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The Adult Children Cleaning Up Their Parents’ Feeds
Jessica Lucas, in a fascinating New York magazine article about older people succumbing to compulsive social media use, and the adult children who are trying to stabilize their feeds: Most adult children seem to know instinctively that their parents’ social-media use has long…
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Colossus is Silicon Valley’s Investor-Backed ‘In-Flight Magazine’
In September, I linked to a lengthy profile of Mark Zuckerberg written by Jeremy Stern in Colossus. It was a useful complement to Meta’s Connect presentation. But I had not heard of Colossus before then, and I wish I had done more digging into how what seemed to be a small…
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‘No One Paid Me to Disagree With Jonathan Haidt’
danah boyd, like Andrew Gelman and Candice Odgers, says she was not paid by Meta or anyone else to disagree with Jonathan Haidt’s conclusions about social media: What kills me in the contemporary teens-and-tech debate is that there’s no space for actual research or critical…
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Eternal Black October
Rusty Foster, of the excellent Today in Tabs newsletter you should probably be reading: Neat! There’s a remote-exploitable kernel memory race condition in the Linux IPv4 TCP code. A bunch of other linux kernel vulnerabilities were accidentally posted to a public mailing list…
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North Korea Gets Away With $3 Billion From Binance
Molly White, writing at Citation Needed: A notorious North Korean cybercrime group has stolen around $6.4 billion in cryptoassets from multiple hot wallets belonging to Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and still controls around $3 billion of it after…
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Meta Executives Met to ‘Get the Academic Community to Disavow’ Jonathan Haidt
Cailin O’Connor, professor at the University of California Irvine: Yesterday saw reporting on new, internal Meta documents released through the ongoing lawsuit. Meta had been using a favored industry strategy of including their attorneys on any risky internal correspondence so…
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Reddit Is Further Locking Itself Down
Reddit administrator “judy-funnie” (via Michael Tsai): Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we’ll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives.…
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A Further Status Update on the Toaster-Refrigerator Project
Joanna Stern, reporting for ABC News in 2012: And it was on that last point that Cook had a lot to say. When asked if Apple was planning to merge its tablet and laptop products, much as Microsoft is proceeding with Windows 8, Cook responded with a quip: “You can converge a…
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Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down
Maxwell Tani, Semafor: The globally-minded tech news startup Rest of World is scrambling to find a new home — or faces the prospect of shutting down. The six-year-old digital publication has seen the social and web search traffic on which it depends evaporate. This sharp decline…
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The Annoying Implementation of Translation in Safari
Jeff Johnson: The Safari web browser has a longstanding annoying misfeature: it announces “Reader Available” and “Translation Available” in the address bar, whether you like it or not, with no way I know of to stop that madness. This behavior is bad on Mac, worse on iPhone.…
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Apple Finds Some Personality
Jason Snell, Six Colors: Every five years when we hit an anniversary, I struggle to recontextualize the iPod. But this year, for the 25th anniversary, I’ve been thinking about Apple’s little music player a lot more. Stephen Hackett: This link — which you gotta manually open in…
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A.I. Has Made It Easy to Brute Force the Internet
Jason Koebler, 404 Media: To give you a sense of what I’m seeing, Matthew Green, a Johns Hopkins professor and one of the most respected cryptographers in the world, posted “we’re in the part of the movie where you need to throw whatever you can in the path of the zombies and…
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Australia Becomes Latest Region to Require More Competitive iOS App Distribution
Tom Williams, Information Age: Apple has been ordered to open its “walled garden” to allow third-party app stores and alternative in-app payment systems in Australia, in a landmark court decision which the technology giant says it will appeal. Apple has until at least March 2027…
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PHP Warns Admins to Expect Emergency Patches Tomorrow
Lawrence Abrams, Bleeping Computer: In an advisory published Tuesday, the PHP development team announced that it plans to release security updates on Wednesday, October 21, at 14:00 UTC (10:00 AM Eastern), to address two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0. The PHP…
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NetNewsWire Themes
A feature I sometimes forget is present in NetNewsWire is that you can change its theme. That is mostly because I set it years ago and forgot all about it. Dave Marquard recently created a theme repository. I quite like Ember, which looks very nice on my Mac and iPhone alike —…
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NetNewsWire 7.2
Brent Simmons: We’ve released NetNewsWire 7.2 for Mac with a new column view layout: choose View > Use Column Layout to switch. (Choose it again to switch back.) This is a new feature in the sense that the previous version of the app didn’t have it — but NetNewsWire of Yore,…
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What Is the Truth?
Geoff Mann, London Review of Books: The dubious achievement of prediction markets is to have found a new way to exacerbate and exploit the simultaneously frantic and passive experience of the world that is a defining aspect of our age. Like any kind of gambling, they are…
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The Last Skeuomorph in iOS?
Jarrett Fuller [sic]: It’s 2026 and when I click the button on my glass phone, it makes a shutter sound! There are still skeuomorphs in iOS after all! The skeuomorphic designs of the early camera simulated a shutter closing and opening when you a took a photo but that’s long…
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Meta Revises Its Commercial Terms of Service Again
Andrew Deck and Hanaa’ Tameez, Nieman Lab: In its revision, published Friday afternoon, Meta removed the word “train” from a list of allowed use cases and limited those uses to “advertising and business products,” rather than all Meta products. But the revised terms will still…
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Tech Hype Is Cannibalizing the Future
Sun-ha Hong, Tech Policy Press: Sometimes, failures do lead to wider stigma and skepticism around the technology in question. But this does not happen anywhere near as often as the massive levels of investment and inflated promises might warrant. The distinct characteristic of…