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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, December 19, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "App Store shoppers will soon be able to gift in-app purchases: Apple on Wednesday altered its App Store guidelines to allow sending in-app purchases as gifts, extending gifting beyond just apps themselves."  AppleInsider 4:59 PM
  • "Apple TV's first 'zero sign-in' partner delays feature until 2019: Apple's site has been quietly updated to reflect the change" The Verge 7:53 AM
  • "Zero Sign-on now live on Apple TV, but Spectrum TV app delayed to 2019" 9to5Mac 9:01 AM
  • "Apple TV's zero sign-on goes live for Spectrum subscribers, but no app in sight: Apple and Charter Spectrum appear to have flipped the switch on zero sign-on functions for the Apple TV, even though a promised Spectrum cable app is still missing in action." AppleInsider 9:36 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Nasa hack exposes space agency staff's data" BBC 10:10 AM
  • "As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants: Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed." New York Times [Free Registration Required] 7:35 AM
  • "Facebook's Data Sharing: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:35 AM
  • "Facebook let outside companies read its users' private messages for years" Telegraph 7:35 AM
  • "Facebook Caps Off 2018 With Yet Another Massive Privacy Scandal" Gizmodo 7:27 AM
  • "Facebook's data sharing excesses even surprised its 'partners': Apple, Netflix, Spotify and even Yandex had more access than they should have." Engadget 7:28 AM
  • "Facebook Drags Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon Into Latest Privacy Controversy" Thurrott 7:34 AM
  • "Facebook's data-sharing deals exposed" BBC 7:31 AM
  • "Facebook bans hundreds more pages relating to Myanmar conflict: The latest takedown involved pages reaching millions of people." Engadget 7:28 AM
  • "The first big phone of 2019 has a Snapdragon 855 and 12GB RAM: Lenovo-no, they didn't!" The Inquirer 7:26 AM
  • "The first Samsung phone to feature a notch is coming soon, and it's not the Galaxy S10" BGR 7:30 AM
  • "Galaxy S10 spotted in the wild with barely-there bezels, in-screen camera: Device gets papped on a South Korean subway" The Inquirer 7:27 AM
  • "Huawei evaluates options for consumer operations in Brazil: The company needs a local partner to resume sales of mobiles and other products." ZDNet 7:17 AM
  • "Cloudera Machine Learning release takes cloud-native path: By updating its Data Science Workbench with a new edition to run on Kubernetes clusters, is it opening the door toward a broader cloud-native transformation for its product portfolio?" ZDNet 7:17 AM
  • "Ars takes a first tour of the length of The Boring Company's test tunnel: Still too soon to tell if this is a revolution in transportation." Ars Technica 7:31 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Facebook Data Breach Redux, 5G Rollouty – TMO Daily Observations 2018-12-19" The Mac Observer 5:03 PM
  • "Apple Cloud Services, Password Management, Apple Leadership, with Peter Cohen -ACM 493" The Mac Observer 5:00 PM
  • "Clockwise #273: I'm In Troubletown" Six Colors 4:45 PM
  • "MacVoices #18239: Josh Centers Takes Control of Notes" MacVoices 1:27 PM