The Curious Engineer

Pixel Envy

2025–2026

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October 2026

  1. Eternal Black October
  2. North Korea Gets Away With $3 Billion From Binance
  3. Meta Executives Met to ‘Get the Academic Community to Disavow’ Jonathan Haidt
  4. Reddit Is Further Locking Itself Down
  5. A Further Status Update on the Toaster-Refrigerator Project
  6. Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down
  7. The Annoying Implementation of Translation in Safari
  8. Apple Finds Some Personality
  9. A.I. Has Made It Easy to Brute Force the Internet
  10. Australia Becomes Latest Region to Require More Competitive iOS App Distribution
  11. PHP Warns Admins to Expect Emergency Patches Tomorrow
  12. NetNewsWire Themes
  13. NetNewsWire 7.2
  14. What Is the Truth?
  15. The Last Skeuomorph in iOS?
  16. Meta Revises Its Commercial Terms of Service Again
  17. Tech Hype Is Cannibalizing the Future
  18. How Targeted Ads Become a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware
  19. Meta’s New Business Terms Appear to Supersede Opt-Outs for A.I. Training on Commercial Websites
  20. Evidence Does Not Show Decreased Russian Propaganda After Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Data Centres
  21. Here’s to the Normal Ones
  22. W Social Makes Verified Users’ Personal Details Visible on the Open Web
  23. ‘A Man From the Future’
  24. Elevation Lab Pulls Its AirTag Silencing Product
  25. Tired of Recommendation Engines
  26. The Probably Fake Russian Troll Exodus
  27. Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff, Toadies
  28. The People Holding Up the Internet
  29. Next Year, YouTube Will Allow Testing Different Versions of the Same Video
  30. Meta Is Restricting Some Pages to Two External Links Per Month Unless They Pay Up
  31. Alberta’s ‘Wonder Valley’ Is Still Just a Thought
  32. A Betting Market for Conspiracy Theories
  33. Apple Says It Will Further Lock Down MacOS in Response to Third-Party A.I. Agents
  34. Elon Musk, Toady
  35. Semafor’s U.S. Tourism Graph Crime
  36. Silencing AirTags Enables Stalkers and Domestic Violence
  37. Google Tacitly Acknowledges the End of ChromeOS as It Launches Googlebooks

September 2026

  1. Anthropic’s Looney Tunes IPO
  2. How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centres to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
  3. Siri A.I. Is the Real Deal
  4. Muse Is What Meta Means by ‘Personal Superintelligence’
  5. About Those Property Taxes
  6. Colossus mark
  7. Apple: ‘Turn Off and Restrict Access to Apple Intelligence Features on Mac’
  8. USB 3 Speeds Finally Come to a Non-Pro iPhone
  9. With Apple Watch Eavesdropping Features, What Is at Stake Is Public Perception
  10. App Tracking Transparency Changes Coming to the European Union
  11. Apple Releases Its OS 27 Updates
  12. A.I. Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out of Control
  13. Canadian Politicians Have Launched a New Push for Data Centres
  14. Is Data Centre Criticism Sustainable?
  15. iPhone 17 Model Popularity
  16. Why Is the iPhone Duo?
  17. Live Rewind Is a Creepy Part of Apple’s Audio Intelligence Suite
  18. LG’s Smart Televisions and Displays Are Rotten
  19. The Age-Gating of History
  20. Indigo Keeps Getting Great Feature Updates
  21. FBI Probes Service Selling Tens of Millions of Drivers Licenses
  22. How Accurate Have Ed Zitron’s Predictions Been?
  23. About Half of U.S. Smartphone Owners Say They Spend Too Much Time Using It
  24. Apple’s John Ternus Era Begins

August 2026

  1. Travelling With a Separatist Alberta Group That Thinks the CBC Are ‘Federalist Scumbags’ Publishing ‘Drivel’
  2. ‘Here’s What’s Coming’
  3. Society Runs on Stimulants
  4. World’s Most Powerful Person Does a Stupid Thing About a Lake
  5. Apple Reverses Proposed Hide My Email Domain Change
  6. E.U. Privacy Organizations Launch Initiative to Kill Cookie Consent Banners​
  7. ‘Every Right on Red Frays the Social Contract a Little Further’
  8. Nitter’s Developer Says X Sent a Cease and Desist
  9. Meet Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
  10. Apple News Publisher Sign-in Required
  11. Meta Figured Out How to Build a Mac App
  12. Did Someone Wearing Meta Glasses Film You Today? Are You Sure?
  13. The U.S. Anti-China Tech Protectionism Racket From a Middle Power
  14. After Regulator’s Investigation, Apple Will Make Changes to App Tracking Transparency Prompts in Germany
  15. MacOS Golden Gate Reintroduces Buttons with Light and Shadow
  16. YouTube Will Mimic the Dishonest View Counts of Other Social Video Platforms On All Videos
  17. Annotating Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Thought Leadership Essay
  18. Google and Our Collective Memory
  19. X’s Advertising Business Continues to Tank
  20. The End of Google Search as We Know It
  21. Judge Orders Meta to Create $567M Abatement Fund for Child Harms in New Mexico
  22. Marketers Are Hoping Brand Mentions on Reddit Will Influence Chatbots
  23. Digital-Only Media Is a Loss for Libraries, Too
  24. Who Is Legally to Blame for Autonomous A.I. Hacks?
  25. EchoFeed is Shutting Down
  26. Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits Is Leering and Traumatic
  27. A TikTok A/B Test Proves It Is Responsible for What Users See
  28. Sony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers a Giant Middle Finger
  29. F.T.: Apple Filed a Legal Complaint in the U.K. Over Revised iCloud Backdoor Demand

July 2026

  1. OpenAI Finds Evidence It Failed to Monitor Other A.I. Agents
  2. SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Reddit Lawsuit Fails
  3. Fuck Everything, Says Anthropic, We Have Three Models Hacking Infrastructure
  4. How to Plant a Nuclear Plant in Iran
  5. The U.S. State Department Entirely Mislabelled a Map of Africa at the AIDS2026 Conference
  6. Hugging Face Publishes a Technical Writeup of the OpenAI Autonomous Exploit
  7. Joseph Cox Interviews Mike Yeagley
  8. Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Overturns Case Investigated and Decided Based on a Typo
  9. Chris Person Hates Adobe, and I Do Too
  10. Links to Claude Chats Were Indexed by Google and ‘Bing’, Whatever That Is
  11. Data Privacy in the U.S. Border Zone
  12. Young Adults and A.I. Use
  13. Every App a TikTok Clone
  14. Podcasts Are Growing, but That Does Not Necessarily Track for Podcast Apps
  15. Kylie Jenner Is Barely Using Her Own Meta Glasses
  16. Grain Is a Photo-First Social Network Built on AT Protocol
  17. Judge Dismisses Google’s Lawsuit Against SerpApi
  18. Google Says It Still Sends ‘Billions of Clicks’ to Websites
  19. Gurman: Apple Set to Launch Device Leasing Program
  20. Blaming Data Centres, Alberta Electricity Industry Expects Tripling of Power Prices
  21. Apple to Recap WWDC Announcements in Calgary This Week
  22. Meta Faces Tennessee Trial Over Instagram Design
  23. Copyright Is Not Enough
  24. Breach of A.I. Music Generator Suno Reveals Scraping of Music From Deezer and YouTube
  25. Permanent Daylight Saving Time
  26. And Another Thing About Squircles
  27. Amazon Will Print Book-Length A.I. Gibberish on Demand
  28. Morgan Stanley Says the ‘Space’ in SpaceX Is Worth About $8 Per Share
  29. Apple Updates Its Advertising Policies
  30. The Shape of Apps
  31. Meta’s ‘Activity from Other Businesses’
  32. Lies Told About Data Centres
  33. Stories Told About Data Centres
  34. Perhaps Meta Should Not Have Spent Decades Being Creepy
  35. ShinyHunters Leaks Madison Square Garden Surveillance Records
  36. We Need Modern Equivalents to Those Old ‘Twin Cam’ Badges on Cars
  37. Apple Sues OpenAI Alleging Trade Secret Theft
  38. Serial Fraudsters Are Responsible for an Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
  39. Meta Announces First Canadian Data Centre to Be Built North of Edmonton
  40. Flock and Ring Are Champions of the Privatized Surveillance State
  41. Google Discontinues Google Earth Pro for Desktop
  42. An Age-Gated Internet Is an Admission of Defeat
  43. Meta Laid Off Staff in Favour of Agentic Coding, and It Is Not Going Well
  44. Indonesia Is Also Facing Problems With Age-Gated Social Media
  45. Maestral, My Favourite Dropbox Client for MacOS, Is No Longer Being Maintained
  46. A.I. and Liability
  47. Tiny Awards Nominations for 2026 Are Closing Soon
  48. An Updated Look at the Environmental Impact of A.I. Data Centres
  49. Canada in the 1870s
  50. Apple’s ‘Trusted System Agent’ Proposal Has Not Actually Been Built
  51. Sony Announces Closure of PlayStation Store for PS3, Says Digital Distribution Is the Future
  52. Is There a New Quantum Processor or Is Microsoft Lying?
  53. Apple Has Known About a Hide My Email Vulnerability for Over a Year
  54. Reddit Login-Walls ‘Old Reddit’

