Apple and Corellium Settlement

Thomas Brewster (MacRumors): After four years of court hearings and plenty of controversy, Apple and cyber startup Corellium are settling a copyright lawsuit. Terms have not been disclosed.The suit was filed in 2019, with Apple claiming that Corelli…

Apple Expands Self Service Repair

Apple: Apple is expanding Self Service Repair, and launching a new diagnostic tool that gives users more transparency and autonomy to troubleshoot issues. Self Service Repair is now available for the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by the M2…

Google’s Confusing New Location Data Settings

Ron Amadeo: Google’s misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits in the US and worldwide. A quick count involves individual lawsuits in California, Arizona, Washington, a joint lawsuit in Texas, Indiana, a…

GM Floats a Bullshit ‘Safety’ Excuse for Dropping CarPlay

★ App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum

Looking at the rankings of Threads, Twitter/X, and others in the App Store and Play Store.

Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub

Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub

Jury Rules for Epic Games in Lawsuit Against Google

★ App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum

Looking at the rankings of Threads, Twitter/X, and others in the App Store and Play Store.

Threads Launches in the E.U., Where, Apparently, Many People Live

Threads Launches in the E.U., Where, Apparently, Many People Live

Apple Now Sells the AirPods Pro USB-C Case by Itself

Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks (via Jason Kottke): Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.Ebook projects like …

Google Reneges on Unlimited Storage and on Read-Only Preservation

Mike Masnick (Hacker News): We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox…

Proton Drive for Mac

Tim Hardwick: Swiss-based privacy startup Proton today announced the availability of its end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for Mac users with the launch of its macOS app. Proton Drive lets users sync files between Mac and the cloud, access …

iCloud Drive in Sonoma: FileProvider and Eviction

Howard Oakley: Prior to Sonoma, one of the features in iCloud Drive that hasn’t behaved as documented is Optimise Mac Storage. This has changed in Sonoma, as it now effectively switches between two different types of file provider: a replicated file…

★ Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her.

The three-day saga of an unauthorized iMessage client for Android.

Bending Spoons, the Parent Company That Now Owns — and Laid Off the Staff of — Filmic

iCloud Advanced Data Protection Uptake Amongst DF Readers

VMware Transition to Subscriptions

VMware (via Hacker News): Broadcom’s close of the VMware acquisition has brought together two engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to help build the world's leading infrastructure technology company. […] VMware has been on a journey to simpli…

Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac?

Daniel Gonzalez Reina (via Hacker News): On the one hand you have that Macs will use a HFP when the microphone is in use, and on the other you have that HFP use audio codecs which prioritizes low latency over audio quality. Therefore,☠️ Using the Bl…