Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How to Recognize a Genuine Mac Password Request

Howard Oakley: One of the primary aims of most malware is to trick you into giving it your password. Armed with that, there’s little to stop it gathering up your secrets and sending them off to your attacker’s servers. One of your key defences against that is to know when a password request is genuine, […]

More App Store Ad Spots

Apple: When a user searches on the App Store, your ad can appear at the top of their search results. And starting in 2026, we’ll be introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results. […] Your ad will run in either the existing position — at the top of search results — or further […]

Google Sues SerpApi

Halimah DeLaine Prado (Reddit): We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi for circumventing security measures protecting others’ copyrighted content that appears in Google search results. We did this to ask a court to stop SerpApi’s bots and their malicious scraping, which violates the choices of websites and rightsholders about who should have […]

TikTok Spin Off Deal

Clare Duffy (Reddit): TikTok has signed the deal backed by President Donald Trump to spin off its US assets to create a new entity with a group of mostly American investors, CEO Shou Chew told employees in a memo Thursday. Although the transaction is not yet complete, the move brings TikTok one step closer to […]

The Talk Show: ‘A Naughty Citizen’

Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-topic holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple’s executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO.

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