Tag Archives: Apple

Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China – DNyuz

Posted on May 18, 2021 by David K.

Apple still appears to provide far more data to U.S. law enforcement. Over that same period, from 2013 through June 2020, Apple said it turned over the contents of iCloud accounts to U.S. authorities in 10,781 separate cases. Source: Censorship, … Continue reading →

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How Big Tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions

Posted on May 12, 2021 by David K.

For decades Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google gobbled up their competition to become behemoths of the tech industry, which has drawn attention from Congressional leaders and other critics who claim they’ve stifled innovation in the industry. Source: How Big Tech … Continue reading →

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Scam iOS Apps Still Raking in Millions in Revenue on App Store – MacRumors

Posted on February 9, 2021 by David K.

As of writing, the scam app “Star Gazer+” is still listed on the App Store with 4.5 star average rating and over 80,000 reviews. Source: Scam iOS Apps Still Raking in Millions in Revenue on App Store – MacRumors As … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Released a Bizarre New Surface Pro Ad and It’s Hoping You Won’t Notice It’s Pure Gaslighting | Inc.com

Posted on January 26, 2021 by David K.

Microsoft made a point of mentioning that price point–since the Surface Pro is cheaper–but it’s worth mentioning that it means the MacBook Pro in question is sporting Apple’s new M1 processor. It raises an interesting question: How do you compare … Continue reading →

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Apple Developer Program

Posted on January 18, 2021 by David K.

In the endless internecine wars about Apple on “Hacker” “News,” there’s a common complaint that the Apple Developer Program costs $99/year. I can never get my head wrapped around that particular protest, as though it were some great barrier to entry. … Continue reading →

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Apple and Privacy, So Far

Posted on January 15, 2021 by David K.

This is good news. The whole incident raised a lot of privacy concerns. Apple’s track record and extrapolated trajectory remains good on this front. Having been a programmer through the 90’s, and watched Microsoft (and Oracle, et. al.) through their … Continue reading →

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Apple Removing SD Card Slots

Posted on October 19, 2020 by David K.

A couple of friends installed flush-sized SD memory cards in their MacBook Air’s, which are used as hard drives by the OS, because they were running out of room on the internal drive. It occurs to me, well after the … Continue reading →

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‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

Posted on July 22, 2020 by David K.

Microsoft today released updates to plug a whopping 123 security holes in Windows and related software, including fixes for a critical, “wormable” flaw in Windows Server versions that Microsoft says is likely to be exploited soon. While this particular weakness … Continue reading →

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Twitter DMs of Obama, Musk and Biden Could Have Been Stolen in Hack, Experts Warn

Posted on July 16, 2020 by David K.

“Absolutely, 100 percent that the DMs could have been compromised,” Jackie Singh, founder of Spyglass Security, told Newsweek. “I mean it looks like they had ‘god mode’ with seemingly few limitations and we don’t know how long they had it … Continue reading →

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