The Curious Engineer

Pixel Envy

2023–2024

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December 2024

  1. Meta Envisages Social Media Filled With A.I.-Generated Users
  2. Volkswagen Subsidiary Left Vehicle Location Data Unprotected in Amazon Storage
  3. Apple Photos’ ‘Enhanced Visual Search’ Matches Possible Landmarks Remotely
  4. Merry Christmas, Your New Air Fryer Is Spying on You
  5. Kevin O’Leary Is Playing Alberta for a $70 Billion Fool
  6. The Generative A.I. Grouch
  7. Powering an E-Bike From Tossed Vape Batteries
  8. The Promise of Duolingo
  9. U.S. Judge Rules NSO Group Is Liable for Spyware Delivered via WhatsApp
  10. ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify
  11. Never Forgive Them
  12. Music Year-End Lists
  13. Mark Zuckerberg Says Threads Has 100 Million Daily Active Users
  14. Telegram Publishes a Dashboard of Daily Moderation Actions
  15. WP Engine Wins Preliminary Injunction in Fight With Automattic
  16. Canadian Addresses Are Being Used by Fraudulent Companies to Launder Cryptocurrency
  17. Labellers Training A.I. Say They Are Overworked, Underpaid, and Exploited
  18. ‘Do Not Track’ Removed From Firefox
  19. BBC Complains to Apple Over Misleading Shooting Headline
  20. Sora’s U.I. System
  21. TCL Is Going to Generate and Stream A.I. Movies to Its Televisions for Targeted Advertising
  22. Similarweb: U.S. Traffic to Bluesky and Threads Increases as X Slides
  23. The Name of This Game Is Steve
  24. The Generation Generation
  25. I Goobered Up the RSS Feed Last Month, but I Think I Fixed It
  26. TikTok Loses U.S. Divest-or-Ban Appeal
  27. Brazilian Court Overturns App Store Injunction
  28. The Finder Column Width Bug Is Still There
  29. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  30. Siri Invented a Calendar Event and Then Hallucinated a Helpful Suggestion
  31. Ambiguity and Trust in Apple Intelligence
  32. Billionaire Bozos or Begrovellers
  33. A Lot of People Apparently Watch Podcasts on YouTube Now
  34. U.S. Regulators Propose Reigning in Data Brokers
  35. Enrons of 2024
  36. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  37. Delicious Wabi-Sabi
  38. Google’s iOS App Inserts Its Own Links Into Webpages

November 2024

  1. Bluesky Changes How Replies Are Sorted by Default
  2. Margrethe Vestager Is the Dam Breaker
  3. Competition Bureau Sues Google for Anti-Competitive Conduct
  4. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Launches Broad Microsoft Investigation
  5. ‘Surveilled’ Documents Ronan Farrow’s Reporting on Spyware
  6. Mozilla Is Worried About the Proposed Fixes for Google’s Search Monopoly
  7. Google’s Speculation on Apple’s Advertising Ambitions
  8. Brazil Antitrust Body Rules Apple Must Permit External Payment Methods in iOS Apps
  9. How Sports Betting Has Changed the U.S.
  10. Chrome and Competition
  11. ‘Opinion: Bluesky Is a Dangerous Echo Chamber Because No One Wants to Hear From Me, Specifically’
  12. Sill Collates Top Links From Your Accounts on Bluesky and Mastodon
  13. App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
  14. Adam Mosseri Says Threads Will Now Show You More of the Stuff You Have Said You Are Interested in Seeing
  15. The Decaf Project
  16. Release the X Files
  17. ‘The App Store Era Must End’
  18. Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking U.S. Soldiers and Spies
  19. Playdate Podcast, True Crime Edition
  20. IMG_0001, IMG_4228
  21. Potential Algorithmic Bias on X During the 2024 U.S. Election
  22. A Popular A.I. Training Set Includes Data from OpenSubtitles
  23. What Is a Skeptic?
  24. Canadian Right-to-Repair Legislation Receives Royal Assent
  25. Slop on Spotify
  26. The Onion Buys InfoWars
  27. Misguided Apple Intelligence Ads
  28. Elon Musk-Themed A.I. Slop
  29. Microsoft Thinks the Problem With Its A.I. Stuff Is the Name
  30. How Amazon Threatens Canada’s Post Office
  31. Old iPhone Videos Hidden in Plain Sight
  32. Apple’s ‘Best Albums’ List Available in $450 Coffee Table Book Form
  33. Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone ‘Inactivity Reboot’
  34. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  35. Wonder Has Raised Over a Billion Dollars to Be a Maker of Generic Food
  36. The MacBook Pro Nano-Texture Display Is Matte From the Inside
  37. The Fight
  38. Canadian Government Bans TikTok’s Canadian Operations, but Not Its App
  39. The Powerful Density of Hypertextual Writing
  40. We Are Cursed to Have More Connector Standards and, Also, Articles About Connector Standards
  41. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  42. Humane Is Trying to License Its Operating System, a Move It Swears Was the Strategy All Along
  43. Apple Intelligence Is Coming to the E.U. In April
  44. Apple Ends a Week of Announcements by Acquiring Pixelmator

October 2024

  1. When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female?
  2. StopTheMadness Pro Version 11
  3. All Macs Except the Walmart M1 MacBook Air Now Have a Minimum of 16 GB of RAM
  4. Calgary Public Library Says It Is Slowly Resuming Services After Attempted Ransomware Attack
  5. World Leaders’ Security Personnel Are on Strava
  6. Sorry Siri
  7. Setting Up Mastodon Author Tags
  8. You Can Use Clean Up With a Clear Conscience
  9. Apple Says It Believes Spatial Images Are the Future of Photography and, in Some Ways, Memory
  10. Linking Directly to Text Fragments
  11. ‘Everything Is a Conspiracy Theory When You Don’t Trust Anything’
  12. The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data
  13. Hulu and Disney Plus No Longer Support App Store Payments
  14. Letting the Joke Overtake the Source Material
  15. Risks and Harms, and Youth and Social Media
  16. X Has Altered the Deal
  17. Bloomberg: E.U. Regulators Considering Whether Penalties Levied Against X Should Include Other Musk Businesses
  18. Correcting the Record on Recording
  19. Apple’s Stale Displays
  20. Safe Spaces for Bullshit
  21. Screen Recording Alert Changes in MacOS 15.1 Beta
  22. ‘Kill List’
  23. Matt Mullenweg and WordPress Hijack the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin
  24. Cybersecurity Breach at Calgary Public Library
  25. What the Hell Is Going on With WordPress and WPEngine?
  26. XOXO 2024 Conference Videos
  27. Tesla Robotaxi, Robovan, and Robot
  28. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  29. Apple’s Left and Right Hands Are Sometimes Strangers
  30. Internet Archive ‘Glitch’ Affects User Data
  31. Private Systems for Public Services
  32. The Internet Archive Is Under DDoS Attack
  33. WSJ: U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
  34. Apple as Godzilla
  35. Low Orbit Satellite Companies Respond to Scientists’ Concerns About Light and Environmental Pollution With Even Bigger, Brighter Satellites
  36. Messages via Satellite in Real Life, and Real Life Catastrophes
  37. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  38. Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Zag
  39. Pavel Durov Is an Unreliable Narrator
  40. I Do Not Care About Impediments to a Creepy Growth Hacking Technique
  41. Croissant
  42. iPhone Battery Limiter Anecdata
  43. The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

