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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, February 3, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Watch Fall Detection Saves Man In Norway" UberGizmo 8:42 PM
  • "Apple might be planning to launch iPhone SE 2 soon" MSPoweruser 2/2
  • "Unlikely Rumor Claims iPhone SE 2 with 4.7-Inch Screen Is Just Around the Corner: Apple reportedly planning a second-generation SE model" Softpedia 2/2
  • "Apple's Siri Leader is Out: The Apple executive responsible for overseeing Siri for the past seven years recently left that role, said five people with knowledge of the change. Bill Stasior, who was recruited from Amazon in 2012 to lead Siri after two of the technology's creators left Apple, is no longer heading the voice assistant group, though he remains at Apple, the people said. The change appears to be part of an effort by John Giannandrea, Apple's senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy, to put more of his own stamp on the group responsible for Apple's voice assistant."  The Information [Subscription Required for Full Article] 2/1
  • "Apple removes Siri team lead as part of AI strategy shift" AppleInsider 2/1
  • "Apple's long-time Siri leader reportedly no longer in charge" TechCrunch 2/1
  • "iPhone Sales Growing Following Price Cuts in China"  MacRumors 2/1
  • "Apple Apologizes About FaceTime Bug, Software Update With Fix Delayed Until Next Week"  MacRumors 2/1
  • "Apple apologizes for massive FaceTime flaw, says fix coming next week"  CNBC 2/1
  • "Apple Says It Has Fixed FaceTime Security Bug" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/1
  • "Apple apologizes for FaceTime bug, says feature to be back next week" Axios 2/1
  • "Apple fixes FaceTime privacy bug, will issue update next week" Reuters 2/1
  • "Apple fixes FaceTime eavesdrop bug, with software update incoming" TechCrunch 2/1
  • "Apple isn't alone: 2018 was the 'worst year ever' for smartphone shipments, IDC says"  CNBC 2/1
  • "Apple Improves Stores With Strikingly Upgraded Free Events, Now Live" Forbes 2/1
  • "Which Tech Companies Spend the Most Money On Lobbying? Google set a new record with $21.2 million spent on lobbying in 2018, followed by Amazon at $14.2 million and Facebook at $12.6 million. Microsoft and Apple round out the big five." PC Magazine 2/1
  • "Spies Want to Make the FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug Into a Feature" ACLU 2/1
  • "Spies want to use exploits similar to Group FaceTime bug for eavesdropping" AppleInsider 2/1
  • "GCHQ wants secret entry into Apple's FaceTime and Messages" 9to5Mac 2/1
  • "Apple staffing up its streaming video service" Cult of Mac 2/1
  • "Apple marks Heart Month in February: During Heart Month, Apple will offer an Activity Challenge on Apple Watch and heart health events in Apple Stores in San Francisco, Chicago and New York to educate consumers on their heart health and encourage them to get active and live a better day." Apple 2/1
  • "Apple Promotes Heart Health With Activity Challenge and Apple Store Events Throughout February" MacRumors 2/1
  • "Boy, 13, arrested after telling Siri he wanted to shoot up a school" New York Post 2/1
Non-Apple News
  • "Big Tech Is No Longer Carrying the Stock Market: The largest tech companies aren't driving the performance of the market, and that shift doesn't bode well for a march to new highs." New York Times [Free Registration Required] 8:41 PM
  • "Google pulls 29 photo apps that stole pictures and promoted scams: Some of them had been downloaded millions of times." Engadget 6:58 AM
  • "Report: Attorneys General in Six States Are Now Investigating Facebook's Data Practices" Gizmodo 2/2
  • "26 years later, Groundhog Day gets revived as... a VR game? No, we don't know if Bill Murray's involved—but his character's son is." Ars Technica 2/2
  • "Spotify is reportedly in talks for a $200 million podcast purchase: The music streaming company is in the process of acquiring podcast giant Gimlet, according to sources." Engadget 2/2
  • "Security firm identifies hacker behind Collection 1 leak, as Collection 2-5 become public" ZDNet 2/1
  • "Energizer says it's making phones with pop-up cameras, 18,000mAh batteries, and foldable displays" The Verge 2/1
  • "Snopes and AP leave Facebook fact-checking partnership" TechCrunch 2/1
  • "Snopes says nope to Facebook's money and leaves fact-checking program: Snopes received $100,000 in 2017 for helping to debunk bogus stories" The Verge 2/1
  • "Snopes leaves Facebook fact checking, citing ineffective operations" Mashable 2/1
  • "Fact check: Taxpayers have already spent money on Foxconn's Wisconsin campus" Associated Press [Free Registration Required] 2/1
  • "Foxconn Affirms Wisconsin Factory Plan, Citing Trump Chat" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/1
  • "Foxconn does damage control over Wisconsin factory" ["The site will function as both an 'advanced manufacturing facility as well as a hub of high technology innovation,' Foxconn said."] CNBC 2/1
  • "Net neutrality could be saved by a technicality - Video" CNET 2/1
  • "What we learned from net neutrality's big day in court: The FCC squared off with net neutrality defenders" The Verge 2/1
  • "A new net neutrality bill is headed to Congress" The Verge 2/1
  • "U.S. appeals court hears challenge to FCC net neutrality repeal" Reuters 2/1
  • "Cyberattacks from China and Russia could disrupt US critical infrastructure - Video" ZDNet 2/1
  • "Huawei's 5G foldable phone is coming this month: Whether gimmicky or great, foldable devices will get their time in the spotlight this year" The Verge 2/1
  • "Saudi Arabia runs a huge, sinister online database of women that men use to track them and stop them from running away" Business Insider 2/1
  • "Immigrant tech workers struggle to get H-1B visas under Trump: 'I've never felt so helpless'" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/1
  • "Google's Mission Impossible: Use AI To 'Detoxify The Internet'" Forbes 2/1
  • "[Update: S10e too] Press renders of the Galaxy S10 and S10+ reveal Samsung is already trying to hide the hole-punch camera" Android Police 2/1
  • "Is this Samsung's first foldable phone? Samsung Unpacked teaser reportedly leaks ahead of event" The Verge 2/1
  • "[Exclusive] Galaxy S10 Lineup Memory, Color Variants, European Price; S10+ to Sport 12GB+1TB Memory" MySmartPrice 2/1
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Coming February 2: Gene Steinberg meets tech commentators Josh Centers of TidBITS and Bryan Chaffin of The Mac Observer, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6:48 AM
  • "Gadget Lab Podcast: Why Apple App-Slapped Facebook" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/1
  • "Meet the 14-year-old who discovered Apple's shocking FaceTime bug: 'I'm only 14 and I found it by accident, instead of the people at Apple that get paid to find glitches'"  MarketWatch 2/1
  • "Episode 161 — Vigilante Justice" Exponent 2/1
  • "What's next for iPhone, plus our favorite gadgets this week on The CultCastCult of Mac 2/1
  • "Facebook, Google, and Apple in the spotlight for security issues on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 2/1
  • "FaceTime, Facebook, Google, Shortcuts, Steganography, and More" Intego Mac Podcast 2/1