Matthew Green:
If you install WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger,
Signal, Snap or even Telegram(please
don’t!) you’ll encounter a simple feature that addresses
this problem. It’s usually called “disappearing messages”,
but sometimes goes by other names.
I’m almost embarrassed...
Meghan Bobrowsky and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:
Meta apologized Wednesday night for what it said was an “error”
that led to graphic and violent videos flooding the feeds of a
vast number of Instagram users, including minors. The videos,
which we...
Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft:
In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings
so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring
Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern
c...
Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
Meta has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential
information outside the company,” according to a spokesperson.
“We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer
periodic reminders, that it is against our poli...
Founder Nirav Patel, writing this week on Framework’s company blog:
We went live this morning at the Framework (2nd Gen) Event with
our biggest set of announcements yet: Framework Desktop,
Framework Laptop 12, and the new Ryzen AI 300 Series
Framework Laptop 13. You can ...
Ben Domenech interviewed President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office, after Trump’s meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Spectator has published the entire transcript, and I read it so you don’t have to, to get the part about Apple and the UK’s encryption backdo...
Hamilton Nolan, in a 2021 piece for The Columbia Journalism Review, under the headline “Bezos Has Been Hands-Off. What if That Changes?”:
Bezos has given the paper the resources to be bigger and better,
and, by most accounts, pretty much stayed out of the newsroom’s
hair...
Jeff Bezos, in a memo he shared publicly on X:
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our
opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two
pillars: personal li...
Loved this remembrance by Manohla Dargis in The New York Times:
When Clint Eastwood needed a performer who could persuasively go
boot-toe to boot-toe with him in his brutal 1992 western
Unforgiven, he needed an actor who was his towering equal
onscreen. Eastwood needed a...
I’ve spent the last six days using the iPhone 16e, and the experience has been a throwback. In many ways, the iPhone 16e both looks and feels like the modern-day progeny of the early Steve Jobs era iPhones. Early iPhones like the plastic 3G and 3GS, and the glass-back/metal-...
Joseph Menn, reporting for The Washington Post:
The U.S. Justice Department told Congress in November there were
no major disputes with the United Kingdom over how the two allies
seek data from each other’s communication companies.
But at that time, officials knew Briti...
Zac Hall, reporting for 9to5Mac:
According to a letter seen by 9to5Mac, the Trump Administration
is investigating whether the UK may have broken a bilateral
agreement when secretly demanding that Apple build a global
backdoor into iCloud.
Trump’s Director of National In...
I referenced Downie twice earlier today — once in my item linking to Charlie Monroe (developer of Downie) writing about the indie app business, and earlier in my post about using Downie to download the MP3 from Jony Ive’s interview on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs.
I someho...
Charlie Monroe, developer of excellent apps such as Downie and Permute:
But also don’t do this alone. I work 365 days a year. Last year, I
worked 366 days (2024 was leap year). I’m not saying that I work 8
hours each day, but even during weekends, holidays, vacation, I
n...
Alex Heath, writing for The Verge:
Just a few weeks after everyone freaked out about
DeepSeek, Elon Musk’s Grok-3 has again shaken up the fast-moving
AI race. The new model is ending the week at the top of
the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, while the Grok iOS app
is at the t...
Chris Welch, writing at The Verge:
Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone’s
dictation feature that briefly displays “Trump” when someone
says the word “racist.” The Verge has been unable to reproduce
the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a...
Desert Island Discs is a remarkably long-running BBC Radio interview program now hosted (or presented, if you will) by Lauren Laverne. The gimmick is that guests are asked to name eight songs, a book, and a “luxury item” they’d take with them if stranded on a desert island, ...
Michael Liedtke, reporting for the AP:
Apple shareholders rebuffed an attempt to pressure the technology
trendsetter into joining President Donald Trump’s push to scrub
corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce.
The proposal drafted by the National Center f...
The advantage to having me on Rene’s show, rather than vice versa, is that he’ll push us through talking about a new iPhone model in 30 minutes. If I were hosting it’d be two hours. But the first hour would be about the whole James Bond film rights thing.
Special guest: Paul Kafasis. Special topics: Siri/Super Bowl nonsense, “Gulf of Mexico/America” nonsense, the iPhone 16e gets announced, and a veritable Bond villain buys the rights to the James Bond movie franchise.
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Mike Allen, writing for Axios, under the headline “Trump Manufacturing Win: Apple to Spend $500 Billion in U.S., Hire 20,000”:
Trump met with Cook on Thursday in the Oval Office. Then Trump got
so excited that he revealed the plans prematurely, saying
on-camera while mee...
Apple Newsroom:
Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with
plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over
the next four years.
The context of making a big deal over this announcement, of course, is that Apple is seeking exemptions ...
Paul Kunert, reporting for The Register last week:
HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use
online and other digital support channels by setting a minimum
15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get
answers to troublesome que...
Absolutely beautiful new camera from Sigma. Full-size sensor, interchangeable lens system, but it’s the camera design that jumps out:
The Sigma BF represents a new, more intuitive way to use a camera.
It is streamlined to make the act of photography as effortless as
poss...
I’ve been meaning, since it came out in December, to link to this video from Linus Sebastian of “Linus Tech Tips” fame, and with the iPhone 16e dropping this week, now seems like a good time. It’s a common genre that dates back decades before YouTube was even a thing: longti...
Katy Steinmetz, writing for The Washington Post (via Mignon Fogarty):
But lately, one meaning has become trendier than the rest. Close
ties to artificial intelligence have led to a surge in “deep”
being used for AI-related endeavors, to the point that the word is
fast be...
File this one under “precise words matter”. Remember the whole thing a few weeks back, where AltStore PAL — an EU alternative app marketplace for iOS — published Hot Tub, a hardcore porno app, and billed it as “approved” by Apple because that’s the word Apple used for apps t...
Jim Rea:
Forty years ago today the doors opened for the very first
Macworld Expo in the Brooks Hall basement in San Francisco.
For most of you this event probably seems like ancient history,
somewhere back in the mists of time. But for me this was a very
real and excitin...
Apple, in a very precisely worded statement issued to the media (including me) this morning:
Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the
United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually
need to disable this security feature. ADP protec...
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