September 2024

  1. X’s First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover
  2. Guided by Vices
  3. How Much Does the 80% Charging Limit Help an iPhone’s Battery After a Year?
  4. The Environmental Cost of A.I.
  5. Actual Emissions by Tech Companies Far Exceed Claims
  6. FTC Staff Report on Social Media Data Collection
  7. Stop MacOS Sequoia Monthly Screen Recording Permissions Prompts
  8. Perplexity Is Pitching Companies on Advertising Opportunities
  9. Ford Seeks Patent for Always-Listening Advertising Techology
  10. Salesfoce Hired John Mulaney for a Set at Dreamforce, and It Went Great
  11. Microsoft Redesigns Its Illustrations
  12. How Crypto Bros Wrested Flappy Bird From Its Creator
  13. Heart and Soul and Efficiency
  14. Apple Explains How It Thinks About Photography in an A.I. Era
  15. iOS 18 Brings RCS to iPhones, Without End-to-End Encryption, Yet
  16. ‘Chat Control’ Back on E.U. Agenda
  17. Glowtime Ennui
  18. MacOS Sequoia Shipped With the Annoying Screen Recording Permissions Dialog
  19. Six Colors Turns Ten
  20. Meta’s Red Card
  21. Apple’s Lawsuit Against NSO Group Has Been Dropped at the Company’s Request, but Meta’s Continues
  22. A Cartoon Butt Clenching a Bar of Soap
  23. To Forget is an Ethical Act
  24. Sponsor: ‘I Needed Days to Get Through John’s Book. The Depth Is Staggering!’
  25. The U.S. Government Begins Making Its Case Against Google’s Ad Business
  26. Engagement Bait on Threads
  27. Wired’s Look at Apple’s Private Cloud Compute
  28. A.I. Corporate Bullshit
  29. On the iPhone 16 Pro’s Cameras
  30. Welcome Back, 42 Millimetre Apple Watch
  31. Amazon Says It Will Keep Selling Taxi Signs Because It Is Not a Crime
  32. Camera Control on the iPhone 16 Line
  33. Sponsor: The Stories Behind Apple’s Famed Advanced Technology Group by John Buck
  34. A.I. and Art
  35. Grain2Pixel, a Photoshop Script for Converting Film Negative Scans
  36. The Surprisingly Big Business of Library Ebooks
  37. RationalWiki Is Being Sued
  38. Here Are Over Twenty Examples of Google Employees Trying to Avoid Creating Antitrust Evidence
  39. The Economist: Big, Heavy Cars Are Killing More People
  40. Brazil Bans X
  41. Elon Musk Is an Influential Idiot Who Should Not Be Arrested for Being Dumb
  42. Third Circuit’s Section 230 TikTok Ruling

August 2024

  1. I Think the iPhone Is Getting a Little Bit Harder to Use Because of a Few Small Decisions
  2. Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau Were Killed by a Driver While Cycling
  3. A Blog Post Laments the Widening and Grade Separation of Technology at Its Intersection With Liberal Arts
  4. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Formally Charged in France
  5. Bluesky’s New ‘Anti-Toxicity’ Features
  6. More About Telegram and Pavel Durov’s Arrest
  7. Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians
  8. Here’s the Pitch Deck for CMG’s ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting
  9. Image Fakery in the A.I. Era
  10. When Elon Musk Turned Blue
  11. Telegram, the ‘Encrypted Messaging App’
  12. Sam Altman Does Not Care About You
  13. ‘If 31% of Second Graders Are Actually Using X, I Will Eat My Hat’
  14. MacOS Should Permit People to Take Risks
  15. The Upcoming iOS Changes for E.U. Users Are Making Me Jealous
  16. Our Changing Assumptions About Photography
  17. Discovering New Music in 2024
  18. A Camera Is Only as Good as the Photographer Holding It
  19. We Do Not Need Another iPod for Streaming TV, We Need an iTunes
  20. The Conservative Party of Canada Is Nationalistic but Not Patriotic
  21. National Public Data’s Collection Suddenly Very Public
  22. About That ‘A.I. Upgrade’
  23. When You Are in the Ad Business, Every Flat Surface Is a Billboard
  24. Website Owners Have Decreasing Control Over Their Presentation in Google’s Results
  25. A Web Eraser by Any Other Name
  26. Apple’s Inconsistency Begets More Inconsistency
  27. Patreon’s iOS App Will (Now) Be Forced to Use In-App Purchasing Instead of Its Safari-Based System
  28. Former President Promotes Fringe Theory About Crowds at Kamala Harris Rallies
  29. Permissions Pollution
  30. ‘The Anxious Generation’
  31. Jony Ive on the ‘Life in Seven Songs’ Podcast
  32. Apple Changes External Linking Rules and Fee Structure in European Union
  33. Apple’s Permissions Features Are Out of Balance
  34. A.I. Pins Returned to Humane Cannot Be Refurbished
  35. Mozilla Might Suffer the Gravest Consequences of the Google Antitrust Ruling
  36. The Reddit and Google Pairing Is One of a Kind
  37. MacOS Sequoia Raises the Gatekeeper Walls
  38. Apple Intelligence-Related Instructions
  39. ‘Google Is a Monopolist’ in Search Says U.S. Judge
  40. Meta Restricted News in Canada One Year Ago
  41. Apple’s Growing ‘Services’ Revenue
  42. Cool URLs Mean Something

July 2024

  1. Technical Mishaps Are Not Always Meddling Plots
  2. Mark Zuckerberg Stays On Script
  3. Logitech CEO Proposes Building Products That Last a Long Time
  4. Calgary Is the ‘Blue Sky City’
  5. Third-Party Cookies Have Got to Go
  6. Engineering Consent
  7. Southwest Airlines Did Not Dodge the CrowdStrike-Caused Outage Thanks to Windows 3.1
  8. WSJ: Amazon Has Lost Billions Selling Millions of Alexa Devices
  9. Linda Yaccarino Is Caught Between a Musk and a Hard Place
  10. Market-Driven Brittleness
  11. The Conclusions of That CAPTCHA Paper Seem Iffy to Me
  12. Antitrust Probe in India Finds Apple Abused Position in Apps Market
  13. Apple Is Probably Undercounting CSAM in Its Internet Services
  14. Meta’s A.I. Models and ‘Open Source’
  15. On ‘Mogul Style’
  16. CrowdStrike Fallout
  17. You Will Not Believe This, but Tesla’s Nearly Fictional Optimus Robot Is Not Ready Yet
  18. Broken File in CrowdStrike Update Causes Worldwide Systems Outages
  19. YouTube Subtitles Included in Large Data Set Used to Train Notable A.I. Models
  20. J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public
  21. Fully Apple Pilled
  22. EchoFeed Automatically Publishes Feeds to Open Social Protocols
  23. The Return of Piracy
  24. Manager Magazine Suggests Collaboration Between Apple and Porsche Beyond CarPlay
  25. Prime Day Continues to Be Dangerous for Amazon’s Workforce
  26. Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple in News and Stocks
  27. The Richest People in Silicon Valley Are Backing Trump After He Got Shot
  28. AT&T Paid to Delete Stolen Phone Records
  29. Apple vs. Emulation
  30. LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Meta’s Platforms
  31. Russian Government Forces Apple to Remove Dozens of VPN Apps From the App Store
  32. Massive Records Breach Affects AT&T and Carriers Which Use Its Network
  33. Anthony Fantano on Rick Beato’s ‘Why Music Is Getting Worse’
  34. ‘Slop’ and ‘Content’
  35. Google Photos Finally Lets Users Migrate Directly to iCloud Photos
  36. Amazon Did Not Reach Its Goal of Fully Clean Electricity Seven Years Early
  37. Samsung Introduces the Galaxy Watch Ultra and See If You Can Guess Its Inspiration
  38. Apple Blog TUAW Returns as A.I. Slop
  39. The Ticketmaster Breach Is a Cautionary Nightmare
  40. Dynamic Type on the Web
  41. Apple Withheld Epic Games’ App Store in the E.U.
  42. Canadian Government Enacts Digital Services Tax
  43. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac App Stored Conversation History Outside the Sandbox
  44. The Design of A.I. Identities
  45. Report from Google Researchers Finds Impersonation Is the Most Likely Way Generative A.I. Is Misused
  46. Figma Disables A.I. Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
  47. ‘King Lear Is Just English Words Put in Order’

June 2024

  1. No, the European Commissioner Did Not Say the Delayed Launch of Apple Intelligence Is Anticompetitive
  2. When Google Burned a U.S.-Allied Counterterrorism Operation
  3. The Latest Attempt at a U.S. Privacy Law Is Dead
  4. Beleaguered Paramount Wipes Historic MTV News and Comedy Central Archives
  5. Apple Publishes Paper Explaining Its Approach to Repair and Device Longevity
  6. Google Says It Continues to Monitor an Ineffective Chinese Propaganda Network
  7. U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Conspiracy Theory Behind Murthy v. Missouri
  8. Music Today
  9. European Commission Finds Apple Is in Breach of DMA Rules
  10. Alberta Government Is Outraged on Behalf of Greenwashing Oil Companies
  11. So Far, A.I. Is a Feature, Not a Product
  12. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas Responds
  13. The Fight for End-to-End Encryption Is Worldwide
  14. Apple Says It Will Prevent E.U. Users From Accessing Select New Features, Including Apple Intelligence, Until It Has Achieved DMA Compliance
  15. On Robots and Text
  16. Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
  17. A.I. Cannot Fix What Automation Already Broke
  18. McDonald’s Is Ending Its Drive-Through A.I. Test
  19. Nvidia Is the World’s Most Valuable Bubb— Sorry, Company
  20. Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Apple
  21. Adobe Codifies Pledge Not to Train A.I. on Customer Data
  22. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Adobe Over Subscription Practices
  23. Perplexity A.I. Is Lying About Its User Agent
  24. Clearview Class Action Settlement Proposal Would Make Investors Out of Victims
  25. Microsoft Delays Launch of Recall
  26. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  27. The Three C’s of Data Participation in the Age of A.I.
  28. ProPublica: Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack
  29. Stefan’s Collection of Classic Computer Brochures
  30. Japan Becomes the Next Region to Mandate Alternative App Stores
  31. BNN Breaking Was an A.I. Sham
  32. Dark Mode App Icons
  33. Rich Idiot Tweets
  34. Apple Intelligence
  35. Research as Leisure Activity
  36. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  37. Justin Trudeau on ‘Hard Fork’
  38. Anti Trust in Tech
  39. Screen Time is Buggy
  40. The Rise and Fall of Preview
  41. Meta’s Big Squeeze
  42. Inside the Copilot Recall ‘Disaster’
  43. Google Comments on Its Sloppy Summaries
  44. Shit’s on Fire, Yo!

