★ Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition

To sum up my stance: Tracking is wrong when it’s done without consent, and when users have no idea what’s being tracked or how it’s being used. Tracking is fine when it’s done with consent, and users know what’s being tracked and how it’s being used.

Might Meta Go Pay-Only in the EU?

Google Reorg Puts Android, Chrome, Photos and More Under Leadership of Devices Team

U.S. Court Rules That Police Can Force a Suspect to Unlock Phone With Thumbprint

Might Meta Go Pay-Only in the EU?

Twitter Alternative Post News Is Shutting Down

China Orders Apple to Remove WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram From Chinese App Store

Apple Removes Messaging Apps From Chinese App Store

MacRumors (CNN, Hacker News): Apple on late Thursday into Friday removed the popular messaging and social media apps WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Threads from its App Store in China at the request of the Chinese government, The Wall Street Journa…

VLC vs. the App Stores

VideoLAN (via Hacker News): App Stores were a mistake.Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users…For now, iOS App Store still allows us to sh…

Color Kobo E-readers

Sheena Vasani (Hacker News): Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. Both use E Ink’s latest Kaledio color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi gr…

Optimizing WebKit & Safari for Speedometer 3.0

Alan Baradlay et al.: We made our fast JSON stringifier work for unicode characters. We also analyzed profile data carefully and made JSON.parse faster than ever. […] We took the release of the new Speedometer 3.0 benchmark as an opportunity to adju…

The Best Simple USB-C Microphone: Audio-Technica’s ATR2100x-USB

Delta Game Emulator Now Available From the App Store

Google Reorg Puts Android, Chrome, Photos and More Under Leadership of Devices Team

Google Reorg Puts Android, Chrome, Photos and More Under Leadership of Devices Team

Elizabeth Warren, Still Using Twitter/X: ‘It’s Time to Break Up Apple’s Smartphone Monopoly’

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract

Netflix Will Stop Reporting Subscriber Numbers Next Year

Daniel C. Lynch, RIP

Katie Hafner (via Hacker News): In 1986, Mr. Lynch decided to hold a workshop to train vendors and developers to configure equipment for routing traffic through the internet. The point was to make different manufacturers’ equipment work together and…

Legibility and San Francisco

Niko Kitsakis (tweet): Why is San Francisco not the best typeface for a user interface? After all, Apple has gone through quite some trouble designing it in-house. Do a search on the matter and you will find articles and videos for deve lo pers, whe…

Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?

Sammy Steele: The data revealed that some of our tables, containing several terabytes and billions of rows, were becoming too large for a single database. At this size, we began to see reliability impact during Postgres vacuums, which are essential …