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I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos https://pxlnv.com/blog/i-regret-the-blood-pact-i-have-made-with-icloud-photos/
I Regret the Blood Pact I Have Made With iCloud Photos

Sometimes, I do not recognize a trap until I am already in it. Photos in iCloud is one such situation. When Apple launched iCloud Photo Library in 2014, I was all-in. Not only is it where I store the photos I take on my iPhone, it is where I keep the ones from my digital […]

Bill C–22 Gives Canadian Authorities Additional Warrantless Powers https://pxlnv.com/linklog/bill-c-22-lawful-access/
Bill C–22 Gives Canadian Authorities Additional Warrantless Powers – Pixel Envy

Gabriel Hilty, Toronto Star: Speaking alongside Chief Myron Demkiw on Thursday at Toronto police headquarters, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, will “create a legal framework for modernized, lawful access regime in Canada,” something that police forces have been requested “for decades.” The bill is Prime Minister Mark Carney government’s second […]

Wealthsimple Clears Regulatory Hurdle to Bring ‘Prediction Markets’ to Canada https://pxlnv.com/linklog/wealthsimple-prediction-gambling/
Wealthsimple Clears Regulatory Hurdle to Bring ‘Prediction Markets’ to Canada – Pixel Envy

Meera Raman, Globe and Mail: Wealthsimple is seeking to offer prediction trading in Canada, a controversial type of betting on real-world events that has surged in popularity in the past year, and has been largely banned in this country. […] The approval for Ontario-based Wealthsimple permits it only to offer contracts tied to economic indicators, […]

A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts https://pxlnv.com/linklog/masnick-meta-youtube-verdicts/
A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts – Pixel Envy

Mike Masnick, of Techdirt, unsurprisingly opposes the verdicts earlier this week finding Meta and Google guilty of liability for how their products impact children’s safety. I think it is a perspective worth reading. Unlike the Wall Street Journal, Masnick respects your intelligence and brings actual substance. Still, I have some disagreements. Masnick, on the “design […]

Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro – Pixel Envy

Chance Miller, of 9to5Mac, serving here as Apple’s official bad news launderer: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the […]

Meta Loses Two Landmark Cases Regarding Product Safety and Children’s Use; Google Loses One https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-google-nm-ca-cases/
Meta Loses Two Landmark Cases Regarding Product Safety and Children’s Use; Google Loses One – Pixel Envy

Morgan Lee, Associated Press: A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — […]

Meta Laid Off Several Hundred People Today https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-layoffs-march-2026/
Meta Laid Off Several Hundred People Today – Pixel Envy

Ashley Capoot and Jonathan Vanian, CNBC: Meta is laying off several hundred employees on Wednesday, CNBC confirmed. The cuts are happening across several different organizations within the company, including Facebook, global operations, recruiting, sales and its virtual reality division Reality Labs, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans who asked not to be […]

Talking Liquid Glass With Apple https://pxlnv.com/linklog/liquid-glass-workshop/
Talking Liquid Glass With Apple – Pixel Envy

Danny Bolella attended one of Apple’s “Let’s Talk Liquid Glass” workshops: Let’s address the elephant in the room. If you read the comments on my articles or browse the iOS subreddits, there is a vocal contingent of developers betting that Apple is going to roll back Liquid Glass. The rationale usually points to the initial […]

OpenAI to Discontinue Sora App, Video Platform https://pxlnv.com/linklog/openai-discontinue-sora/
OpenAI to Discontinue Sora App, Video Platform – Pixel Envy

Berber Jin, Wall Street Journal: CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either. OpenAI is not […]

Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps Later This Year https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-maps-ads/
Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps Later This Year – Pixel Envy

Apple, in a press release with the title “Introducing Apple Business — a new all‑in‑one platform for businesses of all sizes”, buried in a section tucked in the middle labelled “Enhanced Discoverability in Apple Maps”, both of which are so anodyne as to encourage missing this key bit of news: Every day, users choose Apple […]