Jacob Eiting, of RevenueCat: Turns out, in-app purchases are good for conversion rates. In fact, at least 30% better. That’s one of the things we found while running the first large-scale, side-by-side test of in-app vs web purchases in history. […] The initial conversion rate fo … | Continue reading
Austin Carr and Dina Bass, in a largely glowing profile of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Bloomberg: Working out of offices in London and Mountain View, California, Suleyman’s employees set about creating a version of Copilot designed for life away from the office. As they’d done … | Continue reading
Viktor Maric: first time seeing this. Apple will punish the apps with external payment system Maric includes a screenshot of an App Store listing for Instacar, which features a exclamation mark-decorated banner at the top reading “This app does not support the App Store’s private … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: The company is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19, an iPhone software update due in September, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The enhancement will analyze how a person uses their device and make adjustments to cons … | Continue reading
Rina Raphael, New York Times: But what makes this influencer unusual is her age. She’s only 17, and a high school junior. Ms. [Ava] Noe, a self-described “crunchy teen,” is just one of a number of young influencers who appeal to other health-conscious kids their age. At times, th … | Continue reading
Blake Brittain, Reuters: In the first court hearing on a key question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria grilled lawyers for both sides over Meta’s request for a ruling that it made “fair use” of books by Junot Diaz, comedian Sarah Silverman and others to tra … | Continue reading
The Irish Data Protection Commission: The decision, which was made by the Commissioners for Data Protection, Dr Des Hogan and Mr Dale Sunderland, and has been notified to TikTok, finds that TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding its transfers of EEA User Data to China and its transp … | 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
Michael Lopp: In a hypothetical future world where all I ever knew was sitting in the back of a robot car, I would not appreciate the work involved because I’d never had the opportunity to learn to drive. This might be fine for many humans on the planet, but not for me. I learned … | Continue reading
Tim Hardwick Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically changes how the App Store operates, following a contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games. As … | Continue reading
Maggie Miller, Politico: Israeli spyware company NSO Group was ordered by a U.S. federal court on Tuesday to pay WhatsApp and its parent company Meta almost $170 million in damages after its cyber tools were used to hack around 1,400 WhatsApp accounts. I remain confused why Apple … | Continue reading
Micah Lee: Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs from its customers. In this post I give a high level overview of how the TeleMessage fake Signal app, cal … | Continue reading
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: In the updated version released on Monday (version 125.5.0), users now have the option of making a purchase via the web, where they can choose to pay with other payment methods, including credit cards, Venmo, and PayPal, as well as with Apple Pay. The opt … | Continue reading
Last week, I published some thoughts on Meta’s eventual repositioning as a kind of television channel stocked with generated material for any given user: Then TikTok came around and did away with two expectations: that you should have to work to figure out what you want to be ent … | Continue reading
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers, and annoyances … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Joseph Cox of 404 Media noticed a photograph of U.S. official Mike Waltz — previously — using a third-party Signal client from TeleMessage. The whole point of TeleMessage is that it captures and archives messages from third-party messaging apps, including Whats … | Continue reading
Davey Alba, Bloomberg: Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Google’s AI products, a vice-president of product at the company testified in court on Friday. That’s … | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: The Information today cited multiple sources who said that at least one new iPhone model launching in 2027 will have a truly edge-to-edge display. The device’s front camera and Face ID system would both be placed under the screen. I know the Dynamic Isla … | Continue reading
If you were listening out of context to something Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview with Dwarkesh Patel, you might think he is deeply concerned about meaningful personal friendships: There’s this stat that I always think is crazy: the average American, I think, has I thi … | Continue reading
Following yesterday’s ruling finding Apple has disregarded a U.S. court’s instructions to permit links to external purchases from within iOS apps under reasonable terms, the publisher of MacDailyNews responded with the site’s take. In case you are not already familiar, MacDailyNe … | Continue reading
In September 2021, U.S. judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a judgement in Epic Games’ case against Apple. She mostly sided with Apple but, critically, ruled third-party developers must be permitted to link to external purchasing mechanisms from within their apps. Even that bares … | Continue reading
Dell Cameron, Wired: A cache of more than two dozen police records recently reviewed by WIRED show US law enforcement agencies regularly trained on how to take advantage of “connected cars,” with subscription-based features drastically increasing the amount of data that can be ac … | Continue reading
The Globe and Mail’s editorial board: There are, of course, practical arguments in favour of the system used for federal elections. Paper ballots cannot be hacked. A hand-count allows for maximum transparency. But the best reason for a paper ballot is not practical at all. It is … | Continue reading
In March, a firm named Morpheus Research published its first report examining Solaris Energy and taking a short position against it. Last week, they published their second report alleging a massive financial scam is brewing at Backblaze. Again, they are shorting Backblaze stock. … | Continue reading
