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Apple, other tech firms pen open letter to Trump administration voicing opposition to immigration ban

On Wednesday night, a story broke that the heads of several major technology firms, including Apple, were prepping an open letter to United States President Donald Trump as a means to voice opposition to the immigration executive order that he signed last Friday. On Thursday, a draft of the full letter was shared online. The […]

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Twitter changes policy, allows media attachments to be posted without affecting 140-character limit

You’ll finally begin to get more out of your tweets. On Monday, Twitter changed its architecture so that posting photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and quotes of other tweets without counting against the 140-character limit. Now that these media attachments won’t reduce the character count, users can compose longer tweets. Twitter announced this change back in […]

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Netflix admits to throttling AT&T, Verizon users’ data

Well, that could have gone better. Netflix, which has been caught with its hand in the cookie jar, has gone on record to say that it throttled user data through AT&T and Verizon while trying to “protect consumers from exceeding mobile data caps.” As of now, AT&T and Verizon wireless customers are still limited to […]

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Instagram changes APIs, feed access to third-party apps following discovery of malware

In the wake of a security breach, you make changes. Following the recent discovery of the InstaAgent malware, which was Instagram passwords from users, Instagram has instituted much stricter rules for accessing its API, effectively killing off a large number of apps that read Instagram feeds. Over on its developer web site, Instagram explained that […]

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Apple updates privacy policy web site, looks to distinguish data collection habits from Google and Facebook

Following up a bit more on this, Apple on Tuesday updated its privacy policy web site, detailing items like its policy on encryption and changes related to iOS 9, such as the way it targets stories and advertising in its News app. “We knew coming in that building a personalized news product could be very […]