The Curious Engineer

Pixel Envy

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December 2022

  1. Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things
  2. Your Memories in Their Cloud
  3. We Are Doing the Familiar Privacy vs. Law Enforcement Argument Again
  4. This Year in Financial Scams
  5. LastPass Breached, Customers’ Password Vaults Stolen
  6. Benchmarks Need to Represent Actual Usage
  7. User Stylesheets Are Still Pretty Great and Should Be More Widely Supported
  8. Parting the Curtains of Google’s Ad Display Network
  9. TikTok Admits It Used Journalists’ Location Data to Try to Find Their Sources
  10. Scammers Are Taking Advantage of Equifax Breach Settlement Notices
  11. TikTok to Begin Showing Users Why a Video Was Recommended to Them
  12. Twitter Bans Links to Other Social Media Platforms
  13. Why We Argue About the Same Things Over and Over
  14. Publishing Blog Updates to Mastodon
  15. Negotiations Between MIT and the New W3C Organization Seem to Be Going Poorly
  16. Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report Still Shows a Platform Full of Suspicious and Poor-Quality Links
  17. It Barely Matters That Apple Missed Its Two-Year Goal for the Apple Silicon Transition
  18. AM Radio Is Being Dropped From Electric Cars
  19. A Tour of Eight Cities’ Technology Markets
  20. MarsEdit 5
  21. Third-Party App Store Knock-On Effects
  22. Bloomberg: Apple to Permit Third-Party App Stores in Europe
  23. Great Books of 2022
  24. Protocols, Not Products, Are to Thank for Podcasts
  25. Hot Bag MacBook
  26. Elon Musk Smeared a Former Twitter Executive in Front of His 121 Million Followers
  27. The Block, a Crypto News Site, Was Secretly Funded by Alameda Research
  28. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  29. ChatGPT Is a Smart Computer’s Impression of a Know-It-All
  30. Twitter’s New PR Team Finds More Normal Behaviour to Spin Conspiracies Around
  31. Apple Plans to Allow Developers to Add Communications Safety Features to Their Apps
  32. Bloomberg: Apple’s Ambitions for Its Car Project Have Been Scaled Back
  33. FCC Filing Indicates Tesla Plans to Equip Its Cars With Radar Again
  34. Apple Pushes iOS 16.2 Release Candidate With Optional End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Backups
  35. Diplomacy Update
  36. Apple Launches Self Service Repair in Eight European Countries
  37. Following Its Acquisition by Getty, Unsplash Now Has a Subscription Option
  38. My Social Media Is in an Mac App, or It’s Nowhere
  39. NSO Group’s Claim of Sovereign Immunity Will Likely Fail, Increasing Legal Pressure
  40. Inside the Investigation That Took Down AlphaBay and Hansa
  41. Apple’s Advertising Spend on Twitter
  42. Apple Continues to Tease Lossless Support in Future AirPods
  43. The Twitter Fizzle
  44. Andreessen Horowitz Stops Producing Marketing Gunge at Future.com
  45. Google Is Rolling Out ‘Side Rail’ Ads in Two Weeks

November 2022

  1. Wordle Answers Are Now Preselected Instead of Randomized
  2. Google Still Preserves Records of Sensitive Location Searches
  3. Extension of Copyright Law in Canada Will Take Effect on December 30, Threatening Public Domain
  4. MacBook ‘Butterfly’ Keyboard Class Action Settlement Receives Preliminary Court Approval
  5. One Wild Month
  6. The Early Years of Digital Cinema, From Some of the People Who Made It
  7. Tesla Rolls Out ‘Full Self Driving’ Beta to All U.S. And Canadian Owners Who Specced It
  8. Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report No Longer Looks Like the Worst of the Web
  9. The Smartphone Continues to Prove Its Form Factor Perfection
  10. Amazon Is Gutting Alexa
  11. Last.fm Turns Twenty
  12. Oh, the Places Your Apple ID Will Go
  13. The Rapid Security Response for iOS 16.2 Beta Was Just a Test
  14. The Twitter Train Chugs Along
  15. Younger Generations Have a More Complex Relationship With Data Privacy
  16. Sponsor: Due — Annoying, Indispensable, Game-Changing
  17. Two Questions For Twitter’s Future
  18. In 2018, Five Times as Many Shaw Employees Accepted Buyouts as the Company Expected
  19. Fred Brooks Has Died
  20. The Buzzfeed Era Has Passed
  21. New York Times Runs Bizarre Softball Article on FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried
  22. New Apple Store Opening in Vancouver This Friday
  23. As More Apple Retail Workers Push for Unionization, Some Reflect on the Changing Culture at the Stores
  24. The Bleak Cycle
  25. Coverage Continues of the Amazon’s Storefront Sliding Into an Pay-to-Play Scheme of Dubious Products
  26. Sponsor: Due — Annoying, Indispensable, Game-Changing
  27. Checking in on Semafor’s Separation of Factual Information and Analysis
  28. Advertisers Flocked to TikTok as It Became the Most Popular App on the Planet, Because of Course They Did
  29. Ian’s Tweet Museum
  30. ‘Using the Quest Pro Just Feels Like Work’
  31. Today at Twitter
  32. The Homer
  33. Why Is Rosetta 2 So Fast?
  34. Comedy Is Now Legal on Twitter
  35. iOS Updates Add Timeout for Receiving AirDrops From Everyone, but Only in China
  36. Verified Accounts on Twitter, Previously Indicated by a Blue Badge, Will Now Sport a Text Label on Profile Pages
  37. Diplomacy in China Has Allowed Apple to Skirt or Delay Legal Obligations
  38. iMessage for Android
  39. YouTube Is Launching ‘Shorts’ for Your TV
  40. Modern MacOS Upgrades Require Significant Free Disk Space
  41. Five Meta Myths
  42. Mimi Parker Dies Aged 55
  43. As Elon Musk Begins Overhauling Twitter, Mass Layoffs Have Started
  44. ‘If Books Could Kill’
  45. Two Great Things in MacOS Ventura
  46. ProPublica Scrambles to Check Translation in COVID Origin Story
  47. DHS Has Pulled Back on Tracking Election Disinformation
  48. The Intercept’s Story About Government Policing Disinformation Is ‘Journalistic Malpractice’
  49. Hundreds of Drones to Swarm New York Skyline for Candy Crush Advertisement
  50. Uber Tests Push Notification Slots for Third-Party Advertisers
  51. An In-Depth Look at the iPhone 14 Pro’s Many Cameras

October 2022

  1. Code Poetry
  2. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Appears to Work With U.S. Tech Companies to Flag Possible Misinformation
  3. Freetone for Adobe Creative Cloud
  4. Keep It Clean
  5. Apple Is Still Selling About Half Its Macs to People Who Have Never Owned One Before
  6. The View From Here
  7. U.S. Doctors Can Apply for Special Recognition on YouTube
  8. Mark Zuckerberg’s Net Worth has Dropped by $100 Billion in One Year
  9. Software Updates and Software Upgrades
  10. Apple Is Slowly Reducing How Much It Depends on Chinese Manufacturers
  11. Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Self-Driving Claims
  12. Twitter Is Losing Its ‘Heavy Tweeters’
  13. The Ad Store
  14. Matt Levine’s Crypto Article
  15. Receiving Emailed Receipts From Square Transactions Also Opts You Into a Marketing Machine
  16. The Wire Retracts Its Meta Stories
  17. Republicans Ignore Door Opened for Them and Sue Google
  18. Stage Manager in iPadOS 16
  19. Two Great MacOS 13 Ventura Reviews
  20. Apple’s Accelerating Ads Business
  21. Evans Hankey Is Leaving Apple
  22. Sponsor: Unread, an RSS Reader
  23. WaPo: Twitter Plans Mass Layoffs Regardless of Ownership
  24. Google Ads’ Dark Money
  25. Leica Reissues the M6
  26. Apple’s Parts Bin Mix-And-Match iPad Lineup
  27. Semafor Who?
  28. Kodak Is Hiring for Film Manufacturing in Rochester
  29. New Apple TV 4K With USB-C Remote
  30. The Wire Intends to Review Its Reporting on Meta
  31. Mixed Results for Spotify Exclusive Podcasts
  32. It Appears the Wire Is Still Getting Duped by Fake Meta Documentation
  33. Sponsor: Unread, an RSS Reader
  34. Meta Is Ending Support for Instant Articles
  35. Lipstick on a Pig
  36. ‘Microsoft 365’ Is the New Name for the Company’s Subscription-Based Productivity Suite
  37. Meta Is Borrowing From Google’s ‘Open’ Playbook
  38. Police Are Using DNA to Predict What Suspects May Look Like
  39. News Website Appears to Have Been Duped by Fake Internal Meta Documents
  40. Car Crash Detection
  41. E.U. Standardizes USB-C Smartphone Charging for 2024, Laptops by 2026
  42. Exploring Alternative Social Media Platforms
  43. Even the People Building Meta’s Augmented Reality Projects Do Not Find Them Compelling
  44. Most People on Twitter Are in Echo Chambers of Celebrity, Not Ideology
  45. It Is Getting Harder to Preserve the Internet
  46. Tim Cook Seems as Confused as the Rest of Us Are About Meta’s Plans
  47. Elon Musk Will Buy Twitter if Litigation Is Dropped
  48. The iPad’s Middle Child Syndrome
  49. Would You Like to Buy an Ad?
  50. Advertising to Bots
  51. The Climate Impact of ‘Freight Sprawl’

