Apple’s Immersive Video Problem

Jason Snell: On Thursday Apple debuted its first immersive video since the Vision Pro launched, a five-minute-long compilation of highlights from the MLS Cup playoffs late last year. Without even seeing the video, I had many questions. Why did it ta…

xz Backdoor

Thomas Claburn: Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression software library xz may be present in instances of Fedora Linux 40 and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution. The IT giant said the m…

GeeksPub – The Bracket S2E2 – Many Trailers

Season 2 Episode 2 of the Comic Movies Bracket! Plus, Outer Ranger, quick review of Madam Webb, trailers for The Penguin, The Crow. The The post GeeksPub – The Bracket S2E2 – Many Trailers appeared first on MyMac.com.

MyMac Podcast 970: What’s wrong with regular intelligence?

Gaz is off having a good time so Guy is kidnapping…requesting the presence of Karl Madden from the Mac and Forth podcast to talk The post MyMac Podcast 970: What’s wrong with regular intelligence? appeared first on MyMac.com.

The Talk Show: ‘You’ve Never Seen Email Like This Before’

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★ More on the EU’s Market Might

On the EU’s share of Apple’s worldwide revenue, and whether, per EC commissioner Thierry Breton, it is “unthinkable” not to serve the 450-million-citizen EU market.

★ The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue

The DMA allows the EC to penalize “gatekeepers” with fines that are vastly disproportionate to the amount of revenue they generate in EU member states.

★ European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta

You could have set your watch by this announcement dropping the week after the EC held compliance “workshops”.

★ More on the EU’s Market Might

On the EU’s share of Apple’s worldwide revenue, and whether, per EC commissioner Thierry Breton, it is “unthinkable” not to serve the 450-million-citizen EU market.

‘MLB for VisionOS Strikes Out on Opening Day’

‘2023 MLS Cup Highlights’: 5-Minute Apple Immersive Video for Vision Pro Debuts Tonight

Meta Used Its Onavo VPN to Snoop on Users’ Encrypted Snapchat Traffic

WhatsApp: The World’s Default Communication App

Evan Gershkovich’s Stolen Year in a Russian Jail

The Journal App’s “Discoverable by Others” Setting

Joanna Stern: When you go into Settings > Privacy & Security > Journaling Suggestions, you’ll see that Discoverable by Others is enabled by default—even if you never turned on suggestions. Under the setting it says, “Allow others to detect you are n…

Those Obnoxious “Sign in With Google” Prompts

Marco Arment: If I ran a website that supported Google-account login, I’d be pretty pissed at how they’re suddenly putting up an obnoxious overlay over my site’s layout.Why is this not bothering more people? Does anyone give a shit about their websi…

StopTheMadness Pro

There have been a bunch of neat updates to this browser extension in the last year or so. April: [It’s] difficult to edit a long URL in the Safari address bar, especially on iPhone.[…]Select StopTheMadness from the menu. […] Tap the Edit Tab URL but…

Kara Swisher Interviews Margrethe Vestager

‘MLB for VisionOS Strikes Out on Opening Day’

Andrew Aude, in Happier Times, Before Anyone Could Argue Apple Pay Was a Monopoly