June 2026

  1. U.K. Competition Authority Proposes Restrictions on Apple’s Anti-Steering Rules
  2. Australian Competition Authority Accuses Amazon of Avaricious Contracts
  3. Australia Pledges Tougher Enforcement of Social Media Ban for Teens
  4. The Claude Aesthetic
  5. The Real Problem the Metaverse Set Out to Solve
  6. The Marketplace of Ideas Is Rigged When It Comes to Artificial Intelligence
  7. Mark Zuckerberg Makes Another Sartorial Pivot
  8. Jason Snell Ends His Macworld Column
  9. Two More Things About Apple’s Pricing Increases
  10. Om Malik Has Died
  11. Apple’s Price Increases Have Arrived
  12. Meta Suspends Internal Surveillance Tech After Sensitive Information Was Left Unsecured
  13. Bill C–22 Could Expose Canadian Data to U.S. Surveillance
  14. How the New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
  15. The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks
  16. Meta Is Moving Fast, Breaking Things (and People)
  17. Brazil Becomes the Latest Region Mandating More Competitive iPhone and iPad App Distribution
  18. Apple Announces Forthcoming Price Increases
  19. Every Frame Perfect
  20. iCloud’s ‘Hide My Email’ Feature Becomes Easier to Block
  21. Credit Where Credit Is Due
  22. Looking Back on Twenty Years of Intel Macs
  23. Apple’s List of Features Coming in Safari 27
  24. Social Media Policy Is Evolving Beyond Age Limits
  25. Bill C–34 Punts Key Decisions to Cabinet and a Commission That Does Not Yet Exist
  26. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  27. No Privacy Impact Assessment Was Conducted of Grok Imagine Until After Launch, Finds Canadian Privacy Commissioner
  28. Elon Musk’s Age of Impunity
  29. Siri Takes on Siri, Now Old Enough to Drive
  30. Siri A.I. Will Not Be Available on E.U. iPhones and iPads At Launch
  31. The Verge Liveblogged a Technical Q&A With Craig Federighi and Others
  32. Alberta Separatism and Monetized ‘Content’ on Social Media
  33. Small OS 27 Details From WWDC
  34. Meta Says A.I.-assisted Account Hijackings Began in April
  35. Meta Removes Code It Added to Support Facial Recognition Feature That ‘Does Not Exist’
  36. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
  37. Sanctioned Russian Bank VTB Sneaked an App Into the App Store
  38. Documents Show Social Media Companies Specifically Marketed to Schoolchildren
  39. Not-Yet-Enabled Code Added to Meta A.I. App for Glasses-Based Facial Recognition Feature
  40. Office 2019 for Mac Goes Read-Only in July
  41. Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over U.S. Midterm Elections
  42. The Meta A.I.-Powered Instagram Account Takeover Problem Gets Worse
  43. Bill Gates’s Carefully Manicured Image Is Cracking
  44. Meta A.I. Support Bot Meets Robert Hackerman, the County Password Inspector
  45. Meta Legal Action Forces Sarah Wynn-Williams to Sit Onstage in Silence

May 2026

  1. The Effects of Another Ad in iOS App Store Search
  2. Checking in on Some Pro-Hate-Speech Social Networks
  3. Iris, a Photo History Explorer
  4. Last.fm Announces It Has Gone Independent
  5. The Mythical App Store Reviewer Month
  6. FTC Settles With Cox Media Group and Two Others Who Lied About Using Device Microphones to Collect Ad Targeting Data
  7. Texas Attorney General Sues Meta, Claiming It Is Lying About WhatsApp’s End-to-End Encryption
  8. ‘How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart’
  9. Ontario Police Are Fighting to Keep Their Spyware Secret
  10. The Metaverse Fever Dream
  11. Meta Secured Over $3 Billion in Tax Breaks in Louisiana to Build a Data Centre
  12. Bill C–22 Can Be Corrected
  13. Rich Guy Quote Journalism
  14. Separate Lawsuits Claim OpenAI and Perplexity Are Sharing User Data With Third Parties for Targeted Advertising
  15. Signal Warns It Would Pull Out of Canada if Made to Comply With Bill C–22
  16. We Are All Swimming in A.I. Murk
  17. Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy Launch Indigo
  18. The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
  19. In a Privacy Improvement, Venmo Transactions Will Be Visible to Friends by Default
  20. Ed Zitron Is Not an A.I. Skeptic
  21. When OpenAI.com Was Just Some Guy Named Glenn
  22. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
  23. Canadian Alleges Legal Intimidation by U.S. Homeland Security Over Social Media Posts
  24. Reddit Joins Other Social Media Platforms in Worsening Its Website and Pushing Visitors to Apps
  25. U.K. Age Verification on iOS 26.4 Appears to Be Passed to Websites, Not Just Apps
  26. Lawful-Access Bill Could Threaten Encryption, Deter Investment, Chamber of Commerce Warns
  27. ‘Knowledge Fight’ Is Over
  28. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
  29. The Proxy Battle Over A.I. Policy Is Brewing
  30. Dispute Over Fate of Kenyan Workers Who Were Exposed to Intimate Meta Ray-Bans Recordings