September 2022

  1. Fatal Flaws in a Defunct CIA Covert Communications System
  2. Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary Sale Ends Soon
  3. Recently-Launched Instagram Clone Removed From the App Store
  4. Google Is Giving Up on Stadia, Permitting Games to Be Played Until January 18
  5. Forty Years of the CD
  6. Tech YouTubers Are Finding Expanded Batteries in Their Libraries of Samsung Smartphones
  7. Alberta Government Caves to Lyft
  8. Stage Manager Coming to A12 iPad Pro Models, External Display Support Coming to M1 iPad Pros in a Future Software Update
  9. NYT: Biden Administration and TikTok May Reach Deal on Continued Operations
  10. Outdated vs. Complete Apps
  11. Live Activity Guidelines
  12. How Parking Applications Affect Your Privacy
  13. Calgary Parking Authority Confirms Data Breach Impacted 12,000 Times More Customers Than It First Admitted
  14. Sponsor: Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary Sale
  15. Prompt Injection Attacks Against GPT-3
  16. The Apple Watch Ultra Is a Good Start, but Falls Short in More Intensive Testing
  17. Team Cymru’s Mass Surveillance Products Are Like the NSA With Even Fewer Warrants
  18. On ‘Good’ Coffee
  19. The iPhone 14 Is Easier to Repair
  20. Indie Anniversaries
  21. ‘The Most Angrily Incoherent First Amendment Decision’
  22. The Follower
  23. Because Design Professionals Need Fewer Software Choices and Less Competition, Adobe Will Acquire Figma
  24. What Is in a Name?
  25. What3Words Is a Mess
  26. Google Pays ‘Enormous’ Sums to Maintain Its Search Engine Dominance
  27. Apple Releases iOS 16
  28. At Code, TikTok Unites Primarily American Tech Factions Against It
  29. Instagram Users Are Avoiding Reels
  30. Wikipedia’s Secret Sauce
  31. Queen Elizabeth’s Death
  32. Modular Smartphone Dreams and Practical Compromises
  33. The Steve Jobs Archive
  34. You Can Get an OLED iPhone for $600
  35. Second-Generation AirPods Pro
  36. Apple’s Dynamic Island
  37. Most Pantone Libraries Are Being Removed from Adobe Creative Cloud Apps
  38. Cloudflare Denies Business to Organized Griefing and Targeted Harrassment Website Kiwi Farms
  39. Moderation Standards on Google Play and Apple’s App Store
  40. Portrait Mode Past, Present, and Foreground
  41. An Investigation of Fog Data Science, Which Provides Device Locating Services to U.S. Police
  42. Bill Stipulating an ‘Age Appropriate Design Code’ Begins Its World Tour

August 2022

  1. Apple Prepares to Leverage Displaced Meta Advertisers
  2. Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme
  3. Amazon’s Upcoming Ring Nation ‘Show’
  4. Software Needs a Warranty
  5. Walmart Marketplace Seller Offers Fake $17 30TB Hard Drive That’s Actually Two Small SD Cards in a Trench Coat
  6. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Kochava
  7. Spitballing the iPhone SE 4
  8. Privacy Bill Triggers Lobbying Surge by Data Brokers
  9. ‘Silicon Values’
  10. Google Duo Is Back, Kind of, and It Launches One of Two Apps Called Google Meet
  11. White House to Make All Federally Funded Research Immediately Accessible
  12. Marques Brownlee Reviews Hyundai’s Ioniq 5
  13. Twitter Whistleblower Seems to Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument About Spam
  14. 9to5Mac: iOS 16.1 to Let Users Delete the Apple Wallet App
  15. Apple Pay Patience
  16. This Year’s Big iPad Update to Be Released After iOS 16 as iPadOS 16.1
  17. On the Internet, Nobody Knows You are You
  18. Investor Pitch Deck Claims Unplugged Services Are to Be Backed by Servers in International Waters, and Other Fictions
  19. iOS Apps Can Inject JavaScript on Webpages Loaded in In-App Browsers; TikTok and Instagram May Collect Sensitive Events
  20. Meta Gets Passive-Aggressive With TikTok
  21. Lyft Asks Alberta Government to Drop Commercial Licence Requirement
  22. Another Free Speech Platform Cannot Bear the Sting of Mild Criticism
  23. ‘Unclear Effects’ Responses and Corrections
  24. A Short History of Apple and Facebook Digging in Their Heels
  25. Why Was There Such a Huge Gap Between App Tracking Transparency’s Release and Its Apparent Effects?
  26. Custom UI Oddities, Past, Present, and Future
  27. ‘Unclear Effects’ Postscript
  28. Ad Tech Revenue Statements Indicate Unclear Effects of App Tracking Transparency
  29. Which New iOS and MacOS Features Do People Actually Use?
  30. The Roomba Privacy Angle
  31. Products’ Useful Lifespans Should Be Longer Than Their Batteries
  32. FEC Draft Green Lights Gmail Plan for More Political Spam
  33. The Women Calling Out Apple’s Handling of Misconduct Claims
  34. Unplugged Responds, Kind Of
  35. A ‘Columbo’ Moment
  36. Core Values
  37. Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Will Proceed to Discovery
  38. The Many Capabilities of Proxy Icons

July 2022

  1. Apple Adding Ads to App Store Today View and Individual App Listings
  2. Instagram Walks Back Its Changes for Now
  3. Unplugged Mysteries
  4. Changes to iMessage Undo Send and Message Editing in Latest Beta
  5. Try Glass
  6. Meta Will Be ‘Operating With Increased Intensity’
  7. The Consequences of Silence
  8. China’s Surveillance State Is Causing a Problem With Data Leaks
  9. Does Meta Really Want People to Make Things for Its Platforms?
  10. ‘The Gray Man’ Is a $200 Million Homework Assignment
  11. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act
  12. Alberta Legislator Who Tested Security of Provincial Vaccine Website Facing Possible Fine
  13. Jay Carney Leaving Amazon to Join Airbnb
  14. MacOS Monterey 12.5 Still Does Not Let Users Check Charging Bluetooth Device Status From the Menu Bar
  15. Deadline Passes for Tech Companies to Register With Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information
  16. Instagram Cannot Beat Them, Joins Them
  17. Placer.ai Admits Users Accessed Data for Planned Parenthood Clinics
  18. TikTok Suspicions
  19. The Future of Cars as Computers
  20. Apple Reaches Settlement in U.S. Over Butterfly Keyboards
  21. Instagram Is QVC 2.0
  22. Facebook Has Started Encrypting Links to Counter Browser Privacy Efforts
  23. A 14-Inch MacBook Pro and a Few Thoughts
  24. Amazon Is Funding the Faux Grassroots ‘Competitiveness Coalition’
  25. Geraldine DeRuiter Tried Twenty-One Flavours of Mountain Dew for Some Reason
  26. ‘Hard Pass’ on Plan to Let Political Emails Bypass Spam Filters
  27. Nikon and Canon to Stop Making DSLRs
  28. Marriott Hacked, Again
  29. Rooting for Nothing
  30. Scam Calls and Emails Are Costing People More Than Money and Time
  31. Giving a Shit as a Service
  32. FTC Promises Crackdown on Illegal Misuse of Health Information and Ostensibly De-Identified Data
  33. NYT: Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive
  34. Migration Assistant Magic
  35. Cache of Documents From Uber’s Travis Kalanick Years Reveal Exactly What You Expect
  36. The Best GeoGuessr Players in the World Know That Google Maps Spot Instantly
  37. Rogers Says Services Mostly Restored
  38. Ding Dong Ditches
  39. Matt Y, the Cable Guy
  40. How Normal Am I?
  41. Apple Previews Lockdown Mode, Coming to iOS 16 and MacOS Ventura
  42. European Parliament Passes Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act
  43. Vast Leaked Cache of Chinese Police Files Offered for Sale
  44. Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Location Data Collected From Visits to Health Facilities
  45. Two TikTok Updates

June 2022

  1. It Is Now the Financial Times’ Turn to Plead for Some Kind of Biometrics Privacy Control
  2. App Developers Can Apply to Use Third-Party Payment Processors in South Korea
  3. The ‘Hollow Abstraction’ of Web3
  4. A Vancouver Radio Station Played ‘Killing in the Name’ All Day Long
  5. The Problem of TikTok
  6. The Passkey Future is Coming
  7. Democrats ‘Exploring’ Legislation to Protect Data in Reproductive Health Apps
  8. Google Hangouts Is Being Deprecated Again, This Time for Real, Maybe
  9. U.S. Consulting Firm Targeted Victory Likely Driver of Misguided Spam Filter Bias Bill
  10. Anti-Anti-Vaccine Stickers
  11. Italy Becomes the Most Recent Country to Rule Google Analytics Is Illegal
  12. With Roe v. Wade Overturned, the United States Is Not Going Back, It Is Going Somewhere Worse
  13. China’s Surveillance State Is Growing
  14. Pasta Epiphany
  15. Google’s Declining Search Results
  16. Apple’s Feedback Mechanism Is Broken
  17. How Period-Tracker Apps Treat Your Data
  18. U.S. Senate Bill Would Ban Data Brokers From Sharing Location and Health Data
  19. Apple Watch Series 3 Thankfully Incompatible With WatchOS 9
  20. Stage Manager Compatibility
  21. Taste, Figures, Images
  22. AirDrop Helper Makes Use of MacBook Notches
  23. Nobody Knows How to Watch Movies Anymore
  24. Facebook Plans ‘Discovery Engine’ Feed Change to Compete With TikTok
  25. Teslas Running Autopilot Involved in at Least 273 Crashes in Past Year
  26. The Money Powering the Servant Economy Is Drying Up
  27. CMA Report on Mobile Ecosystems
  28. Google Says It Bans Gun Ads, but It Will Still Place Them on Websites and in Apps
  29. Apparent Conflicts of Interest in App Tracking Transparency Rules Targeted by German Antitrust Probe
  30. Clarus Returns Home
  31. Ahead of Their Time
  32. Canadian Government to End Use of COVID Alert App
  33. Apple Paid the Netherlands €50 Million as It Dragged Its Feet on Legal Compliance
  34. Inside Apple’s iOS 16 Remake of the iPhone’s Iconic Lock Screen
  35. The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022
  36. I Cannot Believe I Am Defending Mark Zuckerberg
  37. iPadOS 16 Adds Memory Swap to M1 iPads
  38. The Curious Case of the 13-Inch MacBook Pro
  39. NHTSA to More Closely Scrutinize Tesla’s Autopilot Feature
  40. Google’s Fabricated Summaries and This Website
  41. A Visit From CarPlay Future
  42. Parts Unknown
  43. Alrighty Then
  44. American Data Privacy and Protection Act
  45. iOS and iPadOS 16 Tidbits
  46. Apple Updates Its Human Interface Guidelines
  47. WeatherKit
  48. Missed Payments, Rising Interest Rates Put ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ to the Test
  49. Choices, Choices
  50. Google Temporarily Disables RCS Ads in India Due to Spam
  51. The iPad’s Changing Identity
  52. Who was ‘The Enemy’ in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’?
  53. Google Struggles to Explain How It Is Merging Meet and Duo
  54. Guardian Reporter Alex Hern’s Identity Was Used to Flog a Cryptocurrency Scam
  55. Apple Music, Now With Ads
  56. WWDC 2022 Bingo
  57. Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving Facebook
  58. Tim Hortons App Found to Have Illegally Collected Location Data

