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Another evening issue. The queue is ridiculous. yes I am removing items without posting them. Still ridiculous. TWEAKS AND UPDATES WordPress: WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 . “WordPress 7.0 boasts numerous upgrades in […]

Another evening issue. The queue is ridiculous. yes I am removing items without posting them. Still ridiculous. WordPress: WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 . “WordPress 7.0 boasts numerous upgrades in the editing and admin experience, delivering enhanced real time collaboration, refined customizability, new dashboard styles, and an expanded developer toolbox for people who create, design, and build with WordPress every day.” Lifehacker: Google Made an iPhone Camera App That Might Be Even Better Than Apple’s.

“Snapseed’s latest update for iOS, version 3.15.0, comes with a full camera app inside—and there’s a case to be made that it’s better than Apple’s default Camera app. It certainly offers more in the way of manual shooting controls, with the added benefit of an entire integrated suite of editing features.” NiemanLab: The San Francisco Standard gets $150K to build an AI-powered news app.

“The Lenfest Institute is giving The San Francisco Standard a $150,000 grant as part of its ongoing AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program. The local publication, which launched in 2021, will use the funding to develop a mobile news app with a host of AI-powered features.” Ars Technica: Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another. “Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the day and complain about their colleagues in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).” TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS.

“Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which is likely the result of an ongoing legal challenge.” The Register: Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities .

“TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with ‘Made in Vietnam’ claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing its devices as secure despite reported firmware vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors.” BBC: Social media suspended in Gabon for ‘spreading of false information’. “Gabon’s media regulator has announced the suspension of social media platforms ‘until further notice’, saying online content has fuelled conflict and deepened divisions in the country.” Shellsharks: Setting off on a self-hosting journey.

“I want to self-host a bunch of things. Why? Let’s see here… techno-fascism, privacy disasters, tech companies randomly sunsetting things, enshittification spirals, etc… I’m tired of it. I want to run some stuff myself, own the data, and be happy with my tech.” Caltech: New KISS Report Presents Blueprint for Combining Greenhouse Gas and Wind Data. “A new study published by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS), in collaboration with Caltech, Rutgers University, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed by Caltech for NASA, presents a roadmap for simultaneously combining data on the abundance of greenhouses gases with data on winds to better pinpoint emission sources.” Tom’s Hardware: 30 years later, the iconic ‘Bliss’ green hill from Windows XP is still thriving — lucky passerby captures the hill looking almost identical to the 1996 photograph in ‘super rare’ event.

“For the release of Windows XP, Microsoft picked out a default wallpaper featuring a then-random rolling green hill and named it ‘Bliss.’ … Decades later, it’s hard to find that hill in the same condition because it’s usually covered in dead grass, but one lucky Redditor managed to capture it at the perfect time of the year.” Good evening, Internet… This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t!

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This report covers the latest developments in iphone. The information presented highlights key changes and updates that are relevant to those following this topic.

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