April 2026

  1. Elections Alberta Investigating Provincial Elector List Published by Separatist Activists
  2. Adobe’s ‘Modern’ User Interface Is Just Webpages
  3. Artemis II Photo Timeline
  4. I Kind of Fixed My iCloud Photos Problem and All I Got Was Two Blog Posts and Probably Years Off My Life
  5. The Case for Canadian Digital Sovereignty
  6. ‘How Europe Regulated Itself Into American Vassalage’
  7. FOIA Documents ‘Scrubbed’ From Intelligence Agency Website
  8. Dutch Broadcaster Confirms Identity of Someone Running an Alberta Separatist YouTube Channel
  9. Dutch YouTubers Behind Alberta Separatist Videos, Finds CBC News
  10. Oracle Laid Off (Tens of?) Thousands of People in March
  11. Meta Drops the Other Shoe, Announces Thousands of Layoffs for Next Month
  12. The Disappearance of the Public Bench
  13. Joanna Stern Launches ‘New Things’
  14. The Online Spam Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism
  15. Breaking Up Is Hard for E.U.
  16. Meta Tells U.S. Staff It Is Going to Start Surveilling Their Every Digital Move for A.I. Training
  17. That Was Tim, This Is Ternus
  18. Tim Cook Is Stepping Down as Apple CEO in September, to Be Replaced by John Ternus
  19. Grievance Poisoning in the First Degree
  20. The Wild Geese Chase
  21. Adobe Has Rid Itself of Its Allies
  22. AppleInsider Says Apple Sent It ‘Essentially the Same Email … 29 Times’ About App Store Scams in Ten Years
  23. Launching Strava With a Hotel Keycard
  24. Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
  25. Macworld: ‘Use Apple’s App Store at Your Own Risk’
  26. Live Nation Is an Illegal Monopoly, Jury Finds
  27. WebXRay Audit Finds Opt-Out Tracking Requests Are Not Honoured
  28. A Hospitality Industry Without Hospitality
  29. Apple Removes Old iWork Apps for MacOS
  30. The Internet Archive Is Increasingly Restricted by Publishers
  31. Photos from Artemis II
  32. The Growing Push for Digital Sovereignty
  33. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  34. Adobe Is Mucking With Users’ /etc/hosts Files
  35. Autonomous Car Companies Will Not Tell U.S. Senator How Often a Human Driver Intervenes
  36. Spotify Is Adding Controls to Turn Off Videos
  37. The Speed of Writing Code Is Probably Not the Problem
  38. Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup?
  39. The Dizzying Contrast in the Past Week or So
  40. A.I. Responses Under the Influence of Marketers
  41. OpenAI Bought a Livestream No One Watches
  42. The New Yorker Profiles Sam Altman
  43. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
  44. Hello, World
  45. Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Allegedly Fingerprints Visitors and Scans Installed Chrome Extensions
  46. NASA’s Artemis II Live Stream
  47. Google Search Is More Useful if You Know Its Advanced Operators, to a Point
  48. Upgrade Presents: The Origin of Apple

March 2026

  1. Apple’s Supposed A.I. Strategy Shift Is the Company’s Normal Strategy
  2. I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos
  3. Bill C–22 Gives Canadian Authorities Additional Warrantless Powers
  4. Wealthsimple Clears Regulatory Hurdle to Bring ‘Prediction Markets’ to Canada
  5. A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts
  6. Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro
  7. Meta Loses Two Landmark Cases Regarding Product Safety and Children’s Use; Google Loses One
  8. Meta Laid Off Several Hundred People Today
  9. Talking Liquid Glass With Apple
  10. OpenAI to Discontinue Sora App, Video Platform
  11. Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps Later This Year
  12. Someone Has Publicly Leaked an Exploit Kit That Can Hack Millions of iPhones
  13. In a ‘Test’, Google Is Automatically Rewriting News Headlines in Its Search Results
  14. Lobbying Firms Funded by Apple and Meta Are Duelling on Age Verification
  15. Tech CEOs and Investors Are Just Saying Stuff
  16. Adobe Pays Early Termination Fee, or ‘Settlement’, in U.S. Lawsuit Over Hidden Fees
  17. Meta Realizes Horizon Worlds on Quest Never Had Legs, Will Shut It Down in June
  18. A Roadmap for Currency Symbol Implementation
  19. A Friendly Wager on the Future of Repairability and Performance
  20. Trump Administration to Receive $10 Billion Kickback for TikTok Deal
  21. Transport Canada’s Vehicle Headlights Survey
  22. Reuters: Meta Is Planning to Wreck the Lives of 20% of Its Staff Because It Is Spending So Much on Data Centres
  23. BuzzFeed’s A.I. Pivot Might End in Bankruptcy
  24. Digg Reboot Needs to ‘Reset’, Lays Off a ‘Significant’ Amount of Staff
  25. Meta Says It Is Removing End-to-End Encryption From Instagram Direct Messages
  26. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
  27. Social Media’s Walled Gardens
  28. Sucker
  29. ‘This Is Not the Computer for You’
  30. TechCrunch: L3Harris, a U.S. Military Contractor, Likely Built ‘Coruna’ iPhone Hacking Toolkit
  31. Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its A.I. ‘Expert Review’ Feature
  32. MacBook Neo Teardown Reveals a Highly Repairable Laptop
  33. Online Age Verification Tools for Child Safety Are Surveilling Adults
  34. Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ Feature Presents Fake Advice in the Names of Real Journalists and Authors
  35. Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability
  36. Another Appearance Control Is Coming to Accessibility Settings in iOS 26.4
  37. Minister for Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Announces ‘Guardrails’ for TikTok Canada Operations
  38. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
  39. Mixing News Coverage and ‘Prediction Markets’ Is a Dangerous Gamble
  40. The Central Lie of Prediction Markets
  41. Google and Epic Games Announce Settlement
  42. Apple’s New Studio Displays, Plural
  43. Tim Sweeney Is Contractually Prohibited from Criticizing Google’s Developer Terms for Years
  44. A Toolkit for Hacking iPhones, Possibly Created for the U.S. Government, Has Leaked
  45. U.S. Immigration Police Bought Real-Time Ad Bidding Data for Automated Tracking System
  46. Annotators in Kenya Describe How They Review Sensitive Data Captured by Meta’s Ray-Bans
  47. The Window Chrome of Our Discontent

February 2026

  1. Software Quality Postscript and Clarification
  2. The Perfect Music App
  3. The Political Effects of Twitter’s Feed Algorithm
  4. It Sure Looks to Me Like Meta Is Winding Down Its V.R. Efforts
  5. Personal (Computer) Assistants
  6. On Software Quality
  7. How Tech Giants Track You Across the Web
  8. Tumbler Ridge
  9. Wikipedia Deprecates Archive.today After Its Owner Seemingly Launched a Targeted DDoS Campaign and Altered Archived Pages
  10. Magic Lasso Adblock, Now for tvOS
  11. Skyscraper Is a Bluesky Client for iOS, and Some Other Things
  12. Current Is an RSS Reader With a Twist
  13. Flickr’s URL Scheme
  14. Video in Apple Podcasts
  15. An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
  16. Apple Updates Its Own iOS Version Figures
  17. ‘CEO Said a Thing’ Journalism Props Up the Myth of Elon Musk
  18. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  19. Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses
  20. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Signs New Clearview A.I. Deal
  21. MacOS Tahoe 26.3 Fixes a Few Bugs With ‘Reduce Transparency’
  22. Fears About TikTok U.S. Are Only as Grounded as Fears About Other Products Supported by Behavioural Ads
  23. Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald’s Mural
  24. Information Superhighway, Now With One Liquid Glass Button
  25. TikTok’s Design Breaches Digital Services Act, According to Preliminary European Commission Findings
  26. Ads in Artificial Intelligence
  27. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
  28. Substack Is Still Happy to Host and Recommend Nazi Publications
  29. MKBHD Behind the Scenes for a Year
  30. Engagements on Canada’s Next A.I. Strategy
  31. How Bad Faith Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA
  32. Scam Ads on Apple News
  33. The CIA Killed the World Factbook
  34. Leaks and Leakers
  35. Using an iPod in 2026
  36. What’s Up With All Those Equals Signs Anyway?
  37. News Sites Are Bringing Comments Sections Back as a Paid Feature
  38. WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
  39. Elon Musk Gives Himself the Biggest Handshake
  40. Call Screening Is the Best Reason to Update to iOS 26