May 2022

  1. XKCD on Apple Maps
  2. Editing Wikipedia for Pay
  3. Rediscovering the Mac
  4. RealityOS Trademarks Filed
  5. Here’s How Google Will Place a Million Dollars’ Worth of Ads
  6. A Connection Between Mass Murders and Social Media Is Probably a Red Herring
  7. A Profile of PimEyes, Which Performs Facial Recognition on Public Photos
  8. Instagram Prioritizes Reels Above All Else in an Attempt to Catch Up to TikTok
  9. Google Deja Vu at I/O 2022
  10. FTC Fines Twitter $150 Million for Using Security Features for Targeted Advertising
  11. What It is Like Here
  12. Creating Borders Around Data
  13. Apple’s Jane Horvath on Privacy
  14. Elon Musk’s Crash Course
  15. A Guide For Tech Journalism
  16. The Apple Services Experience Is Not Good Enough
  17. What a High-Quality Social Platform Looks Like
  18. Grubhub’s ‘Free’ Lunch Program Was a Disaster for Restaurant Workers
  19. Reporting Live From This Glass House
  20. Linktree Is Integrating NFTs
  21. Developers on Apple’s Platforms Are Now Able to Increase Subscription Prices Without User Confirmation Once Per Year
  22. Google Thanks Procrastinators With Free G Suite Accounts for Non-Commercial Use
  23. Apple Updated Its Platform Security Guide
  24. Farewell to the iPod
  25. Email and Password Exfiltration Before Form Submission
  26. Competition Bureau Wants to Block Rogers–Shaw Merger on Wireless Basis Alone
  27. E.U.’s Online CSAM Proposal Compromises Privacy and Is Overbroad
  28. MacStories’ Automation April Contest Winners for 2022
  29. Tech Trade Groups Appeal to Supreme Court on Deranged Texas Moderation Law
  30. Google Cannot Decide Whether It Likes Headphone Jacks in Phones
  31. Jason Kottke Is Taking a Sabbatical
  32. Let Us Check in on the Wild World of Cryptocurrency
  33. The Case for Adding ‘Keming’ to the Dictionary
  34. The Last iPod Has Already Been Made
  35. Works as Currently Designed
  36. Websites Excluded From Big-Budget Advertisers Are Creating Marketer-Friendly Alternate Sites
  37. Clearview AI Settles With ACLU
  38. Rogers and Shaw Say Competition Bureau Commissioner Plans to Oppose Merger
  39. Apple, Google, and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Passwordless Standard
  40. Yield
  41. Deconstructing a Simple Mechanical Watch Movement
  42. E.U. Objects to Apple’s Self-Benefitting Restrictions on iPhone NFC Capabilities
  43. The CDC Paid for Location Data From Millions of Phones Collected by Safegraph
  44. If/When/How Repro Legal Helpline
  45. Today in Organizations That Treat Your Personal Information Badly: the U.S. Department of Education, Grindr, and the Ad Tech Machine
  46. The Disentanglement of Jony Ive From Apple
  47. Apps Not Busy Being Born Are Busy Getting Killed Off

April 2022

  1. Elon Musk Thinks Twitter Could Charge Third-Party Websites to Quote From Tweets
  2. Knotwords, or ‘You Got Your Sudoku in My Crossword’
  3. Older Android and iOS Apps Are Being Made Obsolete
  4. Twitter Is Not a Town Square
  5. Apple’s Self Service Repair Now Available in the U.S.
  6. Facebook Does Not Know What It Does With Users’ Data
  7. A Good Overview of the E.U.’s New Digital Services Act
  8. The Latest MacOS Beta Improves Studio Display Camera Quality, but Not by Much
  9. Rich Guy Buys Human Scale Ant Farm
  10. The Last Time an Unlikeable Buyer Took Over a Likeable Social Network
  11. Anomaly Six’s Surveillance Powers
  12. Nuance in the YouTube Rabbit Hole
  13. European Parliament Agrees to Standardize ‘Small and Medium-Sized’ Devices Around USB-C
  14. When a Security Engineer Nearly Gets Scammed
  15. Tech Worker Unionization
  16. Apple to Roll Out Child Safety Feature That Locally Screens Messages for Nudity to U.K., Canada
  17. Waxy.org Turns Twenty
  18. A Former Foxconn Executive Tries to Explain What Went Wrong in Wisconsin
  19. What Happens When a Smart Home Vendor Goes Away and Takes Its Servers With It?
  20. It Is Ridiculously Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
  21. Kahlief Adams Interviews Cabel Sasser
  22. NSO Group and Candiru Spyware Allegedly Used by Spanish Government Against Catalan Independence Movement Leaders
  23. Researchers Find Shades of Opacity, Plenty of Tracking, After App Tracking Transparency
  24. Updates on the Elon Musk and Twitter Dialogue Which, I Promise, Are More Thoughtful Than This Title Suggests
  25. Bill C–10 Is Now Bill C–11, but Still Terrible
  26. Adtech Company Report Finds Increasing Rate of iOS Users Opting Into Tracking
  27. A Tour of Apple’s External LCD Displays
  28. Mac App Store Apps Using In-App Purchases to Hide Free Apps That Need Subscriptions
  29. Apple Is Throwing a Third Party
  30. AppsFlyer Report: Apple Benefits From App Tracking Transparency Rules
  31. Tim Cook’s Speech at the International Association of Privacy Professionals Conference 2022
  32. Tesla-Supporting ‘Bots’
  33. RaidForums Seized, Administrator Arrested
  34. Fresh Hell
  35. Behavioural Spam
  36. Data Brokers on ‘Last Week Tonight’
  37. Today’s Claim That Tesla Is on the Verge of Producing a Humanoid Robot, as Viewed From the Year 2032
  38. Worldcoin’s First Half-Million Test Users Are Treated More Like Unconsenting Subjects
  39. Unsurprisingly, Clearview AI Aims to Branch Out Beyond Police
  40. 9.2% and the Master of Twitter
  41. Here Comes the Online News Act
  42. Apple Confirms Disney Is Part of a Subscription-Related ‘Pilot’
  43. Tweets, But Editable
  44. WWDC 2022 Begins June 6 Online
  45. Please Like Me
  46. Elon Musk to Join Twitter’s Board of Directors, Capping His Financial Involvement in the Company
  47. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  48. The Banned Word List in Amazon’s Forthcoming Chat App for Workers Includes ‘Union’, ‘Ethics’, and ‘Fairness’
  49. Apple’s Pro Mac Reboot, Five Years Later
  50. Music Catalogue Edge Cases
  51. Apple Turns Its U.S. Lobbying Efforts Toward LGBTQ Rights
  52. Ex-Jalopnik Writers Launch New Automotive News Site
  53. There Is a Way to Restore Wider Alerts in MacOS Big Sur and Monterey
  54. Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents
  55. Meta’s Dirty Tricks Campaign Against TikTok

March 2022

  1. Facebook News Feed Bug Mistakenly Elevated Misinformation for Months Instead of Demoting It
  2. Apple Updates Its Entitlement Rules for Using External Payments in Dutch Dating Apps
  3. Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena via Fake ‘Emergency Data Requests’
  4. Moderation Supports the Principles of Free Speech
  5. Privileged App Store Behaviour for Disney Plus Subscriptions
  6. The Possible Impact of the Digital Markets Act on Messaging Privacy
  7. One More Thing: Deodorant
  8. The EFF Calls on U.S. Policymakers to Ban Online Behavioural Advertising
  9. Power for Everyone, for Some Flexible Definition of ‘Everyone’
  10. Good Luck Owning a Copy of This Year’s ‘Best Picture’ Winner
  11. Confessions of a Digital Hoarder
  12. The Big Tech Antitrust Movement Is Finally Showing Results
  13. The Mac Studio and Studio Display for Creative Professionals
  14. Clearview Is Laundering Its Reputation in Ukraine
  15. Print-on-Demand Services Are a Boon for Enterprising Exploiters of Political Division
  16. A Real-World Comparison of Photos From the iPhone 7 and iPhone 12
  17. Twitter Now Supports Searching Direct Messages
  18. Teenager Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind
  19. Apple’s Online Services Are Experiencing Downtime for the Second Day Running
  20. The U.K. Is Cracking Down on ‘Misleading’ Cryptocurrency Ads
  21. Computational Photography’s Uncanny Valley
  22. Mercedes-Benz Takes Legal Responsibility for Its Automated Driving Systems
  23. Apple TV App on Android TV and Google TV No Longer Lets Users Buy or Rent Movies
  24. Vimeo Clarifies Its High-Bandwidth Policy
  25. Analyst, Apparently Hearing of This ‘Apple’ Company for the First Time, Speculates It Could Sell Its Chips to Third Parties
  26. Tile Adds a Way to Scan for Unwanted Trackers
  27. Apple Studio Display Reviews Are In
  28. ‘Link in Bio’ Is Apparently a Billion-Dollar Business
  29. The 2022 iPad Air
  30. My ‘Not a Shadowy Nonprofit Group’ T-Shirt Has People Asking Questions Already Answered by My Shirt
  31. Microsoft Says It Is Merely Experimenting With Ads in Windows 11’s File Explorer
  32. Vimeo Is Telling Creators to Pay Up Thousands of Dollars
  33. In Three Cases, the FTC Has Demanded Deletion of Algorithms, Code, or Models Derived From Illegally Collected Data
  34. iOS and iPadOS 15.4 Released
  35. DuckDuckGo will Demote ‘Sites Associated with Russian Disinformation’ in Results
  36. 9to5Mac: Apple Currently Has No Plans to Release a Larger-Screen iMac
  37. Disney Hides Behind Queer Characters While Funding Real Villains
  38. Twitter Makes It Easier to Get to a Reverse-Chronological Timeline, but Harder to Stay There
  39. Publishers Say Companies Selling Contextual Ad Tools Are Scraping Their Data Unfairly
  40. The Missing Mid-Range Desktop Mac
  41. An Early Look at the Details of M1 Ultra
  42. Shackleton’s Lost Ship, Found
  43. Mac Studio
  44. The Magical Disappearing 27-Inch iMac
  45. Even When Closely Watched, Surveillance Is Easy to Misinterpret
  46. These Recent Apple Hardware Rumours Are Adding Up All Funny
  47. iCloud Plus Custom Email Domains Should Be Better
  48. Goodreads Apparently Deleted Nelson Minar’s Entire Account
  49. Facebook’s ‘Transparency Center’ Says Its Most Popular Page in Q4 2021 Was Removed for ‘Violating Community Standards’
  50. Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp
  51. J. Kenji López-Alt on Technique
  52. As War Rages on in Ukraine, Don’t Forget the Real Victim: Disney

