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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, May 16, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "'ZipperDown' Flaw Might Expose Up To 100 Million Apple iPhones"  Forbes 3:52 PM
  • "App Store discovery is climbing after the iOS 11 redesign" Business Insider 11:28 AM
  • "I asked Apple for all my data. Here's what was sent back: Apple gave me all the data it collected on me since I bought my first iPhone — in 2010." ZDNet 9:39 AM
  • "Steve Jobs speech from 1992 surfaces, talking about NeXT & Apple departure" AppleInsider 9:39 AM
  • "Steve Jobs just shipped two new secrets" Apple Must 2:04 PM
  • "LSD and other psychedelics inspired some of Silicon Valley's greatest inventions, says author Michael Pollan: Long before Steve Jobs, internet pioneers like Doug Engelbart were dropping acid." Recode 8:14 AM
  • "Doom's lead programmer recalls working with Steve Jobs" Cult of Mac 8:42 AM
  • "Apple Pay expands to over 30 more banks across the United States" 9to5Mac 8:36 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "It has been a bad week for encrypted messaging and it's only Wednesday: PGP and S/MIME email and Signal and Telegram desktop messages all have risks." Ars Technica 8:35 PM
  • "Apple Music rival Tidal accused of late royalty payments, inflating listener numbers" AppleInsider 5:21 PM
  • "Alarming Study Suggests Bitcoin Consumes an Astonishing Amount of Energy and It's Only Getting Worse" Gizmodo 3:59 PM
  • "The OnePlus 6 Looks Like the Beautiful Budget Baby of the S9 and iPhone X" Gizmodo 12:09 PM
  • "Senate votes for net neutrality -- enjoy the moment" ZDNet 3:56 PM
  • "U.S. Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality, Now Expected to Face Major Hurdle in House" MacRumors 3:50 PM
  • "Senate votes to reverse FCC order and restore net neutrality" TechCrunch 3:50 PM
  • "Senate Democrats Will Vote to Reverse Net Neutrality Rollback: Currently all 49 members of the Senate Democratic caucus are voting in favor, as is Republican Susan Collins, Democrats say. The House is another story." PC Magazine 11:19 AM
  • "What to watch: Net neutrality's end approaches" Axios 8:42 AM
  • "Senate votes today on rollback of net neutrality rollback" TechCrunch 8:39 AM
  • "Yanny vs. Laurel: What do you hear?" CBS News 8:31 AM
  • "The great Yanny vs Laurel debate is melting the internet" V3 8:14 AM
  • "Commons culture committee slams Facebook for 'disappointing' level of transparency following Cambridge Analytica scandal" V3 8:13 AM
  • "Samsung beefs up the Galaxy S9's color palette with red and gold: Its flagship handset will soon be available in Burgundy Red and Sunrise Gold." CNET 8:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Senate Net Neutrality, Nader's Whiff, Jony Watchman -ACM 462" The Mac Observer 8:32 PM
  • "9to5Mac Daily 075: May 16, 2018" 9to5Mac 3:48 PM
  • "#193: They Belong to the World Now/The future of third-party Twitter apps looks grim, but is it the end of the road? What makes an upgrade worthy of a price tag? Do class action lawsuits even matter? Should you use AirPods on planes? Does anyone like show descriptions written as hypothetical questions?" Relay FM: Connected 3:48 PM
  • "Designing Apple's Personal Robot, Yanny or Laurel -TMO Daily Observations 2018-05-16" The Mac Observer 1:03 PM
  • "Mobile Phone Creator Reflects on How We Use Our Portable Devices: I chatted with Martin Cooper, who led the team that created the first portable mobile phone in 1973 while working for Motorola." PC Magazine 8:14 AM