If it’s early June, odds are the technology-news business will be dominated by announcements coming out of Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference. However, new revelations about Facebook’s privacy practices did draw attention and even CEO Tim Cook found time to comment — as Apple unveiled new tools designed to hamper companies like Facebook who have been quietly hoovering up personal data from unsuspecting users for years. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the week’s events and a few other non-Apple headlines on this week’s episode before offering a (Hopefully) Helpful Hint about recording a video of the action on your phone screen. Roll PTJ 275 to hear it all!
- Microsoft confirms it will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion (The Verge)
- Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends (The New York Times)
- Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence (The New York Times)
- Facebook’s Device Partnerships Explained (The New York Times)
- Google Will Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset Employees (The New York Times)
- World Wide Developers Conference Keynote (Apple)
- Here’s everything Apple announced during its WWDC keynote today (9to5Mac)
- Revenge of the desktop: These are the most important announcements Apple made for news publishers today (Nieman Journalism Lab)
- Apple Photos adds For You tab with smarter sharing in iOS 12 (SlashGear)
- Apple’s software improvements could make AR as universal as iOS (MIT Technology Review)
- Apple adds camera effects like stickers, filters and Memoji to messages (TechCrunch)
- iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time (Apple)
- iBooks gets a redesign and new Apple Books branding in iOS 12 (The Verge)
- Apple jams Facebook’s web-tracking tools (BBC News)
- NPR News Interview With Tim Cook (National Public Radio)
- Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Dies at 81 (The New York Times)
- PONG Emulator (Internet Archive)
(Helpfully) Helpful Hint
- How to Record Your iPhone Screen (The New York Times)