Daring Fireball 6d ago

404 Media: Vulnerability in iCloud’s ‘Hide My Email’ Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses

Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: 404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 4...

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Daring Fireball Jun 30

U.K. Regulator Considers Requiring App Store to Allow Steering to the Web, and iOS NFC to Be Open

Sam Tabahriti, reporting for Reuters: Britain’s competition regulator ​on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment opti...

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Daring Fireball Jun 29

Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or ar...

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Daring Fireball Jun 29

The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took do...

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Daring Fireball Jun 27

Micron Executive Sumit Sadana Tells Tim Cook to Stop Hitting Himself

From the bottom of Rolfe Winkler’s report for The Wall Street Journal Thursday, on Apple’s unprecedented price increases (gift link): Apple’s price hikes arr...

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Daring Fireball Jun 27

Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022

From a September 2022 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, co-signed by Marco Rubio (then a Republican senator from Florida, curren...

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Daring Fireball Jun 27

Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices, Drops High-End Storage Model From Lineup

Microsoft’s Xbox blog: Effective August 1, 2026, we will be updating prices worldwide. The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models a...

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Daring Fireball Jun 27

FT Reports That Apple Is Lobbying to Buy Memory Chips From Blacklisted Chinese Company CXMT

Demetri Sevastopulo and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times (paywalled, alas): Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to buy m...

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