparently Adds Over a Megabyte of Empty Data to Images Converted From HEIC
  58. ICANN Rejects Sale of .Org Registry to Private Equity Firm

April 2020

  1. As a Lawyer, Christopher Wray Defended End-to-End Encryption; As FBI Director, He Opposes It
  2. Apps Versus APIs
  3. The White House Gift Shop Is Unconnected to the White House
  4. iOS and iPadOS 13.5 Betas Released With COVID-19 Exposure Notification Tools
  5. Apparently by Design, iPhone SE Owners Cannot Use Haptic Touch Features With Notifications
  6. Web Bullshit Has Expanded Into Virtual Reality
  7. Assorted Updates on Contact Tracing and Exposure Notification Apps
  8. GDPR’s First Two Years Have Been Marked by Lots of Complaints and Limited Resources
  9. “They Let Me Make an iPhone Ad About a Guy Opening a Box”
  10. MacBook Pro Exhibits Different Problems Depending on Which Side’s Thunderbolt Ports Are Used for Charging
  11. Bloomberg: Macs With Apple-Designed Processors Coming Next Year
  12. Porsche Introduces CarPlay Upgrade Kits for Models Dating Back to 1963
  13. The Next Generation Wi-Fi Standard Is Called 6E Because the Wi-Fi Alliance Cannot Commit to a Naming Scheme
  14. French Government Representatives Object to Apple’s On-Device Processing of Contact Tracing Records
  15. Add Markdown Shortcuts in MarsEdit
  16. Huawei Keeps Implying That DSLR-Created Photos Were Shot on Its Phones
  17. Telecom Industry Falsely Credits Reversal of Net Neutrality Laws in the United States for Internet Stability Under Strain
  18. Reviews of the Magic Keyboard for iPad
  19. MacOS and iOS Frequently Do Not Prioritize User-Created Data in Search
  20. A Technical Exploration of the Logitech Harmony 900 Remote Control
  21. Zoom’s Security Problems Were Common Knowledge for Years to Business Partners Like Dropbox
  22. The Bullshit Web’s Ubiquity
  23. Sam Rutherford Is Not Satisfied With the iPhone SE
  24. ‘Small’ Phones Aren’t
  25. The New iPhone SE Replaces the iPhone 8 in Apple’s Lineup
  26. Mac Pro Feet and Wheels Now Available Separately
  27. The Magic Keyboard for iPad Is Now Available to Order, Will Arrive Next Week
  28. Coronavirus and Context Collapse on Medium
  29. Social Distancing and Drive-In Theatres
  30. Six Long Weeks
  31. In Media Call, Apple and Google Answer Questions About Contact Tracing
  32. Ticketmaster Changes Its Refund Policy to Exclude Postponed or Rescheduled Events
  33. Cloudflare Announces Switch From Google’s reCAPTCHA to hCAPTCHA
  34. Apple and Google Announce Partnership to Implement Contact Tracing to Track Novel Coronavirus Exposure
  35. SophosLabs Researchers Identify High-Grossing ‘Fleeceware’ Apps That Abuse Free Trials and Subscriptions
  36. Security, Ease-of-Use, and Zoom
  37. The Case for Set-Top Boxes in an Age of Smart Televisions
  38. John Prine Dies Aged 73
  39. Aaron Pressman Caught JAQing Off About Apple’s Acquisition of Dark Sky
  40. Gary Hustwit’s Documentary on Dieter Rams Is Streaming Free Until April 14
  41. British American Tobacco’s New Logo
  42. Pretty Much All Laptop Webcams Suck
  43. Developing TabToolkit for the iPad Before Its Release
  44. Dr. Drew Pinsky Tried to Use DMCA Takedown Requests to Bury His Blasé COVID-19 Takes
  45. Google Releases Community Mobility Reports Indicating Effectiveness of Social Distancing Worldwide
  46. The Apple–Amazon Deal Helps Apple’s TV Ambitions
  47. The Pandemic Is a Portal
  48. Zoom’s Myriad Security and Privacy Flaws
  49. RIP, the Outline
  50. The NASA Worm Is Back — Sort Of
  51. Zoom Responds
  52. More on In-App Purchases for Amazon Prime Video
  53. Amazon Prime Video Now Allows In-App Purchases and Rentals With Its Own Payment Method Thanks to Special Apple Entitlement
  54. Among the Myriad Industries Harrowed by Coronavirus Effects, Journalism Is Uniquely Impacted

March 2020

  1. U.S. Government Websites Give Bad Security Advice
  2. Zoom Video Calls Are Not End-to-End Encrypted, Contrary to Its Public Claims
  3. Dark Sky Has Been Acquired by Apple, Announces Discontinuation of Widely-Used API
  4. It’s All So Premiocre
  5. Getting a Copy of Your Clearview AI Profile
  6. Google Cancels Its Planned April Fools’ Day ‘Jokes’ This Year
  7. Nine Inch Nails Releases Ghosts V–VI as a Free Download
  8. Safari and Progressive Web Apps
  9. Improvements to Tracking Prevention in Safari 13.1 on MacOS, and Safari on iOS and iPadOS 13.4
  10. The New iPad Pro Models Are Iterative Updates on the Last Generation, and Everybody Really Wants to Try the New Magic Keyboard
  11. Photographing the World Using Webcams
  12. Magic Mailboxes
  13. We Could Just Ban Targeted Advertising
  14. A New ‘Get Up’ Weekly Playlist Is Available in Apple Music
  15. Zoom’s Attention-Tracking Feature Is Ripe for Misuse
  16. Harnessing Our Existing Surveillance Capitalist Infrastructure for Good Instead of Evil
  17. The Great Empty
  18. Counterweighting a Cantilever
  19. What About the 13-Inch MacBook Pro?
  20. The Changing Nature of Apple’s Product Announcements
  21. A Status Update on the Toaster-Refrigerator Project
  22. Apple Updates the MacBook Air
  23. Mac Madness 2020
  24. New iPad Pro Models Announced, iPadOS 13.4 Features Trackpad and Mouse Support
  25. Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Appear to Snoop on the System Pasteboard
  26. The Bungled Launch of Verily’s Coronavirus Screening Website
  27. The Story Behind the Coronavirus ‘Flatten the Curve’ Chart
  28. Major U.S. ISPs Agree to Relax Bill Payments and Late Penalties for Next Sixty Days
  29. MacRumors Source: New MacBook Air Models Coming Next Week
  30. The Surreal Comfort of Stephen Colbert’s Audience-Less Late Show Monologue
  31. Apple Cancels In-Person WWDC, Will Be Offering Online-Only Version
  32. The Creative Use of Disparate Tools Makes It Easier Than Ever to Find Hidden Details in Photos
  33. Financial Times: Recent Apple Music Contracts With Record Labels Do Not Yet Include a Bundling Agreement
  34. Assessing the Goals and Consequences of the Proposed EARN IT Act
  35. In Separate Cases, iOS and Android Apps Did Not Disclose Their Sketchy Data Farming Affiliations
  36. Ranchero Releases NetNewsWire for iOS
  37. Leak Deja Vu
  38. Jason Snell Charts the Number and Type of Ports in Mac Laptops Since 2001
  39. Is It Cancelled Yet?
  40. The Pit of Bad Decisions Made by Clearview AI Simply Has No Bottom
  41. Reading Newsletters With Feedbin
  42. Apple Formally Begins Permitting Ads in Push Notifications
  43. A Profile of the People Resurrecting Old iPods
  44. Google Begins Rolling Out a Software-Based Clone of 3D Touch to Pixel Devices
  45. Adios, MacSurfer
  46. Cable TV’s Dumbest Habits Will Make the Leap to Streaming
  47. Facebook Announces New Messenger App, Discovers That Not Rebuilding System Frameworks Makes Apps Simpler
  48. Vox Media’s Video, Audio, and Motion Graphic Professionals Review the New Mac Pro
  49. Google’s Flaky Reputation Is Impacting Development for Its Stadia Gaming Platform
  50. James Lipton Dies Aged 93
  51. $500 Million Settlement Proposed in Class Action Suit Over iPhone CPU Throttling
  52. Five Year Flop
  53. A Look at YouTube’s Recommendations of Conspiracy Theories, One Year After the Platform Vowed More Aggressive Action