February 2022

  1. Jim Dalrymple Is Retiring From Writing
  2. Catalogue Music’s Dominance Extends to Streaming Platforms
  3. Social Media in New Wartime
  4. Making a Good Example of a Bad Example
  5. The Associated Press Wanted to Sell an NFT of Video of Migrants Adrift at Sea
  6. Margrethe Vestager Says Tech Giants May Prefer Fines to Compliance
  7. Major Publishers Are Working on an AMP Exit Strategy
  8. Who Is Policing the Location Data Industry?
  9. Twitter Needs a Retraction Mechanism
  10. Everything We Are Told About Website Identity Assurance Is Wrong
  11. The Average Person Has No Chance With the Smart Home
  12. The ‘Carbon Footprint’ of Ads and Stats on Media Websites
  13. Wordle’s Vibe Shift
  14. Spotify’s Acquisitions of Chartable and Podsights
  15. The Travel Focus Mode
  16. Obscura 3
  17. Where Mac Catalyst Falls Short
  18. Meta Launders Its Reputation Through Small Businesses
  19. Hey, Larry David, Your Super Bowl Commercial Was Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Bad
  20. G Suite Education Customers Surprised to Find They Were on a Free Trial, and It Has Expired
  21. Lost Media, Found
  22. Clearview AI Investor Pitch Reveals Photo Ingestion Rate and Expansion Plans
  23. The Asymmetry of App Review
  24. Google’s Toothless Android Privacy Sandbox
  25. Public Figures Should Stop Luring Their Fans Into the Risky World of NFTs
  26. Second Sight’s Retinal Implants Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
  27. Trust in Google Search Is Dying
  28. Pirate Site Traffic Surged in 2021
  29. An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec
  30. Over Half of Apple Music Subscribers Are Listening to Spatial Audio
  31. What Happens to Online Shopping Returns
  32. With Its App Marketplace Principles, Microsoft Positions Itself as a Friend to Developers
  33. A Comparison Between the Tracking Capabilities of AirTags, Tiles, and a GPS Tracker
  34. Apple Is Working on More Ways to Reduce Abuse of AirTags for iOS Users
  35. Bruce Schneier’s Letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on App Stores
  36. Facebook’s Market Cap Is Now Under the $600 Billion Threshold for U.S. Antitrust Bills
  37. The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
  38. Apple’s 2021 Report Card
  39. Belgian Data Protection Agency Fines IAB Europe Over Cookie Consent Banners
  40. Apple’s Rules for External Payment Mechanisms in iOS Apps
  41. Facebook Blames Apple, So the New York Times Blames Apple
  42. Facebook’s Faltering Relevance Is Worldwide
  43. Meta’s Sad Slide Whistle of a Day
  44. TrackerZapper
  45. BlackBerry Sells Mobile and Messaging Patents to Newly-Formed ‘Catapult IP Innovations’
  46. Lux Looks at the iPhone 13 Pro
  47. Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data
  48. Enough About Joe Rogan
  49. Software Paper Cuts
  50. The New York Times Buys Wordle
  51. Substack, Spotify, Speech

January 2022

  1. Old Man Yells at Cloud
  2. Universal Control in the Newest MacOS and iPadOS Betas
  3. iOS 15.4, Now in Developer Beta, Has an Option to Use Face ID With a Mask
  4. The Curious Case of MacOS 12.3
  5. Months-Old iCloud Bug Causing Syncing Issues for Third-Party Apps Fixed
  6. Substack Remains Permissive to Health Woo, White Nationalism, and Conspiracy Theories
  7. Spotify to Honour Neil Young’s Request to Pull His Music
  8. British Law Commissions Propose Immunity From Some Driving Offences by Users of Self-Driving Cars
  9. Google Abandons FLoC, Replaces It With a Similar Topics-Based System
  10. Google Ends Security Updates for Its Pixel 3 Line Just Three Years After Launch
  11. Google Sued by D.C. and Three States for ‘Deceptive’ Android Location Tracking
  12. Some Jerk Has Built a Twitter Bot to Spoil the Next Day’s Wordle Puzzle
  13. The Problem With NFTs
  14. The Inside Story of iBeer
  15. MacOS Widgets Deserve Better
  16. Apple Moved Quickly to Clean Up the Wordle Clones in the App Store, but There Is Still Far to Go
  17. Apple Confirms It Has Stopped Issuing iOS 14 Security Updates
  18. Technology Trade Group Issues Statement on the ‘Banning Surveillance Advertising Act’
  19. Lawmakers Propose Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
  20. U.K. Home Office Launches Anti-Encryption ‘No Place to Hide’ Ad Campaign
  21. Safari 15 Does Not Respect Same-Origin Policy for IndexedDB, Permitting Extraordinary Cross-Site Tracking
  22. Custom 3D Landmarks in Apple Maps
  23. User-Friendly Diagnostics Should Be a Core Part of Any System
  24. ‘Modern’ Browsers
  25. Faking an iPhone Reboot
  26. More Details Revealed in States’ Antitrust Suit Against Google
  27. New U.S. ‘TLDR’ Bill Would Require Simplified Versions of Service and Privacy Agreements
  28. German Company’s Use of Google Analytics ‘Breached GDPR’
  29. An Early Look at Leica’s New M11
  30. Responsible
  31. Consistency Sin
  32. Facebook Loses Second Attempt to Dismiss FTC Antitrust Case
  33. Concerns About AirTags Show Up on the ‘Today Show’
  34. U.S. Federal Spending on Facial Recognition Tech Expands
  35. AirTags Are a Classic Story of a New Technology With Benefits That Are Also Concerns
  36. The United States’ Most Prestigious Business Publication Addresses ‘Green Bubbles’
  37. On Twitter, the Block Button Is Right There
  38. Some Antivirus Software Now Includes Cryptocurrency Mining
  39. Public Domain Day 2022
  40. Lawsuit Alleges Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of Search
  41. The Reliability Journey
  42. CBC Lifestyle Journalist Becomes This Week’s Substack Hero
  43. iCloud Private Relay White Paper
  44. Wordle, a Daily Word Game
  45. It Is ‘Premature’ to Know Almost Anything About the Smiths’ New Media Venture
  46. Ming-Chi Kuo: Second-Generation AirPods Pro to Support Lossless Audio
  47. Ben Smith Profiles CrowdTangle Founder Brandon Silverman
  48. SKRWT Updated With Better Support for Recent iPhones and Android Phones
  49. Apple Becomes First U.S. Company Worth $3 Trillion
  50. Something New in Something Old
  51. Putting an Ear to the Ground of Apple’s Audio Efforts

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December 2021

  1. A Year and a Half After the Joint Exposure Notification Framework Was Launched, Its Effects Remain ‘Murky’
  2. The Confusing World of HDMI
  3. 2014: ‘AIs Are Now Re-Writing History’
  4. James Hoffmann’s New Series Is About the Bialetti Moka Express
  5. An Accidental Repository of Niche Music on Spotify
  6. Washington Post Poll Finds Increasing Concerns About Technology Trustworthiness and Privacy
  7. Internal Amazon Documents Indicate Limitations in User Exploration of Voice-Controlled Devices
  8. Akiva Cohen Reads Alex Berenson’s Lawsuit Against Twitter
  9. The Year of Garbage Internet Trends
  10. Meta Shareholders Call for Oversight Audit
  11. More From Karl Bode on Four Years Since the End of U.S. Federal Net Neutrality Rules
  12. USBefuddled
  13. A Big Thank You
  14. Festivities and Forgetfulness
  15. The Effects of Four Years Without Net Neutrality Rules in the U.S.
  16. The Internet Archive Then, Now, and Into the Future
  17. Notchmeister
  18. ‘Truth Social’, the Trump Twitter Clone, Prohibits Disparagement of Its Platform on Its Platform
  19. France Latest to Slap Clearview AI With Order to Delete Data
  20. Music and TV Apps Use JET in MacOS 12.2 Beta
  21. A Deep Dive Into an NSO Group Zero-Click iMessage Exploit
  22. Apple’s Tracker Detect App for Android Supports AirTags and Items on the Find My Network
  23. Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2021 Jealousy List
  24. Live Audio Rooms Are a Poorly-Moderated New Frontier
  25. iOS Apps Are Tacitly Permitted to Track Users in Aggregate Regardless of App Tracking Transparency Permissions
  26. Marques Brownlee’s Thoughts on Computational Photography
  27. That Secret TikTok Document Obtained by the New York Times Has Been Circulating Publicly for a Year Under a Different Name
  28. Twitter Is Testing a New Process for Reporting Tweets
  29. The Information: Tim Cook Engineered a $275 Billion Deal With China in 2016
  30. A History of Autopilot’s Development at Tesla
  31. Talking Apple Watch Straps
  32. Privacy and Repairs
  33. Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users
  34. Verizon Joins Other U.S. Telecoms in Opting Users Into Data Collection and Tracking
  35. Little Annoyances in MacOS Monterey
  36. Microsoft Does the Bare Minimum, Is Testing a Way to Set a Default Browser
  37. Twitter’s New Media Permission Policy
  38. Businesses Are Slowly Reducing Their Dependence on Third-Party Targeting Data
  39. Microsoft Is Pushing People to Keep Using Edge When They Try to Download Chrome

