Follow Up

You can now try Microsoft’s Recall AI feature on a Copilot Plus PC

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/24302947/microsoft-recall-windows-insider-testing-dev-channel-click-to-do

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/windows_11_fs_ad/

OpenAI accidentally erased ChatGPT training findings as lawyers seek copyright violations

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/21/openai-accidentally-erased-chatgpt-training-findings-as-lawyers-seek-copyright-violations/ 

DOJ Watch 

DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24300617/doj-google-search-antitrust-chrome-breakup

Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301660/apple-doj-motion-dismiss-antitrust-lawsuit 

iOS 18.1.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 patch security vulnerabilities that were actively exploited

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/19/ios-18-1-1-security-fix-update-details/

Apple Intelligence intro is not going well

Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-notification-summaries-are-honestly-pretty-bad/ 

An Honest Review of Apple Intelligence... So Far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haDjmBT9tu4&t=871s 

News 

The app store must end

https://www.macworld.com/article/2525708

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/ 

Apple faces antitrust action in the UK over default web browser (but not cloud gaming)

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/22/apple-faces-antitrust-action-in-the-uk-over-default-web-browser-but-not-cloud-gaming/ 

Android will soon instantly log you in to your apps on new devices

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/android-will-soon-instantly-log-you-in-to-your-apps-on-new-devices/ 

Apple will now be treated like a bank, says US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/21/apple-will-now-be-treated-like-a-bank-says-us-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/ 

Apple now sells its own Apple News ads for the first time

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/19/apple-now-sells-its-own-apple-news-ads-for-the-first-time/

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/microsoft_windows_365_link/

Media

Silo Season 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLJDR-vFUdY 

Shogun 

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/shogun/77sCbAqhMU5H 

Developers behind F1 app ‘Lapz’ for Vision Pro forced to remove it from TestFlight

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/19/f1-app-lapz-vision-pro-testflight/ 

Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people actually watched.

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-tv-spent-20b-on-original-content-if-only-people-actually-watched/ 

JFK Documentary on Disney+

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/jfk-one-day-in-america/2up6Kqj9n6YJ 

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/jfk/5x0ZmjGauCud

Deadpool and Wolverine on Disney+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_1biulkYk 

Wallace and Gromit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqrBzJ5wIc

PSA: Great British Bake Off Finale this week

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off 

Games 

Flight Simulator 2024

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off 

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/microsoft_flight_simulator_2024_launch/ 

Main Show 

The Bluesky resurgence

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/24/bluesky-promised-land-x-social-media 

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2024/x-bluesky-migration-gathers-pace 

The counter

https://bsky-users.theo.io/