February 2020

  1. Google Earth Now Supported in Edge, Firefox, and Opera
  2. Five Years After Setting a $70,000 Minimum Salary, a Look at Its Effects on Gravity Payments’ Employees
  3. Apple Suspends Clearview’s Enterprise Distribution Certificate
  4. FCC Announces Hilariously Inadequate Penalties Against Cell Companies for Allowing Third Parties Access to the Real-Time Location of Subscribers
  5. Buzzfeed News Obtains Clearview AI’s Client List
  6. About That Squiggle
  7. Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Over COVID-19 Concerns
  8. The Embarrassing State of 5G
  9. Between 2015 and 2019, the NSA’s Domestic Phone and Text Monitoring Program Produced Exactly One Usable Lead
  10. Why TV?
  11. Jason Kottke Celebrates Fifteen Years of Independent Writing
  12. Few Artists Have Experimented in Notable Ways With the Unique Characteristics of Digital Music Distribution
  13. Charting Price and Performance in Apple’s Hardware Lineup
  14. A Milli
  15. Catalina’s Dialog Bureaucracy
  16. Microsoft Says That It Is Bringing Defender, Its Security and Antivirus Software, to iOS and Android
  17. Larry Tesler Dies Aged 74
  18. Folding Flip Phones Flopping
  19. Apple Music Now Groups Different Versions of the Same Album
  20. Apple Promotes Its Services Through Pervasive and Often Disruptive In-App Advertising
  21. 2020 State of Mac Malware
  22. Workers for Shipt, an Instacart-Like Company Owned by Target, Describe a Culture of Unrealistic Expectations, Retaliation, and Fear
  23. Apple’s History of Colour-Matched Wallpapers
  24. A Look Inside the ‘Ghost Kitchens’ That Are Operating Out of 60 Morris Street in San Francisco
  25. Meet Makan Delrahim, the Lawyer Who Leads the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice
  26. T-Mobile and Sprint Were Allowed to Merge Because Sprint Sucks
  27. Essential Is Shutting Down
  28. The Vinyl Pause of 2020
  29. All Your Favorite Brands Are on Amazon, From BSTOEM to ZGGCD
  30. The Era of Widely-Peddled Fake Products
  31. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks Through Law Enforcement Backdoors
  32. Despite Charges Against Chinese Spies, Equifax and U.S. Regulators Are Not Off the Hook
  33. Popular Free Email Apps Such as Edison and Cleanfox Skim Users’ Inboxes for Marketing Data
  34. Comparing Film and Digital Cinematography Is a Silly Debate, Argues Steve Yedlin
  35. U.S. Charges Four Members of Chinese Military in Connection With 2017 Equifax Breach
  36. The MacBook Keyboard Saga Has Gone on for Long Enough That It’s Being Referenced During an Oscars Question Period
  37. Corp.com Domain, a Default in Active Directory and Massive Security Risk, Goes Up for Sale
  38. French Competition Bureau Fines Apple €25 Million for Not Communicating Slowing Effects of Battery-Preserving iOS Update
  39. Apple News Warns Publishers About Channel Removal if They Are Inactive for Three Months
  40. Netflix Finally Allows Users to Disable Autoplay Trailers
  41. Reflective Satellite Clusters Created by Private Companies Are Impeding Astronomers’ Work and Altering the Night Sky
  42. An Analysis of the App That Failed the Iowa Democratic Caucus
  43. Peek-a-View
  44. Google and YouTube Join Twitter in Telling Clearview AI to Stop Scraping User Data
  45. MacOS Will Soon Support Universal Apps, Enabling a Single Purchase for Mac, iPhone, and iPad Apps
  46. Apple News Plus Is Not a Great Standalone Product, but Could Be a Good Component of a Bundle
  47. Examining the Terraced Privacy Policies of the Hundreds of Companies With Which a Website May Share Your Data
  48. Researchers Find ‘Anonymized’ Data Can Easily Be Combined With Leaked Personal Information From Major Data Breaches
  49. Redesigned Apple Maps Now Covers United States, Except Territories, With Europe Launching in 2020
  50. California Attorney General Delays .Org Sale to Private Equity Firm
  51. FCC to Propose Fines Over Wireless Location Data Disclosure

January 2020

  1. The 2019 Apple Report Card
  2. E.U. Commission Votes to Emphasize the ‘U’ in ‘USB’
  3. Rob Enderle: ‘Millennials Like to Print’
  4. Neil Young Is Back on His Audiophile Bullshit
  5. A Look Inside the Fraught Development of Aperture 1.0
  6. Apple Sells Over Ninety Billion Dollars Worth of Stuff in Three Months
  7. Spyware Trade Grows Amid Targeting of Activists — and Jeff Bezos
  8. The iPad’s Difficult Business Proposition
  9. The iPad Awkwardly Turns Ten
  10. Avast Antivirus Software Collects User Browsing History for Sale by Jumpshot Subsidiary
  11. Banning Facial Recognition Misses the Point
  12. Motorola Tells New Razr Users That ‘Bumps and Lumps Are Normal’
  13. Ars Technica Reviews the Samsung Galaxy Fold
  14. Volkswagen Executive Speculates That Fully Self-Driving Cars May Not Be Realistic
  15. The Curious Case of Fourteen Bytes
  16. Clearview AI Founder Has a History of Far-Right Connections
  17. Apps Made the iPad a Ten-Year Success Story
  18. Forensic Investigators Find That Jeff Bezos’ iPhone Was Likely Compromised Directly by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
  19. ‘Encrypted’ Isn’t Good Enough
  20. Yandex Is Facial Recognition for the Public
  21. Reuters Report on iCloud Backups Exposes Disingenuous Department of Justice Arguments Against Encryption
  22. Reuters: Apple Dropped a Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups After FBI Complained
  23. An Investigation Into Clearview AI, a Highly Accurate Facial Recognition Company That Uses Images Scraped From Social Media
  24. Reuters Articles Misleads on Department of Justice Demands of Apple
  25. Google Begins Rolling Out New Search Results Page Design That Makes Ads Look Like Regular Results
  26. NBC Launches Peacock Streaming Service
  27. Rage Against the Machine Learning
  28. Apple’s Stance on Encryption Puts It on an Inevitable Collision Course
  29. Subscribing to YouTube Channels With RSS
  30. FBI Barely Tried to Hack San Bernardino iPhone Before Going to Court With Apple
  31. Apple’s New Privacy Features Have Further Rattled the Location-Based Ad Market
  32. Google Announces Plan to Disallow Third-Party Cookies in Chrome in Two Years
  33. Framed
  34. The Anachronistic Labelling of ‘Macintosh HD’
  35. U.S. Music Streams Topped a Trillion in 2019
  36. Dark Patterns on Travel Websites
  37. Apple Recaps Its Year in Services
  38. Teen Vogue Publishes, Then Pulls, an Uncritical Interview With Facebook’s Election Security Team
  39. Why Not Both? Or: Privacy Laws Won’t Fix Everything and That’s Okay
  40. Tim Cook and Apple in 2019
  41. The FBI Is Trying to Weaken Encryption Again
  42. Twenty Years Ago, Steve Jobs Showed Off the Aqua Interface for the First Time
  43. Tortoise Media Begins Investigating Tech Companies as Though They Were Nation-States, Starting With Apple
  44. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