November 2021

  1. Twitter Should Become a Paid Platform
  2. Reef’s Ghost Kitchens Are Proving to Be a Messy Business
  3. Parag Agrawal Replaces Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO
  4. Amazon’s Data Request Results Page Is Needlessly Difficult
  5. ‘Make a U-Turn’
  6. Wirecutter Union on Strike
  7. Apple’s Self-Repair Program ‘Feels Good’ to Tim Cook, Will Sell Parts Through a Third Party
  8. Steve Wozniak Meets an Old Friend
  9. The Amazon Lobbyists Fighting Against Consumer Privacy Protections
  10. Amazon’s Poor Record of Internal Privacy Controls Has Enabled Corruption, Snooping, and Insufficient Logging
  11. Apple Sues NSO Group
  12. For Premium Spotify Users, Albums No Longer Play in Shuffle by Default
  13. How Facebook and Google Fund Global Misinformation
  14. Bloomberg: Apple Aims for Fully Autonomous Car as Early as 2025
  15. In a Brooklyn Drive, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Mode Seems Scary for Everyone
  16. Not What Windows Wrought
  17. Chromium’s URL Blocklist Can Now Prevent Viewing Page Source
  18. Apple Announces Self Service Repair Coming Next Year for Recent iPhones and M1 Macs
  19. Twitter Makes API V2 Official
  20. The Software Slip
  21. Medical Misinformation Goes Unchecked on Radio and Podcasts
  22. Windows 11 Blocks Edge Browser Competitors From Opening Links
  23. Links Shared From TikTok Have Read Receipts
  24. Andrew Bosworth, Who Will Be Meta’s CTO Next Year, Acknowledges How Difficult It Will Be to Moderate the Metaverse
  25. The Internet That Disappears
  26. Craig Federighi and Tim Cook on Sideloading
  27. Much of the World Looked at the Facebook Papers and Shrugged
  28. Apple Says a Software Update Will Let Indie Repair Shops Swap iPhone 13 Displays
  29. Google’s Street View Is a Portal to Forgotten Places and Secret Moments
  30. The Human Cost of Convenience
  31. Australian Authorities Have Ordered Clearview AI to Delete All Facial Recognition Data Belonging to Its Citizens
  32. The Incentivized Waste of Free Returns
  33. Google Warns Liberals’ Online Harms Bill ‘Will Result in the Blocking of Legitimate Content’
  34. Recovering the Formula for Garum, an Ancient Roman Fish Sauce
  35. Cutting Off the Face to Spite the Meta
  36. The Facebook Papers Must Be Shared With Outlets Globally
  37. The Trials and Travails of Digital Vaccine Cards
  38. Instagram Ends Its Nine-Year Temper Tantrum and Re-Enables Twitter Previews
  39. Public Profiles in Glass
  40. Facebook to Switch Off Facial Recognition System and Delete Associated Data
  41. User Interface Inconsistencies in MacOS 12 Monterey
  42. Mark Zuckerberg Granted Interviews About Meta to Four Atypical Publications
  43. Fisher Price’s Re-Released Record Player Is a Music Box of Lies
  44. 21.5-Inch iMac Discontinued
  45. Revenue Losses at Social Media Businesses Attributable to App Tracking Transparency Show a History of Privacy Abuse

October 2021

  1. Facebook Announces Its Fantasy Benevolent World to Avoid Its Current Problems
  2. Quote of the Day: Ginny Hogan
  3. How Facebook Failed the World
  4. Apple’s Ad Business Is Booming
  5. I Am Not Sure, but It Seems Like Facebook Might Be Too Big
  6. Facebook and Google’s Alleged Collaboration to Fight Privacy
  7. Documents Leaked From Facebook Have Been Passed to a Consortium of Press Outlets
  8. The iPod Turns Twenty
  9. Boston Startup Develops Worst Imaginable Way to Get a Cup of Coffee
  10. On the Much Improved State of Macintosh Hardware
  11. FTC Staff Report Finds Many U.S. ISPs Collect and Share a Wealth of Customer Usage Data
  12. The Design of TV Key Art
  13. Mega Meta Domain Sales
  14. The Verge: Facebook Is Rebranding
  15. Mashable: Monday’s Product Launch Was the ‘Worst Apple Event Ever’
  16. Exile From Dongletown
  17. Defaults Matter
  18. Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro
  19. Safari 15 Watch: Old Tabs Edition
  20. Facebook Teases Upcoming Investigation Into Documents Leaked From Facebook
  21. Apple Introduces a Siri-Only Apple Music Plan
  22. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Hopes to Win Back Apple’s Business
  23. Visual Studio and Teams Get More Native
  24. ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’
  25. Netflix Announces Voir, a Documentary Series About Cinema From David Fincher
  26. Amazon Displays Its Own Brands Ahead of Better-Rated Products
  27. Microsoft’s Redesigned Emoji Make Their Disappointing Debut in Windows 11
  28. Missouri Governor Vows Criminal Prosecution of Reporter Who Found SSNs Exposed in Public Website Source
  29. Frances Haugen Changed the Conversation About Facebook by Focusing Her Criticism
  30. ‘PLEASE. Un-Fuck This Show. Sent From My iPad’
  31. Reuters: Amazon Copied Products and Rigged Search Results, Documents Show
  32. Clearview Is Now Saying It Can Identify People Based on Synthetic Facial Features
  33. Ex-Ozy Employees Say Company Used Dubious Tactics to Build Email Subscribers
  34. TikTok Talk
  35. Google Is Moving Its iOS Apps Toward Platform UI Conventions and Away From Material Design
  36. Social Networks Should Be Interoperable
  37. ExpressVPN’s CIO Hacked Into the Accounts of Activists and Journalists on Behalf of the UAE
  38. Some Popular VPNs and VPN Review Sites Are Owned by the Same Company, Kape Technologies
  39. Zuckerberg Zags
  40. Google AMP Links are Currently Not Appearing for iOS 15 Users Because of a ‘Bug’
  41. A Decade Later, Steve Jobs Is Still Paving Apple’s Path to Success
  42. A Dependency on Facebook in Developing Nations is the Company’s Strategy
  43. When WhatsApp Was Down, It Halted the Worlds of Many
  44. Facebook Releases More Details About the Cause of Yesterday’s Six-Hour Outage
  45. Siri’s Ten-Year Anniversary Is a Reminder of Apple’s Wasted Head Start
  46. Users Can Now Report Scams and Frauds in the App Store
  47. Frances Haugen Reveals Herself as the Facebook Whistleblower
  48. Safari Bookmarks, History, and iCloud Tabs Are All End-to-End Encrypted
  49. In SEC Filing, Telecom Router Syniverse Reveals Its Security Was Breached for Five Years
  50. USB Implementers Forum Is, Once Again, Trying to Logo Its Way Out of USB-C Confusion
  51. There Is a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data

September 2021

  1. Food Publishers Harm Users’ Experiences With Too Much Advertising and Affiliate Linking
  2. Siri Regressions and Bugs in iOS 15
  3. Ozy Ozy Ozy
  4. Portpass App for Vaccination Proof May Have Exposed Hundreds of Thousands of Users’ Personal Data
  5. I Guess People Really Hate AMP
  6. What Happens When the Experience of Celebrity Becomes Universal?
  7. Charlie Warzel Interviews Shoshana Wodinsky About the Ad Tech Ecosystem
  8. Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?
  9. Apple Watch Series 7 Has a Mysterious 60.5GHz Wireless Data Transfer Frequency
  10. Study by Lockdown Privacy Finds Big-Name Apps Like DoorDash, Peacock TV, and Yelp Ignore Tracking Opt-Outs
  11. Visual Lookup With Siri Knowledge in Photos Is Only Available in the U.S., Which Is Something I Learned Earlier Today
  12. iOS 15 is ‘Also Available’
  13. ‘How Important Is Night Photography?’
  14. Bain Brains Take Pains to Ascertain Gains in Mains’ Reign
  15. Federico Viticci on Safari in iOS 15
  16. Amplosion for iOS
  17. Alberta’s Proof-of-Vaccination Program Begins Today
  18. Monotype Acquires Hoefler&Co, and Jonathan Hoefler Is Leaving
  19. In a Story About Increasing Activism at Apple, the New York Times Offers No Credit to the Verge
  20. Facebook’s Design at Scale Means Every Decision Has Extraordinary Consequence
  21. Police Mine Tech Companies for Individuals’ Information With Broad Warrants
  22. The iPhone 13 Pro’s Camera Bump Is News in Big
  23. Ex S
  24. SEC Charges App Annie With Securities Fraud in $10 Million Settlement
  25. Video From Today’s ‘California Streaming’ Apple Event
  26. Some Epic v. Apple Post-Decision Followup
  27. Apple Issues Software Updates to Patch at Least One Vulnerability Exploited by NSO Group
  28. Nearly Six Million High-Profile Facebook Users Are Effectively Exempt From Platform Rules
  29. A Security Researcher Accidentally Deleted All Shared Shortcuts Because of ‘Inconsistent’ Security Controls in CloudKit
  30. An Open Letter to Tim Cook on Why Apple Should Compromise With Antitrust Regulators
  31. Judgement Issued in Epic Games v. Apple
  32. WhatsApp Encryption Hullabaloo
  33. Facebook and Ray-Ban Collaborated on Some ‘Smart’ Glasses
  34. Every Streaming Company Not Named Apple Receives a Lousy Grade on Privacy
  35. How to Squander a Medical Miracle
  36. ‘Fulfillment’ by Alec MacGillis
  37. Ford Hires Doug Field After Apple and Tesla Stints
  38. PYMNTS Survey Finds Apple Pay Is the Most Popular Mobile Wallet, Yet Only About 6% of People With iPhones Use It In‍-‍Store
  39. Apple Delays the Launch of Its CSAM Detection Features as It Makes Changes
  40. iWork’s Small, Monochromatic Toolbar Icons
  41. Moiré No More
  42. ‘Reader’ Apps Will Be Allowed to Link Externally for Account Creation Beginning Next Year
  43. Hands-On With Apple’s Weather App for iPad
  44. What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy

