Zoe Kleinman, BBC News: Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data. […] The ADP service started to be pulled for new users at 1500GMT on Friday. Existing users … | Continue reading
Paul Kunert, the Register: To reaffirm the changes, HP says in the staff memo: “The wait time for each customer is set to 15 minutes – notice the expected wait time is mentioned only in the beginning of the call.” The message will be read out three times during the wait time, aft … | Continue reading
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, of Wired, published a look at how third-party lists uploaded to Google DV360 allow targeting based on factors Google says its policies prohibit. It is more-or-less a story of Google’s failure to adequately moderate its platform, but it is vile to … | Continue reading
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission: Censorship by technology platforms is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. Tech firms can employ confusing or unpredictable internal procedures that cut users off, sometimes with no ability appeal the decision. Such actions taken by … | Continue reading
David Jeans, Forbes: Clearview co-founder Hoan Ton-That stepped back as CEO in December and took on the role of president. Then, on Friday, following a Forbes inquiry, he told the company he was resigning, noting he was leaving to start the “next chapter of my life.” In a stateme … | Continue reading
Imran Rahman-Jones, BBC News: However the company [Google] had previously come out strongly against this kind of data collection, saying in a 2019 blog that fingerprinting “subverts user choice and is wrong.” But in a post announcing the new rule changes, Google said the way peop … | Continue reading
Parker Molloy: Let’s be clear about what’s happening: The President of the United States is openly fantasizing about forcibly annexing a sovereign nation of 40 million people. He’s been repeatedly referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau” and threatening ou … | Continue reading
Humane: HP Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire key AI capabilities from Humane, including their AI-powered platform Cosmos, highly skilled technical talent, and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and patent applications. The acquisition advances HP’s tr … | Continue reading
Mark Colley, Toronto Star: For more than 60 years, Canadian Tire money staked a legitimate claim as Canada’s unofficial second currency. At one point, a study showed half the country collected it. The coupons even made the Canadian Oxford dictionary. […] Ultimately, experts specu … | Continue reading
Thomas Germain, for BBC News, looked at the efforts of Ethan Zuckerman and others to study YouTube. Their findings are sometimes expected — most videos have been viewed fewer than 500 times — but often notable. Most videos are not edited, have no monetization, and have no request … | Continue reading
Priced originally at $65, it’s currently on sale for $39 (plus shipping) — no coupon is required. How Comics Were Made follows the intensive, magical, and industrial journey a newspaper comic takes from a cartoonist’s hand through the transformative production process to make it … | Continue reading
Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra, in an article jointly published by 404 Media and Wired: Last year, a media investigation revealed that a Florida-based data broker, Datastream Group, was selling highly sensitive location data that tracked United States military and intelligence per … | Continue reading
Something very useful from the Atlas of Type: a huge list of type foundries. Only a handful of Canadian designers on this list, including the legendary Canada Type and Pangram Pangram, but I was particularly excited to learn about Tiro Typeworks. They have a vast library of type … | Continue reading
Chris Welch, the Verge: Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou has told The Verge that this morning’s window where Netflix appeared as a “participating” service in Apple TV — including temporary support for the watchlist and “continue watching” features — was an error and has now been ro … | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. … | Continue reading
In November 2023, two researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and their supervisor published “Dazed and Confused”, a working paper about Google’s reCAPTCHAv2 system. They write mostly about how irritating and difficult it is to use, and also explore its privacy and l … | Continue reading
Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch: Germany’s antitrust watchdog has been investigating Apple’s app privacy framework since 2022. On Thursday, releasing preliminary findings from this probe, the Bundeskartellamt (FCO) said it suspects the iPhone maker may not be treating third-party app d … | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in November 2023 following controversial remarks made by its owner Elon Musk. Translation: Apple is partici … | Continue reading
Jason Snell, Macworld: Apple doesn’t have to end up with the best large language model around to win the AI wars. It can be in the ballpark of the best or partner with the leaders to get what it needs. But it can’t fail at the part that is uniquely Apple: Making those features a … | Continue reading
James Temperton and Murad Hemmadi, the Logic: Shopify’s general counsel said the company took down musician Kanye West’s online store because of the potential for fraud, not because it was selling a Nazi T-shirt, an internal staff announcement obtained by The Logic reveals. In th … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its Maps app, following an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on his first day in office. […] Apple is making the change Tuesday for customers in the US, but said it would soo … | Continue reading
Kate Knibbs, Wired: In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented AI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. In the complaint, Thomson Reuters claimed the AI firm reproduced materials from its legal research firm Westlaw. Today, a … | Continue reading
