Are your Instagram recommendations a mess? You can now start from scratch

One of the biggest problems with social media is that our feeds are full of things the algorithms think we want to see, rather than what we actually want to see.

If your Instagram recommendations seem increasingly removed from your interests, Meta is now offering you the chance to start again from scratch …

Instagram has not just one set of recommendations for each user, but three:

it’s now letting anyone reset each of these, to make a fresh start.

We’ve started testing the ability for everyone on Instagram


Apple reveals the most popular podcasts of 2024, with nine different Top 10 lists

Apple has put together no fewer than nine different Top 10 lists, revealing the most popular podcasts of 2024.

The lists kick off with the top shows of the year, but go on to list the most popular in a number of different categories, from new shows to those with the highest subscriber counts …

that the charts are available in the Browse tab in the Podcasts app.

Today, Apple shared the most popular podcasts of 2024, with year-end charts localized for listeners in


The expensive iPhone 17 Air may have a lot in common with Apple’s cheapest iPhone

The latest iPhone 17 Air report suggests that the expected ultra-slim model could be as thin as 6mm , which would make it the slimmest iPhone ever made.

While that would be a challenging metric to hit , and we’ll believe it when there’s supporting evidence, we do seem to have growing clarity on the market Apple is targeting with the device …

Ironically, what may turn out to be Apple’s most expensive model next year may have significant overlap in appeal with the cheapest model in


iPhone 16 ban: Apple offers $100M to access 278M customers in Indonesia

Apple has responded to an iPhone 16 ban in Indonesia by offering a ten-fold boost to its manufacturing investments in the country.

The Indonesian government responded aggressively when Cupertino company fell a little way short of its promised spend in the country, and Apple seems extremely keen to resolve the matter …

Indonesia has followed the playbook successfully implemented by India : demanding that Apple bring some of its manufacturing business to the country in order to be allowed to freely sell its products there.

In India’s case, Apple was not


Apple @ Work Podcast: FIDO Alliance’s plan for Passkey migration

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In this episode of Apple @ Work, I talk with from about the plans from the FIDO Alliance


Security Bite: Why email security still sucks today

It’s a little-known fact that before emails reach your inbox, they pass through a buffer designed to scan and block malicious content. However, over time, email providers—especially Gmail—have shifted their focus to just adding “warning labels” to those with suspicious links or attachments. This approach, best described as “beating around the bush” hasn’t reduced threats much at all. Shockingly, 91% of all cyberattacks still . So, what gives?

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Security Bite: Why email security is still so bad

It’s a little-known fact that before emails reach your inbox, they pass through a buffer designed to scan and block malicious content. However, over time, email providers—especially Gmail—have shifted their focus to just adding “warning labels” to those with suspicious links or attachments. This approach, best described as “beating around the bush” hasn’t reduced threats much at all. Shockingly, 91% of all cyberattacks still . So, what gives?

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PSA: M4 Macs can’t run virtual machines with older versions of macOS

Apple recently launched new , and , which brings a lot of performance improvements – especially when it comes to AI tasks. However, users are facing issues when trying to run virtual machines with some older versions of macOS on the new machines.

As noted by researcher Csaba Fitzl (via ), it seems that the are unable to run virtual machines with macOS versions prior to Ventura 13.4. The problem affects any virtualization software available for the Mac.

According to the website, trying to run a virtual machine on


Researcher reverse engineers new iPhone security feature ‘Inactivity Reboot’

A recent report by revealed that law enforcement agents have been concerned about automatically rebooting themselves, which makes it very difficult to hack these devices. Security researcher Jiska Classen later discovered that this behavior is caused by a new feature called “Inactivity Reboot,” which has now been reverse-engineered by Classen.

The researcher how exactly Inactivity Reboot was implemented by Apple – which did everything quietly without publicly announcing the new security feature. Based on iOS code, it was possible to confirm that Inactivity Reboot was implemented in iOS 18

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9to5Mac Daily: November 18, 2024 – Next-gen AirTag, ChatGPT upgrades

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