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Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for an App on the Alt Store

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:15:54

Under EU law, Apple is required to give its users more freedom to install apps that are not listed in the official App Store. This allows for easier access to software that's typically prohibited by Apple, including the popular iTorrent BitTorrent client. The iTorrent client built a steady user base over the past year, but that came to an abrupt end when Apple decided to revoke the developer's alternative distribution rights. Historically, Apple has banned torrent clients from its iOS devices.

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US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-30 13:43:04

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an international fraud network used by North Korea to infiltrate U.S. companies with hackers posing as legitimate job seekers, agency officials announced Wednesday. The sanctions are the latest action taken by the U.S. Treasury in recent months aimed at combating North Korean government workers from seeking employment at American companies using fake identities and documents to apply for jobs. Once employed, the hackers earn a wage from the company, but also ste

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Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 05:18:22

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Store is preparing a redesigned account switcher. A prominent “Switch account” row appears below a greeting and your profile picture. The feature is enabled by flags in v46.8.29-31, mirroring recent rollouts in other Google apps. Update, August 27, 2025 (06:18 AM ET): The redesigned account switcher on the Google Play Store has started rolling out to some users, as reported by X user Joe Lenington. Original article, June 30 10, 2025 (11:5

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More great wallpaper in the run-up to two more Apple Stores in India

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-31 06:01:37

Apple is doubling its retail footprint in India with the imminent opening of two new stores next week, one in Bengaluru and the other in Pune. As usual, the company is offering downloadable wallpaper to celebrate the openings, this one with a peacock theme … The long road to Apple stores in India Apple had wanted to open retail stores in India for a great many years before it was finally able to do so. In a bid to boost the manufacturing sector in the country, the Indian government banned an

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Google Will Make All Android App Developers Verify Their Identity Starting Next Year

wired.com Ryan Whitwam 2025-10-31 12:17:33

Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its next security initiative could make the biggest concessions yet in the name of blocking bad apps. Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identities of all Android app developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where

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What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 15:52:36

The BBC recounts by means of interviews the experience of a few ambassadors in these matters. "I was called by the foreign ministry and was told 'We need to see you immediately,'" Mr Casson [former UK ambassador to Egypt] tells the BBC. "The first thing they said was, 'We are not summoning you, but we are going to tell the press we are summoning you. If it had been a summoning, we would have sent a formal diplomatic note summoning you.'" This is the way things normally work in a summoning - a f

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It’s time for Google to address this major Play Store issue

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 09:00:20

Karandeep Singh / Android Authority Google’s Play Store has a serious problem, and it’s something that’s a big source of frustration for me. While many apps on the Play Store offer subscriptions, I find it nearly impossible to figure out the exact price before I download them. Google makes it clear that an app offers “in-app purchases” right on the main page, but it never gives me the crucial pricing information I need. This might seem like a small issue, but for me, it matters a lot. Price is

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about ‘vampire’ watch faces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 06:37:22

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely culprits. The update is rolling out, but we haven’t spotted it yet on our Galaxy Watch 8. Google is adding a small but handy feature to the Play Store on Wear OS watches. With the latest Play Store version 47.7 update, users will now see warning messages o

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about vampire watch faces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:37:22

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely culprits. The update is rolling out, but we haven’t spotted it yet on our Galaxy Watch 8. Google is adding a small but handy feature to the Play Store on Wear OS watches. With the latest Play Store version 47.7 update, users will now see warning messages o

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Make the Easy Change Hard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 22:40:04

I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT. There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify the change you’re trying to make before trying to make the change. This is es

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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-03 04:52:55

Android's open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its next security initiative could make the biggest concessions yet in the name of blocking bad apps. Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identities of all Android app developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where

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The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-03 12:15:59

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional theories have suggested for years that the gas giant's behemoth interior was formed following an enormous collision with an early planet. The "giant impact" theory suggests that roughly half of Jupiter's core originated from the remains of such a planet, explaining what researchers believe to be its st

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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over Siri partnership, App Store charts

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-04 04:27:13

Elon Musk has surprisingly made good on one of his promises. Earlier this month, Musk accused Apple of rigging the App Store rankings and threatened to sue the company for this “unequivocal antitrust violation.” “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store,” Musk posted at the time. In a Texas court on Monday, Musk’s xAI officially filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, accusing the two companies of colluding to preve

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FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:21:32

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign

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When the Blade Breaks

theverge.com Gabriella Burnham 2025-11-04 18:30:00

A charter boat fisherman was among the first to discover the wreckage — a “mess,” he called it, deep off the coast of Massachusetts. From behind a veil of pea soup-thick fog emerged hundreds of white and green fiberglass and Styrofoam pieces, some as small as a fingernail, some as large as a truck hood. By the following morning, the tide had carried the debris about 12 nautical miles and scattered it across Nantucket Island’s beaches. Residents woke to a shoreline covered in trash, fiberglass sh

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Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 23:15:26

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that's rich in the mineral form of calcium carbonate, and teeming with coccolithophores, tiny marine organisms that grow reflective calcite shells out of the mineral. The patch itself, however, has been considered far too frigid to support these tiny plankton, causing a longstand

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Crystal Palace vs. Nottingham Forest Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 17:00:12

Two teams that have made strong starts to the new season despite behind-the-scenes turbulence face off in south London on Sunday, as Crystal Palace hosts Nottingham Forest. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Palace followed up its Community Shield triumph over Liverpool with a creditable draw away against London rivals Chelsea

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Exploring EXIF (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 08:25:58

← Harley Turan • August 2023 August 2023 Exploring EXIF According to iOS’ Photos application, I’ve taken 73,281 photos over the past 14 years of owning an iPhone. Each one of those images doesn't just contain the photo you see as you scroll through the Photos app — it contains a wealth of information stored encoded directly into the image file itself. It details useful metadata such as where the photo was taken (so that you can view your photos on a map at a later date), the time and date the

