Passkey Usability

Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Passkeys—the much-talked-about password alternative to passwords that have been widely available for almost two years—was supposed to fix all that. When I wrote about passkeys two years ago, I was a big believer. I remain c…

Network Neutrality Not Reinstated

Bruce Crumley (via Hacker News): The increasing challenge to government agencies’ authority to regulate businesses gained momentum this week, after an appeals court suspended application of the Federal Communications Commission‘s (FCC) ruling restor…

Understanding the Various Inscrutable Beeps, Bops, and Bloops AirPods Make

Breathable, Garrett Murray’s AQI Widget for iOS and MacOS, Is Now Free of Charge

From the DF Archive: ‘Life as a Facebook Moderator’

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

Understanding the Various Inscrutable Beeps, Bops, and Bloops AirPods Make

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

Breathable, Garrett Murray’s AQI Widget for iOS and MacOS, Is Now Free of Charge

Making Apple S9 and A16 in Arizona

Tim Culpan: TSMC Arizona has picked up a second Apple product. In addition to the A16 processor for iPhones, which I shared with you in September, the fab is now producing SiPs (Systems-in-Package) for the Apple Watch, according to my sources. This …

Bing Tricking People Into Thinking They’re on Google

Tom Warren (tweet, Hacker News): Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot …

Microsoft Edge Slurps Tabs From Chrome Without Permission

Brandon Vigliarolo (via Hacker News): Buried within Edge’s browser settings on Windows PCs is code that goes well beyond a one-time import of favorites and stored passwords, and has been present in some form as far back as mid-2022 at least. It give…

Xerox to Acquire Lexmark

Lexmark (via Hacker News): Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) today announced it has agreed to acquire Lexmark International, Inc., from Ninestar Corporation, PAG Asia Capital, and Shanghai Shouda Investment Centre in a deal valued at $1.5 bil…

Microsoft’s Recent History of Dirty Tricks With Edge

When You Search for ‘Google’ on Bing, Bing Attempts to Trick You Into Thinking the Results Page Is Google

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

★ After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.

When You Search for ‘Google’ on Bing, Bing Attempts to Trick You Into Thinking the Results Page Is Google

Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”

Norbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the…

RSS Cache Control

Brent Simmons reported to me that my blog’s RSS feed wasn’t updating in recent versions of NetNewsWire. They’ve added support for the Cache-Control response header, and, for reasons unknown, my site was returning an interval of 2 days: $ curl --head…

SysBumps Attack

Guru Baran (via Ric Ford, PDF): The research team from Korea University, led by Hyerean Jang, Taehun Kim, and Youngjoo Shin, presented their findings in a paper titled “SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in…