May 2024

  1. Caitlin Dewey Wants to See Your Old Gmail Messages
  2. Two TikTok Updates
  3. Amazon Executives May Be Personally Liable for Unintentional Prime Registrations
  4. Inner Workings
  5. Battery Replacements Should Be the Easiest Repair for Any Device
  6. Rank Apple
  7. First Apple Store in Malaysia to Open on June 22
  8. B.C. Winemakers Grapple With the Climate Crisis
  9. The Deskilling of Web Development
  10. Google Leaked Itself
  11. How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon
  12. Google’s A.I. Answers Said to Put Glue in Pizza, So Katie Notopoulos Made Some Pizza
  13. More on That Zombie Photos Bug
  14. Killing Time for TikTok
  15. OpenAI Documents Reveal Punitive Tactics Toward Former Employees
  16. Microsoft Recall
  17. On Touch Screen Macs
  18. Scarlett Johansson Wants Answers About ChatGPT Voice That Sounds Like ‘Her’
  19. iOS 17.5.1 Contains a Fix for That Reappearing Photos Bug
  20. Slack’s Sneaky A.I. Training Policy
  21. iOS 17.5 Bug Apparently Restoring Long-Deleted Photos
  22. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock — YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  23. Apple Pencil Shadow Casting
  24. If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With a Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?
  25. The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
  26. Generative A.I. Is Shameless
  27. What Are We Actually Doing With A.I. Today?
  28. Google Is Expanding A.I. Feature Availability in Search
  29. The iPad Pro Reviews Are in, and You Already Know How This Goes
  30. ChatGPT Can ‘Flirt’
  31. The Missing Years in Emoji History
  32. OpenAI Introduces GPT-4o
  33. Apple Is Still Launching Apple Music Features on Weird Microsites
  34. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock — the Safari Ad Blocker Built for You
  35. Abandoned Blogs
  36. The Paranoid Crusade Comes for Public Radio and Signal
  37. Sponsor: ListenLater.net — Listen to Articles as Podcasts
  38. Reddit’s Partner Policies, Applicable to ‘A.I.’ Licensees, Prohibits Using Deleted Posts
  39. How Apple Shot ‘Let Loose’
  40. Slop Is a Good Name for Unwanted A.I.-Generated Material
  41. The Hacks of Modern WordPress Theme Development
  42. Steve Albini Has Died
  43. TikTok Sues U.S. Over Divest-or-Ban Law
  44. Apple Introduces M4 SoC in New iPad Pro Models
  45. Judge Mulls Sanctions Over Google’s Routine Destruction of Chat History
  46. Sponsor: ListenLater.net — Listen to Articles as Podcasts
  47. Apple’s Shifting Supply Chain
  48. Microsoft Says It Is Prioritizing Security Again
  49. Sponsor: ListenLater.net — Turn Articles Into Podcasts
  50. WhatsApp Pushes Back on Encryption-Hostile Policies in India
  51. Apple Modifies Terms of Core Technology Fee With More Exceptions
  52. Spotify Is Recommending ‘A.I.’-Generated Music
  53. ‘Dark Wire’
  54. Tech Journalism Has the Same Faults as Other Beats

April 2024

  1. The Curious Case of Apple’s Third-Party SDK List for Privacy Manifests
  2. From Space to Story in Data Journalism
  3. Sponsor: ListenLater.net — Turn Articles Into Podcasts: Send a Link, Receive Human-Like Narration to Your Podcast App
  4. What Is Noise?
  5. FCC Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules in U.S.
  6. Lots of People Were Locked Out of Their Apple IDs
  7. I Hope This Email Finds You
  8. Websites That Forbid Other Websites From Linking to Them
  9. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  10. The Onion Is the Latest Publication to Be Sold by G/O Media
  11. ‘Microsoft Must Stop Selling Security as a Premium Offering’
  12. True Believing Tesla Retail Investors
  13. The Utility of Google Search Was Sacrificed for Ad Growth
  14. How iOS Geographically Restricts New Features
  15. Preliminary Findings on the Effects of Meta’s News Ban in Canada
  16. Special Characters in MacOS
  17. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  18. China Orders Apple to Remove Popular Messaging Apps From App Store
  19. U.S. Senate Votes to Reauthorize, Expand, FISA Surveillance Powers
  20. Informed Consent and Privacy
  21. A.I., Lost in Translation
  22. Mother Earth Mother Board
  23. Tim Cook’s Southeast Asia Tour Is Taking Him Through Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, and Maybe Malaysia
  24. The Humanity Of It
  25. ‘I Love My Phone So Much I Wish I Could Stare at It More’
  26. Government Spyware Is Another Reason to Use an Ad Blocker
  27. Deep Sea Cable Repair Technicians Keep the World’s Communications Afloat
  28. Microsoft’s ‘Enviable Advantages’ Cover Up Its Security Failures
  29. Music Discovery Begins to Stagnate When We Turn Thirty
  30. ‘Means of Control’
  31. Cabel Sasser’s Talk From Game Developers Conference
  32. Humane A.I. Pin Reviews
  33. Facebook Did Not Censor a Critical Column, but It Still Erred
  34. The World of Shein
  35. A Review of the Fairphone Fairbuds
  36. The Best Photos and Videos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse
  37. Apple Says Used iPhone Parts Will Be Permitted in Device Repairs, Unless They Are Stolen
  38. Third-Party Web Browsers Report Growing Mobile Market Share in E.U.
  39. Claims Form Open for Canadian iPhone Battery Class Action Settlement
  40. Automattic Adds Beeper to Its Portfolio of Cross-Platform Messaging Acquisitions
  41. In a Lawsuit, a Former TikTok Employee Claims to Be a Source for Various High-Profile News Stories, and Makes Some Truly Bananas Claims
  42. Delivery Workers’ Hazards
  43. What We Give Up
  44. The Calgary Cassette Preservation Society
  45. Hanlon’s Razor, Kansas Edition
  46. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock — YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  47. The U.S. Antitrust Case Against Apple, and iPhone Privacy and Security
  48. Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Technology Is an Illusion
  49. Why Corporations Fail to Protect Our Data
  50. Threads and Taiwan’s Presidential Election
  51. ‘The Wi-Fi Only Works When It Is Raining’
  52. Threads Is the Gas-Leak Social Network
  53. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock — the Safari Ad Blocker Built for You

