ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It's rolling out a "Year in Review" feature that will show you a bunch of stats - like how many messages you sent to the chatbot in 2025 - as well as give you an AI-generated pixel art-style image that encompasses some of […]

Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Italy’s Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a €98.6 million ($116 million) fine on Apple over its App Tracking Transparency feature. […] In a press release and executive summary today, the AGCM said the App Tracking Transparency rules are “disproportionate,” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it found that Apple […]

John Daniel (via John Siracusa, Reddit): As of 26.1, when you encode a security-scoped bookmark to “file:///”, what you decode will be a bookmark to “file:///.nofollow/”. So the decode method now succeeds, but the value is wrong. I actually preferred the behaviour of the original bug. Kevin Elliott: The “.nofollow” syntax is a new part […]

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): This morning I reluctantly updated my iPhone SE (3rd generation) from iOS 18.7.2 to iOS 26.2. I had been hoping for Santa Cook to bring me iOS 18.7.3 for Christmas. Apparently, though, we’ve all been naughty. Or maybe Cook himself is not nice. I was aware that it was (previously) possible to […]

Chiara Castro (Hacker News, Reddit): Proton has confirmed the company has begun moving out of Switzerland due to “legal uncertainty” over the newly proposed surveillance law. […] The firm behind one of the best VPN and encrypted email services has been very critical of the Swiss government’s proposed amendment of its surveillance law since the […]