2019 566

December 2019

  1. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax
  2. In the Nick of Time, Apple Completes Promised 2019 Rollout of Revised Maps Across the United States
  3. California’s New Data Privacy Law Has Muddled Expectations of Companies
  4. A Comparison of Bing, Google, and Yandex Reverse Image Search Engines
  5. Travis Kalanick Severs Ties With Uber
  6. Publishers’ Decisions Have Made Electronic Books Less Attractive Than Online Music and Movie Stores
  7. Jason Snell’s 2019 Predictions in Review
  8. End the Razor-and-Blades Business Model
  9. The Public Cost of Delivering Millions of Parcels Every Day
  10. New York Times Journalists Received Location Data and Were Easily Able to De-Anonymize It
  11. Podcasts in Catalina and Catalyst
  12. As Part of a Pending FTC Settlement, Facebook Agrees Not to Exploit Information Provided for Security Purposes, With Caveats
  13. Movies Should Be Much Shorter
  14. Catalyst and Cohesion
  15. Tim Cook’s Apple
  16. Shopping Is Complicated by Overwhelming Choice, Bad Search Options, and Well-Meaning Professional Reviews
  17. An Editorial in the Hill Almost Makes a Good Point About Privacy
  18. The Dark World of Online Murder Markets
  19. Facebook Plans No Changes to Web Tracking Services for Compliance With California Privacy Law
  20. ‘I Hope You Enjoy Your Airbnb Stay At My Home, a Place I Have Never Resided Nor Visited’
  21. Senate Judiciary Committee Places Impossible Encryption Demands Upon Tech Companies
  22. Gizmodo Used Publicly-Accessible Location Data in Ring’s Neighbors App to Map Amazon’s Home Surveillance Network
  23. Twitter Announces Bluesky Open Platform Initiative, of Which Twitter Would Be a Client
  24. The Case for Impeachment
  25. As Apple Begins Taking Mac Pro Orders, Video Creators Share Early Impressions
  26. The Internet Has Lost Its Joy
  27. Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
  28. Avast’s Browser Extensions for Firefox and Opera Harvest User Data for Marketing, but Avast Also Sells Anti-Tracking Software
  29. Ticketmaster Is Fighting a Losing Battle Against Scalpers by Making Purchases More Difficult for Fans
  30. Gradual Feature Rollouts Can Generate Positive Press Coverage Despite Little Real-World Availability
  31. Apple Says Ultra Wideband Is Why iPhone 11 Models Are Using Location Services Even When All Toggles Are Set to ‘Off’, Promises Fix Soon
  32. A More Incremental iOS
  33. BMW Will No Longer Charge a Subscription Fee to Use CarPlay
  34. Inside the First Day of the Elon Musk Defamation Trial
  35. Larry Page and Sergey Brin Step Away From Day-to-Day Operations at Alphabet, Announce Sundar Pichai Will Be CEO of Alphabet and Google
  36. Gatekeeper’s Security Through Obscurity
  37. Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory on Devices Sold There by July
  38. Google Launches a Messaging App
  39. ‘60 Minutes’ Interviews Susan Wojcicki About the Improbability of Moderating YouTube

November 2019

  1. Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society CEO, Arrogantly Deflects Questions About the Sale of the .Org Registry to a Private Equity Firm
  2. Publishers Are Applying Onerous Restrictions on Ebooks at Libraries
  3. From Garages to Geopolitical Quagmires
  4. Jony Ive Removed From Apple’s Leadership Page
  5. Apple Bows to Demands That They Show Crimea as Russian Territory in Russia
  6. Registering a .Gov Domain Requires Only a Little Bit of Wire Fraud
  7. Lawmakers Question Apple’s Changes to Location Tracking in iOS 13 on Anticompetitive Grounds
  8. Twitter Will Delete Accounts on December 11 That Have Not Been Logged Into Within Six Months
  9. Google’s Taxes
  10. ‘5G Has Become a Sort of Magic Pixie Dust’
  11. ‘Visit Eroda’ Is a Tourism Campaign for an Island That Doesn’t Exist
  12. The Contract for the Web
  13. Personal Records for a Billion Individuals, Collected by People Data Labs and OxyData, Found Freely Available on Web Server
  14. Internet Society Sells Non-Profit .Org Domain Registry to Private Equity Company
  15. Performance Is an Accessibility Issue
  16. Syniverse’s Dominance Over SMS Routing Introduces Single Points of Failure in U.S. Telecom Infrastructure
  17. Bloomberg: Development Process Changes at Apple Seek to Reduce Bugs in Future Software Releases
  18. Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and Donald Trump Dined Together Last Month
  19. Tim Cook, Donald Trump, and U.S. Administration Officials Tour Contract Manufacturing Plant in Texas
  20. Killing Net Neutrality Was Even Worse Than You Think
  21. Please Stop Plopping Big Screens in the Middle of Car Dashboards
  22. U.S. Department of Justice Seeks to End Anti-Monopoly Laws Regulating Film Distribution
  23. The Wall Street Journal Bungled Its Investigation Into Google’s Search Engine
  24. Why Criticize Apple for Nonsense When You Could Instead Criticize the Things It Has Actually Done?
  25. Oh, Please, Not This Nonsense iPad vs. PC Story Again
  26. The FCC Is Working on a Replacement for Its Terrible Electronic Comment Filing System
  27. Google Expands Its Reach Into Fitness, Health, and Finance, but Pinky Promises With a Cherry on Top That It Won’t Use This Data for Advertising
  28. Disney Plus Crops the 4:3 Aspect Ratio of Classic Episodes of the Simpsons to 16:9, Thereby Ruining Them
  29. Apple Introduces a 16-Inch MacBook Pro With a New Keyboard
  30. John Oliver Takes On SLAPP Suits and Anti-SLAPP Laws
  31. Investigation Launched Into Goldman Sachs After David Heinemeier Hansson Tweets About Discrepancies in Apple Card Credit Limit Between Himself and His Wife
  32. Owen Williams Rounds Up
  33. An Oral History of Blade Runner’s 2019 Los Angeles
  34. iOS 13.2.2, Out Now, Fixes That Bad Multitasking Bug
  35. AT&T Adds 15 GB and $10 Per Month to Mobile Share Plans and Doesn’t Allow Customers to Opt-Out of This ‘Bonus’
  36. Internal Facebook Communications Describe Plan to Limit Data Access to Potential Competitors Under the Guise of User Privacy
  37. Unlike Netflix or Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus Can Be a Hobby
  38. FTC Fines AT&T $60 Million for Calling Its Limited Data Plans ‘Unlimited’
  39. Apple TV All the Way Down
  40. David Heinemeier Hansson Gives Windows Another Try After Twenty Years
  41. Apps Built With Electron 6 and 7 Are Currently Being Rejected From the Mac App Store
  42. After Being Sued for Calling a Private Citizen a Pedophile and Settling Fraud Charges in a Separate Incident, Elon Musk Realizes Twitter Might Not Be for Him