August 2021

  1. Primephonic Will Be Shut Down September 7 After Apple Acquisition
  2. Hopscotch Update Baselessly Rejected by App Review
  3. In Proposed Settlement, Apple Agrees to Allow Developers to Mention Other Purchase Options Outside of Apps
  4. The History of Google Messaging Apps
  5. Simultaneous Theatrical and Streaming Releases Have Been a Boon for High-Quality Pirate Rips
  6. ‘How I Experience the Web Today’
  7. Despite Sketchy Promises, Sketchy Software Companies Are Doing Business With Sketchy Governments
  8. Documents Unsealed in Epic Games’ Case Against Google Reveal Exclusivity Agreements
  9. Tying Together Some Loose Threads
  10. FDA Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
  11. Counterpoints to the FTC’s Facebook Redux Suit
  12. Elon Musk Unveils His Funniest Vaporware Yet
  13. Facebook Shelved an Earlier ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report Because It Looked Bad
  14. Discovery Dumpster Diving
  15. Nestflix
  16. Microsoft 365 Will Have a Price Increase for Businesses
  17. Facebook’s ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report Is Really Strange
  18. 9to5Mac Writer Paid Source for iPad Pro Information Extracted From Stolen iPhone Prototype
  19. T-Mobile Confirms Massive Data Breach
  20. Safari Changes in the Sixth Beta of iOS 15
  21. OnlyFans Is Promoting Its OFTV App in an Attempt to Broaden Its Image
  22. Readers Should Not Be Renters
  23. Improvements to Photos in iOS 15
  24. Mela Is a New Cooking App From the Creator of Reeder
  25. 1Password Goes Electron
  26. Apple’s Growing Ad Business
  27. The Smart Home Dream Has Been Postponed
  28. Craig Federighi Tries to Clarify Apple’s Upcoming Child Safety Features
  29. Apple and Corellium Settle Lawsuit
  30. Twitter Rolls Out Chirp, Its Proprietary Typeface, Across Its Website and Apps
  31. Things Improves Notes With Markdown Support and Full-Text Search
  32. Why Do Consumer Apps Often Get Worse?
  33. The So-Far Failed Promise of the Smart Home
  34. Matt Birchler: ‘What I Like About the New Safari’
  35. Contrary to January 2020 Reports, Apple Is Not Currently Checking iCloud Photos Against CSAM Hashes
  36. Glass, a New iOS Photo Sharing App, Launches to a Wider Audience
  37. Capability and Policy in Apple’s Child Safety Efforts
  38. Apple Walks a Privacy Tightrope to Spot Child Abuse in iCloud
  39. MacOS Bliss
  40. In Internal Memo, Apple Addresses Concerns Around New Child Safety Initiatives
  41. Apple’s Child Safety Initiatives
  42. Amazon Is Trying to Correct Its Waste Problems
  43. Apple Brings Back the Dedicated Store Webpage
  44. Two Tweet-Length iPhone Tips
  45. On Having a Camera
  46. Google Teases the Pixel 6
  47. Women Targeted in Hack-And-Leak Attacks by Governments Using NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
  48. Microsoft Is Dodging Scrutiny by Being Boring
  49. Apple’s Success Through the Pandemic Is Thanks to Decisions Made Years Before

July 2021

  1. The Internet Vintage Hardcore Shirt Scene
  2. Microsoft Office Macros Continue to Be a Security Nightmare
  3. Tension in Chrome and Safari’s Dominance
  4. Media Outlets’ Poor Framing of Breakthrough Cases in Vaccinated People
  5. Doppler for Mac
  6. Gawker Is Back, Again, Kind Of
  7. Elon Musk Sounded Uncertain About Full Self-Driving on Tesla’s Earnings Call
  8. The Online Advertising Duopoly Reports Massive Earnings
  9. Calgary Parking Authority Exposed Drivers’ Personal Data and Tickets
  10. What Will Happen to Music Libraries When Streaming Services Die?
  11. Safari 5 for Mac Rebuilt in SwiftUI
  12. Safari Changes in the Fourth Beta of iOS and iPadOS 15
  13. Amazon’s Revolving Door of Brands
  14. The Nightmare of Our Snooping Devices
  15. A Naïve, Nostalgic Look at Apple’s Business Model
  16. Allowing Tesla Owners to Beta Test Autonomous Functionality on Public Roads Is a Safety Hazard
  17. Playdate Previews
  18. The NSO ‘Surveillance List’, What It Is and Isn’t
  19. A Priest Was Outed by His Phone’s Location Data, Likely Through Ad Tech Middle Parties
  20. A Case Against Security Nihilism
  21. Clearview AI Raises $30 Million From Unidentified Investors
  22. The Eternal October
  23. Calcalis Interviews NSO CEO Shalev Hulio
  24. Troubles With Apple’s Bug Bounty Program
  25. Security Is the Story We Have, Not the Story We Want to Have
  26. Instagram Has Become a Blend of TikTok and SkyMall
  27. The White House Is Not Colluding With Facebook on Censorship
  28. Microsoft and Google Have Redesigned Their Emoji
  29. ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Services
  30. Unclack for MacOS
  31. Abolishing Online Anonymity Will Not Tackle Abuse
  32. ‘Roadrunner’ Contains Undisclosed Generated Re-Creations of Anthony Bourdain’s Voice
  33. Bloomberg: Three-Quarters of iOS Users Opt Out of Tracking
  34. Twitter Is Axing Fleets, the Stories-Like Feature Demanded by Activist Investors, Due to Low Usage
  35. Meet BIGDBM and FullContact, Two Companies in the De‍-‍Anonymization Industry
  36. In a Period of Eighteen Months, Over Fifty Facebook Engineers Were Fired for Accessing Private User Data
  37. In W3C Discussions, Ad Tech Companies Are Tussling With Web Browser Vendors Over Privacy Features
  38. Consumer Reports Wants to See Your Internet Bill
  39. Impatience for Professional Macs Running on Apple’s Own SoC
  40. The Infinite Ugly Scroll
  41. Gojek Drivers Use Third-Party ‘Tuyul’ Apps to Improve Their Working Conditions
  42. Marketers Are Worried That iCloud Private Relay Could Be a Technical Hurdle Instead of a Policy One
  43. Ten Years After ‘People Staring at Computers’
  44. Apple Music Lobotomizes Siri
  45. Facebook-Funded Comscore Study Indicates Heavy Use of First-Party Apps on Android and iOS
  46. Microsoft’s Falling Surface Duo
  47. Reactions to Amazon’s Purchase of MGM
  48. Audacity’s New Privacy Policy Does Not Make It ‘Spyware’ Any More Than Any Other Application
  49. All the Right Words on Climate Have Already Been Said
  50. Defector Approaches Forty Thousand Paying Subscribers Just Nine Months After Launch
  51. The Collective and Rotting Hallucination That Is the Internet
  52. Three Weeks With iOS and iPadOS 15
  53. ‘Canada, You Need to Learn the Truth’
  54. Google Plus Launched Ten Years Ago This Week

June 2021

  1. Visualizing the Northwest Heat Wave
  2. Western Digital Removed a Password Requirement for Resetting My Book Live Hard Drives, Allowing Them to Be Wiped
  3. ‘Disabled People Shouldn’t Need to Justify Their Right to Live’
  4. U.S. Judge Dismisses Two Antitrust Suits Against Facebook, Invites FTC to Refile
  5. Windows 11 Is Officially Compatible Only With Processors From Four Years Ago or Newer
  6. The Devils You Don’t Know
  7. Some Digital Packrattery
  8. Microsoft Announces Windows 11
  9. Apple’s ‘Building a Trusted Ecosystem’ Argument
  10. Instagram Is Going to Start ‘Suggesting’ Posts Throughout Users’ Feeds
  11. Gizmodo Asks, ‘What’s the Most Significant Hack in History?’
  12. Amazon Prime Is a Tremendous and Terrifying Thing
  13. Canadian MPs Pass Bill C-10, but It Is Unlikely to Pass in the Senate
  14. Prime Day Press Prostration
  15. Analysis of the iOS SSID Format String Bug
  16. In One British Warehouse, Amazon Is Destroying Over a Hundred Thousand Items a Week
  17. Emoji Math
  18. Some Google Executives Wish Sundar Pichai Would Make Decisions Faster
  19. A Timeline of Sixteen Years of Some of Google’s Messaging Efforts
  20. Different Software Update Tracks in iOS
  21. YouTube Says That Picture-in-Picture Is Coming to All iOS Users — in the U.S.
  22. WWDC Session on Discoverable Design
  23. Safari 15 and Chickenshit Minimalism
  24. Facebook Is Starting to Roll Out Ads in Its Oculus VR Headsets Because of Course It Is
  25. Proposed U.S. Antitrust Legislation Would Require Preinstalled Apps to Be Removable
  26. U.K. Authority Investigating Anticompetitive Practices in iOS and Android
  27. Web Browser Security on iOS
  28. Ad Tech Companies Are Already Linking FLoC IDs to Other Identifiers
  29. Beats Studio Buds
  30. Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is ‘Sacrilegious’
  31. Bipartisan U.S. Lawmakers Push Five Antitrust Bills Targeted at Tech Companies
  32. The Digital Garden
  33. On Elevated Stupidity
  34. How Spatial Audio Will Work With the Apple TV
  35. Dark Sky Will Stop Working at the End of 2022
  36. Apple Is Using Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly for iCloud Private Relay
  37. WWDC is a Developers’ Conference After All
  38. Open Rates and Mail’s Market Share
  39. At WWDC 2021, Apple Again Showed That Accessibility Truly Is for Everyone
  40. Lossless and Spatial Audio Launch on Apple Music
  41. As the Pandemic Subsides in the U.S., Companies Subsidized by Venture Capital Are Raising Prices
  42. Craig Federighi on the Many Privacy Features Introduced at WWDC
  43. iOS and iPadOS 15
  44. Flexibility Is a Vital Component of the Future Happiness of Workers
  45. Ransomware Is Increasingly Impacting Day-to-Day Life
  46. The Apple Watch’s Place
  47. Apple Employees Are Writing Lengthy Internal Letters That Keep Getting Leaked
  48. Steve Jobs’ iPhone SDK Letter Draft
  49. TikTok Updates Its U.S. Privacy Policy to Begin Collecting Biometric Data
  50. Twitter Launches Paid Subscription First in Canada and Australia
  51. Spotify Highlights Individual Music Tastes With ‘Only You’
  52. Vidit Bhargava’s Menu Bar and Multitasking Concept for iPadOS
  53. China Takes Taiwan’s Place as Apple’s Biggest Source of Suppliers
  54. My WWDC Wish: Siri That Does Not Suck Ass
  55. The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon
  56. Amazon Drops Binding Arbitration Clause Because Too Many People Were Using It
  57. Alibaba’s Huge Browser Business Is Recording Millions of Users’ ‘Private’ Web Histories
  58. Despite Fare Hikes, Uber and Lyft Drivers Struggle
  59. Street-Level Imagery in a Pandemic