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Acronis True Image costs performance when not used

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Brucedawson 2025-10-31 23:00:14

Over two years ago I installed Acronis True Image for Crucial in order to migrate my data to a new SSD I had just purchased. It worked. I then left True Image installed “just in case”, and what harm could that possibly cause. Well, funny you should ask. I recently noticed that whenever I plugged or unplugged my external monitor Explorer.exe would consume a lot of CPU time – dozens of seconds of it. It was enough CPU time to make my computer noticeably sluggish until things calmed down which co

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-04 17:40:14

The world was abuzz with speculation just a few years ago when it came time for James Gunn to cast his new Superman. Even before the part ultimately went to David Corenswet, he was being floated around as a likely candidate, and now you can watch how he got the part. YouTube account 21Casting posted the actor’s audition tape, which he performed with his wife Julia Warner. The three-minute video features him as Clark Kent being interviewed as Superman by Lois Lane over his intervention in Biayla

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I never imagined a watch like the Garmin Forerunner 970 when I started running

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:30:24

Garmin Forerunner 970 The Garmin Forerunner 970 is everything you want in a running watch, and almost everything you'd need from a smartwatch. Yes, you'll pay like you're buying one of each, but it's a top-end wearable that you'll almost never have to take off your wrist, and it's light enough that you can go all day forgetting that you're even wearing it. My running journey started with a Garmin Forerunner. It wasn’t my watch — it was my high school cross country coach’s — but it brought a loa

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Building a computer in the 90s (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Dave Farquhar 2025-11-04 17:18:46

Last Updated on March 19, 2024 by Dave Farquhar Building a computer in the 90s was different than it is today. It wasn’t just harder or more expensive. It seemed like every new build was an adventure. I probably built a few hundred systems before the decade ended, but the first few were definitely the most memorable. One in particular stands out above the rest. It was 1996. My friend Tom wanted a modern computer that was capable of handling photography work. He was in his early 20s at the time

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What Happened to Egghead Software

news.ycombinator.com Dave Farquhar 2025-10-31 23:18:18

Egghead Software was a US retail store that sold computer software from 1984 to 2001. It declared bankruptcy 24 years ago this week, on August 18, 2001, after an attempted transition to selling online failed. Egghead Software’s beginnings Egghead Software started in Bellevue, Washington in 1984 and moved eastward. Its founder, Victor D. Alhadeff, had a background in oil and gas, but when his old company went out of business in 1983, he needed a new idea. That came from shopping for software. A

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Does MHz Still Matter?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 00:47:05

Does MHz still matter? Furkan Sahin Senior Software Engineer To provide VMs of any size, we slice bare metal into smaller VMs, sometimes even 1 vCPU. So, the performance of one fast core matters a lot. We evaluated new servers from Hetzner with AMD EPYC and Ryzen CPUs to add to our fleet. Ryzen is a CPU from AMD’s gaming line-up and it has better single core performance numbers compared to the EPYC which is a standard datacenter CPU. We weren’t sure if Ryzen’s single core edge would show up in

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One of the World’s Tallest, Oldest Trees Is Ablaze in Oregon

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-06 14:50:49

The Doerner Fir, one of the world’s tallest coastal Douglas-fir trees, has stood within the remote forest of the Oregon Coast Range mountains for at least 450 years. On Saturday, August 16, officials received reports that this historic giant was engulfed in flames. Firefighters rushed to the scene, deploying drones, aircraft, and hand crews in an attempt to extinguish the 325-foot-tall (99-meter-tall), 11.5-foot-wide (3.5-meter-wide) tree, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the Coos County For

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US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:20:27

US to review all 55 million visas to check if holders broke rules US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced several measures this year to curb immigration President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of his second administration, from mass deportations and full-on travel bans on countries to revoking 6,000 student visas. Visas will be revoked if there are indications of "overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activit

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How to Become a Vibe Coder

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-11-07 14:00:00

Vibe coding is everywhere, and it’s already drastically changing the tech industry, shaping everything from how software gets made to who gets hired. Back in July, WIRED's very own Lauren Goode went on a journey to become a vibe coder at one of San Francisco’s top startups. In this episode, she sits down with our director of consumer tech and culture, Mike Calore, to share her experience and break down whether vibe coding really spells the end of coding as we know it. Join us live in San Franci

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Some Pixel owners are getting a more powerful At A Glance widget

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 15:37:26

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Some Pixel phone owners are seeing sports and finance cards in their At A Glance widget. The sports card shows soccer scores, but our previous leak also revealed support for cricket scores. The finance card seems to show stock information. Google’s At A Glance widget is a useful feature on Pixel phones. It displays the weather, calendar events, boarding passes, and more directly on your home screen. Now, it looks like the widget is picking up a couple of

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Google just gave your Pixel a new hub for everything, with one big catch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 17:39:08

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Tips app is now called My Pixel. It brings more helpful suggestions and a new, better-organized look. The updated app is now rolling out via the Google Play Store and may look different depending on where you live. Google has refreshed the Pixel Tips app with a new name, a fresh Material 3 Expressive design, and additional sections that make it easier to explore your Pixel phone. The app is now called My Pixel, a rebrand that Google announce

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Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-08 11:30:00

Earlier this year, two hackers broke into a computer and soon realized the significance of what this machine was. As it turned out, they had landed on the computer of a hacker who allegedly works for the North Korean government. The two hackers decided to keep digging and found evidence that they say linked the hacker to cyberespionage operations carried out by North Korea, exploits and hacking tools, and infrastructure used in those operations. Saber, one of the hackers involved, told TechCru

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