Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Italy’s Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a €98.6 million ($116 million) fine on Apple over its App Tracking Transparency feature. […] In a press release and executive summary today, the AGCM said the App Tracking…
Lees meerJohn Daniel (via John Siracusa, Reddit): As of 26.1, when you encode a security-scoped bookmark to “file:///”, what you decode will be a bookmark to “file:///.nofollow/”. So the decode method now succeeds, but the value is wrong. I actually preferre…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): This morning I reluctantly updated my iPhone SE (3rd generation) from iOS 18.7.2 to iOS 26.2. I had been hoping for Santa Cook to bring me iOS 18.7.3 for Christmas. Apparently, though, we’ve all been naughty. Or maybe Cook h…
Lees meerChiara Castro (Hacker News, Reddit): Proton has confirmed the company has begun moving out of Switzerland due to “legal uncertainty” over the newly proposed surveillance law. […] The firm behind one of the best VPN and encrypted email services has b…
Lees meerIt’s the practical results of legislation and regulation that matter, not the intentions. The Japanese government seemingly gets that, and acts accordingly.
Lees meerIt’s the practical results of legislation and regulation that matter, not the intentions. The Japanese government seemingly gets that, and acts accordingly.
Lees meerIt’s the practical results of legislation and regulation that matter, not the intentions. The Japanese government seemingly gets that, and acts accordingly.
Lees meerHere it is, the last episode of the In the News podcast for 2025. We start by talking about iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, which include quite a few new features and some important security fixes. We also pay special attention to the Slide Over feature o…
Lees meerI despise this design pattern, because it’s inherently slower than signing in using an email/password combination that was saved to my passwords app (which is Apple Passwords) and autofilled by my web browser. It’s not just a little slower but *a lo…
Lees meerI despise this design pattern, because it’s inherently slower than signing in using an email/password combination that was saved to my passwords app (which is Apple Passwords) and autofilled by my web browser. It’s not just a little slower but *a lo…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Mac users with the Studio Display have been complaining about intermittent flickering since the update launched in September. There are also complaints from users who have other kinds of displays, so it might be a bug that is affecting …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: There are many sites — and the trend seems to be accelerating — that do not use passwords (or passkeys) for signing in. Instead, they only support signing in via expiring “magic links” sent by email (or, sometimes, via text messages). T…
Lees meerPeter Maurer: The volume indicator, on the other hand, is most important to me when there’s currently no sound playing, e.g., because I want to confirm my system is muted (or at least not in “yell loud enough to wake everyone in the house” mode) bef…
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