May 2021

  1. Flashcard Apps Used by Military Accidentally Revealed Nuclear Secrets
  2. Doc Searls: ‘Apple Is Not Fully Serious About Privacy’
  3. Jony Ive Was Involved in the Design of the New iMac
  4. Documents in Arizona Lawsuit Detail Efforts by Google to Collect User Location
  5. ‘Extremely Isolated and Never Alone’
  6. Automakers to Domestically Store Vehicle Data of Drivers in China
  7. Annotated Photo Edits
  8. Farhad Manjoo on Apple’s App Store Commission
  9. Apple Considered Buying Time Warner in 2015
  10. Amazon Is Buying MGM for Over $8 Billion
  11. Vaccine Waitlist Service ‘Dr. B’ Is Not Legally Obligated to Protect the Health Information It Collected From Over Two Million People
  12. Arguments Wrap in Epic v. Apple
  13. The New York Times Takes the Bait
  14. Vulnerability Patched in MacOS 11.4 Allowed Bypass of Consent and Control Permissions
  15. It Is Time for iPadOS to Have Its Mac OS X Moment
  16. Lossless Audio Will Be Supported on the HomePod and HomePod Mini With a Software Update
  17. Terms and Conditions Apply
  18. Neighbourhood Crime Reporting App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force
  19. Inside the 2011 RSA Breach
  20. The Albergotti Spin
  21. How M1 Macs Feel Faster Than Intel Models: It’s About QoS
  22. Apple Previews New Accessibility Features Coming Later This Year to iOS, iPadOS, and WatchOS
  23. Federico Viticci’s Review of the M1 iPad Pro
  24. Google ‘Experiments’ With Bringing RSS Capabilities Back to Chrome
  25. A Few Video Reviews of the M1 iMac
  26. Amazon’s Ring Is the Largest Civilian Surveillance Network the U.S. Has Ever Seen
  27. Apple Is in a Uniquely Delicate Position as It Observes Laws of Escalating Interference in China
  28. Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals
  29. Spatial and Lossless Audio Coming to Apple Music Next Month at No Extra Cost
  30. Focusing on Excellence
  31. A ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Is Falsely Being Accused of Flashing a Racist Hand Gesture
  32. ‘Music Is About to Change Forever’
  33. Biden Revokes ‘Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship’
  34. It Took Buzzfeed News Just Ten Minutes to Map Out Joe Biden’s Venmo Network
  35. The Verge’s Review of Starlink
  36. Thinking of Advertising as an Apple Service
  37. ‘Develop an Unconditional Respect for Your Creativity’
  38. Bill C-10 Doesn’t Rein in Web Giants, It Doubles Down on Them
  39. Canada Still Won’t Commit to Supporting a Coronavirus Vaccine Patent Waiver
  40. Apple Hires Antonio García Martínez
  41. The World’s Most Beautiful Gas Stations
  42. Apple Says That It Terminated Nearly Half a Million Developer Accounts Last Year
  43. App Tracking Transparency Advantages Apple’s Ad Network
  44. Amazon, Apple, and Google Back Matter, a Universal Home Device Certification
  45. Panic Discontinues Code Editor for iOS
  46. Marques Brownlee on Right to Repair
  47. Mapping the American Broadband Gap
  48. Flurry Analytics: iOS Users Are Almost Entirely Opting Out of App Tracking
  49. Two Cryptocurrency Links
  50. All Developers Are Equal, but Some Developers Are More Equal Than Others
  51. Thinking Through Flaws Borne of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
  52. Over One Hundred Thousand Albertans Aged Thirty and Older Book Vaccines in First Five Hours of Eligibility
  53. After Twitter’s Acquisition of Scroll, Nuzzel Will Be Shutting Down
  54. Apple Expands Its Ad Business With a New App Store Ad Slot
  55. The California Exception
  56. Facebook and the Weather Network Are Sending Users on an All-Expenses Paid Guilt Trip
  57. A New York Times Editorial Board Member Calls for Regulation of Dark Patterns
  58. Big Tech’s Surging Growth
  59. Epic Games v. Apple Trial Opens With Random People Incoherently Screaming
  60. The E.U. And Australian App Store Antitrust Investigations
  61. Resetting the App Store
  62. Florida Passes Bill That Would Penalize Social Media Companies for Interfering in Politicians’ Posts

April 2021

  1. Spring
  2. L’Affaire du Magic Keyboard
  3. Apple Sold a Lot of Stuff in Its Second Quarter
  4. In Its Quarterly Earnings Call, Facebook Discusses the Projected Effects of App Tracking Transparency on iOS
  5. Microsoft Seeks to Replace Calibri as the Default Office Font
  6. Toyota Subsidiary Acquires Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicle Development Project
  7. Gorge
  8. App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5 With Craig Federighi
  9. iOS and iPadOS 14.5 Are Out
  10. Max Headroom
  11. Rich Countries Are Refusing to Waive IP Rights on COVID-19 Vaccines
  12. Classic Macintosh One-Bit Painting on an iPad Pro
  13. More Notes on the New iMac
  14. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
  15. It Is Once Again Time for Apple Executives to Say That the iPad and Mac Are Not Merging
  16. All the Little Things in Apple’s Spring
  17. Revisiting Incorrect Reports That Cellebrite Cracked the San Bernardino iPhone
  18. Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike Got His Hands on a Cellebrite Device
  19. The Verge’s Profile of Kosta Eleftheriou
  20. James Hoffman’s AeroPress Technique
  21. Assorted Other ‘Spring Loaded’ Announcements
  22. Apple’s Letter to Artists About Streaming Music Payouts
  23. Facebook’s Media Strategy, Unwittingly Emailed to a Journalist, Seeks to Treat Large-Scale Leaks as ‘Normal’
  24. The New M1-Powered iPad Pro
  25. The Redesigned iMac Comes With an M1 Chip and Is Available in Seven Colours
  26. The New Apple TV 4K and New Siri Remote
  27. Remember Netbooks?
  28. The North Korean Government’s Many Digital Heists
  29. Apple Will Let Parler Back Into the App Store
  30. There Is No Way to Report App Store Scams
  31. Online Proctoring Programs Try to Detect Cheating Through Machine Learning, So You Can Imagine What They Get Wrong
  32. Users of the iOS Discord App Will Be Unable to Access NSFW Channels
  33. The Trust Gap Between Journalists and Companies Is Widening, as Is the Reporter-Public Relations Gap
  34. Spotify Continues to Remove Episodes of Joe Rogan’s Podcast
  35. Private Exploit Marketplaces May Have Broad Security Benefits
  36. End Trends
  37. Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Event Is April 20
  38. Spotify Announces Car Thing
  39. Bloomberg: Apple Is Working on a New TV Product With HomePod and Videoconferencing Capabilities
  40. Logitech Discontinues Its Harmony Universal Remote Control Line
  41. Ad Attribution Gives False Hope
  42. Keyboard Shortcuts in Many Web and Electron Apps Do Not Work Correctly With Non-ANSI Keyboard Layouts
  43. Apple Keeps iMessage Exclusive to Its Products Because It Is an Effective Differentiator
  44. Samsung’s ‘iTest’ Lets You Try a Galaxy Device on Your iPhone
  45. Wix Is Running a Bizarre Ad Campaign Mocking WordPress
  46. Third-Party Accessories Can Now Use Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network
  47. Movie Studios Know Streaming Service Exclusivity Is Untenable for Audiences
  48. Facebook Isn’t Sorry for Letting Someone Steal Personal Details of Half a Billion Users
  49. Google’s Primary Apps Now Feature Privacy Labels
  50. Phone Numbers From That 2019 Facebook Data Breach Are Now in ‘Have I Been Pwned?’
  51. ‘New Outlook’ for Mac Has an Objectively Stupid Keyboard Shortcut for Discarding Messages
  52. Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty
  53. The Internet Does Not Let You Forget
  54. Yahoo Answers Is Going Away on May 4
  55. Uber May Stop Letting Drivers See Destinations and Name Prices in California
  56. The Data Broker Industry Is Spending Big Bucks on Lobbying Efforts
  57. SCOTUS Says That Google’s Implementation of Oracle’s Java APIs Is Protected by Fair Use
  58. Personal Data Leaked From Five Hundred Million Facebook Users
  59. Snap Has Explored Tracking Groups of Users Without Consent
  60. The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure
  61. Blocking Is the Next Big Canadian Internet Policy Battle
  62. Facebook Indicates It Will Prohibit Canadian News on Its Platform if Canada Proceeds With Publisher Linking Fees
  63. The Acquisition of Shaw by Rogers Will Raise Prices and Erase Jobs
  64. Apple Stops Identifying Siri Voices by Gender, Adds Two New American English Options
  65. Lux’s Long Term iPhone 12 Camera Review
  66. Video Creators Again Discover Facebook Has Shorted Them on Ad Revenue