October 2019

  1. An Airbnb Scam Demonstrates the Site’s Toothless Policies
  2. iOS 13.2 Is More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks
  3. G/O Media’s Plan to Juice Its Ad Numbers Backfires After Farmers Insurance Pulls Its Million-Dollar Commitment and Deadspin’s Staff Quit en Masse
  4. Deep Fusion Is Brilliant
  5. A Deep Look at the Software and Hardware Changes in the iPhone 11’s Camera System
  6. What’s Happening at Deadspin Is a Travesty
  7. Molekule Is Using the California Wildfires to Sell Its Crummy Air Purifier
  8. The Advertising Industry Begins to Realize That Bombarding Audiences Doesn’t Work
  9. Apple’s Obese Marketing Webpage for the AirPods Pro
  10. Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2
  11. Bundling, Unbundling, and Rebundling
  12. Zuck Testified Before the House Financial Services Committee and It Did Not Go Well for Him
  13. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Argues for National Broadband Regulation
  14. Katie Couric Interviews Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit
  15. Google Is Shifting Some Products Toward Paid Subscriptions
  16. Use Your AppleCare Coverage Before It Expires
  17. Screen Time in Catalina Is a Sloppy Mac Port
  18. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meaningless ‘Free Speech’ Defence of Facebook’s Inconsistent Moderation Policies
  19. Zappos’ Proposed Settlement for a 2012 Data Breach Affecting Millions Is a 10% Off Coupon
  20. MacGeneration Finds an Icon for a 16-Inch MacBook Pro in the Latest Catalina Beta
  21. Samsung Is Working to Patch a Flaw With Their Under-Display Fingerprint Reader, Which Can Be Defeated With a Screen Protector
  22. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden Introduces National Privacy Act
  23. It Currently Requires a Small Amount of Patience to Buy a New iPhone
  24. Google Launches Pixel 4 Line and New Pixel Buds
  25. Gig Services to Become More Costly As Investors Begin to Question Valuations
  26. Canadian Telecom Lobbyists Influence Swedish Firm to Stop Including Canada in Worldwide Price Report
  27. Every Major U.S. Payment Processor Has Exited Facebook’s Libra Project
  28. China’s Powerful Marketplace Is Encouraging Studios to Succumb to Censorship
  29. MacOS Catalina’s Teething Problems
  30. The Transformation of Apple’s Deep Investment in China From Unique Advantage to Liability
  31. Tim Cook’s Internal Email Regarding the Removal of HKmap.live App
  32. Stories From Uber and Lyft Drivers About Their Working Conditions and Pay
  33. Chinese State Media Accuses Apple of ‘Protecting Rioters’
  34. A Handful of Links and Thoughts Concerning the Future of Transportation
  35. Twitter Tries Being More Like Facebook
  36. The China Cultural Clash
  37. The Legal Case for Net Neutrality Increasingly Lacks Resemblance to Policy
  38. Facebook Changes Policies to Allow Advertisers to Lie
  39. FCC’s ’Unhinged‘ Net Neutrality Repeal Was Upheld Because ISPs Offer DNS and Caching
  40. Bloomberg: Apple Is Reviewing Rejection of App That Allows Users to Track Protests in Hong Kong
  41. Jesus Diaz Writes the Inevitable Article About Microsoft’s Apple-Beating Though Not-Yet-Shipping Innovation
  42. Media Relations Firms Are Faking Public Policy Comments With Personal Details From Data Breaches
  43. Microsoft Announces New Surface Products, Including Dual-Screened Devices for End of Next Year
  44. Appeal Court Upholds Repeal of Net Neutrality Laws, but Permits States to Set Their Own Rules

September 2019

  1. Tesla Releases Smart Summon Feature in Software Update
  2. Study Indicates the FCC’s Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False
  3. Art in the Age of Digital Subscription
  4. Researcher Discovers Method for Exploiting Boot ROM in Several iPhone Models
  5. All I Want to Do Is Create Havoc as a Terrible Goose
  6. The Peril of Old Slack Posts
  7. iFixit Really Doesn’t Think Apple Deserves Any Credit for Using Recycled Aluminum in New Products
  8. Google Chrome Keystone Update Is Causing Boot Issues on Macs With System Integrity Protection Switched Off
  9. On That Rumour of Dedicated Camera RAM in the iPhone 11 Pro
  10. Limitations of the iPhone 11’s Ultra-Wide Camera
  11. Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.3
  12. MacStories Reviews WatchOS 6
  13. QuickTake
  14. Austin Mann’s iPhone 11 Pro Review
  15. Our Economic Model of Privacy Is Deeply Flawed
  16. Facebook Launches New Portal Devices for Video Calling
  17. Reassessing Smartphone Upgrade Recommendations
  18. Wariness of Tech Companies Isn’t Necessarily Resulting in Reduced Use
  19. Lock-In and Ecosystems
  20. Uber’s Chief Counsel Argues That Drivers Are Not Integral to Its Business
  21. How to Flip an App for Profit
  22. Assorted Items of Note Following Apple’s September 2019 Product Launch Presentation
  23. Redefining ‘Privacy’ Can Give Users a False Impression of Secrecy
  24. Apple Says It Made Adjustments to the App Store to Reduce Its Inherent Influence Over Search Results
  25. Don’t Speak
  26. Apple Responds to Concerns About iOS Security After Uyghur Targeting
  27. Google Assistant’s Ambient Mode Turns Android Devices Into Passive ‘Hub’ Displays
  28. A Library for Bartenders
  29. Apple Releases Web App For Apple Music
  30. New Camera Sales Continue to Fall
  31. Samsung Says It’s Going to Start Selling the Galaxy Fold in Select Countries
  32. After Jack Dorsey’s Account Was Compromised, Twitter Disables Tweeting via SMS
  33. Investigation by Brave Finds Google Is Circumventing Privacy Controls by Providing Unique User Identifiers to Third Parties
  34. Don’t Play in Google’s Privacy Sandbox
  35. BuzzFeed News Investigation Finds Increasing Demand for Urgent Amazon Deliveries Has Led to Safety Corners Cut, Resulting in Collisions and Deaths
  36. Uyghur Android and Windows Users Also Targeted in Malware Campaign

