Sara Fischer, reporting this week for Axios:
Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with Apple to power native
advertising within the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps,
Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda told Axios. The deal
provides new validation for Taboola’s busin...
Sumit Chandel and Eldhose Mathokkil Babu, writing for the Google Developers blog:
In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google
URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes
we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the
...
Ina Fried, reporting for Axios:
“We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months,
but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European
regulatory environment,” Meta said in a statement to Axios.
Apple similarly said last month that it won’t ...
Tom Warren, The Verge:
Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of
Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV
broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A
faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike ...
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Here’s a hot take: last week’s news of a massive AT&T breach revealing the phone call and text messaging records of all AT&T customers for six months in 2022 exemplifies why RCS is a terrible protocol that ought not exist, and why it’s a mistake that Apple is adding ...
Pete Wells:
The first thing you learn as a restaurant critic is that nobody
wants to hear you complain. The work of going out to eat every
night with hand-chosen groups of friends and family sounds
suspiciously like what other people do on vacation. If you happen
to work...
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Apple Newsroom:
Today, Apple introduced HomePod mini in midnight, made with 100
percent recycled mesh fabric. At just 3.3 inches tall, HomePod
mini offers big sound in an impressively compact design. With a
seamless, acoustically transparent mesh exterior and a backlit
t...
Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple this weekend approved free PC emulator “UTM SE” for the App
Store on iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. The app allows users to
emulate old versions of Windows OS, macOS, Linux, and more to fire
up classic software and games on App...
My thanks to Dabba for sponsoring last week at DF. (You may recall them sponsoring previously.) Dabba is a low-cost broadband internet service provider in India owned and powered by engineers and startup founders from around the world. Relative to its population, India lags ...
Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo:
Political violence and especially electoral violence strike at the
heart of the open, free and democratic choice-making upon which
our civic democratic system and the legitimacy of its choices are
based. We must condemn it i...
Brian Krebs:
In a written statement shared with KrebsOnSecurity, the FBI
confirmed that it asked AT&T to delay notifying affected
customers.
“Shortly after identifying a potential breach to customer data and
before making its materiality decision, AT&T contacted...
Luca Casonato:
So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to
system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives
access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging
backchannel.
This API is not exposed to other sites - only to...
Matt Egan and Sean Lyngaas, reporting for CNN:
The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of
millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers
were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company
revealed Friday. AT&T...
I’ve seen a few people arguing that Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra, though clearly inspired by Apple Watch Ultra, isn’t a rip-off, per se, because it’s not an exact clone. Ben Thompson even tried to argue such with me on Dithering this week.
Here, for example, is a literal cl...
I guess the European Commission hasn’t taken off for their months-long summer vacation quite yet:
[T]he Commission has issued preliminary findings of non-compliance
on three grievances:
First, X designs and operates its interface for the “verified
accounts” with the...
Camilla Hodgson and George Hammond, reporting for The Financial Times:
Microsoft has given up its seat as an observer on the board of
OpenAI while Apple will not take up a similar position, amid
growing scrutiny by global regulators of Big Tech’s investments in
AI start-...
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
Walmart+ members have early access to the deal as of 12 p.m.
Eastern Time today, and it will be available to all Walmart
customers starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Time today.
Walmart first began selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip for
$699 in M...
I’ve been a big fan of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro since his term as our attorney general. He was absolutely fantastic in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump attempted to steal Pennsylvania.
But as of this week he might be my favorite politician in the entire country. He accomplished what I had long ago given up hope of ever seeing: replacing PA’s fugly-as-sin license plates with a new design that’s among the best I’ve ever seen. Good typography, great colors, and a new slogan and icon that exemplify Pennsylvania’s role as the birthplace of the longest-standing democracy the world has ever seen: the Liberty Bell.
Quinn Nelson on X:
Watch Ultra is the most shameless copy of an Apple product in
ages — and it’s hideous
Wait, it gets more shameless — Buds3 and Buds3 Pro are clones
of AirPods
It’s sad to see Samsung — who once was a leader in design and
innovation — start knocking ...
Nelson Aguilar and Blake Stimac, writing for CNet:
That’s right. There’s a hidden flight tracker built right into
iMessage that you probably would have never noticed unless you
threw in the right combination of details within a message. [...]
Although the airline name/f...
Dave Grochocki, writing for Microsoft’s Windows Insider Blog:
With this update, Notepad will now highlight misspelled words and
provide suggestions so that you can easily identify and correct
mistakes. We are also introducing autocorrect which seamlessly
fixes common typ...
Kieran Kelly, reporting for LBC:
New cars that are sold in Europe from this week will host
automatically-installed speed limiters, following the introduction
of a new EU law.
Even though the rule to install the technology does not apply in
the UK, many of the cars will ...
Imagine you could go back in time when Alex Bell started his phone company. Imagine for a moment that you could have owned a piece of his network. Well, you can’t. Until someone invents a time machine. Which they haven’t. What you can do however is own a piece of the next telecom juggernaut. Dabba is a low cost broadband internet service provider in India owned and powered by FAANG engineers and startup founders from around the world. Check it out, it’s the time machine you wish you had.
Mark Gurman, in his Power On column for Bloomberg:
For the first time, the digital assistant will have precise
control over actions inside of Apple’s apps. That means you can
ask Siri to, say, edit a photo and then ship it off to a friend.
It also will have the ability t...
My thanks to BriefLook for sponsoring last week at DF. BriefLook is a clever iPhone app that does one thing and does it well: it summarizes your postal (paper) mail. Just point your iPhone camera at a letter, and boom, a few moments later you get an AI-generated summary. Who it’s from, what it’s about, and what you’re expected to do about it. That’s useful for summarizing long letters in your own native language, but BriefLook can read and translate between dozens of languages. Truly an amazing use case for AI. Not too long ago a “universal mail translator / summarizer” was the stuff of science fiction. Now you can carry one in your pocket.
Download BriefLook and try it free of charge. Super useful, yet so utterly simple.
Epic Games, on X two days ago:
Apple has rejected our Epic Games Store notarization submission
twice now, claiming the design and position of Epic’s “Install”
button is too similar to Apple’s “Get” button and that our “In-app
purchases” label is too similar to the App St...
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg last week:
Apple Inc. will get an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of
a landmark agreement announced last month, further tightening ties
between the once-unlikely partners. Phil Schiller, the head of
Apple’s App Store and its f...
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