January 2026

  1. Amazon, Google, Meta, and SpaceX Want to Be Africa’s Internet Providers
  2. Sponsor: StopTheMadness Pro — Take Back Your Web Browser
  3. How Do You Comparison Shop in the App Store?
  4. Alberta Separatists Are Desperate to Attract U.S. Interference, Money
  5. Publishers Are Restricting Internet Archive, Access Attempting to Avoid A.I. Scraping
  6. Secrets of a Scam Compound
  7. Aeronaut Is a Great Bluesky Client for MacOS
  8. ‘Phantom Obligation’
  9. A Slot Machine for Feelings in Every Pocket
  10. NetNewsWire Updated With Liquid Glass Support
  11. Apple ‘Honours’ Martin Luther King While Working Against His Legacy
  12. Tim Cook Attends Screening of Propaganda for Authoritarian’s Wife
  13. FTC Says It Will Appeal Ruling in Meta Monopolization Case
  14. Sponsor: StopTheMadness Pro — Take Back Your Web Browser
  15. Unsung
  16. Backseat Software
  17. TikTok U.S. Prompts Users to Allow More Permissive Tracking, Advertising
  18. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: YouTube Ad Blocker for Safari
  19. Two Major Studies Indicate the Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up
  20. Court Rules TikTok Can Continue to Operate Offices in Canada
  21. New Version of Siri May Run on Google Servers
  22. User Agency and Updates
  23. Two Small iOS 26 Usage Share Updates
  24. A Lament for Aperture, the App We’ll Never Get Over Losing
  25. ‘Your Search Button Powers My Smart Home’
  26. A Canadian’s Call to Arms
  27. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
  28. ‘Every Data Centre Is a U.S. Military Base’
  29. Google Gemini to Provide Foundation for Some Apple Intelligence Features
  30. The Exact Same Things Were Said About Smart Glasses Ten Years Ago
  31. Adequate Red Teaming of A.I. Models Requires Better Policy
  32. Updating the Record on iOS 26 Usage Share
  33. Wishing for a More Flexible Apple Display Strategy
  34. Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards
  35. Third-Party Browsers Report Different iOS Version Numbers Than Safari
  36. Possible Inaccuracies in StatCounter’s Safari-Based Version Number Reporting
  37. The Telegram Group Jailbreaking Grok
  38. iOS 26 Adoption Reportedly Lagging iOS 18 in Same Timeframe, According to StatCounter
  39. Duolingo Displayed Ads in Live Activities, Dynamic Island
  40. CSAM Generator xAI, Run by Elon Musk, Raises $20 Billion
  41. Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
  42. A Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an A.I. Scam
  43. MacOS Tahoe Menu Icons Are Inconsistent, Confusing, and Illegible
  44. Google Adds Generative Features to T.V. Sets, For Some Reason
  45. What Is Happening in A.I. Advertising?
  46. CakeGPT

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December 2025

  1. Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
  2. Liquid Glass Whiteout Conditions
  3. Blacksky Algorithms Announces One-Click PDS Deployment Coming Soon
  4. Meta Effectively Cancels Horizon O.S. Third-Party Headsets
  5. ‘Fetch’ Is Not Happening on Android
  6. I Guess ‘Fetch’ Is Happening
  7. Google Sues SerpApi
  8. TikTok’s Future in Canada Looks Red, White, and Blue
  9. TikTok’s Lawless Days to End in January as U.S. Business Will Be Spun Off
  10. MSC Cruises Bans Smart Glasses in Public Areas to Curb Covert Recording
  11. Four Winners and Losers of Apple’s 2025
  12. From 2022, on Google’s Account Locking Practices
  13. In the Non-Clickbaitiest Way, I Ask: Can Redeeming an Apple Gift Card Put Your Account at Risk?
  14. Screen Sizes Is a Great Apple Device Reference
  15. Reuters: Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China to Safeguard Billions in Revenue
  16. Locked Out of an Apple Account
  17. Boom Says Its Hypothetical Jet Engine Produces ‘Clean’ Electricity, and I Think Words Mean Things
  18. Apple Releases 26.2 Operating System Updates
  19. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  20. Me, on ‘People and Blogs’
  21. Instagram and Facebook Users in Europe to Get Option of Sharing Less Data
  22. Let’s Encrypt Turns Ten
  23. Fault and Responsibility
  24. Generative Clickbait, Brought to You by Google and Meta
  25. Icons in Menus
  26. How a User Interface Degrades Over Time
  27. Toronto Reduced Pedestrian Deaths With Normal, Boring Strategies
  28. Edmonton Police Preempt Privacy Commissioner in Facial Recognition Bodycam Deployment
  29. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
  30. The European Commission Should Not Be on X in the First Place
  31. Meta Plans Deep Cuts to Metaverse Efforts
  32. Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams Out at Apple, Jennifer Newstead to Join
  33. Waymo Data Indicates Dramatic Safety Improvements Over Human Drivers, So It Is Making Its Cars More Human
  34. Video of Alan Dye’s Exit
  35. Alan Dye Out at Apple
  36. Microsoft Lowers A.I. Software Growth Targets
  37. ‘Mad Men’ on HBO Max, in 4K, Somehow Lacking VFX
  38. John Giannandrea Out at Apple
  39. A Questionable A.I. Plateau
  40. An App Named Alan
  41. Threads Continues to Reward Rage Bait
  42. Moraine Luck

November 2025

  1. OpenAI’s House Counsel to Be Deposed Over Deleted Pirated Material
  2. Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer
  3. Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s A.I. Era
  4. Web Development Tip: Disable Pointer Events on Link Images
  5. ‘The iPad’s Software Problem Is Permanent’
  6. Polarization in the United States Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
  7. Meta’s Accounting of Its Louisiana Data Centre ‘Strains Credibility’
  8. A.I. Mania Looks and Feels Bigger Than the .Com Bubble
  9. We Need to Stop Talking About the Erosion of Privacy as Though It Is Inevitable
  10. European Commission Proposes Sweeping Changes to A.I. And Privacy Policies
  11. A.I. Competition Might Not Disrupt Google
  12. To Be Clear, Instagram Was Acquired to Eliminate a Competitor, and That Was Fine With the FTC
  13. Sketch ‘Copenhagen’ Update Adds Custom Liquid Glass Implementation
  14. Meta Prevails in U.S. Antitrust Case
  15. Alberta Government Invokes Notwithstanding Clause to Override Legal Challenges to Anti-Trans Legislation
  16. Testing Microsoft’s Copilot Ads
  17. The Mac Pro Is, Quite Obviously, ‘On the Back Burner’, According to Mark Gurman
  18. Hit by a Truck
  19. Financial Times: ‘Apple Intensifies Succession Planning for CEO Tim Cook’
  20. Needy Software
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  22. Apple Data Detectors Reroute Parcel Tracking Through an Apple Web Service
  23. In 2002, Last.fm Was the Cutting Edge of the Social Web
  24. The Consumer Welfare Standard and E-Book Pricing
  25. Apple-Funded Study Finds DMA-Motivated Changes Save Developers Over €20 Million in Commission Fees in Three Months
  26. Google Introduces Private A.I. Compute
  27. The Slow Fight for Control Over In-Car Technology
  28. Meta to Discontinue Like and Comment Buttons on Third-Party Websites
  29. Google Chrome Feature Makes A.I. Cheating Easier, Teachers Say
  30. Canada Has Lost Its Measles Elimination Status
  31. Five Years of Apple Silicon Macs
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  33. Meta Is Earning a Fortune on a Deluge of Fraudulent Ads
  34. Lawsuits Allege OpenAI Encouraged Suicide and Harmful Delusions
  35. Michael Tsai Asks a Good Question About Live Translation in the E.U.: What ‘Additional Engineering’?
  36. FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Archive.today
  37. German State Completes Migration Away From Microsoft Exchange and Outlook
  38. MIT Sloan Quietly Shelves A.I. Ransomware Study
  39. The CAPTCHA Is Changing and, for Many, Increasingly Invisible
  40. Apple Says AirPods Live Translation Is Coming to the E.U. Next Month
  41. A Profile of Common Crawl
  42. Apple Recreated the App Store on the Web with No Way to Download or Buy Apps
  43. The Information Is Reluctant to Break Uncomfortable News
  44. U.S. Tech Companies Ramp Up Lobbying Efforts Against E.U. Regulations

