Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search
Apple has deployed an interesting new App Store feature called ‘unlisted app distribution’. This means a developer can now publish … Source: Apple Developer .
A look at Google's history with tablets; Android co-founder Rich Miner's LinkedIn page says he has been working as Google's Android tablets CTO since March 2021
This wild Android tablet concept could have completely changed the way we interact with our devices. Ready to pop the red pill?
Counterpoint and IDC: smartphone shipments grew about 5% to 1.35B+ units in 2021; Samsung took the top spot with 270M+ units, followed by Apple with 235M+
Companies shipped 1.35 billion smartphones in 2021, a 5.7% increase over the previous year, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020
they were using it for something. Now they're not. Goodbye. A portent.
iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 betas add the long-delayed Universal Control, which lets users control nearby Macs and iPads with a single mouse or keyboard
Internal messages detail Spotify's lax health content policy; the company told staff multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal”
Leaked messages reveal the company has reviewed every Rogan episode and none ‘meet the threshold for removal’
Q&A with two Ubisoft executives, one of whom says NFTs are a paradigm shift in gaming and gamers “don't get what a digital secondary market can bring to them”
yet they somehow “misunderstand” NFTs Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup : Ubisoft saying you 'don't get' NFTs proves just how out of touch gaming companies can be Jason Faulkner / GameRevolution : Ubisoft ...
The UK approves extraditing Autonomy founder Mike Lynch to the US to face criminal fraud charges, hours after he lost a court battle with HP; Lynch can appeal
The U.K. government approved the extradition of Mike Lynch to the U.S. to face criminal fraud charges, hours after a London judge ruled …
Profile of Susan Headley, an influential hacker of the 1980s, who specialized in social engineering and now leads a quiet life in a large US Midwestern city
She was known, back then, as Susan Thunder. For someone in the business of deception, she stood out: she was unusually tall …
Twitter says it stopped enforcing its civic integrity policy in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election as Biden had been president for over a year
(CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday … Tweets: @ddale8 , @martinsfp , @donmoyn , @davelapandc , @joshuahol , @aurorabl...
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses a $5B UK court battle with HP over false accounting and faces the prospect of extradition to the US
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YouTuber Hank Green compares TikTok's creator fund, which pays creators less as more creators join, unfavorably to YouTube, which pays 55% of ad revenue
In 2020, TikTok established a creator fund that distributes $200 million annually to creators based in the U.S.
Bengaluru-based Vyapar, which offers accounting, invoicing, and inventory management software to SMBs, raises a $30M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Business accounting software Vyapar has raised $30 million in its Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.
iOS 15.4 beta adds Face ID use with a mask for iPhone 12 and newer, without needing Apple Watch authentication, by recognizing “unique features around the eye”
how to get it Christine Chan / iMore : Apple has released the first public beta for iPadOS 15.4 The Verge : How to install the iOS 15.4 public beta Eric Abent / SlashGear : Face ID with mask support a...
An investigation into the rise of NSO's Pegasus shows its widespread use by the CIA, UAE, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and others; the FBI bought but didn't use it
Firstly, welcome to my new blog! (Or is it a “newsletter”?) Tweets: Eva / @evacide : Here I am, having taken to my fainting couch, wearing my finest clutching pearls, because NSO Group has been caugh...
Sources: Diem Association was shuttered due to internal dispute, leaders' departure, and regulatory pushback, but a team of ~50 remains to run a pilot overseas
The social media giant's shuttering of the Diem project followed clashes over its direction and sustained opposition in Washington
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency
Qubit Finance Team @qubitfin : Protocol Exploit Report This report includes an analysis of the attack in its entirety in order to ascertain the nature of the exploit and, to prevent any similar exploi...
The FAA says it has reached a deal to let Verizon and AT&T expand their 5G cellular service near airports while allowing more aircraft to land safely
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times :
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS
Whatever you send or receive, end-to-end encryption protects your messages from being this exposed. Doroteya Borisova / PhoneArena : WhatsApp CEO hints at iPad app release Juli Clover / MacRumors : Wh...
Microsoft, the DOJ, and 35 US states led by Utah filed amicus briefs with the Ninth Circuit appeals court largely supporting Epic Games in its Apple case
you know things like iPhones, Macs, and Watches. (And some iPads too!) https://www.techmeme.com/... But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a tweet. https://twitter.com/... Michael Love / @elkmov...
An in-depth look at the ongoing patent battle over warehouse automation between Norwegian robotics company AutoStore and UK supermarket giant Ocado
In the village of Nedre Vats, on the edge of a 700m-deep fjord in the west of Norway, there is a white wooden house with a small red barn. Tweets: @johngapper , @craigjcalhoun , @mattvella , @arashmas...
Meta says it has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle as it works “through some staffing constraints”
Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle due to staffing constraints.
A US appeals court upholds California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the FCC to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Crypto-rich buyers are shifting the luxury home market, as real-estate builders jump through hoops to accept crypto and sellers advertise accepting it
People who have made fortunes investing in digital currency, or who helped build the vast crypto industry, are the new darlings of the high-end residential property market Tweets: @lmatsakis Tweets: L...
Apple reports Q1 revenue of $123.9B, up 11% YoY, net income of $34.6B, up from $28.8B YoY, Services sales of $19.5B, up from $15.8B YoY, iPhone sales of $71.6B
Microsoft mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer in Asia in November; DDoS attacks in India rose from 2% of all attacks in H1 2021 to 23% in H2
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SoftBank confirms COO Marcelo Claure, who was also SoftBank Group International's CEO, is leaving after nine years; Michel Combes will be the new CEO
Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC :
OpenSea says 80%+ of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses its decision to limit free NFT creation
AI-driven suicide chat service Crisis Text Line shares anonymized data with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai, which uses it to market its customer service software
a non-profit named Crisis Text Line that offers outreach to people worried about suicide, self-harm etc, has been harvesting conversations to use as training data for an AI customer service startup ht...
Waymo sues the California DMV to hide its safety details, such as descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret
Digital asset trading group Genesis starts accepting “blue-chip” NFTs as collateral for loans and derivatives deals
Eva Szalay / Financial Times : Tweets: @gladstein and @seamusblackley Tweets: Alex Gladstein / @gladstein : Can't imagine anything going wrong here https://twitter.com/... Seamus Blackley / @seamusbl...
The EU is crafting a Chips Act, similar in size to the US' $52B fund proposal, to attract investment for mega fabs; a proposal will be published on February 8
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg :
FTC: US consumers lost $770M to social media scams in 2021, about 25% of all fraud losses for the year and up 18x from the $42M in losses reported in 2017
Shopify denies copyright infringement claims from publishers and says court is the wrong venue to force changes in copyright laws that shield tech companies
Vipal Monga / Wall Street Journal : See also Mediagazer
France's top administrative court denies Google's appeal of a record €100M fine from a privacy watchdog for placing cookies before getting users' consent
The FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in the US, granted ~20 years ago, citing national security; Unicom can still offer data center services
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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