March 2024

  1. Reviews of Jonathan Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’
  2. WhatsApp Is the World’s Default Communication App
  3. One Would Think It Would Not Be Too Difficult to Find a Charging Cable With 48 Hours’ Notice
  4. The Online Harms Act
  5. Giving Up on Siri
  6. Those Obnoxious ‘Sign in With Google’ Prompts
  7. Oregon Passes Right-to-Repair Law Restricting Parts Pairing
  8. A View Source Web
  9. Apple Announces WWDC 2024 for June 10
  10. Meta Snooped on Users’ Snapchat Traffic With the Onavo VPN It Owned
  11. Judge Dismisses Twitter Lawsuit Against Center for Countering Digital Hate
  12. Without Context, Semafor Launders Tech Industry Lobbying
  13. The Chamber of Progress Scuttles Its Pre-Buttal
  14. Pitchfork Lived and Died by the Internet
  15. Microsoft Is Running Pop-Up Ads for Bing in Chrome on Windows
  16. A History of United States v. Microsoft
  17. United States Department of Justice Plus Fifteen States Sue Apple
  18. U.S. Lawmakers Approve Bill Limiting Data Brokers’ Sales to Foreign Adversaries
  19. Freeing Up Disk Space on Your Mac
  20. The European Commission Is Holding DMA Compliance Workshops, Beginning With Apple Today
  21. The TikTok Bill and Today’s SCOTUS Case Are Funhouse Mirror Versions of Each Other
  22. The Typography Palette in MacOS Got Some Nice New Icons
  23. The Web Turns 35
  24. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock — YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  25. White House Dodges, Burns, Heals, Clones
  26. Automakers Are Tracking and Monetizing Drivers Without Adequately Informing Them
  27. Apple’s Regulatory Push and Pull
  28. Where Is Apple’s Confidence in In-App Purchases?
  29. A Revised Version of the FTC’s Case Against Amazon Reveals More Alleged Criminal Behaviour
  30. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock — the Safari Ad Blocker Built for You
  31. Europe Gives Apple a Chance to Change
  32. Sponsor: Power Up Your Screenshots With ScreenFloat 2
  33. It Is March, So U.S. Lawmakers Are Moving Forward on TikTok Legislation Again
  34. New York Times, Without a Hint of Irony, Files DCMA Takedowns Against Wordle Clones
  35. Apps and Vinegar
  36. Hank Green Interviews Nilay Patel for ‘Decoder’
  37. XOXO 2024
  38. TikTok Spammers and the ‘A.I.’ Tools That Enable Them
  39. Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain
  40. Sponsor: Power Up Your Screenshots With ScreenFloat 2
  41. Automattic Is Doing Some Weird Stuff With Users’ Public Data
  42. Apple Now Says Never Mind, Progressive Web Apps Will Continue to Work in WebKit in the E.U.
  43. Canadian Competition Bureau Expands Its Investigation Into Google’s Advertising Practices

February 2024

  1. Project Titan’s Cancellation Seems to Have Broken Some Brains
  2. Joe Biden Signs Executive Order Intended to Restrict Data Sales to ‘Countries of Concern’
  3. How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets
  4. Bloomberg: Project Titan, Apple’s Car Project, Has Been Shut Down
  5. Granular Private Data Is the Foundation of Targeted Advertising, Obviously
  6. When Is Journalism Hacking?
  7. Troy Hunt Tries to Figure Out if a Sketchy FedEx Duties Notification Is Real
  8. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  9. Timothy Burke Indicted on Ridiculous Conspiracy Charges
  10. Vice Is Dead
  11. iMessage Encryption Standard to Be Updated to Protect Against Quantum Computing
  12. I Thought It Might Be Hard to Replace My 27-Inch iMac Given Apple’s Current Desktop Lineup, But It Actually Seems Great (Adjusted for Inflation)
  13. RCMP’s Collection of Open-Source Information Under ‘Project Wide Awake’
  14. Apple’s 2023 Report Card
  15. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  16. Apple Demotes Progressive Web Apps to Bookmarks for E.U. Users in iOS 17.4
  17. OpenAI Announces Sora, a Text-to-Video Generator
  18. Meta Still Cannot Explain Which Posts Are ‘Political’
  19. Gurman: Apple Is Still Working on Generative Tools in Xcode
  20. The High Cost of Uber’s Small Profit
  21. Data Broker Near Intelligence Linked Visits to Hundreds of Planned Parenthood Locations and Anti-Abortion Ad Campaign
  22. ‘Reply Guy’ Warning Stickers
  23. European Commission Finds iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft Ads Are Not Gatekeepers
  24. An Oral History of Apple’s ‘1984’ Macintosh Ad
  25. Government of Canada Says It Will Improve Vehicle Theft Prevention Technologies
  26. Meta Says Threads Users Will Not Be Recommended ‘Political’ Posts From Accounts They Do Not Follow
  27. Microsoft Will End Mixed Reality Support in Windows Later This Year
  28. Lawsuit Alleges Wrongly Accused Person Landed in Jail Thanks to Facial Recognition False Positive, Then Assaulted
  29. Wide Lightning
  30. Chris Dixon’s ‘Read Write Own’
  31. How Apple Is Demonstrating the Vision Pro
  32. Judge Allows FTC Case Against Kochava to Proceed
  33. Bluesky Opens to the Public
  34. Fixing Google’s Most Recent Pixel Storage Issue Requires Developer Tools and the Command Line
  35. Secretive Intelligence Firm With Alberta Government Contract Reveals Limitations of Public Disclosures
  36. Tim Cook Gets a Tim Cook Shirt
  37. The Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves
  38. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Is ‘Really Excited’ for Apple’s New Product
  39. Alberta Government Proposes Discriminatory Policies Against Trans Youth
  40. Making a PDF Page Larger Than Germany
  41. The George Carlin Mechanical Turk

January 2024

  1. Meta’s Quest Could Be the New BlackBerry
  2. Nitter Is Dead
  3. A.I. ‘Gives Me the Prompts, I Paint the Pictures’
  4. On Being a Luddite
  5. ‘Patternz’ Links Real-Time Ad Bidding to Vast Surveillance
  6. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  7. Automatic Transcripts Coming to Apple Podcasts
  8. Meet the New Boss
  9. In Praise of Heart and Soul
  10. The Mac Turns Forty
  11. Bloomberg: Biden Administration Preparing Order to Restrict Foreign Sales of U.S. Data
  12. HP Now Says It Is Blocking Third-Party Printer Ink for Your Protection
  13. Apple Music Will Pay a Ten Percent Bonus to Artists Who Release Spatial Audio Mixes
  14. Vision Curious
  15. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  16. David Mills Died Aged 85
  17. How the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity Was Busted
  18. Regarding the Data Protection Review Court
  19. People Remain Uninterested in Bing
  20. A Survey of Popular Apps Currently Compatible With Apple’s Vision Pro
  21. ‘The Tyranny of the Algorithm’
  22. The New TV
  23. U.S. Apple Developers Can Now Offer Non-App Store Purchasing Option
  24. Fusus Allows Police to Monitor Public and Private Camera Feeds Across Cities
  25. WhatsApp’s User Base Appears to Be Growing in the U.S.
  26. Artifact Is Shutting Down
  27. How Threads Will Integrate With the Fediverse
  28. Platformer Is the Latest Newsletter to Leave Substack
  29. ‘I Made This’
  30. Sleeve, a Now Playing and Last.fm Scrobbler for MacOS
  31. The Internet Archive Now Hosts DatPiff’s Collection of Rap Mixtapes
  32. Substack Is Not Infrastructure
  33. Finally, a Grocery Cart That Can Prevent an Ad-Free Moment of Existence
  34. Airline Safety Requires Constant Dedication
  35. Using the Wayback Machine and Google Analytics to Find Hidden Web Connections
  36. Diamond Subpixel Simulator
  37. Lina Khan’s FTC Gets Results Against Data Broker X-Mode
  38. Assigning Copyright Liability for the Output of ‘A.I.’ Systems
  39. Substack Clears the Absolute Lowest Bar
  40. Heartbreaking: David Heinemeier Hansson Makes a Great Point
  41. Antitrust Case Against Apple Expected in U.S. This Year
  42. The Evitability of Copyright Changes Due to Generative ‘A.I.’
  43. Facebook’s Link History Feature
  44. The Messenger Is Sinking
  45. How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now

2023 570

December 2023

  1. A Search Engine for Canadian Independent Bookstores
  2. Google Settles ‘Incognito’ Lawsuit
  3. My Favourite Music This Year
  4. The Best Global Tech Stories of 2023
  5. Pig Butchering in Myanmar
  6. Advanced Exploit Chain Affecting Older iOS Versions Detailed by Kaspersky
  7. NYT: Apple Explores Licensing Deals With Publishers for Large Language Model Training
  8. Bluesky Gets a Real Brand
  9. ActivityPub and the Fediverse in 2024
  10. Mouse Poop in Cereal Boxes
  11. Apple’s Next Generation CarPlay Shown in Real Car Mockups
  12. Sales of Apple Watch Models With Blood Oxygen Sensors to Be Halted in the U.S.
  13. The Neverending Film Photography ‘Resurgence’
  14. Figma and Adobe Abandon Acquisition Proposal
  15. The Life and Times of Yahoo Pipes
  16. CMG Claims It Is Using Device Microphones to Target Ads
  17. The ‘A.I.’ Trust Crisis
  18. Meta’s Ray-Bans Are Alarming for Privacy in Private Spaces, Not in Public
  19. StopTheMadness Pro
  20. Google’s Confusing New Location Data Settings
  21. Google Reneges on Data Storage Promise, Provides Impossibly Short Deadline
  22. Mechanical Turk Drive-Through
  23. The Year Twitter Died
  24. A Cultural Critique of the Tesla Cybertruck
  25. Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Killed in the United States?
  26. Apple Confirms It Closed the Mechanism Used by Beeper Mini
  27. Beeper Mini Has Stopped Working Already
  28. Google’s Tricky Gemini Demo
  29. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  30. ‘No CGI’ Is Really Just Invisible CGI
  31. End-to-End Encryption Will Be on by Default in Facebook Messenger
  32. Judge Vows to Investigate Google for Intentionally Destroying Chats
  33. Forums of Pain
  34. Governments Are Spying on Push Notifications
  35. Days After Downplaying Data Breach, 23andMe Confirms Information Disclosure From About Half Its Users
  36. ‘A.I.’ and Trust
  37. Sony Removing Purchased Discovery TV Shows
  38. Reverse-Engineered iMessage Comes to Android With Beeper Mini
  39. YouTube, Chrome, and Ad Blockers
  40. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  41. Plagiarism and You(Tube)
  42. I.P. Maximalism
  43. Disabled Safari Extensions Are Not Fully Disabled, and Other Problems
  44. iPhone Mirror Photo Bends Space and Time

