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Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)

Can you guess the top 5 countries by IPv6 usage?

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The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio. (www.androidauthority.com)

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio, so they can directly communicate with smart home devices. Old iPhones could probably be used as a smart home hub....

"Test for Ricardo" Notification?

Any other Motorola phone users get this notification pop-up? I found a post on the forum that shall not be named and it seems like a worldwide Motorola glitch but no official word yet....

New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board (www.tomshardware.com)

Amazoned! Online Vendors Abused and Screwed Over (particl.news)

Amazon is known for its anti-competition practices. While they aggressively charge you for every sale you make, they also get to see all of your sales data; valuable information to have if you want to launch products. Even better if you plan on launching copycats! In more than one way, just by selling on their platform, they get...

BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)

Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware. This latest find shows once again that civil society is...

Josh Simmons is now Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation! (matrix.org)

Previously held positions on the Open Source Initiative board.

Just got a Samsung phone after years and years on a moto/droid. What apps should I get to up the qol?

New motos are just too big for my baby hands so I got myself an s23 for a steal, but I’m finding that I miss some of the functionality that I used to have, and that some features are just annoying on this phone....

Tuta(nota) users, what do you think about their new setup? (tuta.com)

Have a look at their blog post but then please also look at this. What do you think?...

Top Biden tech priorities stalled by misalignment between federal IT teams (fedscoop.com)

Inside Elon Musk’s First Election Crisis—a Day After He ‘Freed’ the Bird (www.wired.com)

Amazon, Microsoft, and India crack down on tech support scams (www.theverge.com)

Sony confirms server security breaches that exposed employee data (www.theverge.com)

X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)

An excerpt from You Deserve A Tech Union on deskilling, automation, artificial intelligence, and unions (roadmapmag.com)

the possible titles for this were all bad so this is a wholesale invented title by me to summarize the contents of this link, which i think otherwise is interesting....

We need [Gen AI] literacy like media literacy (jamesg.blog)

Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers....

I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’ (www.404media.co)

Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline (archive.ph)

Here’s a rare look at Google’s most lucrative search queries (www.theverge.com)

What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves? (nymag.com)

How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?

These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I’m interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess....