Sheryl Sandberg Pressured Daily Mail to Drop Unflattering Story About Bobby Kotick While She Was Dating Him

★ More Rumors on Apple Obtaining the Rights to NFL Sunday Ticket

That should be the point of Apple securing the rights to Sunday Ticket. Not just to get NFL games on Apple TV+, but to further cement TV+ as a dominant force in streaming video.

Improved Reddit Search

Reddit (via MacRumors, Hacker News): With this latest update, for the first time in sixteen years everything on Reddit is now searchable - users, posts, communities, and now comments - making Reddit one of the first platforms with this capability. A…

Open Letter to Apple About Final Cut Pro

Alex Gollner: On Tuesday 19th April 2022, a group of over 100 people in TV and film production worldwide sent an open letter to Tim Cook of Apple about Final Cut Pro. They used the letter ask Apple to publicly stand by the use of Final Cut Pro - App…

Applying Computer Science

Ben Sandofsky: People seem to think Computer Science all data structures and sorting algorithms, when that’s maybe 5% of CS. So for folks just starting out, I made a short intro to a different area of CS, and a powerful tool I use every day: the tra…

Apple Discontinues macOS Server

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server. Existing macOS Server customers can continue to download and use the app with macOS Monterey. The most popular server features—Caching Server, File Sharing Se…

Elon Musk Says He Has the Dough to Back Twitter Acquisition

The Atlantic: ‘Stop Saying Vaccines Don’t Work for the Immunocompromised’

CNN+ Streaming Service to Shut Down at End of Month

HomePods Are Appreciating in Value

HomePods Are Appreciating in Value

Brazilian Judge Rules That Apple Must Compensate Customer Over $1,000 for Selling iPhone Without a Charger

NFL Sunday Ticket: How Much Do Bars and Restaurants Pay?

Removing AMP By Default

Brave (via Tim Hardwick): Brave is rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. AMP harms users’ privacy, security and internet experience, a…

Plenty of Tracking Despite App Tracking Transparency

Dan Goodin: Last week’s research paper said that while ATT in many ways works as intended, loopholes in the framework also provided the opportunity for companies, particularly large ones like Google and Facebook, to work around the protections and s…

How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars

Jakub Roztočil (via Hacker News): Due to an unfortunate sequence of events, I accidentally made the project’s repository private for a moment. And GitHub cascade-deleted our community that took 10 years to build.[…]It’s a peculiarity of GitHub, to p…

GitHub Deleting Contributions From Russian Developers

Jesse Squires: According to various reports ([1], [2], [3], [4]), GitHub is suspending accounts of Russian developers and organizations linked to or associated with organizations sanctioned by the US government over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. […]…

DuckDuckGo, youtube-dl, and Bing

Ernesto Van der Sar (via Hacker News): Privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed the search results for many popular pirates sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies. Several YouTube ripping services have disappeared…

Biden Administration Looks Gift Horse in Mouth, But Can’t See It Because the Horse Is Wearing a Mask

Open Letter to Apple About Final Cut Pro

Netflix Shares Drop 25% After Company Reports Losing Subscribers for First Time in a Decade