Facebook Chose Not to Act on Militia Complaints Before Kenosha Shooting

Ben Smith: ‘How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right’

Nicole Nguyen on Reels, Instagram’s Shameless But Perhaps Misbegotten Copy of TikTok

Zeynep Tufekci: ‘Why Aren’t We Talking More About Ventilation?’

Epic Will Not Update Fortnite for iOS

Face ID vs. Face Masks

Improved KVO in Big Sur

macOS Big Sur 11 beta 5: Key-Value Observation removal facilities now employ deterministic bookkeeping methods. Cases that would have produced hard-to-diagnose crashes, especially those where KVO signals problems accessing deallocated observer point…

Epic Will Stop Updating Fortnite for iOS and Mac

Epic (via MacRumors): Apple is blocking Fortnite updates and new installs on the App Store, and has said they will terminate our ability to develop Fortnite for Apple devices. As a result, Fortnite’s newly released Chapter 2 - Season 4 update (v14.0…

Unity’s IPO Filing

Unity’s Form S-1 cites some risk factors (via Hacker News, Slashdot): Operating system platform providers or application stores may change terms of service, policies or technical requirements to require us or our customers to change data collection …

Facebook SDK Will Not Adopt Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Prompt

Juli Clover (also: Hacker News): Facebook today warned advertisers that Apple’s upcoming anti-tracking tools could cause a more than 50 percent drop in Audience Network publisher revenue due to the removal of personalization from ads within apps.[…]…

Exposure Notifications Without an App

Chance Miller (also: MacRumors): At the time, Google and Apple also teased “phase two” of the technology. This is what is being released as part of iOS 13.7, and it allows users to opt-in to COVID-19 Exposure Notifications without installing an app.…

Epic Will Not Update Fortnite for iOS

Epic Will Not Update Fortnite for iOS

Jose-Luis Jimenez: ‘COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Need to Adapt.’

Let’s Talk Photography 83: iOS Jargon Busting

In this solo show Bart explains the effect of each of the photo adjustment sliders in the built-in iOS camera and photos apps. Ever The post Let’s Talk Photography 83: iOS Jargon Busting appeared first on MyMac.com.

Xbox Executive Kevin Gammill’s ‘Declaration of Support’ for Epic Is Specifically About Unreal Engine, not Fortnite

Ezra Klein: ‘The RNC Shows the Republican Party Is Now Trump’s Personality Cult’

The Republican Party Is a Cult, RNC Day One: Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Speech

Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated

Zac Wood (via Paul Haddad): Submitted a minor update for @AtticsApp after nearly two years on the App Store and @Apple has decided out of nowhere that I have been engaging in “a pattern of manipulative or misleading behavior” and has permanently ter…

Potential

Francisco Tolmasky (member of the original iPhone team): Apple’s iOS rules would not have allowed for the invention of the web browser. Let that sink in. They would have rejected one of the most important technical innovations in the history of comp…

Court Rules on Epic’s Temporary Restraining Order

Manish Singh (Hacker News, MacRumors): A district court denied Epic Games’ motion to temporarily restore the Fortnite game to the iOS App Store, but also ordered Apple to not block the gaming giant’s ability to provide and distribute Unreal Engine o…