Apple Podcasts is expanding to the web, starting today. You can access the new web app version at podcasts.apple.com, in desktop web browsers including Safari, Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
For the first time, Apple Podcasts users can access their Up Next queue, library of saved shows, and browse for new podcasts inside their PC web browser. Previously, only macOS offered a desktop Podcasts app experience.
Today Apple announced that Scamtown will be its next original podcast series. From the team behind documentaries like The Big Conn and McMillion$, the new true-crime series will be an 11-part anthology.
Other than the name change, there’s no functional change coming to Apple IDs.
Researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered serious vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications for the macOS operating system that could allow attackers to misuse permissions.
The vulnerabilities can be exploited by injecting malicious libraries into Microsoft applications to gain entitlements and user-granted permissions.
New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available from its homepage until today.
You know how, when you go to your exercise class during a time when the building is otherwise closed and the instructor has to put a wedge in the door to keep it open but someone doesn’t notice and accidentally lets the door shut without the wedge and then you come and the door is locked and you can’t get in?
Now through September 23, anyone new to Apple's music streaming service will get to try it out for free for three months. The deal only applies to first-time subscribers; if you've never succumbed to the music app's temptation, now is as good a time as any to check it out.
As the U.S. National Park Service marks its 108th birthday this week, Apple is celebrating with more ways to support and experience America’s parks. Today through August 25, Apple will make a $10 donation to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made with Apple Pay on apple.com, in the Apple Store app, or at an Apple Store in the U.S. Additionally, this fall, Apple Maps will make it even easier for users to explore national parks with details for thousands of hikes.
As football season quickly approaches, the Apple Sports app now has full support for NFL and NCAA Football. There’s also a new “Stats” tab on game pages, showing box scores, lineups, and more.
Using the app is very simple: You take a look at three images and decide whether or not the image shows a real source or a false one (or, you can select "unknown" if you're not sure). Of course, the app teaches you all the factors you need to consider to make that determination. And that's it!
If Wells Fargo is your card issuer, then they want you using that Wells Fargo Visa card as often as humanly possible to buy everything in your life. Whether you do that in their wallet, through Apple Pay, or through something else, it’s not a huge deal to them.
What I am interested to find out, with this expansion of Apple Podcast to the web:
Is this an effort by Apple to spurce up its podcast service offering, after adding podcast transcripts to the app and forcing many other podcast players to play catch-up?
Or is this an effort by Apple to add Web as another supported platform, after also expanding Apple Maps to the web?
Or both?
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