Pixel Envy

BuzzFeed’s A.I. Pivot Might End in Bankruptcy https://pxlnv.com/linklog/buzzfeed-ai-pivot/

Digg Reboot Needs to ‘Reset’, Lays Off a ‘Significant’ Amount of Staff https://pxlnv.com/linklog/digg-reboot-reset/

Meta Says It Is Removing End-to-End Encryption From Instagram Direct Messages https://pxlnv.com/linklog/instagram-dms-encryption/

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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/

A screenshot of Pages running under Mac OS X Lion

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/