November 2023

  1. There Have Been Twenty Zero-Days Patched in Apple’s Operating Systems This Year
  2. The Salvaged Bill C–18 Is a Compromise That Sucks for Everyone
  3. Canadian Government Reaches Deal with Google on Online News Act
  4. For a Deeper Look at Your Music Listening Habits, Try Last.fm
  5. ‘Sports Illustrated’ Says the Articles Published on Its Website Under Fake Names With Generated Headshots Were Actually Written by Humans
  6. Lock Screen Widget Limitations
  7. Police Departments and News Sites Are Misinforming People About iOS’ NameDrop Feature
  8. 2023 in Elon Musk and Antisemitism
  9. The Seventh Pudding Cup
  10. Matthew Butterick and A.I.’s Human Resistance
  11. About That OpenAI ‘Breakthrough’
  12. FBI Often Does Not Have Probable Cause for Section 702 Searches, Says FBI Director
  13. Sam Altman Is Back at OpenAI
  14. Smart Mattress Topper CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers’ Sleep Data
  15. Canadian Right-to-Repair Bill Passes House of Commons, Now Before the Senate
  16. Small Communities
  17. Give OpenAI’s Board Some Time
  18. OpenAI Board Fires CEO Sam Altman
  19. Apple, Lionsgate Pause Advertising on Twitter After Musk Backs Antisemitic Post
  20. Sponsor: The Stories Behind Apple’s Famed Advanced Technology Group by John Buck
  21. Interpreting Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Based on Recent Events
  22. Apple Says It Will Add RCS Support in Messages
  23. The Action Button Can Be a Translation Button in iOS 17.2
  24. U.S. Lawmakers Are Looking Into the Cancellation of ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’
  25. Artificial Intelligence and Automation Bias
  26. A Profile of Marques Brownlee Allows Me to Digress on the State of Apple Product Launches and Reviews
  27. Impeding Device Repairs Through Parts Pairing
  28. Sponsor: The Stories Behind Apple’s Famed Advanced Technology Group by John Buck
  29. So Far, A.I.-Generated Images of Current Events Seem Rare in News Stories
  30. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  31. Windows Will Not Let Users Close OneDrive Without a Pop Quiz
  32. Humane Launches A.I. Pin in the U.S. For $700
  33. G/O Media Shuts Down Jezebel
  34. The Awl Inflection Point
  35. Kochava Loses Request for Sanctions Against United States FTC
  36. Computers Are Magical; Computers Are Awful
  37. U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas
  38. Microsoft’s Use of ‘A.I.’ Has Been an Irresponsible Mess
  39. Adobe Stock Contains Generative Images of War and Horror
  40. Apple Updates Final Cut Pro
  41. Grok This
  42. Apple Says It Is Not Planning a Larger iMac
  43. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  44. On Steven Sinofsky’s Post on Regulating A.I.
  45. Sam Bankman-Fried, Guilty as Charged
  46. Managing ‘A.I.’ Risks
  47. Siri for Halloween
  48. Amazon and Other Big Advertising Companies Are Legitimizing Lies with Generative Imagery
  49. A Preventable Surge of Hyundai and Kia Thefts in the U.S.
  50. The Beauty of Finished Software
  51. YouTube Is Cracking Down on Users Blocking Ads or Using a Higher Degree of Privacy Protection

October 2023

  1. Google Revenue Emergency Blurred Line Between Search, Ads
  2. Raw Power
  3. ‘Content Credentials’ for Photography
  4. Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Presentation With M3-Powered MacBook Pro and iMac Models
  5. YouGov Survey on U.S. Book Ownership
  6. ‘Near Me’
  7. Meta Says There Is No Way for Users to Opt Out of Generative Model Training
  8. E.U. Lawmakers Agree on ‘Chat Control’ Limitations
  9. U.K. Online Safety Bill Becomes Law
  10. The Markup’s Uncredited Reporting in the Wall Street Journal
  11. The ‘iTunes’ Brand Is Probably Going Away
  12. ‘Leaving Twitter’
  13. U.S. Doctor Pleads Guilty in Hitman-for-Hire Plot
  14. Worrying About Bandcamp’s Future
  15. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  16. ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’ Is Ending
  17. Looking Inside Different Cables With USB-C Connectors
  18. How to Fix the Internet
  19. Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism
  20. Remembering Canadian Trailblazer Violet King Henry
  21. Bandcamp Lays Off Half Its Staff After Songtradr Acquisition
  22. Kottke Adds Comments
  23. Marc Andreessen’s ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’
  24. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  25. Eddy Cue Takes the Stand in U.S. v. Google
  26. Sam Reich Talks Dropout
  27. NPR Got Off Twitter Six Months Ago
  28. The FTX Fraud Was in the Code
  29. Google Says Changes to the Online News Act Are Not Enough
  30. Fake It ’Til You Fake It
  31. Genetics Firm 23andMe Confirms User Data, Including Results, Has Leaked
  32. Some Followup on the Unfounded Claim Google Replaces Queries for Financial Gain
  33. More on Google’s Pixel Software Update Promise
  34. Available Evidence Does Not Support the Claim That Google Silently Alters Search Queries
  35. Dan Moren Was Locked Out of iCloud for Exactly Twelve Hours
  36. The Pixel Pinky Promise
  37. Smaller Nations — and Italy — Are Valuable for Domain Hacking
  38. Lux Camera’s iPhone 15 Pro Max Review
  39. Original Apple Watch Is Now Obsolete
  40. CRTC Issues Registration Requirements
  41. Apple Memory Holes Promise of OCSP Preference
  42. Monkey Laundering
  43. Yet Another Apple Search Engine Rumour
  44. Food in Visual Look Up
  45. CSAM Detection Organizations Are Like Any Other Business
  46. The Heat Initiative Is Funded by Dark Money Organizations

September 2023

  1. Linda Yaccarino Was Set Up to Fail
  2. Defaults Matter
  3. Songtradr Acquires Bandcamp From Epic Games
  4. Shortcuts for the iPhone’s Action Button
  5. Only Connections
  6. How to Hide an Antitrust Trial
  7. The Bizarre Cottage Industry of YouTube Obituary Pirates
  8. Pride and Purpose
  9. Standards Are Good
  10. Apple Releases iOS 17.0.1 Fixing Three Exploited Zero-Days
  11. Microsoft Demos Copilot, Its ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Virtual Assistant
  12. House of Lords Passes U.K. Online Safety Bill, Which Is Still Very Bad
  13. It Is Possible to Both Stream and Buy Music
  14. Reviewing the iPhone 15 Pro as a Camera
  15. View Counts Are Meaningless
  16. The Sound of Streaming Music
  17. Panos Panay Announces Departure from Microsoft Days Before Surface Event
  18. A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials
  19. iPhone Pricing and Inflation
  20. The Pixel Tablet Is a Few Small Phones in a Trenchcoat
  21. The iPhone 15 Pro’s Body Is Question of Distribution, Not Just Mass
  22. Apple Unveils Its First Carbon Neutral Products
  23. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
  24. WhatsApp Beta Contains an Early Version of Third-Party Chat Support
  25. Missouri v. Biden Ruling Limited by U.S. Court to a More Reasonable Slap on the Wrist
  26. How Rebellious, in a Conformist Sort of Way
  27. Walter Isaacson Calls Into Question the Accuracy of His Own Book
  28. Kagi Small Web
  29. How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness?
  30. The Drugs, Guns, and Counterfeit Money Instagram Is Advertising Today
  31. Experts Fear Crooks Are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
  32. U.K. Government Says It Will Not Require Tech Companies to Use Impossible Methods to Beat Encryption Without Compromising Privacy, but It Will Empower Regulators to Demand They Build It
  33. Dark Mode Usability and Expectations
  34. Mozilla Says All Car Brands Suck at Privacy
  35. The iPhone 12 Pro: A Three-Year Review
  36. Elon Musk Blames ADL for Lost Twitter Revenue and Bluffs a Lawsuit Threat
  37. Christie’s Erroneously Retained GPS Metadata in Private Photos of Auction Items
  38. Exploring EXIF
  39. Updates to Twitter’s Privacy Policy
  40. Setting Up a Time Machine Server in MacOS Ventura Requires Psychic Powers
  41. Apple Issues Statement Ahead of Heat Initiative Launch, Which Is Pressuring for CSAM Detection in iCloud
  42. Longplay 2 Is Out Now