August 2019

  1. Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Account Compromised
  2. Teens Are Making Short Cinematic Videos on TikTok
  3. A Very Deep Dive Into iOS Exploit Chains Found in the Wild
  4. Apple’s New Independent Repair Provider Program
  5. Apple Announces Changes to Siri Privacy, Audio Review, and Data Retention
  6. Every Credit Card Transaction Leaves a Trail of Data Sharing
  7. Old-Media Celebrities are Vlogging on YouTube
  8. The Many Problems With Facebook’s Tool to Dissociate Off-Facebook Behavioural Data
  9. ‘The HomePod’s Fancy Technology Is Wasted’
  10. Apple’s Iterative Approach with Maps Contrasts with the Many Services Google Has Shut Down
  11. Exploring Google’s Flimsy Proposal for Web Privacy Protections
  12. The Adults in the Room
  13. DoorDash Announces It Will No Longer Skim Tips From Workers
  14. Google Proposes New Privacy and Anti-Fingerprinting Controls for the Web
  15. Now AMP Runs Scripts
  16. Nation Stunned by Support Document Explaning Ways in Which an Apple Card May Not Look New Forever
  17. Teslas Can’t Drive Autonomously Around Parking Lots, but the Company Thinks That It Will Ship Full Automation by Early Next Year
  18. Fixerrific Is a Tiny Safari Extension That Improves Twitter on the Web
  19. Opting Out of Binding Arbitration Isn’t Just an Apple Card Thing
  20. The Fate of the iTunes Store in MacOS Catalina
  21. Disinformation Campaigns Targeting Hong Kong Protesters Run Rampant on Twitter
  22. Media’s Mega-Mergers Are Already Having an Impact on Storytelling
  23. Server-Side Rendering With AMP
  24. WebKit Publishes Tracking Prevention Policy
  25. Reflecting on the Targeted Harassment of Women on the Internet, Five Years After ‘Gamergate’
  26. The Cost of Cross-Platform Code Sharing
  27. Amazon’s Bezos Brigade Unleashed On Twitter
  28. Tech Companies Should Be More Upfront and Plain-Spoken with Practices That Could Violate Users’ Privacy
  29. Suprema’s Biometrics Database with Fingerprints, Face Photos, and Plain Text Passwords Found to Be Publicly Accessible
  30. Apple Card’s Targeted Ads May Be Non-Creepy, But They’re Still Unexpected
  31. Netflix Is Starting to Behave a Lot More Like a Traditional Big Studio
  32. Automattic Acquires Tumblr
  33. In Pursuit of Increased and Diversified Revenue Streams, Google’s Internal Culture Eroded
  34. We’re All Killing Uber Just By Using It
  35. The FTC Completely Blew Its Settlement With Equifax
  36. Uber Lost Over $5 Billion Last Quarter, Including $3.9 Billion in Stock-Based Compensation After IPO
  37. Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials
  38. Describing ‘Top Gun’
  39. The Grey Fog of Moderating the Web
  40. Despite Tech’s Universal Reach, Mainstream Writers Remain Overwhelmingly White
  41. A Preview of CarPlay Changes in iOS 13
  42. ‘Mastered for iTunes’ Becomes ‘Apple Digital Masters’
  43. Opting Out of the Apple Card Arbitration Provision
  44. In Yelp Partnership, Grubhub Is Taking Extortionate Commission Fees from Restaurants by Substituting Phone Numbers Without Their Knowledge
  45. Verizon Announces Four Confusing ‘Unlimited’ Plans
  46. Apple Suspends Human Analysis of Siri Responses in Response to Privacy Concerns
  47. Elon Musk’s ‘Boring Company’ Plans for Underwhelming Las Vegas Transit System for CES 2021
  48. The FTC Pleads With Claimants to Accept Credit Monitoring After Pitiful Equifax Money Pot Empties

July 2019

  1. Tim Cook’s Comments on Manufacturing and Supply Chain Questions
  2. Over 100 Million Capital One Customers in U.S. and Canada Compromised
  3. Fast Software, the Best Software
  4. Contractors Also Listen to Some Siri Audio Without Users’ Explicit Knowledge
  5. T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Approved by Justice Department, FCC Expected to Concur
  6. You Have a Moral Obligation to Claim Your Portion of the Equifax Breach Settlement
  7. Apple Acquires ‘Majority’ of Intel’s Cellular Modem Business
  8. Amazon Has Entered Into Agreements With U.S. Police Departments to Push Their Ring Doorbell Cameras with Kickbacks
  9. Samsung Swears That It Has Fixed the Galaxy Fold
  10. Details of Facebook Penalty Released by FTC
  11. Attorney General William Barr Really Wants to Read Your iMessages
  12. Plex Makes Piracy Just Another Streaming Service
  13. WatchOS 5.3 Enables ECG Support for Canadian and Singaporean Users
  14. Bloomberg: Apple Sold ‘Low Tens of Thousands’ of Gold Watches
  15. Equifax to Pay $100 Million CFPB Fine and Set Aside Hundreds of Millions to Compensate Consumers
  16. A Reporter Spent a Few Days as a Gig Economy Food Courier
  17. NSO Group Spyware Can Exfiltrate Individual Users’ Cloud-Stored Data Using Credentials Stored On Targeted Devices
  18. Six Popular Chrome and Firefox Extensions Funnelled User Browsing Data to Nacho Analytics
  19. Tesla Workers in Describe Pressure Meet Goals by Building Model 3s in Tents
  20. Into the Abyss
  21. The First Generation of 5G Phones Are Half-Baked
  22. The NYT Wonders If We’ve Hit ‘Peak Podcast’
  23. Bloomberg: Apple Plans to Fund Original and Exclusive Podcasts
  24. Dropbox Widely Distributed Its New Shittier Desktop App Today
  25. Dieter Bohn Reviews the 2019 MacBook Air
  26. How Many Kinds of USB-C to USB-C Cables Are There?
  27. The Effects of Errors in Foundational Radio Wave Research Are Still Being Felt in the 5G Era
  28. Photos From Apollo 11 on Its Fiftieth Anniversary
  29. Amazon.com Remains a Mess
  30. Apple’s 2019 256GB MacBook Air Includes a Slower SSD Than 2018 Model
  31. State DMVs Earn Millions by Selling Personal Data to Brokers and Marketing Firms
  32. The Cranberry Caucus Is Insanely Powerful
  33. FTC Expected to Hand Facebook the World’s Most Expensive Speeding Ticket
  34. AT&T Does the Obvious Thing Its CEO Said It Wouldn’t Do and Restricts Its Valuable Media Properties
  35. Google Confirms Audio Recordings from Home Devices Are Reviewed by Humans
  36. Lobbying Organization for Google and Facebook Launch Nonsense Campaign Arguing for User Tracking Across the Web
  37. Facebook Begins Disclosing Data Brokers and Targeting Information for Advertisements
  38. ‘Reply All’ Investigates YouTube’s Metrics for Recommendations
  39. Apple Uses Its Malware Removal Tool to Block Vulnerable Versions of Zoom and Its Hidden Local Server
  40. Foxconn Says It Will Create 1,500 Jobs in Wisconsin, 11,500 Fewer than Promised
  41. Unsuccessful Moderation at YouTube’s Scale
  42. WannaCry, Two Years Later
  43. MacBook Apparently Discontinued, MacBook Pro Gains Touch Bar on All Models
  44. Zoom Teleconferencing Software Has a Vulnerability That Allows an Attacker to View a User’s Webcam
  45. Tim Wu Explains Why He Thinks Facebook Should Be Broken Up
  46. Dark Patterns Across a Sample of 11,000 Shopping Websites
  47. Scrutiny Is the Prize of Success
  48. Customs and Border Protection Have Bought Themselves a GrayKey
  49. FaceTime Attention Correction in iOS 13 Fixes Apparent Eye Positioning During Video Calls
  50. Chinese Border Guards Are Conducting Surveillance on Tourists’ Phones
  51. Apple Sans Ive
  52. Xiaomi Introduces Familiar-Looking Mimoji
  53. A Deep Deconstruction of a Surveillance Feature in One Email Client
  54. Ignoring Opposition, ICANN Eliminates Price Caps on .org Domain Names

