Trump Takes the Fifth

Disney+ Grows to 152 Million Subscribers

Serena Williams Announces Her Retirement From Tennis

Time for Apple to Fix Texting

Android (MacRumors, Hacker News): It’s not about the color of the bubbles. It’s the blurry videos, broken group chats, missing read receipts and typing indicators, no texting over Wi-Fi, and more. These problems exist because Apple refuses to adopt …

Why the macOS Ventura Share Menu Is Bad

What’s new in AppKit: The most prominent update to the sharing experience is the new sharing popover. This replaces the existing share menu with a rich interface that includes more information about the document you’re sharing and familiar features …

The Top PDF Reader in the Mac App Store

Stephen Warwick (via Kosta Eleftheriou): An investigation into seven different apps on the Mac App Store, including the number one PDF reader in the U.S., has found that all of them are orchestrated by the same Chinese developer using fake reviews a…

Twitter Breach of 5.4M Accounts

Lawrence Abrams (Hacker News): Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users’ accounts, allowing a threat actor to compile a list of 5.4 million …

Fox News on Hillary, but Make the Footage Trump

Google Keeps Beating the RCS Dead Horse

Facebook Messenger Is Not End-to-End Encrypted by Default

‘Countdown With Keith Olbermann’

WhatsApp Extends Period to Unsend Messages to Two Days

Facebook’s AI Chatbot Has Election-Denying, Antisemitic Bugs to Work Out

Implementing Parts of the Swift Compiler in Swift

Douglas Gregor: Here’s a proposed build process for the Swift compiler with Swift code in it: Build C++ bits with the host C++ compiler Build mandatory Swift bits with the host Swift compiler Link a “minimal stage 1" Swift compiler Build optional Sw…

Which iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features Do You Actually Use?

Adam Engst: The most notable finding is that most of them don’t use most of the features listed. Only four features—Live Text, Shortcuts, Hide My Email, and Memories in Photos—received more votes saying they were Occasionally or Frequently used than…

South Korea Investigates App Store

Hartley Charlton: In a statement (via Reuters), the Korea Communications Commissions (KCC) said that it conducted an inspection of Apple, Google, and One Store since May 17 to determine if they have violated in-app payment laws, and concluded that a…

Labeling Apple Shipments From Taiwan

Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li: Apple told suppliers on Friday that China has started strictly enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as being made either in “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei,” sources…

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MyMac Podcast 902: Who’s NeXT?

While Tim Cook (Mr. Excitement) has been the CEO of Apple for over 10 years, he’s now getting closer to mid-60s and is probably

Weathergraph 1.0.110

Tomas Kafka: Be the first to try the hourly forecast from a beta version of Apple’s own new weather service. Hit the Preferences button and switch the forecast source. Nowcast isn’t available yet, so it will be provided by the good & trusty Foreca.A…