October 2025

  1. International Criminal Court to Switch From Microsoft Office to openDesk
  2. How Long Will My MacBook Pro Last?
  3. Liquid Glass HDR
  4. iOS Keyboard Bugs
  5. Conservapedia Still Exists
  6. A Profile of Setlist.fm
  7. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Lies About A.I. Leading to Shorter Work Weeks
  8. Colorado Police Officer Caught on Doorbell Camera Talking About Surveillance Powers
  9. Apple’s Tedious and Expensive Procedure for Replacing the Battery in the New MacBook Pro
  10. Reddit Sues Perplexity and Three Data Scraping Companies Because They Crawled Google
  11. Apple Threatens to Withdraw App Tracking Transparency in Europe
  12. The Verge Delivers a Bad Article About Amazon’s Ring
  13. App Store Restrictions Face Scrutiny in China, U.K.
  14. OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas
  15. Federico Viticci’s M5 iPad Pro Review
  16. Long Lines for Election Day in Alberta
  17. The Blurry Future of Sora
  18. I Bet Normal Users Will Figure Out Which Power Adapter to Buy
  19. Latest Beta of Apple’s Operating Systems Adds Another Translucency Control
  20. NSO Group Banned From Using or Supplying WhatsApp Exploits
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  22. The New MacBook Pro Is €35 Less Expensive in E.U. Countries, Ships Without a Charger
  23. OpenAI and Nvidia Are at the Centre of a Trillion-Dollar Circular Investment Economy
  24. The New ‘Foreign Influence’ Scare
  25. More on Liquid Glass
  26. Meta Takes a Principled Stance Against Having Principles
  27. D’Angelo Dies Aged 51
  28. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
  29. Apple Has Discontinued the Clips App You Probably Forgot About
  30. Canadian Liberals Introduce Second, Less-Controversial Border Bill, but Still Want to Pass the First One With Creepiness Intact
  31. ‘How Did Somebody Make This?’
  32. ‘Give Me a Single Reason Why Sora 2 Should Exist’
  33. Apple Is Helping the U.S. Government Chill Speech on ICE
  34. Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the E.U.
  35. U.S. State Department Wants to Use Tech Companies as Leverage Over European Policy
  36. The Antennagate Code Patch
  37. Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book
  38. The Future of the Sneaker Business First Requires a Future
  39. Microsoft Uses a Thousand Words to Justify Some New Office Icons
  40. How Writing Leads to Thinking
  41. Bending to U.S. Government Pressure, Apple, Google Remove ICE Reporting Apps
  42. Liquid Glass; Why Now?
  43. Lawyers Caught Using A.I. Explain Why They Did It
  44. U.K Demands Access to British Citizens’ End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Data

September 2025

  1. On Liquid Glass
  2. That Secret Service SIM Farm Story Is Bogus
  3. Google Provides Feedback on the Digital Markets Act
  4. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Settles With Amazon Just Two Days Into Trial
  5. Privacy Commissioner of Canada Releases Findings of Investigation Into TikTok
  6. Apple Attempts to Rally Users Against E.U. Digital Markets Act
  7. Australian Opposition Parties Encourage Migration to Forthcoming U.S. Version of TikTok
  8. Patreon Will Automatically Enable Audience Irritation Features Next Week
  9. Setting Up a New Apple TV Is Still Not Good
  10. U.S. Secret Service Busts Giant SIM Farm in New York
  11. ‘How A.I. Helped Locate a Viral Video’s True Origin’ Was by Ignoring A.I.
  12. Amazon to End Inventory Commingling
  13. Meta’s Steak Sauce Demo Should Have Been Dumber
  14. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Live Nation and Ticketmaster
  15. Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Incredibly Private and Secure Safari Web Browsing
  16. Meta’s Whiffed Its Live Demos at Connect
  17. Reviewing the iPhone 17 Models as Cameras
  18. WSJ Says TikTok Divestiture of U.S. Operations Nears Completion, I Say It Will Make Everyone Mad
  19. Liquid Glass Pours Out to Apple Devices Today
  20. Embargoed Reviews for New Apple Stuff Begin With the AirPods Pro 3
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  22. Judge Dismisses Some of WPEngine’s Claims Against WordPress
  23. AirPods Live Translation Blocked for E.U. Accounts When Used in E.U.
  24. Four Theories of Meta
  25. When All You Have Is a Robots.txt Hammer
  26. Apple Presentation Rumour Recap
  27. Techmeme is Turning Twenty
  28. Following Up on That xAI v. Apple and OpenAI Situation
  29. Google Says the Open Web Is ‘in Rapid Decline’, But Insists It Means in an Advertising Sense
  30. U.S. Jury Says Google Should Pay $425 Million in Privacy Lawsuit
  31. E.U. Fines Google €2.95 Billion for Abusing Its Online Advertising Dominance
  32. Anthropic Proposes Paying Authors $1.5 Billion Over Pirated Books Used in Training
  33. Tech CEOs Take Turns Grovelling at Feast of Embarrassments
  34. U.S. Judge Issues Remedies in Google Antitrust Case
  35. The ‘Margaux Blanchard’ Saga
  36. U.K. Sought Broad Access to Apple Customers’ Data
  37. Automated Copyright Takedown Requests Are the Bane of the Civilized Web

August 2025

  1. Tesla Had Fatal Crash Recording, but Only Disclosed It After a Third-Party Hacker Recovered a Copy From the Car
  2. Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law Puts Decentralized Social Networks to the Test
  3. The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
  4. U.S. Customs Searches of Electronic Devices Rise at Borders
  5. PetaPixel’s Google Pixel 10 Pro Review
  6. Typepad Is Shutting Down Next Month
  7. Yet Another Article Claiming Music Criticism Lost Its Edge, With a Twist
  8. The Painful Downfall of Intel
  9. Tesla Ordered to Pay $200 Million in Punitive Damages Over Fatal Crash
  10. Will Smith’s Concert Crowds Are Real, but A.I. Is Blurring the Lines
  11. Inside the Underground Trade in Flipper Zero Car Attacks
  12. The U.S.’ Increasing State Involvement in the Tech Industry
  13. Alberta Announces New B.C. Tourism Campaign
  14. Jay Blahnik Accused of Creating a Toxic Workplace Culture at Apple
  15. Meta Says Threads Has Over 400 Million Monthly Active Users
  16. How Invested Are You in the Apple Ecosystem?
  17. Apple’s Self-Service Repair Now Available in Canada
  18. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Claims U.K. Has Retreated from iCloud Backdoor Demands
  19. ‘Apple in China’
  20. Interview With MacSurfer’s New Owner, Ken Turner
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  22. ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat About Live Manhunt
  23. MacSurfer Returns
  24. Recent Conference Talks
  25. A Different Tea-Themed App Was Also Leaking Private User Data with Basically No Security Checks
  26. The Top Two Stories on Techmeme Right Now Are Lies
  27. Some Data Brokers Hid Opt-Out Pages from Search Engines
  28. Sticking With It
  29. Reddit to Block the Internet Archive Due to Unauthorized Scraping
  30. The Perpetual Apple–Perplexity Rumour
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  32. ‘Mood Machine’
  33. Google Says A.I. Search Is Just Great
  34. Tim Cook Gives Donald Trump a Gold Trophy and, Legally Speaking, Expects Nothing in Return
  35. The New Macintosh HD Icon Just Looks Kinda Bad
  36. Ghost Ships Version Six
  37. Tiny Awards 2025 Nominations
  38. Google Changes Plans for Shortened Goo.gl Links
  39. Device Added to Your Account
  40. LinkedIn Removes Hate Speech Protections for Transgender Individuals
  41. The Vagueness and Vagaries of ‘Personal Superintelligence’
  42. The ‘Panama Playlists’ Reveal the Spotify Profiles of Public Figures

