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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, June 2, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "iPhone cases are only for poor people: A consumer psychologist believes those who keep their iPhones naked are merely showing how rich they are. Is that what it is?"  ZDNet 8:09 AM
  • "US blacklisting Huawei could boost Samsung and Apple, top analyst says" CNBC 7:56 AM
WWDC Keynote Liveblogs
  • "WWDC News Hub – Live coverage from San Jose" 9to5Mac 3:37 PM
  • "WWDC 2019 keynote will be livestreamed in select Apple Stores" 9to5Mac 10:05 AM
  • "The WWDC Liveblog: All the OS details from Apple's annual keynote" Ars Technica 7:57 AM
  • "WWDC 2019 Swag Includes Jacket, Magnetic Pins, Special T-Shirt for Scholarship Winners, and More" MacRumors 11:29 AM
  • "Apple gifts WWDC 2019 attendees swag bag with reversible jacket, magnetic pins, more" 9to5Mac 3:19 PM
  • "Apple & Samsung expected to benefit most from US Huawei ban, says Ming-Chi Kuo" AppleInsider 6/1
  • "Everything you need to know about WebAssembly, the technology that fills such a vital need, Apple, Amazon, and other tech giants are racing to support it" [BI Prime] Business Insider 6/1
  • "Apple Leads The Wearables Market With 26% Share, 12.8M Devices Sold" Redmond Pie 6/1
  • "How to Watch Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote" PC Magazine 6/1
  • "Shot on iPhone XS — Las Cholitas Voladoras — Apple" YouTube 6/1
  • "Shot on iPhone XS — The Making of Las Cholitas Voladoras — Apple" YouTube 6/1
  • "WWDC 2019: How to watch Apple's keynote and what to expect" ZDNet 5/31
  • "Tune in Monday to The Mac Observer's Live WWDC 2019 Blog" The Mac Observer 5/31
Non-Apple News
  • "Wave of SIM swapping attacks hit US cryptocurrency users: Something strange happened last week, with tens of US-based cryptocurrency users seeing SIM swapping attacks." ZDNet 8:48 PM
  • "GandCrab Ransomware Crew To Retire After $2 Billion Shakedown Of Victims" HotHardware 5:47 PM
  • "Schumer calls on FCC to review New York's 'horrible' internet speeds" New York Post 5:26 PM
  • "Google says it resolves issues affecting YouTube, Gmail, Google Cloud in U.S." Reuters 8:45 PM
  • "Google's Cloud outage is resolved, but it reveals the holes in cloud computing's atmosphere" TechCrunch 8:33 PM
  • "Google cloud is down, affecting numerous applications and services" TechCrunch 5:13 PM
  • "Networking issues take down Google Cloud in parts of the U.S. and Europe, YouTube and Snapchat also affected" GeekWire 4:14 PM
  • "Google outage takes down YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat in parts of US" The Verge 3:16 PM
  • "To Catch a Fake: Machine learning sniffs out its own machine-written propaganda/Researchers at Allen Institute and the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington have tuned the 'GPT-2' neural network to create 'Grover,' a program that both creates convincing fake articles but also is able to detect those fakes, pointing to a way to combat propaganda." ZDNet 11:31 AM
  • "What is Wi-Fi Direct? Here's everything you need to know" Digital Trends 10:04 AM
  • "Twitter apologises for suspending accounts critical of China" AFP 8:49 AM
  • "Here's a state-by-state look at the fastest mobile network speeds in the US" BGR 8:07 AM
  • "'Tetris' turns 35 this week. It's still the best puzzle game of all timeOnly 'Minecraft' has sold more copies." Engadget 7:56 AM
  • "Facebook has made 'material missteps' in the past 18 months, according to a close ally of Sheryl Sandberg" [BI Prime] Business Insider 7:46 AM
  • "Much @Stake: The Band of Hackers That Defined an Era" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:45 AM
  • "Huawei has reportedly stopped its smartphone production after US blacklist amid trade war" Business Insider 6/1
  • "DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Quake III Arena" Slashdot 6/1
  • "Rise of the Machines: AI beats humans in multiplayer shooter" AFP 6/1
  • "FCC filing reveals mysterious new Google device, but no one knows what it's for" Digital Trends 6/1
  • "Huawei's effort to establish its own operating system could be an impossible task, say people who know from experience" [BI Prime] Business Insider 6/1
  • "Facebook lawyer argues social media users 'have no expectation of privacy'" Metro UK 6/1
  • "New attack creates ghost taps on modern Android smartphones: Academics abuse NFC-enabled devices with capacitive touchscreens to induce fake screen taps." ZDNet 6/1
  • "Why Net Neutrality Advocates Remain Optimistic" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6/1
Publications/Podcasts
  • "XXL Makeup Episode Show Episode #401" Touch Arcade 6:58 PM
  • "WWDC preview, ZenFone 6, Pixel Slate sale, iPod Touch (MobileTechRoundup show #471)" ZDNet 3:15 PM
  • "Geared Up: Huge Apple leaks, Tesla Model 3, new MacBook Pros, and more" [Podcast] GeekWire 11:29 AM
  • "Above Avalon Podcast Episode 148: Apple's Billion Users" Above Avalon 7:59 AM
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 227: iOS 13 screenshot leaks and WWDC expectations" 9to5Mac 7:57 AM
  • "iOS 13 wish list: Giving health & fitness a workout [Cult of Mac Magazine No. 299] Cult of Mac 6/1
  • "Apple Card vs. All the Cards and What Is Apple Becoming, with Jeff Gamet -ACM 514" The Mac Observer 6/1
  • "People profiles immigrant iOS app developer ahead of WWDC" AppleInsider 5/31
  • "iMore show 659: MacOS Double Entendre/The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!" iMore 5/31
  • "AirPort Updates, WWDC Plans – TMO Daily Observations 2019-05-31" The Mac Observer 5/31
  • "The Dalrymple Report: iPod Touch, bats, and another disagreement" The Loop 5/31
  • "Vergecast: the weird laptops of Computex, new Intel and AMD chips, and a WWDC preview" The Verge 5/31
  • "One more thing? Catch our WWDC hardware predictions, this week on The CultCastCult of Mac 5/31
  • "WWDC is coming & a new iPod touch is here on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 5/31