August 2023

  1. Obscura 4 Is Out Now
  2. The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
  3. Rank Anything
  4. Internet Providers Should Not Be Arbiters of Online Speech
  5. Web Scraping for Me, but Not for Thee
  6. Some Men, It Seems, Cannot Handle Drinking Cocktails From Appropriate Glassware
  7. Behind the ‘A.I.’ Boom, an Army of Workers in ‘Digital Sweatshops’
  8. Camera Makers Are Risking Irrelevance by Not Improving Their Software
  9. Pants on Fire
  10. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  11. Technology Companies, Mostly Based in the U.S., Rush to Comply With European Regulations
  12. Zoom CEO Says Remote Work Over Zoom Makes It Hard to Build Trust, Which Is Different From What Zoom Says Publicly
  13. Apple Lends Support to California State Right-to-Repair Bill
  14. Hundreds of Machine Generated ‘News’ Sites Clash With the Online News Act
  15. How U.S. Credit Bureau Data Trickles Down
  16. Claims About ChatGPT’s Supposed Liberal Bias Are Wildly Overstated
  17. A ‘Clean Windows Install’ Is an Oxymoron
  18. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0× Faster Web Browsing in Safari
  19. Twitter’s Ranking Is Tanking
  20. Dialogue Is Still Really Hard to Hear
  21. Blocking Users on Social Media Is Good
  22. Microsoft’s Machine Generated Article Recommending the Ottawa Food Bank to Tourists
  23. What the Hell Is Going on With Bing’s Search Results?
  24. YouTube No Longer Suggests Videos on the Homepage if Watch History Is Turned Off
  25. Payments Expected Soon in U.S. iPhone Battery Lawsuit
  26. The iMac Saved Apple
  27. Maps Are About So Much More Than Just Driving Directions
  28. Unravelling the Digital Markets Act
  29. RIP, iTunes Movie Trailers
  30. The Internet Archive Is Being Sued for Its Project to Digitize Shellac 78 Discs
  31. SEO Games
  32. If Substack Wants to Improve Its Reader Experience, It Could Try This One Weird Trick
  33. On the Trail of the Mysterious Guerrilla Archivist of the Internet
  34. Keeping Track of Machine-Generated Faux News Sites
  35. CNet Deletes Thousands of Old Articles in an Attempt to Game Google Search
  36. Broadcasters Are Furious Meta Would Rather Remove News Links in Canada Than Pay
  37. Copying on Purpose
  38. Zoom’s Machine Learning Backlash
  39. Uber Finally Made Money
  40. U.S. Judge Narrows Scope of Google Antitrust Case
  41. Apple Says Users Have Deposited $10 Billion in Its Savings Account as Reports Suggest Goldman Sachs Wants to End Its Partnership
  42. This CBC Article About the Online News Act Is a Real Stinker
  43. Apple’s Engineering Choices and Repairability

July 2023

  1. The Fix Is In
  2. Twitter’s ‘X’ Becomes the First App With a Single-Letter App Store Title
  3. Turner Classic Movies Airs a Film With ‘Pirated’ Subtitles
  4. Kashmir Hill Profiles Mike Masnick of Techdirt
  5. All Long-Term Tenants at a Montreal Apartment Building Were Replaced With an Airbnb Ghost Hotel
  6. Teslas’ Estimated Range Does Not Reflect Driving Conditions
  7. Bad U.S. Internet Bills
  8. A 3D-Printed AirPods Pro Case That Enables Easier Battery Replacements
  9. Google’s Nightmare ‘Web Integrity API’
  10. CarPlay’s Road Ahead
  11. Grab and GoTo Pare Back ‘Superapp’ Approach
  12. ‘Get Well Soon’
  13. Apple Says It Will End FaceTime and iMessage Access in the U.K. If It Is Required to Weaken Security
  14. Researchers Find App Tracking Transparency Reduces Financial Fraud (PDF)
  15. Obfuscated IP Addresses of ‘Anonymous’ Economics Forum Posts Found to Be Crackable
  16. Kevin Mitnick Dies Aged 59
  17. Beats Studio Pro Headphones Support Lossless Playback Over a USB-C Connection
  18. MacOS Tiger Aqua Redux
  19. Scammers Are Still Changing Phone Numbers in Google Maps
  20. WSJ: ‘People Have Begun to Love’ Apple Maps
  21. Vox Media Will Move Its Chorus Sites to WordPress
  22. Alan Dye on the ‘Design Matters’ Podcast
  23. Senate Bill Crafted With D.E.A. Targets End-to-End Encryption
  24. The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Operations Centers
  25. Mark Zuckerberg Gets a Refresh
  26. The Rot Inside the Streaming Economy
  27. The New Default Microsoft Office Type Family Is Called Aptos
  28. IDC Says Mac Shipments Rose in the Most Recent Calendar Quarter
  29. Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Google and Meta
  30. A Closer Reading of App Privacy Labels
  31. The Online News Act: Next Steps
  32. Online News Act Creates ‘Moment of Reckoning’ for Publishers
  33. The Algorithmic Anti-Culture of Scale
  34. Canadian Judge Rules Thumbs-Up Emoji Can Represent Contract Agreement
  35. U.S. Legislators Are Fighting for More Restrictions on Purchased Data and Wiretaps
  36. Twitter’s Response to Threads Is the Threat of a Lawsuit
  37. Canadian Officials ‘Must Call Google’s and Facebook’s Bluff on News’
  38. Meta Releases Threads
  39. Voting Is Now Open for the Tiny Awards
  40. U.S. Judge Rules Free Speech Violated by Biden Administration Using Evidence From Before They Took Office
  41. Meta and the Fediverse
  42. European Court of Justice Declares Meta’s GDPR Approach Largely Illegal
  43. Threads, Meta’s Twitter Clone, Appears to Be Launching July 6
  44. Tweets Are Now Login-Walled

June 2023

  1. The Fake Wedding Website Request That Undermined LGBTQ Rights in the U.S.
  2. A List of Canadian Independent Media
  3. Canadian News Publishers Say Loss of Google and Facebook Referral Traffic Would Devastate Them
  4. Google Confirms It Will Also Remove Links to News Sites in Canada
  5. Visual Look Up in iOS 17 Gets Cleverer, Apparently
  6. Canadian Media Is Looking Bleak
  7. The Password Game
  8. Apple Joins Opposition to U.K. ‘Online Safety Bill’
  9. Personal Data About Paid U.S. TikTok Creators Is Probably Stored in China
  10. Priming
  11. Inside the A.I. Factory
  12. After Royal Assent of Bill C–18, Meta Reaffirms It Will End News Sharing in Canada
  13. Europe and the States Are United Against Google’s Alleged Ad Monopoly
  14. Apple’s Janky Websites
  15. The Best Time to Regulate A.I. Is Today
  16. DPReview Is No Longer Shutting Down After Being Acquired by Gear Patrol
  17. Self Service Repair of Apple’s Products Can Now Be Completed Without a Phonecall
  18. Bandcamp Is Donating Its Sales Fees to the NAACP Today
  19. New E.U. Battery Regulations
  20. Canada’s Broken Freedom of Information System
  21. Inhuman Writing for Google Is Eating the Web
  22. Google Domains Acquired by Squarespace
  23. U.S. Lawmakers Reintroduce Legislation to Restrict Export of User Data
  24. Tesla’s ‘Self-Driving’ System Is Likely Involved in Fatal Crashes More Often Than Human Drivers
  25. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Is Confident the Current Sitewide Protest Is No Big Deal
  26. The Web Is Evolving and Worsening
  27. The U.S. Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens Thanks to Commercial Data Brokers
  28. Global Tech Supply Chains Are as Complex as a Circuit Board
  29. How Ad Tech Sees You
  30. Fox News Downplays the Danger of Breathing Soot and Ash
  31. ‘Apple Exploring 3D Desktop and Application Interfaces’
  32. Apollo to Shut Down on June 30 Because of Reddit API Changes
  33. Ten Years Ago, Edward Snowden Warned Us About State Surveillance
  34. SEC Sues Binance and Coinbase
  35. Apple Completes Its Transition to Its Own Processors With a Weird New Mac Pro
  36. The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records
  37. MacOS Sonoma Drops Support for No-Suffix MacBook, and 2017 MacBook Pro and iMac
  38. New Privacy and Security Features at WWDC 2023
  39. Engineering the Apple Watch’s Strap Buttons
  40. Group Location Sharing Followup
  41. Location Sharing Is Apparently Really Common Among Acquaintances
  42. U.S. FTC Settles With Amazon Over Insecure Ring Cameras
  43. Russian Intelligence Baselessly Accuses Apple of Assisting the NSA in Breaching Officials’ iPhones
  44. Wishing Well 2023

