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MacOS Catalina’s Hidden Additional Typeface Families
Ralf Herrmann (via Michael Tsai): Apple has recently licensed fonts from type foundries such as Commercial Type, Klim Type Foundry and Mark Simonso...Ralf Herrmann (via Michael Tsai): Apple has recently licensed fonts from...
Three-Judge Panel Dismisses Nonsense Lawsuit Alleging Infringement of First Amendment Rights by Tech Companies
Erik Larson, Bloomberg: A federal appeals court rejected claims that tech giants Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc...Erik Larson, Bloomberg: A federal appeals court rejected claims that tec...
WWDC 2020 Wish Lists
Becky Hansmeyer included a bunch of SwiftUI wishes, but I picked a couple of things from the “Everything Else” section that I am also hoping to see...Becky Hansmeyer included a bunch of SwiftUI wishes, but I picked a coupl...
Local U.S. News Stations Aired an Amazon-Produced Promotional Video, Most Without Acknowledging Its Source
Zach Rael of KOCO 5: Just got an email from Amazon’s PR team with a pre-edited news story and script to run in our shows...Zach Rael of KOCO 5: Just got an email from Amazon’s PR team with a pre-...
- #OSX
Amnesty’s Security Lab Finds Qatari Mandatory Contact Tracing App Exposed Sensitive Data Such Like Name and Location
Amnesty, in an un-bylined report: The investigation by Amnesty Security Lab found Qatar’s EHTERAZ app requested a QR code from the central server b...Amnesty, in an un-bylined report: The investigation by Amnesty Security ...
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Tenet, the Movie, and Tenet, the Bicycle Company
Sarah Moore, Pinkbike: Tenet Components’ Tyler Deschaine is worried that people unfamiliar with the Bellingham, Washington based brand will think h...Sarah Moore, Pinkbike: Tenet Components’ Tyler Deschaine is worried that...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Announces Canada Will Adopt Apple–Google Exposure Notification API
Gary Ng, iPhone in Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today revealed during his daily COVID-19 press conference the Canadian government is worki...Gary Ng, iPhone in Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today revealed ...
The Early Build of iOS 14 That’s Floating Around Was Likely Extracted From a Stolen Development iPhone
Remember when, a few months ago, MacRumors and 9to5Mac independently dropped a whole bunch of iOS 14 details without disclosing a source beyond “le...Remember when, a few months ago, MacRumors and 9to5Mac independently dro...
Sandwich Made a New Ad for Slack, Using Slack
Don’t miss the behind-the-scenes video with the Sandwich team explaining how they made all this happen without being able to leave their houses...Don’t miss the behind-the-scenes video with the Sandwich team explaining...
Siri Turns Nine This Year
Nilay Patel asked his Apple Watch what time it was in London, and it responded with the current time in London, Ontario...Nilay Patel asked his Apple Watch what time it was in London, and it res...
North Dakota’s Contact Tracing App Shares Location Data With Foursquare and Google
Steven Melendez, Fast Company: The app, called Care19, and produced by a company called ProudCrowd that also makes a location-based social networki...Steven Melendez, Fast Company: The app, called Care19, and produced by a...
Twitter Is Testing Settings That Allow Users to Limit Who Can Reply to Individual Tweets
Alison DeNisco Rayome and Queenie Wong, CNet: Twitter is testing new settings that let you choose who can reply to your tweet and join in on your c...Alison DeNisco Rayome and Queenie Wong, CNet: Twitter is testing new set...
- #iOS
Spotify Pays Good Money to Stop Seeing Joe Rogan’s Face Everywhere
For several years now, visiting the YouTube homepage or opening the directory in just about any podcast client was an exercise in Spot Joe Rogan’s ...For several years now, visiting the YouTube homepage or opening the dire...
Apple’s Statement Regarding the FBI’s Successful Unlocking of the Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone
From Apple’s statement, as posted by Chris Welch of the Verge: On this and many thousands of other cases, we continue to work around-the-clock with...From Apple’s statement, as posted by Chris Welch of the Verge: On this a...
