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[Link] Elon Musk appears to reconcile with Apple after Twitter tirade
Read: 4/12/2022 arstechnica.com
Elon Musk said he had a “good conversation” with Apple chief executive Tim Cook and “resolved the misunderstanding” about his claim that Twitter could be removed from the App Store, just days after the world’s richest man unleashed a tirade against the most valuable tech company.
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[Link] BeReal Isn’t Real and Makes Everyone Look Extremely Boring
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
BeReal is the anti-Instagram social media app that’s designed to show people’s lives as they really are by encouraging users to post during random, two-minute time increments during the day.
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[Link] Neighborhood Crime App Citizen Is Trying to Expand to Ukraine
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Crime fighting and neighborhood alert app Citizen is looking to expand into Ukraine as Russia continues to invade the country, Motherboard has learned.
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[Link] How Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
Depending on where you’ve been scrolling online this past year, you might have seen ads for a company called Shein, bearing taglines like “Make every day your Shein day!” and offers to win 250 outfits with a single click.
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[Link] Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender
Read: 12/11/2021 www.theregister.com
UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.
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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.
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[Link] Looks like Steam is getting a QR code login option
Read: 29/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A recent update to Steam's code includes signs of an upcoming new login method: Scanning a QR code with the Steam mobile app. That's according to a tweet by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] Why I Use Microsoft Edge on Android
Read: 25/10/2021 www.howtogeek.com
Microsoft Edge started life on Windows 10, but it’s now available on several platforms, including Android. Chrome is the default browser on most Android devices, but I’m here to tell you Edge is just as good—if not better.
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[Link] Lyft Has Received More Than 4,000 Sexual Assault Reports
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The report, released Thursday, breaks down sexual assault into five categories, including non-consensual sexual penetration, attempted sexual penetration, and non-consensual touching and kissing of body parts.
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[Link] Google countersues Epic Games for lost Play Store money
Read: 17/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases.
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[Link] Migration to SourceForge
Read: 12/10/2021 opengapps.org
Hello everyone! It’s been a while. You may have noticed that our website has undergone some changes. Today we’d like to share what has been going on with the hosting situation at GitHub and shed some light on our decision to transfer our releases to the SourceForge.
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[Link] CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment firm started by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recently poured more than $1.6 million into encrypted messaging platform Wickr, according to public disclosure records reviewed by Motherboard. The $1.
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[Link] TikTok Now Has ‘Vulgarity’ Moderators in Pakistan
Read: 27/9/2021 www.vice.com
He went viral because of his slapstick comedy, funny music transitions, and social commentary. But on TikTok, he’s known as Famous “Maulvi,” the South Asian term for Muslim preacher.
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[Link] Apple allows children to access casual-sex and BDSM apps, finds report
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple knowingly lets underage users access apps intended for adults, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), despite having asked for and recorded their dates of birth.
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[Link] Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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[Link] Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theregister.com
China has cracked down on big tech again, this time telling some of its biggest players to get rid of pop-up ads in apps.
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[Link] Google Play puts Android apps on notice: No naughty JavaScript, Python, Lua
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Google's pending Play Store policy changes are bringing various privacy improvements – but also include a security enhancement and disclosure requirement that deserve mention. First, there's a specific ban on the deceptive use of interpreted languages like JavaScript, Python, and Lua.
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[Link] Robinhood to Raise Billions From the Rich, Give None of It to the Poor
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Robinhood, the wildly popular stock-trading app that’s made it easy to throw fistfuls of money at meme stocks while also occasionally locking those users out of trades on a whim, is ready to cash in big time.
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[Link] Private party app pulled from App Store by Apple
Read: 24/1/2021 arstechnica.com
Despite over 82 million cases and over 1.75 million deaths due to COVID-19, many people are bound and determined to carry on with normal life. For some, that includes attending Saturday night ragers, just like they did in the Before Times.