May 2023

  1. Internal TikTok and ByteDance Reports Say Some Non-China User Data Is Stored in China
  2. Zippyshare Has Shut Down
  3. Cyberweapon Developers Are Ingratiating Themselves With U.S. Officials
  4. A.I. Developers Say Their Product Creates a ‘Risk of Extinction’ in Self-Serving Statement
  5. Mark Gurman Tried a Prototype of Meta’s Quest 3
  6. TimeGuessr
  7. U.S. Class Action Over Butterfly Keyboards Is Wrapping Up
  8. The Massive Meta Fine in the E.U. Is Really About the NSA
  9. The Scum Economy
  10. The Online Safety Bill Is a ‘Playbook for Dictators’
  11. A Guide to Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
  12. Survey of E.U. Member Countries Indicates Strong Support for Weakening End-to-End Encryption
  13. Meta Fined €1.2 Billion and Ordered to Halt E.U.–U.S. Data Flow
  14. Mimestream, My Favourite Gmail Client for MacOS, Hits 1.0
  15. Photomator for Mac
  16. Lux, Makers of Halide, Launch Skylight for Golden Hour Predictions
  17. Apple’s New Tysons Corner Store Has a Genius Bar
  18. Deconvergence
  19. Satisfied With Its TikTok Clone, Meta Is Working on a Twitter Clone
  20. It Is Not Amazing That a Tesla Using FSD Blew Through a Crosswalk
  21. Location Data About Abortion Provider Visitors Is Still Being Stored and Exploited
  22. Unskippable Thirty-Second Ads Coming to YouTube on TVs
  23. I Give It Eighteen Months
  24. Yet Another Bug in Facebook Ads
  25. Apple Touts Fraud and Abuse Prevention in the App Store
  26. U.K. Law Enforcement Accelerating Development of Internet Connection Records Storage
  27. Why Is Cloud Storage Sold With a Fixed Maximum, Anyway?
  28. I Will Defend Free Speech to the Death. Or Until an Autocrat Asks Me to Stop
  29. Google I/O, Google A.I.
  30. User Growth at Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter
  31. Moderator Mayhem
  32. ‘Blatant Propaganda […] Bolstering the Venture Capitalist’s Bottom Line’
  33. Meta’s Position on Bill C–18
  34. Humane’s Device Preview at TED
  35. ‘Where Is My Mind?’ Stops the Alarm on Google Pixel Phones
  36. Google Will Pay the New York Times About $100 Million Over Three Years
  37. Into Thin AirPods
  38. For Google
  39. Judge Bounces FTC’s Suit Against Kochava
  40. Sponsor: A Letterpress-Printed Book About Printing History by Tech Journalist Glenn Fleishman
  41. Artificial Intelligence McKinsey
  42. Exploring Deceptive Design Patterns
  43. Canada Breaks the Internet
  44. Content Moderators in Kenya Form Labour Union
  45. Inside the SolarWinds Breach
  46. Apple and Google Propose Specification for Unwanted Tracking Devices
  47. Twitter Went Great
  48. Thirty Years of the Web in the Public Domain
  49. Sponsor: Type and Printing History Told in a Letterpress Volume by Tech Journalist Glenn Fleishman

April 2023

  1. The Information: Siri’s Flagging Quality Is the Result of ‘Turf Wars’
  2. StopTheMadness Turns Five
  3. Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots
  4. General Motors Is Dropping CarPlay for Subscription Revenue
  5. Drivers Are Demanding Real Buttons and Knobs
  6. General Motors Kills Another Electric Car
  7. Bill C–11 Becomes Law
  8. Archiving Datpiff
  9. TikTok Shopping Is Booming in Indonesia
  10. iPhones Account for About Half the Worldwide Refurbished Smartphone Market
  11. A ‘Concert Mode’ for AirPods
  12. Location-Gated Sideloading Rumoured for iOS 17
  13. E.U. And U.S. Officials Are Collaborating to Turn Public Opinion Against Encryption
  14. Scam ‘A.I.’ Apps and Shady Developers in the App Store
  15. ‘Reconstruction Site’ Reissue
  16. Humane Previews Projection-Based Wearable Computer at TED 2023
  17. End-to-End Encryption Is on the Line in the U.K.
  18. The End of Buzzfeed News
  19. Citizen Lab Finds Three New Exploit Chains Used by NSO Group
  20. Enshittification
  21. Microsoft Keeps Finding New Ad Slots for Its Subscription Products in Windows 11
  22. Other Apps From Chinese Developers Are Also at Risk
  23. Twitter Removes Policies Against Deadnaming and Deliberate Misgendering
  24. Video of Tim Cook Meeting Sajid, Who Brought a Macintosh SE to the Mumbai Store Opening
  25. Instagram Now Permits Up to Five Links in a User’s Bio
  26. How Dicey Rumours Get From Apple to Your Computer Screen
  27. Rogers to Move Hundreds of Overseas Shaw Call Centre Jobs to Canada
  28. Twitter Puts ‘Government-Funded Media’ Tag on CBC Account
  29. Windows 11 Is a Vehicle for Upselling and Advertising
  30. Indian Government Gives Itself the Power to ‘Fact-Check’ and Delete Social Media Posts
  31. Public Safety Notification Accounts Are Being Limited by Twitter’s New API Policies
  32. Uber’s ‘Preposterous P.R. Stunt’
  33. Substack Should Own Its Position on Moderation
  34. Montana Passes Bill Blocking Users From Downloading TikTok
  35. Digits Is a Daily Math Puzzle
  36. Apple Sets 2025 Target for Using Entirely Recycled Cobalt in Its Batteries
  37. Code Conference Returns September 26 With New Hosts
  38. Twitter and Hate Speech
  39. Tim Cook’s Tenure
  40. Dril Is Just This Guy Named Paul
  41. U.S. Government Officials Obtained NSO Group Spyware Despite Contrary Policies
  42. A Look at QuaDream’s Exploits, Victims, and Customers
  43. Go Indie
  44. The Advertising Industry Is Running Itself Into the Ground
  45. ‘Make Something Wonderful’
  46. Complaining About the Weather Apps
  47. Bill Gates Tries to Install Movie Maker
  48. Uber Executives Addressed Driver Complaints Only After Using Their Own Product
  49. Apple Passwords Deserve an App
  50. Changelog, 2023–04
  51. How to Beat Roulette
  52. ‘Journalists Should Leave Twitter’
  53. One Foot in Twitter and One in Mastodon
  54. The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in MacOS
  55. iPhone Voice Isolation Comes to Regular Phone Calls With iOS 16.4
  56. Apple Music Classical After One Week
  57. HP Goes to the Greatest Lengths to Make Owning One of Its Printers Among the Worst Decisions Anyone Can Make, Including by Region-Locking Its Ink
  58. Worldwide PC Market Contracts After Two Years of Significant Growth
  59. Rogers Closes Shaw Takeover
  60. Google Rolls Out Surprise File Limits in Drive
  61. Lost iCloud-Stored Photos Have Been Found