July 2025

  1. The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented
  2. The State of Design and the Iconfactory
  3. Tiger Inspirat Is a Tribute to the Best Mac OS X Default Desktop Picture
  4. Tea Spilled
  5. Substack Sent a Push Alert Promoting a Nazi Blog
  6. That Pew Report Is Sure Looking Like a Foundational Text, Unfortunately
  7. Subreddits with War Media Are Caught in the U.K. Age Verification Law
  8. The Unknown Effect of Google A.I. Overviews on Search Traffic
  9. In Alberta and Ontario, Provincial Governments Are Interfering With City Cycling Lanes
  10. The U.K. Begins Enforcing Age Verification
  11. Artists Are Removing Music From Spotify Due to CEO Daniel Ek’s ‘Investment in A.I. War Drones’
  12. Google A.I. Summaries and Search Traffic
  13. Adam Aaronson Drank Every IBA Cocktail
  14. Fixing ‘Optimize Storage’
  15. Apple Releases Public Betas for Its ‘26’ Operating Systems
  16. The Great Canadian Rights Grab
  17. Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible
  18. Selfish Rounded Corners in MacOS Tahoe Preview
  19. Podcasting’s Pivot to Video
  20. Apple Intelligence News Summaries Are Back in the Fourth Beta Builds of Apple’s ’26 Operating Systems
  21. FT: U.K. Is ‘Seeking a Way Out’ Over iCloud End-to-End Encryption Backdoor, but ‘Has Not Backed Down’
  22. The Trump Administration Was Lying About Antitrust Enforcement
  23. French Data Under U.S. Firms Is Not Protected From U.S. Government Access
  24. Billionaires Destroyed American News Media on Purpose
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  26. Apple Sues Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti for a ‘Coordinated Scheme’ to Leak iOS 26 Redesign
  27. Does Google Maps Make Money?
  28. Airlines Are Using Generative A.I. to Set Individualized Prices
  29. ‘Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor’
  30. G/O Media Has Sold Off Just About All Its Sites Eighteen Months After Denying It Was Selling Off All Its Sites
  31. On A.I. Video Watermarks
  32. A Tedious Explanation of Paying for YouTube, Tediously
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  34. Elon Musk Gives Himself Another Handshake
  35. The Apple Style Guide Game Show
  36. Racist Job Hunter Is Actually an A.I. Ad for A.I. Recruitement Software
  37. U.S. Tech Giants Face Pressure Over Data Sovereignty
  38. Canada Should Build Public Cloud Infrastructure Rather Than Relying on U.S. Tech Giants
  39. Grok Shows How Centralized Tech Can Be Manipulated
  40. Columbia University Applicant Data Stolen in Politically Motivated Attack
  41. Grok is Made Nazi
  42. Linda Yaccarino Steps Down As X CEO
  43. The Quiet Exit of the Home Indicator in iOS and iPadOS 26
  44. FireWiRetired
  45. Apple Formally Appeals DMA Penalty
  46. Transparent Development
  47. Liquid Glass Differences Between the Second and Third Betas
  48. Pressure on Substack
  49. Supposed Parallels Between Meta’s ‘A.I. Superintelligence’ Effort and the ‘Metaverse’
  50. The U.S. Government’s Astonishing Constitutional Claims on TikTok
  51. Branded Quality in the Age of Slop
  52. Magic Lasso Adblock Now Blocks Ads in Third-Party Apps
  53. Google Ends Test of ‘Recipe Quick View’ in Search Results

June 2025

  1. Canada to Rescind Digital Services Tax
  2. The Digital Services Tax Is the New Reason Our Neighbour Is Angry
  3. Developers React to E.U. App Store Changes
  4. Apple Tries Again With E.U. App Distribution Policies
  5. Adaptive Power Mode in iOS 26
  6. Apple Abuses Wallet Push Notifications to Advertise Its New Movie
  7. Wearable A.I. Device Company iyO Disputes OpenAI’s Recently Acquired Wearable A.I. Device company io
  8. Apple Says MacOS 27 Will Not Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups
  9. Perplexity Is Out Here Wearing a Sandwich Board
  10. Cloudflare CEO Confirms the Obvious About What A.I. Answer Engines Do to Publisher Traffic
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  12. Roundrect Dictator
  13. Toward a Theory of Kevin Roose
  14. Border Bill Powers Would Allow Warrantless Police Requests to ‘Public Services’ of All Types
  15. Samsung Exec: Smart T.V. ‘Advertisers Want [To] Know Exactly What You Ate for Breakfast’
  16. Craig Federighi on the iPad
  17. Mastodon and Ivory in the WWDC Keynote
  18. Rounded Corners and Fidelity
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  20. Writing Tools Updates in MacOS Tahoe
  21. Shy U.I.
  22. Live Activities in iPadOS 26 Seem Like a Preview of the All-Screen iPhone
  23. Apple’s Spin on A.I. and iPadOS Multitasking
  24. The United States Keeps Hitting Snooze on the Emergency TikTok Ban
  25. The Long Road to the iPad’s ‘Mac-Like Multitasking’
  26. Apple Insists It Had a Working Version of Personalized Siri Features Last Year
  27. A.I. Slop Squatters
  28. Cycling Directions Have Expanded Across Canada in Apple Maps
  29. Kudos to Jon Prosser
  30. Apple Updated Its Human Interface Guidelines for Liquid Glass
  31. Apple ‘Fandom’ in 2025
  32. The Analysis Group Won an Industry Award in 2022 for Its ‘Sham’ App Store Report
  33. Apple Publishes Its Latest Analysis Group App Store Report
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  35. The Sad Story of the Long-Promised 3 GHz Power Mac G5
  36. Microsoft Redesigns Office Portal to Prioritize Copilot
  37. Texas Will Soon Be the Ninth State to Pass a Popular ‘Right to Repair’ Law
  38. Canadian Liberal Party Border Bill Also Includes Warrantless Access Provisions
  39. The Who Cares Era
  40. How the V60 Became the Coffee Brewer of Choice for Many
  41. Meta and Yandex Apps on Android Have Been Tracking Users in Newly Creepy Ways
  42. A.I. Calvin and Hobbes Strip
  43. A.I. Answer Engines Are Worth Trying
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May 2025