June 2019

  1. Politico: American Officials Met to Discuss Outlawing Encryption
  2. Ive Is, Apparently, Irreplaceable
  3. Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple
  4. Amazon’s Major Role in Universal Surveillance
  5. Most Mapping Products Are Insufficient for Cyclists
  6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Tech
  7. Scripting Languages to Be Removed in a Future Version of MacOS
  8. Piracy Could Make a Comeback in the Streaming Age
  9. The Airbnb Effect
  10. Streaming Music Platforms Are Typically Designed in a Way That Is Incompatible with Classical Music
  11. Catalyst Apps From MacOS Mojave Not Updated in Catalina
  12. In E.U. Antitrust Case Response, Apple Argues That Spotify Pays 15% Commission on Just 0.5% of Subscribers
  13. What If All Ads Were Non-Creepy Ads Again?
  14. Theft With Permission
  15. Interviews with Contract Moderators for Facebook Describe PTSD and a Psychologically Debilitating Work Environment
  16. No-Click Google Searches
  17. Consortium Led by Facebook Announces Libra, a Digital Currency
  18. ‘Amazon’s Choice’ Recommends Some Obviously Crappy Products
  19. We’re Apparently Scanning Our TVs for Viruses Now
  20. Huawei and Samsung Issue Updates on the Status of Their Folding Phones
  21. Genius Accuses Google of Lifting Its Lyrics Transcriptions in Knowledge Panels
  22. The ‘C’ Word
  23. Uber and Lyft Desperately Don’t Want to Be Required to Consider Their Drivers as Employees
  24. The New Wilderness
  25. Dropbox Debuts New Client, Increases Plan Prices
  26. ‘The Bing of Maps’
  27. The FCC Said Repealing Net Neutrality Rules Would Help Consumers, But It Hasn’t
  28. Privacy Policies Are Incomprehensible Disasters
  29. Postcards From Chernobyl
  30. How DRM Has Permitted Google to Have an ‘Open Source’ Browser That Is Still Under Its Exclusive Control
  31. New Study Shows That All This Ad Targeting Doesn’t Really Work
  32. Four Links Regarding the Building Antitrust Cases Against Large Tech Companies
  33. Historically Significant Master Recordings Destroyed in 2008 Fire at Universal Studios
  34. License Plate Reader Data From Perceptics and CBP Photos of Travellers Leaked in Likely Related Breaches
  35. A Couple of Observations on the Availability of the New Mac Pro
  36. A Giant List of Lesser-Known New Things from WWDC 2019
  37. The Suddenly-Relevant-Again Mac OS X Introduction
  38. The NeXT Era Ends, and the Swift Era Begins
  39. On the Attainability of Apple’s Professional Products
  40. Commitments to Privacy Are Necessarily Long-Term Obligations
  41. The Star of WWDC Was Privacy
  42. If ‘Big Tech’ Is a Huge Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?
  43. The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019
  44. Apple Posts Support Document on Transitioning Away From iTunes in MacOS 10.15 Catalina
  45. Apple’s Global Accessibility Head on the New Features in iOS 13 and MacOS 10.15
  46. At WWDC, Apple Furthers Its Privacy Lead
  47. The New Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
  48. FTC and DOJ to Split Antitrust Investigations Into Major Tech Companies
  49. SF Symbols
  50. Uber’s Path of Destruction

May 2019

  1. An Error Occurred
  2. Qualcomm’s Twenty-Year Shakedown
  3. Vice Visits Huawei’s Campus
  4. Apple Expected to Remove 3D Touch in Future iPhone Models
  5. Digital Music News in 2018: ‘Apple Is Shutting Down iTunes Music Downloads on March 31st, 2019’
  6. Apple Defends App Store Practices in Light of Antitrust Discourse
  7. The iPod Touch Now Has an A10 SoC and Up To 256 GB of Storage
  8. Sleeping Phones Lie
  9. A Look at Apple’s Privacy Approach, From Chips to Services
  10. A Year After GDPR, Google and Facebook Are Less Impacted Than Smaller Companies
  11. iFixit Dissects a New MacBook Pro
  12. AT&T Explains Its Surveillance Advertising Hellscape
  13. Techdirt Settles with Shiva Ayyadurai and Documents History of Email in Subsequent Post
  14. Panic Announces Playdate
  15. Facebook Provides Sensitive User Data to Corporate Partners
  16. The Start-Ups Building ‘Dark Kitchens’ for Delivery-Only Restaurants
  17. Reading the Room
  18. The News Is That They Mentioned the Keyboard’s Reliability at All
  19. Thoughts on NIST’s New Privacy Framework
  20. Apple Announces New MacBook Pro Models With, Yes, Updated Keyboards
  21. WWDC 2019 Prelude
  22. On the Apparently Unmoving FCC Investigation Into Phone Carriers Selling Subscriber Location Data
  23. A Report From the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
  24. The Night the Lights Went Out
  25. A History of Data Collection in Mobile Games
  26. Consistently Stupid U.S. Administration Solicits Complaints of ‘Bias’ by Websites
  27. Recent Actions by Adobe Are a Case Study in Why Customers Don’t Like Subscriptions
  28. Throw Your Laptop Into the Sea, but the Surveillance Economy Will Still Win
  29. Reuters Source: Facebook Facing 20-Year FTC Privacy Consent Agreement
  30. Why I (Still) Love Tech
  31. AT&T to Pull WarnerMedia Shows from Competing Streaming Services
  32. Leonid Bershidsky Wrote Maybe the Dumbest Take on This WhatsApp Spyware Story
  33. WhatsApp Voice Calls Used to Inject NSO Group Spyware on Phones
  34. Lawsuit Targeting Apple’s 30% App Store Levy Is Allowed to Proceed, U.S. Supreme Court Rules
  35. Questions About 5G Safety Are Being Politicized
  36. It’s Not Enough to Break Up Tech Giants
  37. Google’s New Privacy Features Put the Responsibility on Users
  38. Taking Stock of Subscriptions
  39. Chris Hughes, a Facebook Co-Founder, Argues for the Breakup of Facebook
  40. Driving Change
  41. Vice Reporter Becomes a Victim of Google’s Featured Snippets
  42. Marzipan Expectations
  43. Section 230 of the CDA Does Not Create Definitions for ‘Platforms’ or ‘Publishers’
  44. Unpacking Google’s Apparent Turnaround on Privacy
  45. The Potential Advantages of a JavaScript Whitelist
  46. Current and Former Employees Say the Apple Store Isn’t as Good as It Once Was
  47. Maciej Cegłowski to Testify at Senate Hearing Tomorrow on Digital Privacy
  48. A Crisis of Nature
  49. Defining ‘Free’ For All
  50. Facebook to Shut Down Bonfire, Its Group Video Chat App
  51. The Creation and Domination of Amazon Prime, as Told by Those Who Made It Happen
  52. As Apple Fights ‘Right to Repair’ Legislation, Internal Documents Show That the Company Is Capable of Fulfilling Its Goals In Part
  53. Giving an F
  54. Instagram and Facebook Ban InfoWars and Far-Right Extremists
  55. Server Maker Super Micro to Ditch ‘Made-in-China’ Parts
  56. Apple Is Learning to Really Sell
  57. Facebook Officially Announces Merger of Messaging Service Infrastructure
  58. Coverage of Facebook’s F8 Conference
  59. Recode Is Now at Vox

