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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, March 21, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Signs Vox for News Subscription Service" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:58 PM
  • "WSJ joins Apple's news subscription service, NYT & other major publishers reportedly opt out" iDownload Blog 8:28 AM
  • "Wall Street Journal to Join Apple Premium News Service" The Mac Observer 8:05 AM
  • "The Most Innovative Companies 2019: The Rise of AI, Platforms, and Ecosystems" [Google #1, Amazon #2, Apple #3] Boston Consulting Group 8:50 AM
  • "Apple Has Reportedly Acquired Italian Startup Stamplay" MacRumors 11:36 AM
  • "Apple pays $5.6M to acquire Italian app backend startup Stamplay" AppleInsider 11:39 AM
  • "Apple reportedly acquires Stamplay, Visa API development contest winner" VentureBeat 11:40 AM
  • "Apple Stores across the world will offer livestreams of March 25th Special Event" 9to5Mac 4:21 PM
  • "6 GHz band pits CTIA against Apple, Google and other tech behemoths" FierceWireless 9:59 AM
  • "'Defending Jacob': Michelle Dockery & Jaeden Martell Join Chris Evans In Apple Limited Series" Deadline 8:19 AM
  • "Apple Music to Launch New Multi-Lingual Playlist" Billboard 2:20 PM
  • "Apple's Chris Evans drama series signs new lead actors" Cult of Mac 8:22 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Your Facebook Password Isn't Safe. Neither Is Your Android Phone" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:59 PM
  • "'Sharing of user data is routine, yet far from transparent' is probably what you don't want to hear about medical apps. But 2019 is gonna 2019: Study found Android software slinging deets all over the place" The Register 6:35 PM
  • "Senate Committee happy for Consumer Data Right Bill to be passed in current form" ZDNet 5:57 PM
  • "FCC to Cough Up $43,000 Settlement for Refusing to Turn Over Fake Comment Records" Gizmodo 5:34 PM
  • "Critical flaw lets hackers control lifesaving devices implanted inside patients: Implanted devices from Medtronic can have their firmware rewritten, DHS warns." Ars Technica 3:30 PM
  • "Google Stadia chief predicts the cloud will be the game console of the future: Google's Phil Harrison answers some key questions about the company's cloud gaming service" The Verge 1:38 PM
  • "Comcast to launch streaming video service for internet customers" Reuters 1:16 PM
  • "Finland is investigating Nokia phones sending data to China" Engadget 12:07 PM
  • "Facebook knew of Cambridge Analytica data misuse earlier than reported – court filing: DC attorney general says email exchange shows Facebook knew of data harvesting prior to Guardian report" The Guardian 8:41 PM
  • "Facebook's AI couldn't spot mass murder" TechCrunch 4:02 PM
  • "Facebook Facepalm: Up To 600 Million User Passwords Were Stored In Plain Text" HotHardware 3:50 PM
  • "Why Facebook waited 3 months to disclose its latest privacy screw-up" Mashable 3:30 PM
  • "Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here's What You Need to Know." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 1:14 PM
  • "Facebook admits it stored 'hundreds of millions' of account passwords in plaintext" TechCrunch 11:40 AM
  • "T-Mobile begins piloting in-home LTE internet service: The carrier said the goal is to connect up to 50,000 homes this year using fixed unlimited wireless service over LTE." ZDNet 9:15 AM
  • "Qualcomm may seek declaration of having met FRAND obligations, gets minor adjustment of Korean antitrust fine, wholesale acquittal in Japan" Foss Patents 8:42 AM
  • "After Christchurch, Facebook concedes AI alone can't stop violent livestreams" VentureBeat 8:28 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Google Stadia and Apple AR Gaming, Good Data Collection, with Andrew Orr -ACM 506" The Mac Observer 4:48 PM
  • "Headphones (including AirPods), Apple's Premium News Service – TMO Daily Observations 2019-03-21" The Mac Observer 2:20 PM
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 217: New iPad mini and iPad Air, iMac refresh, second-gen AirPods debut" 9to5Mac 1:15 PM
  • "New iPads, iMacs, and AirPods, WWDC19, Spotify vs. Apple Music, and your hot takes: Macworld Podcast episode 644" Macworld 8:19 AM