  1. On Browsers, A.I., and the Web
  2. Why Take9 Will Not Improve Cybersecurity
  3. Artificial Intelligence Should Bear Responsibility for Its Costs
  4. Sky Extends A.I. Automation to Your Entire Mac
  5. Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit
  6. Judge Dismisses 2021 Rumble Antitrust Suit Against Google on Statute of Limitations Grounds
  7. Google is Burying the Web Alive
  8. The CIA’s 2010s Covert Communication Websites
  9. Apple Gets Its Annual Fraud Prevention Headlines
  10. Lawyers Keep Failing Clients By Relying on A.I.
  11. ‘Nimble Fingers’ Racism and iPhone Manufacturing
  12. Dara Khosrowshahi Knows Uber Is Just Reinventing the Bus
  13. An Elixir of Production, Not of Craft
  14. Reflecting on Tom Cruise’s Stunt Work
  15. Tim Cook Called Texas Governor to Stop App Store Age Checking Legislation
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  17. U.S. Spy Agencies Get One-Stop Shop to Buy Personal Data
  18. Speculating About the Hardware Ambitions of OpenAI
  19. GeoGuessr Community Maps Go Dark in Protest of EWC Ties to Human Rights Abuses
  20. The Carbon Footprint Sham
  21. The Energy Footprint of A.I.
  22. Jony Ive’s ‘io’ Acquired by OpenAI; Ive to Remain as Designer
  23. Two Major Newspapers Published an A.I.-Generated Guide to Summer Books That Do Not Exist
  24. The Future of British Television in a U.S. Streaming World
  25. At Trial, Tech Companies Skirt Legal Obligations
  26. License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool
  27. Apple Is Working to Permit Other Default Virtual Assistants on iOS, but Only in the E.U.
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  29. Uber to Introduce Bus
  30. Conversion Rates of In-App Purchases Compared to Web Purchases on iOS
  31. Microsoft’s A.I. Executives Have Gross Ideas About the World
  32. Apple’s ‘Private and Secure Payment System’ Warning Notice
  33. Gurman: iOS 19 Will Be Less Buggy, and Use A.I. To Improve Battery Life
  34. A Fairer Angle for Covering Teenaged Wellnesss Influencers
  35. Judge in A.I. Training Data Case Questions Meta Over Fair Use Claims
  36. Irish Data Protection Commission Fines TikTok €530 Million
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  38. Minimum Viable Curiosity
  39. Apple Seeks to Pause ‘Extraordinary’ App Store Ruling
  40. Israeli Spyware Giant NSO Group Ordered to Pay Nearly $170M to Meta
  41. Despite Misleading Marketing, TeleMessage Can Access Plaintext Chat Logs
  42. Patreon’s iOS App Can Now Accept Web Payments in the U.S. (Again)
  43. A.I. Mistakes Are Way Weirder Than Human Mistakes
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  45. TeleMessage, Used by Various U.S. Government Officials, Has Been Breached
  46. Publisher Opt-Outs Affected Half of Google’s A.I. Training
  47. 2027 iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design
  48. Meta’s A.I. Television
  49. MacDailyNews’ Sexist Response to Yesterday’s Epic Games Ruling
  50. U.S. Judge Rules Apple Is Not in Compliance With Injunction in Epic Games Case

April 2025

  1. Documents Show How Police Track Cars Using Subscription Features
  2. In Praise of a Democracy on Paper
  3. Backblaze Responds to Claims of ‘Sham Accounting’ From Sketchy ‘Research’ Firm
  4. Another Papercut from the Always-On Display Feature
  5. The Group Chats of the Elite
  6. Canada’s Tech Executives Are Not Scared of Mark Carney
  7. The Tree Farms Powering Tech Companies’ Carbon Neutral Goals
  8. The Carelessness of Perplexity
  9. Apple Aims to Source All U.S. iPhones From India by End of 2026
  10. Google Ends Support for Early Nest Thermostats, Degrading Their Functionality
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  12. Making ‘Careless People’ Care
  13. Apple and Meta Are Mad Over Minimal E.U. Fines
  14. The Anti-Pirate Code
  15. On the ‘Streaming Is More Expensive Than Cable’ Complaint
  16. Canadian Election Coverage and Meta’s Response to the Online News Act
  17. The Paid A.I. Hype Guys
  18. Bluesky Verification Is Decentralized in Theory
  19. Bluesky Adds Verification Badges
  20. The Charm of Movie Mistakes
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  22. Apple’s Rebranded Apple Ads Probably Forecasts More Advertising
  23. Microsoft Is Bringing Recall Back to Windows
  24. Google Loses Online Advertising Monopoly Case
  25. Bluesky, Censorship, and Country-Based Moderation
  26. MITRE Makes CVE Program Independent After U.S. Government Funding Expires
  27. Lyft Texted a Rider a Transcript of the Conversation She Had in a Car
  28. Meta’s Poor Prebuttal to “Careless People”
  29. The Acquisition of Instagram Made Sense to Facebook Even at the Time
  30. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission Takes on Meta
  31. Lawsuits Allege Trade Desk Secretly Breaks Privacy Laws
  32. How Record Store Day Became the Stupidest Day in Music
  33. Taking the User by the Reins
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  35. Post-Twitter Services as Covered by the New Yorker
  36. How Crawlers Impact the Operations of the Wikimedia Projects
  37. Established Writers Are Making More Money After Leaving Substack
  38. Safari Technology Preview Supports a More Comprehensive Interpretation of ‘Pretty’ Text-Wrap
  39. A ‘U.S.-Made iPhone’ is Pure Fantasy
  40. White House Investigation Implicates Siri Suggestions in ‘Signalgate’
  41. Sam Altman Wants to Give Himself a Handshake, Too
  42. Judge Says U.K Hearing Over Compromising iCloud Encryption Must Be Public
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  44. Facebook and Google Cancelled Their Attempts to Operate in China in the Same Year
  45. The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War
  46. Apple’s Price Stability
  47. The Environmental Burden of the United States’ Bitcoin Mining Boom
  48. Credit Card Insurance Is, in My Case, a Good Replacement for AppleCare
  49. Oracle Has Acknowledged Two Security Breaches in the Past Month
  50. FT: TikTok’s U.S. Business To Be Spun Off With ByteDance Retaining Nearly 20% Ownership
  51. European Commission Takes Aim at End-to-End Encryption Again
  52. Jason Snell’s Unsuccessful Journey Into Netflix’s Ad Tier
  53. ‘Large A.I. Models Are Cultural and Social Technologies’
  54. The Mediocrity of Modern Google
  55. French Competition Authority Fines Apple Over App Tracking Transparency

March 2025

  1. New Apple Intelligence Features and Languages
  2. Elon Musk Gives Himself a Handshake
  3. Apple’s Missteps in A.I. Are Partly the Fault of A.I.
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  5. Meta Adds ‘Friends’ Tab to Facebook to Show Posts From Users’ Friends
  6. The Myth and Reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  7. The New Substack Universe
  8. Public Figures Keep Leaving Their Venmo Accounts Public
  9. The War on Encryption Is Dangerous
  10. WWDC 2025 Announced
  11. You Are Just a Guest on Meta’s A.I.-Filled Platforms
  12. Facebook to Stop Targeting Ads at U.K. Woman After Legal Fight
  13. Apple Adds Lossless Audio Support Via Cable to USB-C AirPods Max
  14. Google Lost User Data, Makes Its Recovery a Problem for Users
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  16. ‘Adolescence’
  17. Trapping Misbehaving Bots in an A.I. Labyrinth
  18. Apple Could Build Great Platforms for Third-Party A.I. If It Wanted To
  19. Technofossils
  20. Apple Head Computer, Apple Intelligence, and Apple Computer Heads
  21. Apple’s Restrictions on Third-Party Hardware Interoperability
  22. New Version of RCS Specification Includes End-to-End Encryption
  23. Dribbble Wants Its Cut
  24. Hudson’s Bay Plans to Liquidate Its Entire Business by June
  25. WWDC Should Again Have Live Demos
  26. ‘Ugly’ and ‘Embarrassing’
  27. Free and Open Access in the Age of Generative A.I.
  28. Canadian Sovereignty, Digital and Geographic
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  30. Rotten in Cupertino
  31. Google Has Also Probably Received a U.K. Backdoor Demand
  32. Where is Swift Assist?
  33. The Slop Refinement of E-Book Scams
  34. Gurman: Apple’s Operating Systems to Be Redesigned to ‘Look More Consistent’
  35. Firefox’s New Terms of Use and Privacy Notice
  36. Firefox Users on iOS Have Doubled in France and Germany
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  38. U.S. Drops Bid to Make Google Sell A.I. Investments in Antitrust Case
  39. A Bit of A.I. Siri Followup
  40. Apple Confirms Delayed Launch of Personalized Siri Features
  41. Brazilian Court Requires Apple to Permit Sideloading Within Ninety Days
  42. Canadians’ Health Data Needs Safeguarding Against Our Increasingly Hostile Neighbour
  43. Digg Reboots Again
  44. The Web Was Always About Redistribution of Power
  45. Wine Prices Raised by Alberta Government
  46. Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Honoured With 2024 Turing Award
  47. Tapbots Reveals ‘Phoenix’ Bluesky Client for Summer Release
  48. Apple Says Not Every Generation Will See an ‘Ultra’ Chip
  49. Cloudflare Blocking Privacy Focused Users From Accessing Third-Party Websites
  50. Apple Appeals U.K. Backdoor Demand to Investigatory Powers Tribunal
  51. Did the Trump Administration Minimize Russian Cyber Threats?
  52. Potions and Spells
  53. The U.S. Government Is Apparently Upset About the U.K. iCloud Backdoor Demand
  54. The Digital Packrat Manifesto
  55. Inclusive Typefaces
  56. Microsoft and Google Jack Up Prices to Pay for A.I.
  57. Adam Engst Does Not Understand Quantum Computing Either