March 2021

  1. WWDC 2021 Starts June 7
  2. Getty Images Acquires Unsplash
  3. Twitter Accounts Ostensibly Belonging to Amazon Employees Are Promoting the Company as It Faces a Unionization Push
  4. Concentrated Influence in the Internet’s Stack, Not Just Platforms, Creates Different Venues for Control
  5. Amazon’s PR Strategy Seems to Be Inspired by a Steroid-Fuelled Rage
  6. What Happened to Arizona’s App Store Bill?
  7. Apple Tells Australian Regulator That the App Store Has Plenty of Competition With Websites and Other App Marketplaces
  8. Beginning in May, AMP Pages Will No Longer Be Artificially Prioritized in Google Searches
  9. The Streaming Music Paradox
  10. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s New Strategy
  11. Mac OS X Turns Twenty
  12. Most Links to Shortcuts Are Currently Broken
  13. New York Department of Financial Services Finds Goldman Sachs Did Not Violate Fair Lending Laws in Apple Card Cases
  14. After Union Push, Medium Follows the Trend
  15. Intel Is Trying to Court Apple for Chip Manufacturing at New Foundries
  16. Backblaze B2 Was Leaking Metadata to Facebook
  17. Verizon to Centre Media Arm Around New Subscription Platform Yahoo Plus
  18. ‘Today, I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You’
  19. Judge Certifies Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple for Butterfly Keyboards
  20. The HomePod Mini Contains an As-Yet Unused Temperature and Humidity Sensor
  21. Irrelevant Inside
  22. Privacy, Policy
  23. The Facial Recognition Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened. Now What?
  24. The Case for Better Watch Typography
  25. French Regulators Say the Upcoming iOS Tracking Permission Feature Is Not an Antitrust Concern
  26. Debates About ‘Big Tech’ Often Overlook Telecom Conglomerates
  27. A Surveillance Contractor Is Marketing a Service for Locating Cars in Nearly Every Country in ‘Near Real-Time’
  28. Apple Has Agreed to Prompt for Installation of iOS Apps From Russian Developers, According to Local Media
  29. Google Cuts Play Store Commission to 15% for First Million Dollars in Developer Revenue
  30. App Developers in China Are Testing an IDFA ‘Substitute’ for Tracking Users Without Consent
  31. It Is Trivial to Reroute Text Messages Given the Design of the SMS System
  32. Judge Says $5 Billion Lawsuit Can Proceed Against Google for Chrome’s Incognito Mode
  33. Rogers Announces Its Intent to Purchase Shaw for $26 Billion
  34. ‘Your Brain Doesn’t Know It, but Your Heart Can Tell’
  35. Throwing Shade on Grey
  36. Spotify ‘HiFi’ Lossless Audio Is Coming Later This Year
  37. The Big HomePod Goes the Way of the iPod Hi-Fi
  38. Please Never Make Me Buy a New TV
  39. Our Long Year of Being Mad at Each Other Online
  40. After a Report Last Month, Dependency Confusion Remains a Significant Vulnerability
  41. Amazon’s Publishing Arm Prevents Digital Library Cataloguing
  42. Bullies and Platforms
  43. In the Influencer Economy, Everything Is for Sale
  44. Letters From Tesla’s Counsel to California DMV Show Greater Wariness of Self-Driving Capability Than Elon Musk’s Public Comments
  45. Biden Administration Hires Tim Wu and Lina Khan
  46. Surveillance and Facial Recognition Systems From Verkada Breached
  47. T-Mobile to Automatically Enable Ad Targeting of Customers, Including Those of Sprint
  48. Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, Reported in January, Have Enabled Breaching ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Organizations
  49. Data Transfer Project
  50. The iMac Pro Waves Goodbye
  51. Google’s Proposal for Dropping User Tracking Is Really Just a Different Kind of Tracking
  52. Siri in iOS 14.5 Will Ask Users to Clarify Which Music, Podcast, and Audiobook Service They Prefer
  53. LinkedIn Announces It Will Stop Collecting Advertising Identifier in Its iOS Apps
  54. U.S. State Legislators Are Pushing Bills That Would Loosen App Store Control
  55. A Grizzled, Months-Old Chrome Tab Welcomes a Fresh-Faced New Tab to My Browser Window
  56. Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
  57. Apple Could Be Doing More for User Privacy, but It Should Not Have To
  58. Google Announces It Will Phase Out Tracking Based on Third-Party Data in Its Ad Products
  59. A Look at Shady Browser Extension Takeovers
  60. Dustin Curtis Missed an Apple Card Payment, and Then His Apple ID Was Locked
  61. All Vaccines for COVID-19 Are More Effective Than Those for the Flu
  62. Email Pushes the Buttons of Our Engrained Need for Connection

February 2021

  1. The Deepfake Danger Is Less About the Videos Themselves
  2. Apple’s Platform Security Guide Places Greater Emphasis on Vertical Integration
  3. Facebook Is Considering Facial Recognition for Its Upcoming Smart Glasses
  4. Tech Companies Are Finally Going Beyond the Bare Minimum for Moderation
  5. TikTok Says That It Removed 89 Million Videos in the Second Half of 2020, Most Before They Were Ever Seen
  6. Fry’s and Intel Macs
  7. Zero-Rating Policies for Facebook Left Many in the South Pacific Without the News
  8. Infinite Feedback Loop
  9. Perseverance Touches Down on Mars
  10. Following Up on Copycat ‘Social Media Censorship’ Laws
  11. Apple Cracks Down on Apps With ‘Irrationally High Prices’
  12. Unproven Biometrics Are Increasingly Being Used at Border Crossings and by Law Enforcement
  13. Some Warning Signs for Canada From the Australian Government’s Battle With Facebook
  14. Neither Good, Nor Bad, Nor Neutral
  15. Lawsuit: Facebook Overstated Advertising Reach Estimates for Years
  16. Australia’s Bad Bargain With Platforms
  17. Streaming Services Are Slowly Reaching Their Ultimate Cable Bundle Form
  18. Facebook Begins Restricting News Links for Australian Users and Australian Publishers Worldwide
  19. North Dakota Senate Rejects Bill That Would Require Alternative App Stores
  20. Microsoft Now Offers a Unified Office App for iPad
  21. City Guesser
  22. Supermicro​fragilistic​expialidocious
  23. Allowing Apps to Access Your Contacts Remains a Glaring Privacy Violation
  24. Emails About Not Getting Emails Are the Worst Emails
  25. The Potemkin Sale of TikTok to Oracle and Walmart Is on Indefinite Hold
  26. Why Doesn’t ‘Look Around’ Cover More Areas in the United States?
  27. Dependency Confusion Can Allow Malicious Packages to Insert Themselves Into Builds
  28. The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office
  29. Bloomberg’s Look at Apple’s Supply Chain and Tim Cook’s Influence
  30. Android Barcode Scanner App Update Included Malware
  31. Apple’s Parental Controls Blocks Most Things ‘Asian’
  32. Massive Investments Predicated on a ‘Winner Take All’ Outcome Are Distorting Markets
  33. The Mortality of Software
  34. Democrats’ Section 230 Bill Could ‘Devastate’ the Internet
  35. Yet Another Study Finds No Ideological Censorship by Social Media Companies
  36. Various States Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws From Fringe Actor Trying to Restrict Social Media Moderation
  37. App Store Subscription Scams Are Given a Veneer of Credibility by Fake Reviews
  38. Canadian Investigation Finds Clearview AI Does Not Comply With Privacy Laws
  39. Let’s Play the Blame Game, for Sure
  40. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  41. The Slow Evaporation of Google Maps’ Moat
  42. Jeff Bezos Is Stepping Down as Amazon CEO to Spend More Time With His Rocket Ship
  43. When the Cherries Run Out
  44. iOS 14.5 Allows You to Unlock Your iPhone With Your Apple Watch

January 2021

  1. I’m Being Censored, and You Can Read, Hear, and See Me Talk About It in the News, on the Radio, and on TV
  2. New Version of Carrot Weather
  3. A Vast Web of Vengeance
  4. Grading Apple’s 2020
  5. The Six Colors Apple Report Card 2020
  6. Sidebar: Translucency
  7. Waiting on the GameStop Knife to Fall
  8. Google Explains How Apps Using Its Ad Products Will Adapt to iOS 14’s Tracking Consent
  9. Apple’s Record-Breaking First Quarter Results
  10. Nikkei: Apple Is Diversifying Manufacturing of Core Products
  11. Google’s Sluggish Response to Privacy Labelling for Its iOS Apps
  12. Twitter Launches an Academic Research API Track
  13. Tapbots Releases Tweetbot 6 With Monthly and Annual Subscription Options
  14. Aqueux
  15. ‘Competition Policy Is Speech Policy’
  16. Dan Riccio Pulls a Bob Mansfield
  17. Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
  18. Dr. Brad Cox, Co-Inventor of Objective-C, Dies Aged 76
  19. As It Signs a Deal to Pay Publishers in France, Google Threatens to Pull Search From Australia
  20. Man Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud Charge After Spying on Home Security Cameras for Four Years
  21. Jessica Rosenworcel Is Acting Chairwoman of the FCC
  22. British TV Detector Vans
  23. The PDF Format’s Long-Term Success
  24. ‘There Is Always Light if Only We’re Brave Enough to See It’
  25. The World Through Social Media Algorithms
  26. Nearly There
  27. Capitol Crimes Superstars
  28. Twitter’s Decentralized Future
  29. Data Security on Mobile Devices
  30. Spoiler Alert
  31. ‘Internet 3.0’ Is a New Beginning
  32. Apple Announces Investments in Racial Equity
  33. Better Living Through Community
  34. Here’s What I Think Happens in George Orwell’s Books Based on How I’ve Heard ‘Orwellian’ Used
  35. Chain Messages Are Back
  36. Apple to Announce ‘Major Initiative’ in Interview With CBS This Morning
  37. The Future of the Mac’s Industrial Design
  38. The Hyperbolic, Exaggerated, Not-As-It-Seems Purge
  39. AWS Drops Parler Tonight
  40. Apple Tells Parler to Moderate Better or Lose Its App by Tomorrow
  41. The Mac App Store Turns Ten
  42. Deplatforming Might Work
  43. Twitter Bans Former Casino Owner With Cameo Appearance in ‘Home Alone 2’
  44. Coup-ing for the ’Gram
  45. The President of the United States Was Kicked Off Facebook Yesterday
  46. Panic Releases an Audion Face Viewer
  47. Microsoft Is Working on New Outlook Apps Based on Its Web App
  48. Surveillance in the Name of Health
  49. SolarWinds’ Poor Security Practices Can Be Traced to Its Private Equity-Based Financialization
  50. ‘60 Minutes’ Airs Misleading Story About Section 230
  51. Improving Accessibility in Tech
  52. App Reviewer Sues Apple After Firing
  53. Apple Removes Tens of Thousands of Games From App Store in China as It Complies More Strictly With Local Policies
  54. Apple Claims ‘Amphetamine’ Violates Illegal Drug App Store Policy, Threatens Removal
  55. ‘A New Year, a Fresh Clean Start’
  56. Save Dialog Deja Vu

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