March 2023

  1. I’ve Got Another Confession to Make
  2. Consumer LED Lighting Does Not Yet Produce Great Light
  3. Buzzfeed Has Begun Publishing Articles Generated by A.I.
  4. WWDC 2023 Runs June 5–9, Mostly Online
  5. French Government Approves A.I. Video Surveillance for Paris Olympics
  6. It Is Not the Bike Lane’s Fault You Are a Bad Driver
  7. The Lost Art of Being Stuck With an Album
  8. Microsoft Is Rolling Out a New Version of Teams
  9. Pepsi Has a New Logo
  10. Retro Macs in Your Browser
  11. The Future is a Dead Mall
  12. A Vatican-Sized Flag Mystery
  13. The RIAA v. Steve Jobs
  14. Why Has Apple Not Released Its Own Generative A.I. Product? The Market Is Literally Months Old Already
  15. TikTok Failed to Make the Case for Itself
  16. A ‘Most Bipartisan’ Dressing Down of TikTok
  17. Web Fingerprinting Demo
  18. Shou Zi Chew, TikTok CEO, to Appear Before U.S. Lawmakers Tomorrow
  19. Searching for Friends in Horizon Worlds
  20. Link Taxes Like Canada’s Bill C–18 Represent an End to an Open Web
  21. Expensive Smartphones Were Half the Worldwide Market in 2022
  22. DPReview to Close
  23. A Case of Lost iCloud-Stored Photos After Using MacOS Ventura Beta
  24. Google Pixel Screenshots Are Vulnerable to Revealing Cropped and Edited Areas
  25. Using a Mac Without a Network Connection
  26. OpenAI Is Everything It Promised Not to Be
  27. A Look at the Refurbished Phone Market
  28. The New York Times Declares That Voice Assistants Have Lost the ‘AI Race’
  29. Now We Are Cooking Without Gas
  30. ‘Why Are People Mad at Me? An Explainer for Venture Capitalists’
  31. Just Me, Trying to Wrap My Head Around Three Bank Failures in a Week
  32. A Separate App for Classical Music Makes Sense
  33. Everything Is a Remix: A.I. and Image Generation
  34. Meta Uses News Links on Facebook and Instagram Users as a Negotiating Tactic in Canada
  35. Moon Zoom Questions
  36. Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre Says Albertans Lost $5.4 Million to Scam Calls Last Year
  37. U.S. Special Ops Wants to Use Deepfakes
  38. Colorado Catholic Group Bought Data to Out Priests Using Dating Apps
  39. Apple Music Classical to Launch This Month
  40. Google’s Cautious Approach to Artificial Intelligence
  41. Today’s Startups Are Tomorrow’s Privacy Catastrophes
  42. This Is What You Will Pay For
  43. Bill C–18, After Facebook and Google
  44. The Erosion of Personal Privacy Through Expansive Warrants and Home Surveillance
  45. Netflix and the 1980s Video Game Market
  46. Dana Sibera’s Universes
  47. A Deceptive Pattern Ties Users’ Instagram and Facebook Posts
  48. Meta Cuts the Price of Its Quest Pro by $500
  49. A Brief Look at the Specialty Coffee Market Today
  50. Technological Optimism and Technological Pragmatism
  51. TikTok Bans Are Ineffectual Without Real Privacy Oversight
  52. I Do Not Want to Log in to Your Website
  53. Inside the Exposure of Wirecard’s Fraud

February 2023

  1. The Pivot Door Pivot
  2. OpenMedia: CRTC Decisions Will Be the Death of Small Internet Providers
  3. Spotify’s Attempt at Colonizing Podcasts Is Faltering
  4. Regarding the New York Times
  5. Google Tests Removing News Results in Canada in Response to Bill C–18
  6. Canadian Privacy Regulators Announce Joint Investigation Into TikTok
  7. Journalists Keep Anthropomorphizing A.I.
  8. The Spirit of CSS Tricks Is Gone
  9. Microsoft Is Testing More Aggressive Edge Ads When Users Download Chrome
  10. Just Five Minutes of Movement Data Is Enough to Identify ‘Anonymous’ VR Users
  11. Congratulations, Gen Z: You Are the New Societal Scapegoat for Longstanding and Systemic Problems
  12. Artificial Intelligence Supplants Crypto, Web3, and the Metaverse as the Hot New Thing in the Valley
  13. The Hollowing of the Calgary Herald
  14. Meta Verified
  15. New Urbanism Is Gaining Momentum
  16. A Multi-Year Breach at GoDaddy Allowed Third-Party Takeovers of High-Profile Websites
  17. Twitter Drops SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication for Unpaying Accounts, Effective March 20
  18. A New Book From Bill Watterson and John Kascht Is Coming in October
  19. Supermarket Loyalty Programs Are More Privacy Invasive Than They Appear
  20. NHTSA and Tesla Issue ‘Recall’ for Models Equipped With ‘Full Self-Driving’ Because It Sometimes Breaks the Law
  21. Wi-Fi Sync Information Has Not Been Visible on iPhones for Years, Raising Privacy Concerns
  22. Microsoft Releases Update to Kill Off Internet Explorer for Many Versions of Windows 10
  23. Bing Also Flubs Its Demos
  24. Colin Meloy Got ChatGPT to Write a Decemberists Song
  25. Large Language Models Are Blurry JPEGs of the Web
  26. The Limits of Computational Photography
  27. The ‘Brand Vandalism’ Is Coming From Inside the House
  28. Facebook App Architectures Compared
  29. End-to-End iCloud Encryption Could Be a Security Game Changer
  30. More Fulsome 2022 Report Card Comments
  31. Using RSS to ‘Rewild’ What You See
  32. Tech Company Influence Watered Down New York’s Electronics Repair Law
  33. Google’s Bard Flubs Answer in Marketing Materials
  34. Microsoft’s New OpenAI-Powered Bing
  35. Google vs. ChatGPT vs. Bing, Maybe
  36. Apple’s 2022 Report Card
  37. Archiving in the Time of Streaming
  38. Disk Space Used by System Files
  39. We Have Lost the Plot
  40. Twitter Is Killing Off the Fun Bots
  41. TikTok Opens Transparency Centre Stunt
  42. Apple Drops Its Industrial Design Leadership Role
  43. Twitter Says It Will Begin Charging for API Access
  44. Meta Twists the Knife in the Backs of Laid-Off Employees
  45. Is It 1987 Again?
  46. Recent Apple Updates Patch Privacy Vulnerabilities, One of Which Appears to Have Been Exploited

January 2023

  1. Algorithmic Wage Discrimination in the Gig Economy
  2. The Contagious Visual Blandness of Netflix
  3. ChatGPT in Educational and Creative Contexts
  4. Truth Social Is Full of Junk Ads
  5. Twitter Tumbleweed Watch
  6. Unified ID 2.0 Is the Hot New Privacy Violation on the Web
  7. Exposing Pegasus
  8. Thirtieth Anniversary Mac Icons
  9. Apple Could Maybe, Possibly Be Distancing Its Products From Google, but It Is Difficult to Tell Right Now
  10. Everybody Panic: A Finder Bug, Since Fixed, Was Sending Empty API Calls to Apple
  11. Smart Appliances From LG and Whirlpool Often Remain Disconnected From the Internet
  12. Court Paves the Way for Approval of Rogers–Shaw Merger
  13. Google to End Trial of Political Spam Loophole
  14. This Opinion Piece Deriding People for Taking Too Many Selfies Has to Be Satire, Right?
  15. Tech Layoffs Have Impacted Over 70,000 People Since Summer
  16. Following Up on a Question of Capability
  17. U.S. State Department Replacing Times New Roman With Calibri in Official Documents
  18. Canadian Cell Plans Are Embarrassing
  19. CNet’s AI-Powered Search-Optimized Money Machine
  20. Twitter Makes Third-Party Client Ban Official
  21. Disk Usage and iCloud for Messages
  22. Apple Announces Full-Size HomePod Mini
  23. How Apple Tied Itself to China
  24. Unplugged
  25. Joshua Topolsky to Do That Thing He Does Again, Again
  26. M2 Mac Mini and MacBook Pro Updates
  27. TikTok Is Still Attempting to Convince U.S. Regulators of Its Independence
  28. Rumour: New Stuff From Apple Tomorrow
  29. No Dignity, No Communication, No Trust
  30. The ‘This Is Fine’ Decade
  31. Popular Third-Party Twitter Clients Have Been Broken Since Last Night
  32. Apple Maps Guides
  33. What Phone Cameras See in 2023
  34. PuzzGrid
  35. Microsoft Acquires Fungible, and There Is a Twist
  36. Titles Owned by Red Ventures Are Publishing Articles Generated by AI
  37. The Intercept Obtains Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on Bay Bridge
  38. Exits and Exiteers
  39. Experian Was Barely Trying to Protect Individuals’ Credit Reports
  40. Stories From NYT Readers About Their Use of Amazon Alexa Devices
  41. Dell and Samsung Announce New Displays at CES
  42. The Curse of Free
  43. Cyberattack on the Guardian
  44. Apple Launches Audiobooks Voiced by Digital Narrators
  45. On Internet Silos
  46. Irish Data Protection Commission Rules Meta Exploited Contract Provision of GDPR to Illegally Coerce Users Into Personalized Ads
  47. Unsettled Questions About Privacy and Law Enforcement

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