Exposure Notification Update

Howard Oakley (Hacker News): According to figures obtained by the BBC, of the 83 million people in Germany, only around 16 million have downloaded this app since it launched in June. That’s less than 20% of the whole population, and probably around …

Trump Floats Illegally Delaying Election

‘Tech Titans Gave Their House Testimony Virtually, but It Was the Congressmen Who Departed From Reality’

★ Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing

It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules.

Dropbox Dark Pattern

Nick Heer: While the biggest tech CEOs testifying before some of the dumbest people are stymied by WebEx problems, I want to direct your attention to this Dropbox screen. Would you assume that both of these buttons are tappable? Tyler Hall: No way t…

Tim Cook’s App Store Testimony

Juli Clover (also: 1, 2): Apple CEO Tim Cook is today participating in an antitrust hearing with the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. [……

★ Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing

It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules.

★ Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing

It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules.

Coronavirus Disinformation Video Seen 20M Times Before Facebook Took It Down

Coronavirus Disinformation Video Seen 20M Times Before Facebook Took It Down

Coronavirus Disinformation Video Seen 20M Times Before Facebook Took It Down

Trump Retweeted a Doctor Who Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 Treatment

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National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien Tests Positive for COVID‑19

The Talk Show: ‘The Least Worst’

Schiller Interview Before the App Store Hearing

Stephen Nellis (via MacRumors): But when the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers, Philip W. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice presiden…

MarsEdit 4.4

MarsEdit 4.4 now supports Micro.blog and can search the values of custom fields. However, there seems to be a regression that causes the app to beachball for 30 seconds each time I publish a post.

macOS 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes With Virtualization

Hartley Charlton (tweet): Users of virtualization software have reported that macOS 10.15.6 crashes repeatedly when running virtual machines.A regression in the App Sandbox component of macOS 10.15.6 is reportedly leaking kernel memory, causing macO…

New EU Regulations for App Stores

Seth Barton: The rules, which you can see here in full if you’re happy to fight through them, or as discussed here by the EGDF’s Jari-Pekka Kaleva on GI.Biz, cover a wide range of ongoing issues that developers have with stores. Platforms will have …

Steve Wozniak Sues YouTube Over Bitcoin Scams

Monica Chin: According to the lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, crooks have been posting videos on the platform claiming that Wozniak is hosting a bitcoin promotion. They convince users that if they send bitcoin to a p…

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