April 2019

  1. Bloomberg Seemingly Botches a Report on Backdoors in Chinese-Made Equipment. This Is Not a Repeat From October 2018
  2. Yet Another Entry in the Canon of Wishful Pieces About Microsoft’s Design Team
  3. Overcast Adds Podcast Clip Sharing
  4. Third-Party Parental Control Apps for iOS Devices Are Being Restricted
  5. Intuit and H&R Block Prevented Search Engines From Displaying Their Free Tax Filing Products
  6. Today in ‘Things Apple Must Do’: Offer a Lossless Streaming Service
  7. Privacy Commissioner of Canada Finds Facebook Broke the Law, But Regulators Are Powerless to Act Immediately
  8. The Information: Apple’s AWS Bill Is Falling, Not Rising
  9. Facebook Expects to Resolve FTC Privacy Investigation for $3–5 Billion
  10. Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Is an Unlawful Search
  11. The Apple Watch Turns Four: Some Thoughts
  12. Regarding Animoji in Messages and FaceTime, Again
  13. Who Run the World? Recommendation Algorithms
  14. The Markup Loses Editor-in-Chief Julia Angwin, and Key Staff Follow
  15. Apple Instructs Stores to Prioritize MacBook Keyboard Repairs
  16. Apple’s Monthly AWS Bill is Over $30 Million
  17. First Reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Fold
  18. Facebook Acknowledges Millions More Passwords Stored in Plain Text, and Contacts Uploaded Without Consent
  19. Samsung Galaxy Fold Reviewers Are Noticing Screen Problems After Days of Use
  20. Apple Music’s Improved ‘For You’ Tab
  21. As Qualcomm and Apple Settle Litigation, Intel Announces It Won’t Make 5G Modems After All
  22. Facebook Shared User Data With High-Spending Advertisers, and Repeatedly Proposed Selling Data
  23. The Architecture of Humanity
  24. Twitter’s Complicated and Messy Verification Process
  25. Internet Association Lobbying Group Defangs Illinois State Bill to Ban Unauthorized Microphone Use
  26. Foxconn Denies Verge Report That Buildings Photographed Empty Are Actually Empty While Announcing Development of Another Empty Building
  27. Tesla Artificially Caps $35,000 Model 3, Makes It Available for Purchase in Retail Stores Only
  28. AMP Doesn’t Always Improve Site Performance, But Many Publishers Have No Good Choice
  29. The Narrow, Subtle Case Against Julian Assange
  30. Foxconn Continues to Be a Mystery in Wisconsin
  31. Supermassive Black Hole Revealed for First Time Through Interferometry and Artificial Intelligence
  32. Ad Targeting Settings in Facebook Reveal Use of Mass Collections of Private Data
  33. New Music, Podcasts, and Books Applications Rumoured to Be Coming to MacOS
  34. Apple Drops Data Migration Fee For New Macs and Repairs
  35. Invisible User Tracking by HTML5’s New ‘Ping’ Attribute for Links
  36. Study Suggests Users Don’t Expect Google To Collect as Much Data as It Does
  37. Microsoft Announces It Will Stop Selling E-Books Which, Due to DRM, Will Make Existing Customer Libraries Unusable
  38. Facebook Buys Native Advertising Series in the Telegraph Defending Its Business Practices
  39. New Powerbeats Pro Wireless Headphones Announced, and Some General Thoughts on Bluetooth Headphones
  40. Pursuing Increased Viewership, YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings About the Rise of Conspiracy and Extremist Videos
  41. Firefox Nightlies Begin Requiring User Action to Trigger Push Notification Requests
  42. Facebook Demands Passwords to Some New Users’ Email Accounts for ‘Verification’
  43. The Effect of Product Shutdowns on Google’s Reputation
  44. Regarding That Ostensibly ‘Small Number of Customers’ Reporting Problems With Their MacBook Keyboards
  45. Low-Light Photography With the Huawei P30 Pro

March 2019

  1. Apple Cancels AirPower
  2. Following the Launch of Apple News Plus, Apple Announces Closure of Texture on May 28
  3. The FTC Is Investigating ISP Privacy Practices
  4. In a Statement to Joanna Stern, Apple Acknowledges Persistent Problems With MacBook Keyboards
  5. The Second-Generation AirPods Are a Little Glimpse of Magic
  6. Censorship of Apple News in China, Even on Roaming Devices
  7. E.U. Votes to Pass Copyright Directive Inclusive of Articles With Potentially Damaging Effects for the Web
  8. Some Brief Thoughts on Services, Generally, and Apple’s Announcements Today, More Specifically
  9. The Real-World Effects of Google Maps’ Neighbourhood Labels
  10. Opensignal Report Finds AT&T’s Made-Up ‘5G E’ Service Is Slower Than 4G Service From T-Mobile and Verizon
  11. Twitter’s Algorithmic Timeline Sometimes Surfaces Radical Tweets, Boosting Their Reach
  12. Instagram Accounts Promoting Discrimination, Hate, and Conspiracy Theories Are Thriving
  13. Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
  14. Facebook Says That It Will Stop Allowing Discrimination by Age, Race, Gender, and Location in Some Ads
  15. On the Third Day of Launches, Apple Showed to Me: Updated AirPods
  16. Today is iMac Day
  17. Ahead of Next Week’s Event, Apple Introduces New iPad Air and iPad Mini Models
  18. MySpace Lost All Music Uploaded From 2003 to 2015
  19. A Sensation Not Unlike Slapping Yourself in the Face
  20. Rich Lowry Pennybags
  21. Charlie Whiting Dies Aged 66
  22. App Store Covers RSS Readers
  23. Apple Officially Announces WWDC 2019 Dates
  24. Murdoch’s Myopic Antitrust Concerns
  25. ‘River of News’-Style RSS Reader and Reeder 4 Beta
  26. Adam Clark Estes Has Scratched His iPhone XS’ Display
  27. Apple Officially Announces March 25 Event, ‘It’s Show Time’
  28. You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, But It Didn’t Forget You
  29. Leica Launches the Q2
  30. Apple Is Now Commissioning Original Artwork for Apple Music Playlists
  31. The Uber-Style Servant Economy
  32. German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Prices With Fuel Savings Estimate
  33. The MacBook Hierarchy of Needs
  34. Berndnaut Smilde’s Ephemeral Sculptures
  35. Mark Zuckerberg Spews Some Bullshit About Facebook Becoming a ‘Privacy-Focused’ Communications Platform
  36. Updates on Apple’s Supply Chain for 2019
  37. Fifteen Million Fewer Americans Are Using Facebook Now Compared to 2017
  38. Thunderbolt 3 Becomes USB 4
  39. AirPods as a Status Symbol
  40. What Using an iPhone SE Is Like in 2019
  41. ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is a Remarkably Common Password
  42. The Secrets of Stéphane Breitwieser, One the World’s Greatest Art Thieves
  43. Facebook Allows Users to Look Up Others With Their Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number, With No Opt-Out
  44. Facebook Is Working on a Patreon Competitor
  45. Google Rejects Calls to Remove Absher From the Google Play Store
  46. Electronic Frontier Foundation Calls for Apple To Allow User Encryption for iCloud Data
  47. Facebook Says 18% of Research Spyware Users Were Teens, Not 5% as They Previously Stated
  48. Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus Reviews
  49. Spectre Camera

