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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, December 23, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Pulls Emirati Chat App 'ToTok' From App Store for Allegedly Spying on Users" MacRumors 7:52 AM
  • "Google and Apple have booted messaging app ToTok which was downloaded millions of times and reportedly a UAE spy tool" Business Insider 7:38 AM
  • "Emirati 'surveillance app' ToTok promoted by Huawei as Apple punts it from store" The Register 8:20 AM
  • "Google and Apple remove alleged UAE spy app ToTok" BBC 9:55 AM
  • "A 22-year-old was convicted after trying to blackmail Apple for $100,000 of iTunes cards" Business Insider 7:43 AM
  • "Hacker avoids prison for 2017 iCloud blackmail attempt" AppleInsider 7:51 AM
  • "Undone by the iPhone, San Francisco's face recognition ban is tricky to enforce" GearBrain 8:32 AM
  • "Apple TV+'s gaming comedy has already been renewed for second season" Cult of Mac 9:31 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Samsung Chair sentenced to jail for breaking labour laws" ZDNet 9:15 PM
  • "Congress worries sale of .org could harm non-profits: They want assurances this won't limit access to a crucial internet domain." Engadget 7:06 PM
  • "T-Mobile/Sprint deal is good actually, Feds tell court in states' lawsuit" Ars Technica 4:55 PM
  • "Verizon met its 2019 5G coverage goals, but only just: It couldn't even cover a whole airport with 5G." Engadget 11:44 AM
  • "Plenty of Fish app was leaking users' hidden names and postal codes" TechCrunch 11:44 AM
  • "Machine Learning in 2019 Was About Balancing Privacy and Progress" ITPro Today 10:37 AM
  • "Cars and fridges are getting smarter, and they could learn to pay their own bills next. Even Visa is exploring the IoT-driven tech." [BI Prime] Business Insider 10:13 AM
  • "Here Are The Worst Passwords Of 2019, Is Yours On The List?" Redmond Pie 9:55 AM
  • "Everything you need to know about CES 2020 — the biggest tech show of the year" Business Insider 9:30 AM
  • "'Subway Surfers' was the most downloaded mobile game of the decade. See the top 10 here." Business Insider 2:05 PM
  • "People are sick and tired of the amount of online advertising, and it presents a major new challenge to the tech giants" [BI Prime] Business Insider 8:25 AM
  • "5 ways technology progressed us in 10 years: The story so far" ZDNet 7:29 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Upgrade #277: Who Killed The Butterfly Keyboard?" Six Colors 7:46 PM
  • "Charles Edge On His 'History of Computing' Podcast" MacVoices 3:39 PM
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 257: Our first product memories and Apple's decade in review" 9to5Mac 2:05 PM
  • "NYT and Location Data, Last Minute Gift Picks – TMO Daily Observations 2019-12-23" The Mac Observer 1:29 PM
  • "The Dalrymple Report: Gadgets and porch pirates" The Loop 8:33 AM
  • "A Festivus for The Geeks in Us – Mac Geek Gab 794" The Mac Observer 7:31 AM