Last week, the Washington Post broke the news that the U.K. government is demanding access to iCloud accounts with Advanced Data Protection enabled. Joseph Menn, the Post: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrie … | Continue reading
Even though a 2023 class action suit filed by authors against Meta has been shaky so far, some of the details in what is left of the suit are stunning. Apparently, Meta downloaded a hundred terabytes of pirated books, according to documents recently unsealed. Ashley Belanger, Ars … | Continue reading
Patty Winsa, Toronto Star: The federal government has reversed its advertising boycott of Meta spending nearly $300,000 for campaigns on the company’s Facebook and Instagram social media platforms. The reversal comes despite Meta’s continued ban on posting news from Canadian medi … | Continue reading
Jeff Johnson: To use Kagi as your default search engine in Safari, you have to install Kagi’s Safari extension. So I installed the extension and entered a search in the Safari address bar. Note below how Safari says “Search Google” and “Google Search”, even though I’m supposed to … | Continue reading
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One of the odder Apple rumours remaining unresolved is its robotics project. Mark Gurman, Bloomberg, in April: Engineers at Apple have been exploring a mobile robot that can follow users around their homes, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the skunk-works p … | Continue reading
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Joseph Menn, Washington Post: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. The British g … | Continue reading
Andrew Hoog of NowSecure: NowSecure has conducted a comprehensive security and privacy assessment of the DeepSeek iOS mobile app, uncovering multiple critical vulnerabilities that put individuals, enterprises, and government agencies at risk. These findings highlight the immediat … | Continue reading
Janus Rose, 404 Media: You can discourse and quote-dunk and fact-check until you’re blue in the face, but at a certain point, you have to stop and decide what truth you believe in. The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad … | Continue reading
Ian Parker, the New Yorker: To build a very large operation that still resembles a boutique one required decades of sustained control. Foster has controlled the work, and controlled his image, and controlled the images made by him: a Foster + Partners project will almost always h … | Continue reading
Federico Viticci, MacStories, thinking about apps like Tapestry: My problem with timeline apps is that I struggle to understand their pitch as alternatives to browsing Mastodon and Bluesky (supported by both Tapestry and Reeder) when they don’t support key functionalities of thos … | Continue reading
“Tim”: Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the l … | Continue reading
Naz Hamid: Prior to this, screens were large and encumbered. Classic TVs were housed in cabinets and were more furniture than centerpieces. They’ve become slimmer and larger over the decades but for the most part are still primarily active devices. One turns on a TV to watch some … | Continue reading
Craig Hockenberry, on the Iconfactory’s blog: The web has always been in a state of flux, but the rate of change around how people connect has accelerated over the past few years. Centralized systems have shown their weakness and siloed content has as much a chance of surviving a … | Continue reading
Mariella Moon, Engadget: Adobe has updated the Acrobat AI Assistant, giving it the ability to understand contracts and to compare them for you. The company says it can help you make sense of complex terms and spot differences between agreements, such as between old and new ones, … | Continue reading
Do you remember the “Twitter Files”? I completely understand if you do not. Announced with great fanfare by Elon Musk after his eager-then-reluctant takeover of the company, writers like Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger, Rupa Subramanya, Matt Taibbi, and Bari Weiss were permitted … | Continue reading
Jason Snell: It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to get a broad sense of … | Continue reading
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Yesterday, I published a little thing about how Quartz slipped and fell into a toxic stew of A.I. slop. If you have not yet read it, I must say I quite like it. What began as a little link I was going to throw to Riley MacLeod’s article became an exploration of an A.I.-generated … | Continue reading
The downfall of Quartz is really something to behold. It was launched in 2012 as a digital-only offshoot of the Atlantic specifically intended for business and economic news. It compared itself to esteemed publications like the Economist and Financial Times, and had a clever-for- … | Continue reading
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Munira Mutaher, Rest of World: The 227 entries we received from contestants — including from Mongolia, the Philippines, Argentina, and Jordan — not only celebrate these stories but reaffirm our commitment at Rest of World to challenge stereotypes about how people use technology i … | Continue reading
Caitlin Dewey: “For the longest time I’ve been satisfied and chill,” he [Tom Anderson] later wrote on IG. “Just at peace with how I am and how the world is.” In comments like these, I see the enduring appeal of Myspace Tom. Today’s tech founders live largely to extract and hoard: … | Continue reading
Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News: Google Maps users in the United States can expect to see the body of water known for centuries as the Gulf of Mexico renamed the Gulf of America, aligning with the terms of President Trump’s controversial executive order. Google also said Denali, a mo … | Continue reading
Amy Fleming, the Guardian: The “study” that spearheaded this cascade of concern in 2005, and is still quoted in the press today, claimed that using email lowered IQ more than cannabis. But Shane O’Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin, smelled … | Continue reading