"Inside the iPhone Repair Ecosystem: Where Do Replacement Parts Come From and Can You Trust Them?" ["Our exploration of the repair ecosystem was inspired by a video sent to us by a trusted source that MacRumors has worked with in the past, who captured footage inside one of the many facilities in China that are dedicated to creating aftermarket iPhone parts."] MacRumors 2:03 PM
"Apple is beefing up a team to explore making its own health chips: Apple has a team exploring a custom processor that can make better sense of health information coming off sensors from deep inside its devices, job listings show." CNBC 2:41 PM
"Job ads hint Apple is bringing health analysis processor design in-house" VentureBeat 3:45 PM
"Berkshire boosts Goldman stake, confirms Apple purchase" ["It also said it owned close to $47 billion of Apple stock, comprising about 252 million shares, up 5 percent from 239.6 million at the end of March."] Reuters 3:52 PM
"Erdogan says Turkey will boycott U.S. electronics, lira steadies" ["'We will impose a boycott on U.S. electronic products. If they have iPhones, there is Samsung on the other side, and we have our own Vestel here,' he said, referring to the Turkish electronics company, whose shares rose five percent."] Reuters 7:51 AM
"Erdogan's Apple Boycott Ignores American Tech's Omnipresence" Bloomberg 8:00 AM
"How Apple's AI imaging vision may save lives: Apple's developing machine intelligence platforms enable future evolution in computer imaging and healthcare" Computerworld 11:07 AM
"Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data: Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms such as Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook and Apple to give police access to private encrypted data linked to suspected illegal activities. ... It sets fines of up to A$10 million ($7.3 million) for institutions that do not comply, and jail time for individuals" Reuters 7:36 AM
"macOS user warnings are trivial for malware to suppress and bypass: Warnings bypass can be used to 'do a lot of malicious stuff,' researcher says." Ars Technica 9:27 AM
"Chrome may soon add a feature that will speed up the entire internet" BGR 8:41 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"What's new in macOS Mojave beta 7" AppleInsider 10:25 AM
"PhotoBulk 2 review: Swiss Army knife for Mac batch image processing" Macworld 7:56 AM
"How to use Light Mode for messages in Mail with Dark Mode on macOS Mojave" 9to5Mac 11:08 AM
"Pro Terminal Commands: How and Why To Edit Sudoers on macOS" Apple Gazette 10:25 AM
"Preparing to teach/demo" ["To address this, I've built a demo-setup utility in Swift. I thought I'd share some of the features and approaches. A lot of these were non-trivial to track down in terms of time and I thought having them in one place could be useful to some of you reading my blog."] Erica Sadun 9:25 AM
"Common Windows Keyboard Shortcuts On Mac" MacMost 9:06 AM
Press Releases
"Nativ adds Apple AirPlay & Google Cast to $1,599 Vita music hub" AppleInsider 10:25 AM
"ToothFairy Mac utility for AirPods updated with macOS Mojave Dark Mode, more" 9to5Mac 9:25 AM
"Khronos Group Releases Neural Network Exchange Format 1.0, Showcases First Public OpenXR Demo" AnandTech 8:29 AM
"RapidWeaver 8 for Mac arrives: building your dream website just got easier" iDownload Blog 8:45 AM
"RapidWeaver 8 Debuts Redesign, New Responsive Themes, Unsplash Support, and Improved Plug-In Management" MacStories 8:13 AM
"Reveal Makes It Easy to Find PowerPoint or Keynote Slides on the Mac" prMac 7:54 AM
"Apple is reportedly arguing that buildings at its headquarters are worth just $200 to reduce its tax bill" Business Insider 8:30 AM
"Here are all of the future TV shows that Apple has signed deals for: Moving past 'Planet of the Apps' and 'Carpool Karaoke,' Apple is believed to be spending $1 billion or more on its first high-budget TV shows, which could hit screens as soon as March 2019. Here are the programs we know about so far. Updated with cast details regarding Ronald Moore's sci-fi series." AppleInsider 6:49 PM
"Verizon says Indy is its fourth residential 5G city, 'partners' with YouTube TV and Apple TV 4K" iMore 7:27 PM
"Verizon includes Apple TV 4K in residential 5G rollout plans: Verizon on Tuesday announced it will be including an Apple TV 4K or a YouTube TV subscription with upcoming residential 5G services in an effort to bolster adoption the burgeoning product." AppleInsider 9:18 PM
"iPhone users get to skip the queue in shopping pay-and-go trial: Apple Pay trial allows smartphone users to pay and leave without a trip to the cashier." ZDNet 8:30 AM
"Analysts at odds over HomePod unit sales, but agree on 6% market share" 9to5Mac 10:30 AM
"Apple's HomePod claims six percent of the smart speaker market, as Google closes gap with Amazon" AppleInsider 11:08 AM
"New figures show Apple's HomePod continues to lag behind more popular smart speakers" BGR 9:35 PM
"Congress can't stay away from Big Tech" Axios 7:47 AM
