This Week in Tech

Twitter launches Blue subscription service in U.S., offers ad-free access to 300 news sites.
U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Alphabet's Google.
Walmart is using fully...

Meta trademark filing, NYC crypto, the Great Resignation, daylight saving time
Facebook's "Meta" Trademark Application.
Meta Company lashes out at Facebook over name change in public...

Facebook: Founder's Letter, 2021 (introducing Meta).
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done.
Meta removing Facebook login...

I Love You Zune Much - New Mac chips, new Pixel 6, Proton Mail's big win, Squid Game rakes it in
Samsung now lets you customize your own Galaxy Z Flip 3.
Pixel 6: Everything to know about...

Hardware event preview, HTC Vive Flow, Squid Game success
Unleashed Apple Event Focusing on New Macs to Take Place on October 18.
MacBook Pro Display With Notch Shown in Alleged Photo Leak.
Errol...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen details company's misleading efforts on 60 Minutes.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Were Down: Here's What to Know.
Update about the October 4th outage.
Facebook...

Facebook meets 60 Minutes, what is Finsta? Rivian R1T first look, Holmes trial
This is Facebook's internal research on the mental health effects of Instagram.
Sen. Blumenthal: "Will you commit to...

Crackdown in China, Surface Duo 2, end of magazines, Peter Thiel
What technology has brought since the '80s.
Are today's students aware of how much technology has changed since the '80s?
We the...

iPhone 13, iPad Mini, Microsoft Surface preview, Inspiration4
The Moose and the Showgirl.
Arctic Adventure!
Apple's iPhone 13 sports better battery and improved cameras, starting at $799.
Apple...

Apple event preview, Apple vs. Epic, Proton gets Tim Berners-Lee
Remembering 9/11.
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple.
Texas governor signs bill...

Apple's CSAM reversal, Big Tech pushback in Texas, a spying Lightning cable
Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection system and child safety features.
Benefits of Apple's Image Abuse Scanning...

OnlyFans about-face, Tim Cook 10th anniversary, Elizabeth Holmes trial
First Look at Leo's Galaxy Watch 4 Classic and Galaxy Z Flip 3.
The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your...

T-Mobile hack, OnlyFans policy change, Cloudflare DDoS, Tesla's humanoid robot
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach.
Why there are so many different...

IBM's PC turns 40, Senate plan to open Apple's App Store, where Countach got its name
Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 unveiled: This wedge is a hybrid.
"Blue" hydrogen is worse for the climate...

Apple's proposed CSAM protections, Google Pixel 6, Firefox declines
Apple explains how iPhones will scan photos for child-sexual-abuse images.
Daring Fireball: Apple's New 'Child Safety'...

Bimbo Squalo - Blizzard mess, China tech crackdown, quarterly earnings, Rickroll hits 1 billion
Review: A deep new history of Tesla takes the shine off Elon Musk.
Apple Watch lead Kevin Lynch...

Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware
Amazon's New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards.
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says.
Report...

Windows 365, Windows on iPad
Targets of spyware revealed
Retail stores packed with unchecked Facial Recognition
So Long, Twitter Fleets
Twitter for iOS now lets you edit (who can reply to your...

Branson in Space, Amazon, Kaseya Hack
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
AI voice actors sound more human than ever—and are ready to hire
Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, Claiming His...

Amazon and the FTC, REvil ransomware, GitHub Copilot, Pokémon Go
FTC votes to expand antitrust enforcement powers
FTC charges computer chip supplier Broadcom with illegal monopolization
Amazon...