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Interesting post about radio as per usual from Doc Searls:

The question on Quora was How long does a radio station last on average? Here is my answer, which also addresses the bigger question of what will happen to radio itself. Radio station licenses will…

Source: How long will radio last?

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Lets not always believe what the competition says! Macrumor article here.

Apple says the attack was “narrowly-focused” rather than a broad-based exploit of iPhones as described. Fewer than a dozen websites targeting Uighur Muslims were affected, according to Apple. Further, Apple says that Google created a false impression of mass exploitation, causing fear among iPhone owners.

Google also got the length of the attacks wrong. Apple says the websites were operational for approximately two months rather than two years, with the vulnerabilities fixed 10 days after Apple learned about them. Fixes were already in the works when Google approached Apple.

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Wait a minute, MySpace still exists??!!

Source: MySpace loses 12 years worth of photos, songs & video files

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Who knew Corel still existed after all these years!!!

Source: CorelDRAW Returns to Mac After Nearly 20 Years With macOS Mojave Dark Mode and Touch Bar Support – MacRumors

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Interesting short film created in VR using Quill

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Looks like you can now have some free private repositories on GitHub:

Source: GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

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This is very curious that a single app can cause an iPhone to misbehave like this. This shouldn’t happen regardless of what the app is doing. I suspect we will hear more about this in the coming days.

Source: Apple Identifies Issue With GasBuddy App Causing Some iPhones to Become Unresponsive [Updated] – Mac Rumors

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This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone considering we are talking about Google here:

Source: Google’s iOS and Android Apps Track and Store Location Data With Location History Disabled – Mac Rumors

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This is all about Twitter attempting to get people to use their own lousy Twitter client or web interface so that they can put ads and nonsense in front of your face and attempt to force you to read stuff you really couldn’t care to.

This is probably the beginning of the end of Twitter as they are struggling with no viable business model at all.

I always have and always will use a 3rd party app that allows me to use twitter in the way that I decide to use it and not the way that Twitter wants me to see their ads and irrelevant nonsense.

Fortunately most features still work with Tweetbot by Tapbots so I will continue to use it until it no longer works. When that happens I’m likely mostly done with twitter. I might use it to post but I certainly won’t be reading peoples posts.

Source: Twitter Explains API Changes to Employees as Limits for Third-Party Apps Go Live – Mac Rumors

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Perfect for all those worthless open office concepts:

Source: Would you wear this muzzle around the office for private calling? – CNET

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