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Barry Petchesky, Defector (gift link): NASA shared another photo Wiseman took, a slice of Earth peeking in the Orion’s window. No human has seen the Earth look this small since 1972. Low-earth orbit, where every single crewed space mission since Apollo has operated, tops out at around 1,000 miles above Earth’s surface. The International Space […]
There is an E.U. organization called Fairlinked that is a “trade association and advocacy group for commercial LinkedIn users”, and it recently released a report about serious privacy concerns with LinkedIn: Microsoft Corporation’s LinkedIn is running a massive, global, and illegal spying operation on every computer that visits their website. […] Because LinkedIn knows each […]
Hana Lee Goldin: The search bar you already have is more capable than that arrangement requires you to know. With the right syntax, it becomes a precision instrument: narrow by domain, by date, by file type, by exact phrase. We can pull up archived pages, surface open file directories, and even find what people said […]
The newest episode of “Upgrade” is a wonderful retelling of a very particular history (also available as a video): Jason and Myke tell the story of Apple’s origin. It emerged from the unique environment of the Santa Clara valley suburbs of the ’70s thanks to the particular genius of its two co-founders and some surprising […]
Mark Gurman, last week in Bloomberg: Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a Siri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update, according to people with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]