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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, December 18, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple sent iPhone owners unwanted push notifications to promote Carpool Karaoke: Seemingly in violation of its own developer rules regarding notification etiquette"  The Verge 5:09 PM
  • "Apple Fifth Avenue: When will the cube reopen?"  9to5Mac 9:38 AM
  • "Apple's New Austin Campus To Pressure City's Already Booming Real Estate Landscape" Forbes 10:44 AM
  • "Williamson County officials approve Apple incentive deal" KXAN Austin 11:07 AM
  • "Apple poached another Tesla engineer, fuelling more speculation about an Apple car"  Business Insider 8:18 AM
  • "Switzerland says Apple pledges to fix disruptions to rival payment app"  Reuters 7:11 AM
  • "TWINT mobile wallet service ends dispute with Apple Pay" 9to5Mac 7:46 AM
  • "Smart speaker or smart snoopers? Or choose HomePod instead" Apple Must 12:57 PM
  • "Four-year-old used Siri to get help for his unconscious mom" AppleInsider 9:41 AM
  • "Wearables outlook 2022: Smartwatches will still rule, Apple will still dominate" ZDNet 7:11 AM
  • "Some popular apps lost millions of ratings in ongoing glitch; Apple on the case" 9to5Mac 7:45 AM
  • "Apple Music account tweets using Twitter for Android"  9to5Google 8:08 AM
  • "Another Emoji Fail" Mashable 10:46 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Verizon's Oath brand to be killed off in 2019" ZDNet 6:36 PM
  • "'Y' is for Verizon? Oath is rebranding as Verizon Media Group, but the company appears to have flubbed the announcement" Business Insider 5:59 PM
  • "T-Mobile denies lying to FCC about size of its 4G network" Ars Technica 4:24 PM
  • "Google has completed over 100 ethical reviews of AI 'projects, products, and deals'" VentureBeat 2:27 PM
  • "Prominent computer scientist Andrew Ng says we need AI regulation to avoid 'toxic outcomes' and put the 'most evil, most exploitative companies' in check" Business Insider 2:26 PM
  • "Ex Google engineer completes 3,000 mile coast-to-coast journey in driverless car" Telegraph 1:21 PM
  • "Parents say a man hacked their Nest baby monitors and threatened to kidnap their 4-month-old son" Business Insider 10:43 AM
  • "YouTuber pranks package thieves with glorious, stinky glitter bombs" Mashable 8:35 AM
  • "Study: Switching between devices is associated with poorer attention and memory" The Next Web 8:02 AM
  • "Twitter warned of phone country code leak two years ago — but did nothing, security researcher says" TechCrunch 7:57 AM
  • "Truecaller: Spam calls jumped over 300% in 2018" VentureBeat 7:56 AM
  • "Study: Women are abused every 30 seconds on Twitter" Engadget 7:43 AM
  • "Fierce competition to drag down prices for TDDI chips, fingerprint sensors" DigiTimes 7:43 AM
  • "Huawei calls for evidence against company to the shown: Report" ZDNet 9:14 PM
  • "Huawei poised to spend billions to fix its bad security reputation" Android Authority 5:40 PM
  • "Huawei calls on US, others to show proof of security risk" Associated Press 7:36 AM
  • "Youtuber's glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves" BBC 7:36 AM
  • "Sprint, T-Mobile Deal Gets Green Light From U.S. Regulators" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:14 AM
  • "COO Sheryl Sandberg admits Facebook needs to 'do more' to protect civil rights" Business Insider 1:20 PM
  • "Russia's disinformation campaign wasn't just on Facebook and Twitter. Here are all the social media platforms Russian trolls weaponized during the 2016 US elections" Business Insider 3:54 PM
  • "The Russian social media disease spread beyond Facebook and Google" Axios 8:03 AM
  • "Russian Trolls Came for Instagram, Too: A look at posts from the Internet Research Agency reveals that the group used Instagram for several distinct purposes." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:12 AM
  • "Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:12 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Issue 46 of Lightroom Magazine Is Now Available!" Layers Magazine 4:24 PM
  • "Macworld Podcast episode 634" Macworld 3:53 PM
  • "Apple Manufacturing, AI Regulation – TMO Daily Observations 2018-12-18" The Mac Observer 3:43 PM
  • "AppStories, Episode 92 – Introducing the 2018 MacStories Selects" MacStories 8:12 AM
  • "Let's Talk iOS 270: Speaking for the masses" iDownload Blog 8:12 AM