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Reuters: Meta Is Planning to Wreck the Lives of 20% of Its Staff Because It Is Spending So Much on Data Centres

BuzzFeed’s A.I. Pivot Might End in Bankruptcy

Digg Reboot Needs to ‘Reset’, Lays Off a ‘Significant’ Amount of Staff

Meta Says It Is Removing End-to-End Encryption From Instagram Direct Messages

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Social Media’s Walled Gardens

Sucker

“This Is Not the Computer for You”

TechCrunch: L3Harris, a U.S. Military Contractor, Likely Built ‘Coruna’ iPhone Hacking Toolkit

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its A.I. ‘Expert Review’ Feature

MacBook Neo Teardown Reveals a Highly Repairable Laptop

Online Age Verification Tools for Child Safety Are Surveilling Adults

Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ Feature Presents Fake Advice in the Names of Real Journalists and Authors

Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability

Another Appearance Control Is Coming to Accessibility Settings in iOS 26.4

Minister for Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Announces ‘Guardrails’ for TikTok Canada Operations

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Mixing News Coverage and ‘Prediction Markets’ Is a Dangerous Gamble

The Central Lie of Prediction Markets

Google and Epic Games Announce Settlement

Apple’s New Studio Displays, Plural

Tim Sweeney Is Contractually Prohibited from Criticizing Google’s Developer Terms for Years

A Toolkit for Hacking iPhones, Possibly Created for the U.S. Government, Has Leaked

U.S. Immigration Police Bought Real-Time Ad Bidding Data for Automated Tracking System

Annotators in Kenya Describe How They Review Sensitive Data Captured by Meta’s Ray-Bans

⌥ The Window Chrome of Our Discontent

Software Quality Postscript and Clarification

The Perfect Music App

The Political Effects of Twitter’s Feed Algorithm

It Sure Looks to Me Like Meta Is Winding Down Its V.R. Efforts

Personal (Computer) Assistants

⌥ On Software Quality

How Tech Giants Track You Across the Web

Tumbler Ridge

Wikipedia Deprecates Archive.today After Its Owner Seemingly Launched a Targeted DDoS Campaign and Altered Archived Pages

Magic Lasso Adblock, Now for tvOS

Skyscraper Is a Bluesky Client for iOS, and Some Other Things

Current Is an RSS Reader With a Twist

Flickr’s URL Scheme

Video in Apple Podcasts

An Ars Technica Reporter Fabricated Quotes Covering a Bizarre A.I. Story

Apple Updates Its Own iOS Version Figures

‘CEO Said a Thing’ Journalism Props Up the Myth of Elon Musk

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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Signs New Clearview A.I. Deal

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 Fixes a Few Bugs With ‘Reduce Transparency’

Fears About TikTok U.S. Are Only as Grounded as Fears About Other Products Supported by Behaviour Ads

Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald’s Mural

Information Superhighway, Now With One Liquid Glass Button

TikTok’s Design Breaches Digital Services Act, According to Preliminary European Commission Findings

Ads in Artificial Intelligence

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Substack Is Still Happy to Host and Recommend Nazi Publications

MKBHD Behind the Scenes for a Year

Engagements on Canada’s Next A.I. Strategy

How Bad Faith Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA

Scam Ads on Apple News

The CIA Killed the World Factbook

Leaks and Leakers

Using an iPod in 2026

What’s Up With All Those Equals Signs Anyway?

News Sites Are Bringing Comments Sections Back as a Paid Feature

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise

Elon Musk Gives Himself the Biggest Handshake

Call Screening Is the Best Reason to Update to iOS 26

Amazon, Google, Meta, and SpaceX Want to Be Africa’s Internet Providers

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How Do You Comparison Shop in the App Store?

Alberta Separatists Are Desperate to Attract U.S. Interference, Money

Publishers Are Restricting Internet Archive, Access Attempting to Avoid A.I. Scraping

Secrets of a Scam Compound

Aeronaut Is a Great Bluesky Client for MacOS

‘Phantom Obligation’

A Slot Machine in Every Pocket

NetNewsWire Updated With Liquid Glass Support

Apple ‘Honours’ Martin Luther King While Working Against His Legacy

Tim Cook Attends Screening of Propaganda for Authoritarian’s Wife

FTC Appeals Ruling in Meta Monopolization Case

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Unsung

Backseat Software

TikTok U.S. Prompts Users to Allow More Permissive Tracking, Advertising

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Two Major Studies of 125,000 Children Indicate the Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up

Court Rules TikTok Can Continue to Operate Offices in Canada

New Version of Siri May Run on Google Servers

User Agency and Updates

Two Small iOS 26 Usage Share Updates

A Lament for Aperture, the App We’ll Never Get Over Losing

‘Your Search Button Powers My Smart Home’

A Canadian’s Call to Arms

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‘Every Data Centre Is a U.S. Military Base’

Apple to Use Gemini to Provide Foundation for Some Apple Intelligence Features

⌥ The Exact Same Things Were Said About Smart Glasses Ten Years Ago

Adequate Red Teaming of A.I. Models Requires Better Policy

⌥ Updating the Record on iOS 26 Usage Share

Wishing for a More Flexible Apple Display Strategy

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards

MacRumors Stats Echo Slow iOS 26 Uptake

Possible Inaccuracies in StatCounter’s Safari-Based Version Number Reporting

The Telegram Group Jailbreaking Grok

iOS 26 Adoption Reportedly Lagging iOS 18 in Same Timeframe, According to StatCounter

Duolingo Displayed Ads in Live Activities, Dynamic Island

CSAM Generator xAI, Run by Elon Musk, Raises $20 Billion

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

A Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an A.I. Scam

MacOS Tahoe Menu Icons Are Inconsistent, Confusing, and Illegible

Google Adds Generative Features to T.V. Sets, For Some Reason

⌥ What Is Happening in A.I. Advertising?

⌥ CakeGPT

Hidden Dangers of Age Verification

Liquid Glass Whiteout Conditions

Blacksky Algorithms Announces One-Click PDS Deployment Coming Soon

Meta Effectively Cancels Horizon O.S. Third-Party Headsets

‘Fetch’ Is Not Happening on Android

I Guess ‘Fetch’ Is Happening

Google Sues SerpApi

TikTok’s Future in Canada Looks Red, White, and Blue

TikTok’s Lawless Days to End in January as U.S. Business Will Be Spun Off

MSC Cruises Bans Smart Glasses in Public Areas to Curb Covert Recording

Four Winners and Losers of Apple’s 2025

From 2022, on Google’s Account Locking Practices

In the Non-Clickbaitiest Way, I Ask: Can Redeeming an Apple Gift Card Put Your Account at Risk?

Screen Sizes Is a Great Apple Device Reference

Reuters: Meta Tolerates Rampant Ad Fraud From China to Safeguard Billions in Revenue

Locked Out of an Apple Account

Boom Says Its Hypothetical Jet Engine Can Provide ‘Clean’ Electricity

Apple Releases 26.2 Operating System Updates

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Me, on ‘People and Blogs’

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