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Follow UpUK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor orderhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/home_office_apple_backdoor_order/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/uk-demands-apple-break-encryption-to-allow-govt-spying-worldwide-reports-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social Google tells employees why it’s ending DEI hiring goalshttps://www.theverge.com/google/607012/google-dei-hiring-goals-internal-memo Hugging Face clones OpenAI’s Deep Research in 24 hourshttps://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/after-24-hour-hackathon-hugging-faces-ai-research-agent-nearly-matches-openais-solution/ China considering antitrust investigation into Apple, likely as leverage in trade warhttps://9to5mac.com/2025/02/05/china-considering-antitrust-investigation-into-apple-likely-as-leverage-in-trade-war/ Apple confirms ‘Invites’ app and iCloud+ feature, here’s how it works [Video] https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/04/apple-confirms-invites-feature-coming-to-icloud-heres-how-it-will-work/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-invites/id6472498645 DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servershttps://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-controlled-servers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social News National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universitieshttps://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/new-nih-policy-will-slash-support-money-to-research-universities/ Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permissionhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/08/gambling-firms-secretly-shared-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealedhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/ Leica made a $329 iPhone camera griphttps://www.theverge.com/news/607434/leica-lux-grip-apple-iphone-photography-camera https://www.mi.com/uk/product/xiaomi-13t-leica/?srsltid=AfmBOorSPWhl-AiQjs90IiyZ_-4I7Y_iQdN6jWicEkqgD99Uojyngeo4 Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow buttonhttps://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/607383/microsoft-teams-storyline-facebook-like-feed-notepad iPhone apps found on App Store with malware that reads your screenshots for key datahttps://9to5mac.com/2025/02/05/iphone-apps-on-app-store-malware-reads-screenshots/ After a bruising year, Sonos readies its next big thing: a streaming boxhttps://www.theverge.com/sonos/606025/sonos-pinewood-video-player-features Apples Luxohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJa_CyJjdc&t=105s https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/a-second-look-at-the-2024-report-card/ Car CornerNorway nears 100% goal of all-electric carshttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250203-norway-nears-100-goal-of-all-electric-cars Tesla SalesTeslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UKhttps://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/tesla-sales-plummet-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/ https://mastodon.social/@asymco/113958476847595730 $58 billion Honda-Nissan merger is in deep troublehttps://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/58-billion-honda-nissan-merger-is-in-deep-trouble/ BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepointshttps://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/bt_ev_chargepoints/ Media Conclave https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/conclave Bullet Train https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bullet_train_2022 Severance Season 2https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/severance/s02 Hulu might be rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayerhttps://www.theverge.com/news/605375/buffy-vampire-slayer-reboot-hulu GamesPSN is finally back after a huge outagehttps://www.theverge.com/news/608946/playstation-network-down-outage Humankindhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1124300/HUMANKIND/ Door Kickershttps://store.steampowered.com/app/248610/Door_Kickers/ Civ 7 Reviews are outhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/civilization-vii-review-a-major-overhaul-solves-civs-oldest-problems/ Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this springhttps://www.theverge.com/news/609029/sid-meiers-civilization-vii-is-coming-to-the-quest-soon?utm_content=buffer46400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=verge_social CIV VII Pre-Orderhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1295660/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VII/Main ShowApple Report CardApple in 2024: The Six Colors report cardhttps://sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/apple-in-2024-the-six-colors-report-card/ A second look at the 2024 Six Colors Report Cardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJa_CyJjdc&t=105s Gruberhttps://daringfireball.net/2025/02/my_2024_apple_report_card App of the Week Tapestry https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/02/enter-tapestry/ Thing of the Week Simon Mason Authorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mason_(author)A Killing In NovemberContact@[email protected]@g5maniac.bsky.social@[email protected] youtube : Visit us as wakefromsleep.com and click the youtube linkemail : [email protected]
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