U.S. Department of Justice Once Again Able to Extract iPhone Data Without Compromising Security of All Users
Earlier this year, the U.S...Earlier this year, the U.S...
On Doing More Harm Than Good
Reed Albergotti and Drew Harwell, Washington Post: Apple and Google’s announcement last month of a joint effort to track the coronavirus by smartph...Reed Albergotti and Drew Harwell, Washington Post: Apple and Google’s an...
- #iOS
Security Theatre in Safari Download Permissions
You know how Safari now requires you to confirm that you want to allow file downloads per domain? It’s not just irritating; it is also sometimes me...You know how Safari now requires you to confirm that you want to allow f...
With Acquisition of Giphy, Facebook Buys Tracking in Unexpected Places
Dan Primack, Kia Kokalitcheva, and Sara Fischer, Axios: Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios h...Dan Primack, Kia Kokalitcheva, and Sara Fischer, Axios: Facebook has agr...
VR in Our Virus-Altered Reality
Ina Fried, Axios: Virtual reality can bring faraway people together and take us places we can’t physically go...Ina Fried, Axios: Virtual reality can bring faraway people together and ...
The Problem of Third-Party SDK Creep
Brian Barrett, Wired: According to widespread reports and the web monitoring service Down Detector, prominent iOS apps like TikTok, Spotify, Pinter...Brian Barrett, Wired: According to widespread reports and the web monito...
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Eight Years in, Messages on MacOS Still Sucks at Search
Manuel Grabowski (via Michael Tsai): iMessage is eight years old...Manuel Grabowski (via Michael Tsai): iMessage is eight years old...
RSS Readers and App Store Requirements
Jesper, who you may remember from Waffle but is now writing at Take, has some thoughts on the bizarre new App Store requirements for default feeds ...Jesper, who you may remember from Waffle but is now writing at Take, has...
The Streaming Model for Music Doesn’t Work for Artists When They Do Not Earn Live Performance Income
Mark Mulligan is a music industry analyst: Streaming has been the change agent that turned around 15 years of decline...Mark Mulligan is a music industry analyst: Streaming has been the change...
The Ideal First-Run Experience for an iPhone App Is None at All
Brent Simmons: Isn’t there some quote, maybe even from Steve Jobs, about apps early in the day of the App Store, that went something like this? “iP...Brent Simmons: Isn’t there some quote, maybe even from Steve Jobs, about...
The Ethics and Questionable Efficacy of Contact Tracing Apps
Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal: Sign me up! But, well… lots of buts...Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal: Sign me up! But, well… lots of buts...
Reading Between the Lines of Apple’s Latest Releases
Dan Moren, Macworld: Apple chooses its public actions very carefully, so often trying to suss out what it’s up to is a matter of reading between th...Dan Moren, Macworld: Apple chooses its public actions very carefully, so...
Federico Viticci Interviews Craig Federighi About iPadOS Improvements
I am notoriously terrible, amongst friends and family, at serialized media...I am notoriously terrible, amongst friends and family, at serialized med...
Dithering
Dithering is a new podcast of thrice-weekly fifteen minute episodes from John Gruber and Ben Thompson...Dithering is a new podcast of thrice-weekly fifteen minute episodes from...
FT: NHS Exploring Shift to Native Exposure Notification API Built by Apple and Google
Tim Bradshaw, Sarah Neville, and Helen Warrell, Financial Times: Contract documents obtained by Tussell, a data provider on UK government contracts...Tim Bradshaw, Sarah Neville, and Helen Warrell, Financial Times: Contrac...
Desktop Pictures Taken by Steve Jobs
One of the few Apple keynote moments that has forever been lodged into my brain is the introduction of Mac OS X Leopard’s visual interface refresh ...One of the few Apple keynote moments that has forever been lodged into m...
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- #Steve Jobs
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