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Leaked internal email shows Twitter’s rationale for ending older API support for third-party clients

Following up on Twitter’s shutting down the API (Application Programming Interfaces) for useful third-party applications like Tweetbot and Twitterific, an internal email published by TechCrunch shows the company’s logic behind the decision. While the email likely won’t convince irritated Twitter users who are seeing features removed from their favorite apps, the internal communication is the […]

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iOS 12 developer beta 2 studied, new features, changes and bugs reported

Apple released the second iOS 12 developer beta and it’s full of interesting changes. Changes to Screen Time include new options to sort by device and view additional details on a per app basis, while tweaks made to Battery Usage make it easier to see which apps are eating up battery. Other smaller changes are […]

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Twitter locates bug through internal review, recommends changing account passwords

There’s no grey area to be had here: It’s time to reset the password on your Twitter account. This advice hails from Twitter itself, which discovered an internal bug that essentially stored passwords unmasked Twitter has stated that there was no known breach of this info and offered the following comment:

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Apple, other tech firms, push back against encryption backdoor proposals suggested by law enforcement agencies, cite privacy concerns

The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]

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Code strings found in iOS 11.3 hint at “Tatl” display output, support for possible future AR glasses

Apple’s iOS 11.3 code base has been studied and some interesting stuff has been found. Per iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith, assorted strings of code in iOS 11.3 that contains a mysterious display output codenamed “Tatl.” The CoreUI framework can now request UI assets in meters, leading some to speculate that this might be referring to […]