Aaron Mackey, free speech and transparency litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), notes that the Texas law doesn't have any built-in protections for user data, such as minimizing what is collected and transmitted and for how long it is retained. Plus, there are risks present in the likelihood that app stores will utilize third-party verification services to comply with the requirements, meaning data is available to multiple parties.
The EFF and the ACLU also argue that online age verification requirements violate users' First Amendment rights, as they may make protected free speech inaccessible—if adults don't have a valid form of identification, or facial recognition inaccurately estimates age, or minors can't get parental consent—or force people to choose between shielding their privacy and being online.
Most people these days either tolerate these privacy intrusions or outright don’t care about them. But there’s a growing movement that believes it’s time to claim our privacy back. Some are working piecemeal, blocking trackers and reducing permissions where they can, while not totally ditching modern digital society as a whole. Others, however, are as hardcore as can be—a modern equivalent of "going off the grid."
Apple has released its highly anticipated feature film documentary event Bono: Stories of Surrender, the company’s first dual-format feature film release, available both in a traditional 2D presentation and Apple Immersive Video for Apple Vision Pro on Apple TV+.
The first version of Classic Mac OS released with the original Macintosh 128K naturally came with System 1.0 and Finder 1.0. Within a few months, version numbering was already becoming confusing, when the successor System Software 0.1 had apparently started at 0.0, but the System itself had reached 1.1. This worsened when System Software 1.0 was released two years later, and came with System 3.1 and Finder 5.2.
For depicting something like the apocalypse of this series, Boyle believes “it’s wonderful to give yourself parameters that you use to try and depict it and have technical limitations.” That would include using iPhones to shoot certain sequences – sometimes as many as 20 of them at a time. But that was just one of the methods the filmmaker implemented.
Apple has shared its third-ever App Store Transparency Report today. The report includes granular information on things like app removals and appeals, App Store user traffic, government takedown requests, and more.
Yet another thing I hate to find out in the morning: one of the AirPods was not placed nicely in the case and is not charged overnight, and now either I have to not listen to any audio at all for quite a few more minutes, or I have to listen with one ear only with no noise cancelling.
In the grand scheme of things, not a big deal. But, hey, I am still unhappy for that quite a few minutes.
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