"Hundreds of reports of hacked Instagram accounts, possible Russian link" 9to5Mac 8:53 AM
"Lawmakers Want to Know Why Ajit Pai Made Up DDOS Attack, Lied to Congress: FCC boss Ajit Pai finds himself in hot water over the attack that wasn't." Motherboard 2:05 PM
"FCC accused of 'dereliction of duty' in failing to dispel cyberattack 'myth'" TechCrunch 12:13 PM
"FCC says court made error in approval of AT&T/Time Warner merger" Ars Technica 12:04 PM
"Password Analyst Says QAnon's 'Codes' Are Consistent With Random Typing" Motherboard 11:08 AM
"Man-in-the-Disk attacks take advantage of Android storage systems: The novel attack technique relies on Android developers which use lazy storage protocols." ZDNet 8:30 AM
"Keyboard strokes and smartphone swipes used by banks to detect fraud" Telegraph 8:13 AM
"Motorola's P30 Looks Like Every Other iPhone X-Clone we Don't Want" Digital Trends 8:12 AM
"Kuo: Apple Car likely to launch in 2023-2025, fuel $2 trillion company valuation" AppleInsider 9:35 PM
"What to Expect From the Next Apple Watch, Series 4" The Mac Observer 5:53 PM
"Of course Apple's AirPods wireless charging case will work with any Qi charger" AppleInsider 3:45 PM
"If Apple wants to properly add Pencil support to the iPhone, it needs to copy the Galaxy Note 9: Hate all you want, but Samsung gets it right." Macworld 12:28 PM
"Apple: Cheap Doesn't Make Sense" Seeking Alpha 12:04 PM
"Connected Car Technology Can Enable Abusers to Track Their Victims: A growing number of automakers are enabling location tracking in internet-connected cars, a technology that experts say can be misused by abusers to track their victims." Motherboard 8:12 AM
"The scam: Apple's $1 trillion fraud" Macworld 7:56 AM
Non-Apple
"Fortnite for Android review: More frustrating than fun" Android Central 9:23 AM
"Mingis on Tech: 3 big takeaways from Android Pie" Computerworld 8:45 AM
"Opinion: Android 9 Pie's Digital Wellbeing has too little data and too many options, but that can be fixed" Android Police 8:29 AM
"Facebook's Story Problem — and Opportunity" Stratechery 8:16 AM
"The Shifting Nature of Technology at Work" Tech.pinions 8:16 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Comic: When Do the New iPhones Come Out?" iMore 8:12 AM
"The changing face of retail!" The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 7:35 AM
"Speculative execution claims another scalp, scuppers Intel SGX: Speculative execution attacks truly are the gift that keeps on giving." Ars Technica 2:32 PM
"Intel Coughs to Puma CPU Flaw that Hit Virgin Media Hub 3 Router" ISPreview 7:20 AM
"Intel's First 9th-Generation Processors Rumored to Launch on October 1st" TechStory 7:22 AM
"Intel to launch X599 platform for its 28-core Skylake-X CPU: That's providing the chip is legit" The Inquirer 12:17 PM
"Nvidia's Turing-powered Quadro GPUs are 'first' built for ray-tracing: But you probably can't afford them" The Inquirer 7:08 AM
"NVIDIA's Turing-powered GPUs are the first ever built for ray tracing: The future of hyper-realistic graphics is here." Engadget 7:09 AM
"Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors on Cloud Sales Growth: Florida-based City of Sunrise Firefighters' Pension Fund is leading a lawsuit against Oracle, alleging the company lied to shareholders about drivers behind earlier cloud sales growth •The suit, filed last Friday, is seeking class-action status, Bloomberg reported •An Oracle spokeswoman said the suite has no merit and that the company will vigorously defend against the claims •After a few years of focus on enterprise cloud services, Oracle's effort is still nascent, and the company trails market-share leaders in key segments" Data Center Knowledge 7:24 AM
"Linux 4.18 brings support for Vega M, Volta GV100 and, er, SPECK: Out, foul Speck" The Inquirer 10:33 AM
"Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway increases Apple position by 5 percent" AppleInsider 6:03 PM
"Apple Holds Gains, Raise Stop Protection" RealMoney 11:59 AM
"Apple breaks $210, puts a dozen analysts underwater" Apple 3.0 8:16 AM
"Apple Is Still A Buy At $1 Trillion Market Cap" Seeking Alpha 10:25 AM
"David Einhorn's Greenlight Trims Apple Stake Before Shares Climb" Bloomberg 8:45 AM
Industry News
"U.S. stocks close higher as Turkish-crisis jitters ease: Home Depot shares slip even as results come in hotter than expected" MarketWatch 5:11 PM
"Stocks Post Solid Gains as Turkey Crisis Stabilizes: Stocks end Tuesday with solid gains as concerns over Turkey's currency crisis ease." TheStreet 5:11 PM
"How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday" Associated Press 5:12 PM
"U.S. Stocks Rise as Lira Stages Small Rally: Move higher comes after the Dow and S&P 500 finished lower for four consecutive trading days" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:12 PM
"Nikkei leads Asian-market rebound following Turkish currency jitters: Chinese stocks lag" MarketWatch 8:22 AM
"European stocks gain broadly as Turkey's lira stabilizes" MarketWatch 8:22 AM
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