In August, I wrote about a number of small usability problems with the iPhone’s Dynamic Island and always-on display features, none of which have been resolved in software updates. Here is another. Sometimes, I will be listening to a podcast in Overcast, and need to pause it for … | Continue reading
Ben Smith, of Semafor, has a scoopy look inside the group chats of elite media and business figures, particularly those who pretend they are not. I often disagree with Smith’s framing — calling Christopher Rufo an “anti-woke conservative activist” and Richard Hanania a “conservat … | Continue reading
Paris Marx: As [Mark] Carney appears set to form government, Canadians must be on guard for the consequences of his alignment with domestic tech CEOs. They may not wield as much power as the billionaires of Silicon Valley, but that does not mean Canada will be immune from short-s … | Continue reading
Apple, earlier this month: Apple today announced that the company has surpassed a 60 percent reduction in its global greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2015 levels, as part of its Apple 2030 goal to become carbon neutral across its entire footprint in the next five years. The c … | Continue reading
Alex Heath, of the Verge, spoke with Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, earlier this week, and they had quite the conversation. Many publishers have been upset with you for scraping their content. You’ve started cutting some of them checks. Do you feel like you’re in a good pla … | Continue reading
Michael Acton, Stephen Morris, John Reed, and Kathrin Hille, Financial Times: Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to India as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump’s trade war forces the tech giant to pivot … | Continue reading
Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica: As Google points out, these products have had a long life, and they’re not being rendered totally inoperable. Come October 25, 2025, these devices will no longer receive software updates or connect to Google’s cloud services. That means you won’t be ab … | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. As an efficient, high performance, and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers, and annoyances — del … | Continue reading
Cory Doctorow: The important thing about Facebook’s carelessness is that it wasn’t the result of the many grave personality defects in Facebook’s top executives – it was the result of policy choices. Government decisions not to enforce antitrust law, to allow privacy law to withe … | Continue reading
The European Commission: Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data. Therefore … | Continue reading
Melissa Lewis on Bluesky: TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language. […] I reached out to van Rossum, and Xband Rough is indeed an “illegal clone” of FF Confidential; it’s just been … | Continue reading
Matt Birchler: A social media post flew by today where someone was complaining that they stopped paying $180 for cable and now they’re paying $200 for streaming apps. I see this sort of complaint a lot, and I find myself feeling like I’m taking crazy pills whenever I do: I had ca … | Continue reading
Martin Patriquin, the Logic: More than 25 different Facebook accounts, some with Canadian-themed names, have promoted multiple fake news articles involving political actors, including a three-minute video of a deepfake CBC report fronted by anchor Rosemary Barton, in which a deep … | Continue reading
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Financial Times: One hint that we might just be stuck in a hype cycle is the proliferation of what you might call “second-order slop” or “slopaganda”: a tidal wave of newsletters and X threads expressing awe at every press release and product announ … | Continue reading
Steve Klabnik: The underlying [verification] protocol is totally open, but you can make an argument that most users will use the main client, and therefore, in practice it’s more centralized than not. My mental model of it is the bundled list of root CAs that browsers ship; in th … | Continue reading
In a post attributed to the Bluesky Team, the company announced a familiar verification method with a twist: In 2023, we launched our first layer of verification: letting individuals and organizations set their domain as their username. Since then, over 270,000 accounts have link … | Continue reading
Todd Vaziri: I’m particularly obsessed with moments that reveal the craft and artistry of the magic trick of a shot that slightly shatters the illusion of cinema. These revealing moments have been in movies since the dawn of cinema, and are everywhere (if you know exactly where t … | 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
Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac: Apple today announced that it has officially rebranded Search Ads as ‘Apple Ads’, reflecting the expanding scope of Apple’s advertising business. When Apple first launched ads in the App Store, they were only shown as promoted search results, hence the nam … | Continue reading
Dan Goodin, Ars Technica: Following months of backlash, Microsoft later suspended Recall. On Thursday, the company said it was reintroducing Recall. It currently is available only to insiders with access to the Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 preview version. Over time, the feature w … | Continue reading
Scott Rosenberg and Sara Fischer, Axios: Google’s dominance of the online advertising and ad-tech markets violates U.S. antitrust laws, a federal court ruled Thursday, in a decision that could scramble the massive digital ad universe. […] The court drew a distinction between the … | Continue reading
Laurens Hof, the Fediverse Report: There is a technical story, of how Bluesky and the AT Protocol (ATProto) do composable moderation for specific countries. But this is not just an interesting technology, it has implications of government censorship more broadly. Not only is the … | Continue reading
Brian Krebs: A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is in danger of breaking down. The federally funded, non-profit research and development organization MITRE warned t … | Continue reading
Nicole Brockbank, CBC News: Anvi Ahuja noticed a “freaky” new text message from a number she didn’t know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she’d just had with her roommates during their eight-minut … | Continue reading