I don’t play trials very often, but with how good Immortal is, I decided to hop in and start grinding for it. This was by far the biggest play of the weekend for me đ„
Andrew J. Hawkins writing for The Verge (Apple News)
GMâs move to restrict access to CarPlay and Android Auto, which is expected to begin with the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV, will help the automaker capture more data on its customersâ driving, listening, and charging habits. It could also help inform future subscription products, as automakers across the board are seeking to generate more revenue beyond just selling cars.
We have a Chevy Bolt, and we love having CarPlay in the car, couldn’t imagine buying a car without it now.
Cat Zakrzewski writing for The Washington Post (Apple News)
Former president Donald Trump and President Biden have criticized the provision, calling for its repeal, but for different reasons. Democrats largely argue that Section 230 allows tech companies to duck responsibility for the hate speech, misinformation and other problematic content on their platforms. Republicans, meanwhile, allege companies take down too much content, and have sought to address long-running accusations of political bias in the tech industry by altering the provision.
Ron Amadeo writing for Ars Technica (Apple News)
Unlike the clean OSes you’d get from Google or Apple, Samsung sells space in its devices to the highest bidder via pre-installed crapware. A company like Facebook will buy a spot on Samsung’s system partition, where it can get more intrusive system permissions that aren’t granted to app store apps, letting it more effectively spy on users.
Yikes.
John Gruber writing over at Daring Fireball
None of these Android clients would garner any attention at all on iOS. Tooot and the official Mastodon client are also available on iOS, and seemingly offer the same features and same basic interfaces on both platforms. Thereâs a reason third-party clients are overwhelmingly more popular on iOS than Mastodonâs official clientâââyet the Mastodon app is clearly among the best on Android.
Zack Zwiezen writing for Kotaku
Bungie realized that this was being caused after it moved some âcurrently incompletableâ challenges into a different area of the gameâs data. To do this, Bungie used a âvery powerfulâ tool that lets the studio tinker with a playerâs game state and account. Apparently, due to a configuration error, Bungie accidentally âre-ran an older state migration processâ used in a past update. Because of this error, the tool copied old data from this past update into the current version of the game, which basically undid some playersâ recent in-game accomplishments
From Bungie
TL;DR:
Consolidation is a major theme in many of the changes youâll be seeing today. The current (pre-Lightfall) mod system has been built piecemeal over the years and contains a lot of redundancies. The Loadouts system empowers Guardians to suit up for whatever task, on the fly. Up to ten slots available to save multiple loadouts. This single-screen system also provides opportunities for players to create and share their loadouts with the community more easily.
Oliver Haslam writing for iMore
The issue, which is affecting Twitter apps on all platforms including iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows, hasn’t yet been confirmed by Twitter, and, worryingly, it isn’t yet known whether the problem is a glitch or the result of a decision made by Twitter itself.
Still no word from Twitter. My guess is this is intentional, but we’ll see.
Jon Porter writing for The Verge (Apple News)
Pixel 7 owners are taking to Twitter and Reddit to report that the glass covering the phoneâs rear camera is shattering, despite the phone apparently not being knocked or dropped. PhoneArena and Android Police have pulled together photos from numerous owners showing the damage to their handsets, with reports stretching back at least as far as November â just a month after the phone went on general sale.
Joseph Menn writing for The Washington Post
The step is likely to draw protests from multiple governments, some of which could take legislative or court action or deny Apple access to their markets. Top law enforcement officials in the United States, Britain and other democracies have railed against strong encryption, and some have passed laws they could use to try to force companies to cooperate against their customers.
There are plenty of ways “the bad guys” can encrypt/hide their communications.