Pixel Envy

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps https://pxlnv.com/linklog/sponsor/magic-lasso-adblock-mar-13/

Social Media’s Walled Gardens https://pxlnv.com/linklog/social-media-walled-gardens/

Sucker https://pxlnv.com/linklog/sucker/

“This Is Not the Computer for You” https://pxlnv.com/linklog/not-the-computer-for-you/

TechCrunch: L3Harris, a U.S. Military Contractor, Likely Built ‘Coruna’ iPhone Hacking Toolkit https://pxlnv.com/linklog/l3harris-coruna-followup/

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its A.I. ‘Expert Review’ Feature https://pxlnv.com/linklog/grammarly-expert-review-lawsuit/

MacBook Neo Teardown Reveals a Highly Repairable Laptop https://pxlnv.com/linklog/macbook-neo-teardown/

Online Age Verification Tools for Child Safety Are Surveilling Adults https://pxlnv.com/linklog/age-verification-surveillance/

Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ Feature Presents Fake Advice in the Names of Real Journalists and Authors https://pxlnv.com/linklog/grammarly-expert-review/

Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-laptop-repairability/

Another Appearance Control Is Coming to Accessibility Settings in iOS 26.4 https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ios-reduce-bright-effects/

Minister for Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Announces ‘Guardrails’ for TikTok Canada Operations https://pxlnv.com/linklog/tiktok-canada-guardrails/

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Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Effortlessly Block Ads on Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV https://pxlnv.com/linklog/sponsor/magic-lasso-adblock-mar-09/

Mixing News Coverage and ‘Prediction Markets’ Is a Dangerous Gamble https://pxlnv.com/linklog/news-coverage-prediction-markets/

The Central Lie of Prediction Markets https://pxlnv.com/linklog/prediction-markets-lie/

Google and Epic Games Announce Settlement https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-epic-games-settlement/

Apple’s New Studio Displays, Plural https://pxlnv.com/linklog/new-studio-displays/

Tim Sweeney Is Contractually Prohibited from Criticizing Google’s Developer Terms for Years https://pxlnv.com/linklog/tim-sweeney-is-contractually-prohibited-from-criticizing-googles-developer-terms-for-years/

A Toolkit for Hacking iPhones, Possibly Created for the U.S. Government, Has Leaked https://pxlnv.com/linklog/gtig-coruna/

U.S. Immigration Police Bought Real-Time Ad Bidding Data for Automated Tracking System https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cbp-real-time-bidding-data/

Annotators in Kenya Describe How They Review Sensitive Data Captured by Meta’s Ray-Bans https://pxlnv.com/linklog/sama-annotators-meta-ray-bans/

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A screenshot of Pages running under MacOS Catalina

A screenshot of Pages running under MacOS Tahoe

A screenshot of Pages running under MacOS Tahoe

The Window Chrome of Our Discontent https://pxlnv.com/blog/window-chrome-of-our-discontent/

Software Quality Postscript and Clarification https://pxlnv.com/linklog/software-quality-clarification/

The Perfect Music App https://pxlnv.com/linklog/perfect-music-app/

The Political Effects of Twitter’s Feed Algorithm https://pxlnv.com/linklog/twitter-algorithm-political-effects/

It Sure Looks to Me Like Meta Is Winding Down Its V.R. Efforts https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-vr-horizon-separation/

Personal (Computer) Assistants https://pxlnv.com/linklog/personal-computer-assistants/

On Software Quality Jason Snell has published the results from his annual survey of a panel of Apple observers and, as I expected, there seems to be wide agreement that the company’s software quality is not up to scratch thanks primarily to Liquid Glass. This year’s average score of 2.7 for operating system quality and 3.1 for first-party […]

On Software Quality https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

How Tech Giants Track You Across the Web https://pxlnv.com/linklog/web-pixels-tracking/

Tumbler Ridge https://pxlnv.com/linklog/tumbler-ridge/