February 2025

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  2. Safari Cleanup
  3. Apple News Remains a Bad Citizen of the Open Web
  4. ‘The Tyranny of Apps’
  5. An Age Range API Is Coming to iOS Later This Year
  6. Amazon Debuts Alexa Plus
  7. The Match Group Knows About Serial Sexual Abusers on Its Platform
  8. Jeff Bezos Demands the WaPo Opinion Pages Focus on a ‘Defense of … Personal Liberties and Free Markets’
  9. Cheesy, Gooey, Melt-in-Your-Mouth A.I. Slop
  10. Hyperspace
  11. Andrew Ferguson, Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Pledges to Keep Aggressive Merger Enforcement
  12. Apple Issues its Quadrennial Politicking Press Release
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  14. I Do Not Understand Quantum Computers or the Apparent Breakthroughs From Google and Microsoft
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  16. Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection in the U.K.
  17. HP Adds, Then Retracts, Fifteen Minute Minimum Wait Time for Phone Support
  18. Real-Time Bidding Is a Surveillance Dream
  19. U.S. Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry Into Tech ‘Censorship’
  20. Clearview A.I.’s CEO Resigns, New Leadership Likes Its Chances Under Trump
  21. Google Puts Profits Over Privacy by Permitting User Fingerprinting
  22. The New York Times’ Absurd Strategic Forecasting of the U.S. Annexing Canada
  23. HP Acquihires Humane for $116 Million
  24. The Rise and Fall of Canadian Tire Money
  25. Is YouTube Infrastructure?
  26. Sponsor: How Comics Were Made by Glenn Fleishman
  27. The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of U.S. Military Personnel
  28. Atlas of Type Foundries
  29. Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake
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  31. ReCAPTCHA and Touch Faith
  32. App Tracking Transparency Could Fall Foul of German Antitrust Rules
  33. Apple Resumes Advertising on X
  34. Apple Intelligence Feels Like a Rush Job Because It Probably Is
  35. Shopify Took Down Kanye West’s Nazi Store but Not for the Obvious Reason
  36. The Digital Mapmakers Are Falling in Line
  37. Thomson Reuters Wins A.I. Copyright Case
  38. A Different Interpretation of U.K. iCloud Data Access
  39. Meta Allegedly Trained A.I. On a Hundred Terabytes of Pirated Books
  40. Canadian Government Resumes Meta Advertising
  41. How Safari Search Engine Extensions Work
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  43. Apple’s Lamp Robot Is a Weird Machine Learning Research Project
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  45. U.K. Orders Apple to Backdoor iCloud Data Protected by End-to-End Encryption Worldwide
  46. Experts Flag Security, Privacy Risks in DeepSeek A.I. App for iOS
  47. Slacktivism Will Not Cut It
  48. Norman Foster’s ‘Factory of Fine Design’
  49. The Many Purposes of Timeline Apps
  50. Everyone Knows Your Location
  51. Simpler Screens
  52. Tapestry
  53. Adobe Now Lets You Waste Five Dollars Per Month on A.I. Summaries of Legal Contracts
  54. The ‘Twitter Files’ Authors Only Pretend to Care About Power
  55. Apple’s 2024 Report Card
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  57. The United States Is a Hostile Neighbour
  58. Quartz’s A.I. Slop

January 2025

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  2. Rest of World’s 2024 Photography Contest
  3. Ground Control to Myspace Tom
  4. Google Maps Users in U.S. Will See Renamed Gulf of Mexico and Denali
  5. The Surprising Truth About ‘Brain Rot’
  6. Uber Files Complaint About Calgary Trip Location Data Requirement
  7. GDPR Complaints Filed Against Chinese Technology Companies
  8. On the Undesign of Apple Intelligence Features
  9. The Global Struggle Over How to Regulate A.I.
  10. Inside Canadian Tech’s Shift to the Right
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  12. PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
  13. Century-Scale Storage
  14. Cacio e Pepe e Corn Starch
  15. X Is Barely Getting By
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  17. Returning to ‘Origins’
  18. Court Rules FBI’s Warrantless Searches Are Illegal
  19. U.S. Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
  20. Leader Key
  21. Million-Dollar Picture
  22. Apple’s Next Software Updates Will Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically
  23. The TikTok Executive Order
  24. On Digital Sovereignty
  25. A.I. Is the New Annoying Ad You Will See Everywhere
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  27. What Happens to the Great Apps Apple Acquires?
  28. TikTok’s Service Providers Risk Billions in Penalties for Bringing It Back Online
  29. Apple Intelligence Is Inventing a Husband for Joanna Stern
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  31. U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law Banning TikTok if It Is Not Sold
  32. P.E.I. Homeowner Captures Sound and Video of Meteorite Strike on Camera
  33. We Do Not Need More Cynics
  34. The TikTok Saga Has Gotten Even Stupider
  35. Changes to Notification Summaries in New iOS 18.3 Beta
  36. New Data Set Reveals 40,000 Apps Behind Location Tracking
  37. The Right’s Smear Campaign Against Wikipedia
  38. Mark Zuckerberg Is Not Done With Politics
  39. ‘We Have a Chance to Do Something Different’
  40. Free Our Feeds
  41. Bloomberg: ‘China Discusses Sale of TikTok U.S. To Musk’
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  43. You Never Want to See This Road Sign
  44. Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy’
  45. Lion’s Refined Clarity
  46. The Verge: ‘Mark Zuckerberg Lies to Joe Rogan’s Face’
  47. Elon Musk Is Trying to Oust the British Prime Minister
  48. Ads in Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
  49. New Rules Allow More Slurs on Meta Platforms
  50. What ‘Free Speech’ Is
  51. Apple Says It Will More Clearly Label A.I.-generated Summaries
  52. A Prorogued Parliament Punts Privacy Policy
  53. Google Pays Its Online News Act Tithe
  54. Dell Rebrands Its Products, Loses None of Its Unique ‘Dell’ Charm
  55. Waymo Cars Usually Fail to Yield to Pedestrians at a Crosswalk
  56. Beta
  57. Aqua Turns Twenty-Five on January 5
  58. ‘Why I Am Quitting the Washington Post’
  59. Tim Cook Becomes the Newest Big Donor to the Trump Inaugural Fund
  60. Tesla Can Remotely Unlock and Monitor Vehicles
  61. Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South
  62. Apple Files to Settle Siri Privacy Lawsuit

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