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Instagram and Facebook Users in Europe to Get Option of Sharing Less Data

Let’s Encrypt Turns Ten

⌥ Fault and Responsibility

Generative Clickbait, Brought to You by Google and Meta

Icons in Menus

How a User Interface Degrades Over Time

Toronto Reduced Pedestrian Deaths With Normal, Boring Strategies

Edmonton Police Preempt Privacy Commissioner in Facial Recognition Bodycam Deployment

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The European Commission Should Not Be Advertising on X in the First Place

Meta Plans Deep Cuts to Metaverse Efforts

Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams Out at Apple, Jennifer Newstead to Join

Waymo Data Indicates Dramatic Safety Improvements Over Human Drivers, So It Is Making Its Cars More Human

Video of Alan Dye’s Exit

Alan Dye Out at Apple

Microsoft Lowers A.I. Software Growth Targets

‘Mad Men’ on HBO Max, in 4K, Somehow Lacking VFX

John Giannandrea Out at Apple

⌥ A Questionable A.I. Plateau

An App Named Alan

Threads Continues to Reward Rage Bait

⌥ Moraine Luck

OpenAI’s House Counsel to Be Deposed Over Deleted Pirated Material

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s A.I. Era

Web Development Tip: Disable Pointer Events on Link Images

‘The iPad’s Software Problem Is Permanent’

Polarization in the United States Has Become the World’s Side Hustle

Meta’s Accounting of Its Louisiana Data Centre ‘Strains Credibility’

A.I. Mania Looks and Feels Bigger Than the .Com Bubble

We Need to Stop Talking About the Erosion of Privacy as Though It Is Inevitable

European Commission Proposes Sweeping Changes to A.I. And Privacy Policies

A.I. Competition Might Not Disrupt Google

To Be Clear, Instagram Was Acquired to Eliminate a Competitor, and That Was Fine With the FTC

Sketch ‘Copenhagen’ Update Adds Custom Liquid Glass Implementation

Meta Prevails in U.S. Antitrust Case

Alberta Government Invokes Notwithstanding Clause to Override Legal Challenges to Anti-Trans Legislation

Testing Microsoft’s Copilot Ads

The Mac Pro Is, Quite Obviously, ‘On the Back Burner’, According to Mark Gurman

⌥ Hit by a Truck

Financial Times: ‘Apple Intensifies Succession Planning for CEO Tim Cook’

Needy Software

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Apple Data Detectors Reroute Parcel Tracking Through an Apple Web Service

In 2002, Last.fm Was the Cutting Edge of the Social Web

The Consumer Welfare Standard and E-Book Pricing

Apple-Funded Study Finds DMA-Motivated Changes Save Developers Over €20 Million in Commission Fees in Three Months

Google Introduces Private A.I. Compute

The Slow Fight for Control Over In-Car Technology

Meta to Discontinue Like and Comment Buttons on Third-Party Websites

Google Chrome Feature Makes A.I. Cheating Easier, Teachers Say

Canada Has Lost Its Measles Elimination Status

Five Years of Apple Silicon Macs

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Meta Is Earning a Fortune on a Deluge of Fraudulent Ads

Lawsuits Allege OpenAI Encouraged Suicide and Harmful Delusions

Michael Tsai Asks a Good Question About Live Translation in the E.U.: What ‘Additional Engineering’?

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Archive.today

German State Completes Migration Away From Microsoft Exchange and Outlook

MIT Sloan Quietly Shelves A.I. Ransomware Study

The CAPTCHA Is Changing and, for Many, Increasingly Invisible

Apple Says AirPods Live Translation Is Coming to the E.U. Next Month

A Profile of Common Crawl

Apple Recreated the App Store on the Web with No Way to Download or Buy Apps

The Information Is Reticent to Break Uncomfortable News

U.S. Tech Companies Ramp Up Lobbying Efforts Against E.U. Regulations

International Criminal Court to Switch From Microsoft Office to openDesk

⌥ How Long Will My MacBook Pro Last?

Liquid Glass HDR

iOS Keyboard Bugs

Conservapedia Still Exists

A Profile of Setlist.fm

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Lies About A.I. Leading to Shorter Work Weeks

Colorado Police Officer Caught on Doorbell Camera Talking About Surveillance Powers

Apple’s Tedious and Expensive Procedure for Replacing the Battery in the New MacBook Pro

Reddit Sues Perplexity and Three Data Scraping Companies Because They Crawled Google

Apple Threatens to Withdraw App Tracking Transparency in Europe

The Verge Delivers a Bad Article About Ring

App Store Restrictions Face Scrutiny in China, U.K.

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas

Federico Viticci’s M5 iPad Pro Review

Long Lines for Election Day in Alberta

The Blurry Future of Sora

I Bet Normal Users Will Figure Out Which Power Adapter to Buy

Latest Beta of Apple’s Operating Systems Adds Another Translucency Control

NSO Group Banned From Using or Supplying WhatsApp Exploits

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The New MacBook Pro Is €35 Less Expensive in E.U. Countries, Ships Without a Charger

OpenAI and Nvidia Are at the Centre of a Trillion-Dollar Circular Investment Economy

The New ‘Foreign Influence’ Scare

More on Liquid Glass

Meta Takes a Principled Stance Against Having Principles

D’Angelo Dies Aged 51

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Apple Has Discontinued the Clips App You Probably Forgot About

Canadian Liberals Introduce Second, Less-Controversial Border Bill, but Still Want to Pass the First One With Creepiness Intact

‘How Did Somebody Make This?’

‘Give Me a Single Reason Why Sora 2 Should Exist’

Apple Is Helping the U.S. Government Chill Speech on ICE

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the E.U.

U.S. State Department Wants to Use Tech Companies as Leverage Over European Policy

The Antennagate Code Patch

Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book

The Future of the Sneaker Business First Requires a Future

Microsoft Uses a Thousand Words to Justify Some New Office Icons

How Writing Leads to Thinking

Bending to U.S. Government Pressure, Apple, Google Remove ICE Reporting Apps

Liquid Glass; Why Now?

Lawyers Caught Using A.I. Explain Why They Did It

U.K Demands Access to British Citizens’ End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Data

⌥ On Liquid Glass

That Secret Service SIM Farm Story Is Bogus

Google Provides Feedback on the Digital Markets Act

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Settles With Amazon Just Two Days Into Trial

Privacy Commissioner of Canada Releases Findings of Investigation Into TikTok

Apple Attempts to Rally Users Against E.U. Digital Markets Act

Australian Opposition Parties Encourage Migration to Forthcoming U.S. Version of TikTok

Patreon Will Automatically Enable Audience Irritation Features Next Week

Setting Up a New Apple TV Is Still Not Good

U.S. Secret Service Busts Giant SIM Farm in New York

‘How A.I. Helped Locate a Viral Video’s True Origin’ Was by Ignoring A.I.

Amazon to End Inventory Commingling

Meta’s Steak Sauce Demo Should Have Been Dumber

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues Live Nation and Ticketmaster

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Meta’s Whiffed Its Live Demos at Connect