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June 22, 2020, 10:40 AM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Apple approves HEY's email app, updated with small tweaks in-line with Apple's guidelines; HEY still has no in-app purchases or signups  —  What does it mean for an app to ‘work’ at launch?  —  After rejecting an update last week, Apple has approved a new version of the subscription email app Hey.
Brent Simmons / inessential:
Apple's App Store brings in users because it is the only choice, not because it offers some kind of exceptional distribution and marketing to developers  —  One might argue that developers should love the App Store because it brings the users.  AppleInsider writes about the App Store …
Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping:
Horace Dediu / Asymco:
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Kuo: first ARM-based Macs will be a 13" MacBook Pro and a revamped 24" iMac, coming in Q4 or Q1 2021; all new Mac models will have ARM CPUs starting in 2021  —  Apple plans to introduce its Arm-based custom designed chips for Macs at WWDC, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note to investors today …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
Microsoft previews GPU support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux to boost ML apps run with the tool; AMD, Nvidia, Intel have announced support for the effort  —  Windows 10's subsystem for Linux, WSL, gains GPU access for machine learning.  —  Nvidia, Intel and AMD have announced …
Joseph Cox / VICE:
In 2019, just days after NSO Group unveiled a human rights policy for the use of its malware, Amnesty International says an activist was hacked with NSO tools  —  Just three days after controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group announced its new human rights policy, saying that clients …
Mark Harris / The Daily Beast:
Secretive disaster charity GSD, founded by Sergey Brin, uses drones, superyachts, and more to deliver humanitarian aid during high-profile disasters  —  WHERE THERE'S A WILL  —  Global Support and Development is made up of ex-military men and Brin's former bodyguards.  But their mission isn't warfare.

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