438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Microsoft at 50
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Steven Levy: [Nadella] tells a story from a few years ago, when a group of tech analysts came from China to take the measure of Silicon Valley. They attended all the key developer’s conferences: Apple’s WWDC, Google I/O, AWS Re:Invent, and of course, Microsoft’s own Build. “They said, ‘God, you know what? For anything that […]
FTC Opens Microsoft Antitrust Investigation
Kyle Wiggers: The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, accordingtomultiplereports that corroborate earlier reporting by the Financial Times.The agency is said to be looking into whether Microsoft violated antitrust law in multiple segments of its business, including its public cloud, AI, and cybersecurity product lines. Of particular interest to the FTC is the […]
Microsoft Donates the Mono Project to Wine
Mono (via Hacker News, Slashdot): The Mono Project (mono/mono) (‘original mono’) has been an important part of the .NET ecosystem since it was launched in 2001. Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin in 2016. The last major release of the Mono Project was in July 2019, with minor patch […]
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
AWS (via Hacker News): Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object without knowing the state of its content. You can use this capability by providing […]
Unlisted MindNode Classic
Markus Müller-Simhofer (via John Gordon): Despite our best efforts, we encountered difficulties bringing our planned changes to MindNode. Providing seamless sync, live collaboration, and other new features was impossible when storing documents as files on disk. We revised our plans and started to develop a new app, “MindNode Next,” that now manages its documents directly […]
Brazil Rules Against Apple’s Anti-Steering Rules
Reuters: Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade said on Monday that Apple must lift restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases, among other things, as the watchdog moved to proceed with an investigation into a complaint filed by Latin America e-commerce giant MercadoLibre.[…]MercadoLibre’s complaint, filed in 2022 in Brazil and Mexico, accused Apple of imposing a series […]
Mini vMac for iOS Rejected via Notarization
Jesús A. Álvarez: Mini vMac for iOS won’t be coming to #AltStorePAL, it was just #RejectedByAppReview for notarization after an initial rejection and appeal. You can of course still get it from GitHub and build it with Xcode or sideload the ipa with AltStore Classic. Via Riley Testut: Apple’s complete abuse of Notarization is going […]
App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
Mysk: This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for “Google Authenticator,” events are recorded as I […]