February 2019

  1. Cellebrite’s Smartphone Unlocking Tools Found on Secondhand Market, Some with User Data
  2. ‘Cooler Screens’ Is a Digital Door for Supermarkets With Iris Tracking and Cameras
  3. In Letter, Apple Confirms Layoffs in Autonomous Vehicle Team
  4. The Importance of Third-Party Repair Shops
  5. Critics Are Wary of the FTC’s New Tech Antitrust Task Force
  6. FTC Creates Antitrust Task Force to Monitor Tech Industry
  7. Kara Swisher Interviews Rhizome Artistic Director Michael Connor
  8. Adam Clark Estes Ditched Chrome for Safari and You Can Too
  9. Content Moderators Describe Traumatizing Work for Facebook and Twitter
  10. Huawei Introduces the Mate X
  11. Om Malik Re-Embraces Flickr
  12. Ad Buyers Shrug at YouTube’s Child Exploitation Crisis
  13. Some Apps Using Facebook’s SDK Are Sending Sensitive User Data to Facebook
  14. A Critique of the Presentation of ‘Classical’ Music on Apple Music
  15. Study: Broadband ‘Zero Rating’ Actually Costs Customers More
  16. An Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Ostensibly Against Net Neutrality
  17. Ejector App for MacOS Makes the Eject Key Useful
  18. Bloomberg Reports Multistage Rollout of ‘Marzipan’ Apps to Eventually Scale From iPhone to MacOS
  19. Samsung Announces Galaxy Fold, a Weird Folding Smartphone Available in April
  20. Google Says Previously-Undisclosed Microphone in Nest Secure Devices Was ‘Never Supposed to Be a Secret’
  21. On the Timeliness of Apple’s Services Push
  22. Facing Opposition, Amazon Scraps New York Office Plans
  23. Lee Clow Announces Retirement
  24. Adding a Separate Developer Account to Your iOS Device
  25. A Brief History of iOS’ Notes App
  26. Apple Starts Requiring Two-Factor Authentication for Developer Accounts
  27. Apple Invites Hollywood Stars to March 25 Event
  28. Amazon’s Acquisition of Eero Feels Like Borg Assimilation
  29. Panic to Rename Coda
  30. Buzzfeed News: Apple Has an Event Planned for March 25
  31. Headlines Matter, and WWDC Dates Are Not Yet ‘Confirmed’
  32. ‘Reduce Transparency’ in MacOS Mojave
  33. Sensor Tower: U.S. iPhone Users Spent, on Average, $79 on Apps Last Year
  34. Amazon to Acquire Eero, Makers of Mesh WiFi Systems
  35. Kashmir Hill Concludes Her Experiment in Blocking the Five Biggest Tech Companies
  36. Death to Autoplay
  37. American Broadband Companies Cut Capital Expenditure in 2018, Undermining Argument for Dismantling Net Neutrality
  38. Jeff Bezos Reveals A.M.I., Owners of the National Enquirer, Tried to Extort Him
  39. Apple Releases Security Update With Fix for Group FaceTime Bug, Promises to Compensate Teenaged Finder
  40. Safari 12.1, Shipping in Next MacOS and iOS Updates, Drops Support for Do Not Track Preference
  41. Messages’ Mixed Messages
  42. Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customers’ Real-Time Location Data for Years
  43. AnandTech and Paul Thurrott Each Published iPhone XR Reviews This Week
  44. Apple Announces Departure of Angela Ahrendts in April, Replaced by Deirdre O’Brien
  45. To Comply With Recent Legislation, Apple Is Now Storing Russian Users’ Data on Local Servers
  46. Warby Parker Updates App With Virtual Try-On

January 2019

  1. Apple’s Slightly Uncomfortable Power of Good
  2. Google to Stop Distributing Screenwise App, Highly Similar to Facebook’s Creepy Research App
  3. Fox Con
  4. U.A.E. Spying Team Had Tool to Pilfer Contents of iOS Devices by Messaging Them
  5. Following TechCrunch’s Scoop About Facebook’s Research App, Apple Has Revoked Facebook’s Enterprise Certificate
  6. Surveys Indicate That Americans Don’t Want Highly-Targeted Advertising
  7. Facebook Is Paying Teenagers to Install Its VPN, Which Monitors Their Network Activity in the Background
  8. Apple’s 2018 Report Card
  9. Pillar to Post
  10. Bugs in Group FaceTime Allow Callers to See and Hear Recipients’ End Without Them Answering
  11. A Critical Reading of Mark Zuckerberg’s Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
  12. For News, Something’s Got to Give
  13. Facebook Knowingly Duped Game-Playing Kids and Their Parents Out of Money
  14. Facebook Looks to Create Integrated Infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
  15. Following YouTube’s Recommendations Down the Rabbit Hole
  16. Proposed Changes to Chromium Would Restrict Ad Blockers
  17. Amazon’s Wish List
  18. Satya Nadella Calls for Stronger Privacy Protections
  19. Apple Announces ‘Shot on iPhone’ Contest With a Prize of Exposure
  20. Google Considering Pulling News Service From Europe Due to Proposed Copyright Directive
  21. An Experiment in Blocking Use of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft
  22. How ‘Smart’ Technology Gets You to Continue Paying Long After Point of Sale
  23. Comcast’s NBCUniversal to Launch Streaming Service
  24. Google Fined For GDPR Violation by French Data Protection Watchdog
  25. FTC Close to Ending Its Facebook Investigation
  26. How Secrecy Fuels Tech Paranoia
  27. Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants
  28. Pew: 74% of Facebook Users Have No Idea How Its Ads Work
  29. Tim Cook’s Time Magazine Editorial on Privacy
  30. Fine, I Admit I Have Some Thoughts About Slack’s New Branding
  31. Website Subscriptions Are Not Dead
  32. Signal v. Noise Leaves Medium
  33. In Europe, the New York Times Switched From Ad Exchanges to Direct Selling, and Grew Revenue
  34. Ajit Pai Refuses to Brief Lawmakers Over Phone-Tracking Scandal, Dubiously Blames Shutdown
  35. Apple Releases Smart Battery Cases for iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR
  36. DuckDuckGo Integrates Apple’s MapKit for Location Searches
  37. iTunes Movies and TV Shows Kremlinology
  38. Talking About Big Tech Monolithically Is Missing the Big, More Complex Picture
  39. Sources Say Amazon Ring Home Security Videos Were Stored Unencrypted and Were Widely-Accessible Internally
  40. After Vice Report, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Say Again They Will Stop Selling Location Data
  41. Facing Slowdown in China, Samsung Copies Apple
  42. European Regulators Try to Rein in Data Brokers
  43. Dates and Times With Siri
  44. Vice Investigation Reveals Obtaining Real-Time Smartphone Location Data Has Virtually No Oversight
  45. What Facebook Knows About Each User
  46. Personalized Apple Music 2018 Summary Shortcut
  47. The Future of the Apple TV in Light of This Samsung Deal
  48. Samsung, LG, and Vizio Announce Apple Services Compatibility
  49. We Need New Privacy Norms
  50. Apple Posts Support Article Addressing iPad Pro Bending
  51. Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
  52. Assorted Additional Thoughts on Apple’s Earnings Warning
  53. Apple Cuts Guidance for Q1 2019 by $5–9 Billion From Previous Forecast
  54. Amazon’s Long Reach

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