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Zoom’s now in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, and more
July 03, 2025
1. Zoom? Not so much.
Zoom has become the darling of the working-from-home/lockdown world but that popularity is coming at a cost. I mentioned yesterday how there’s been rapid backlash against the company. But people like Basecamp founder David Heinemeier Hansson(@DHH) have jumped way further, calling the organization “fundamentally corrupt.”
And the entire infosec world smells blood in the water, ramping up its interest in a product that appears to be amazingly complicated, has plenty of attack surface, and has always played at the edges of what should and shouldn’t be done with software that can be close to malware.
Helpfully, the likes ofTechCrunchare also swinging into gear with comprehensive “Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all” pieces: Zoom at your own risk, they say.
2.Apple buys Dark Sky for its hyperlocal weather, and immediately announces removal from Android. Tricky move, because Dark Sky’s weather API powers a lot of other apps, too. But at least for Dark Sky’s founders, Apple didn’t just copy it and pretend Dark Sky didn’t exist.Anyway, here’s 15 of the best weather apps and weather widgets for Android(Android Authority).
3.FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021: less robocalls via STIR/SHAKEN protocols(Engadget).
4.Teardown of HUAWEI flagship phone finds US parts despite blacklisting, HUAWEI says everything is by the book, and the Department of Commerce isn’t saying anything more (Ars Technica).
5.Spotify’s standalone Kids app is now available in the US(Engadget).
6.How an anti ad-blocker works: Reverse-engineering BlockAdBlock, using Wayback Machine(xyz2.dev).
In big business land,Xerox is dropping its $30 billion hostile takeover bid for HP(CNBC).
ThisCOVID-19 Humble Bundle gives 100% to charityand the list of stuff you get is great. Award-winningHollow Knightis just about worth the $30/28 EUR, plusUndertale,Into The Breach, ebooks, and so more. (Oh, btw,Hollow Knightis on Xbox Game Pass) (humblebundle.com)
9.Why you should order your pizza ‘uncut’: the story we need (Lifehacker).
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