Yes please! (And thanks to @gruber for pointing this out.)

“Apple should update the formatting … and turn phone numbers with the area code in parentheses into the 123-555-1234 format. It’s only because area codes used to be optional that they were put in parentheses. Given that 7-digit dialing is never going to return, we should abolish the parentheses too.”

#APStyleGuide #PhoneNumbers #Formatting #Apple #AppleContacts

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/16/how-to-format-10-digit-phone-numbers

Radio New Zealand: Timaru cafe inundated with calls after AI tool lists phone number for hospital . “Google’s Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool had been offering up the phone number for Sopheze Coffee Lounge when people searched for Timaru Hospital. Sopheze Coffee Lounge manager Vanessa Keen said the problem started about six weeks ago.” Good grief.

The use of #NoReply addresses ( and #ShortCodes instead of #PhoneNumbers ) should be illegal as in:
- Lifetime ban for using Computers and Phones
- Life no less than 25 years of jail

If you - as a business or organization - can send me a message, you owe me the ability to reply to you in the same way.
- If you can't even be assed to add a "reply-to" address, I consider you a spammer.

#rant #venting #sarcasm #JobSearch #eMail #Phone #NoReplyAddress

Substack Newsletter Platform Data Breach Saw Phone Numbers, Emails Exposed
https://www.pcmag.com/news/substack-newsletter-platform-data-breach-saw-phone-numbers-emails-exposed

#Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #Substack #DataBreach #PhoneNumbers #Emails

#PaneraBread #DataBreach

What Happened
In January 2026, PANERA BREAD suffered a data breach that exposed 14M records. After an attempted #extortion failed, the attackers published the data publicly, which included 5.1M unique #emailaddresses along with associated account information such as names, #phonenumbers and physical #addresses. Panera Bread subsequently confirmed that "the #data involved is contact information" and that authorities were notified.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/PaneraBread

#Development #Techniques
Phone numbers everywhere · A HTML fix for unwanted Safari/iOS phone links https://ilo.im/168osc

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#PhoneNumbers #Webpage #Mobile #Safari #iOS #Webkit #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

A Simple #WhatsApp #Security Flaw #Exposed 3.5 Billion #PhoneNumbers

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
#privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/a-simple-whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-billions-phone-numbers/

Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works

https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works

#HackerNews #PhoneNumbers #TVShows #CreativeWorks #FilmIndustry #MediaProduction