Today, Apple announced how it intends to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which the European Commission says applies to the App Store. There are a lot of details to cover, but in summary, radical change is coming to the EU App Store, but only in the EU. Let’s take a look at how

Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.

Ahead of the DMA coming into force in March.

What I found in the mire

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In the late 1970s, a loose collective of New York bands created a radical reaction to New Wave and Punk that came to be known as No Wave. Led by Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Contortions, and, later, Sonic Youth [pictured above], No Wave tossed dynamite into rock's decaying castle and got out before the smoke cleared. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, No Wave, Pitchfork staff writer Marc Masters details the origins of this brief but still-influential movement.

When Google Podcasts disappears on April 2nd, you can try one of these substitutes.

Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.3, the third major updates to the operating systems that launched in September and Federico reviewed on MacStories. iOS and iPadOS 17.3 bring only a couple of major new features, including one that was previously expected to be released in iOS and iPadOS 17.2 (but was then delayed), a welcome

Cars Won't Make You Happy - Gears and Gasoline -- I ran into this discussion on Reddit, when I was trying to figure out why my dream car...

The homescreen I described last time has stayed pretty relevant for a long time, but the most recent iOS update added some new features and so it has evolved. It's essentially all the same functionality and applications, just moved around a little...

Our DIIF-funded research on Fediverse governance and administration officially begins this month, so we’ve made an informal federated blo...

Forkeys offers more than just your basic timelines and posting capabilities.

Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.

In our first episode, we talk about the relationship between publishers and audiences, and the search for alternatives in the wake of controversy.

Podcasting news. Updates to the WordPress plugin. Bluesky has over 3m accounts and the invite system will go away soon.

Proprietary social media networks need to be transformed into local and global digital commons.

We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out

Today I m releasing an initial version of my latest tool, CurlyQ . It s a work in progress, though should be immediately useful to those who need it. I need your input on where it goes next, what s

Podcast: Looking forward to 2024 in mobile gaming (with Matthew Kanterman). Mobile marketing and advertising, freemium monetization strategy, and marketing science. Mobile Dev Memo.

Gather ‘round listener, it’s Selena Gomez! We talk Craigslist, a hot Barney, and blissful ignorance. Practice your mirror-face; it’s an all-new SmartLess.

As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.

Thoughts on building Paper as a solo maker.

Tags in OS X 10.9 Mavericks is one of the new operating system’s most touted, but least-discussed new features. Josh Centers shows you how to use tags, and what they’re useful for.