Sunday, November 20, 2022

Microsoft brings SwiftKey back to the iOS App Store citing "customer feedback", after delisting the keyboard app on October 5, 2022 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft brings SwiftKey back to the iOS App Store citing “customer feedback”, after delisting the keyboard app on October 5, 2022  —  Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard has unexpectedly returned to the App Store.  The company officially discontinued support for the keyboard and removed …



Elon Musk's changes at Twitter threaten to set up a showdown with Apple and Google over in-app purchases for subscriptions and content moderation issues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk's changes at Twitter threaten to set up a showdown with Apple and Google over in-app purchases for subscriptions and content moderation issues  —  Elon Musk's plan to turn Twitter into more of a subscription service threatens to set up a showdown with Apple and Google.



Twitter's automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended (Paul Tassi/Forbes)

Paul Tassi / Forbes:
Twitter's automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended  —  While Twitter, the website, remains online and has not simply collapsed after the vast majority of workers were fired or resigned under Elon Musk …



Donald Trump says he sees "a lot of problems at Twitter", doesn't see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social (Mark Niquette/Bloomberg)

Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump says he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter”, doesn't see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social  —  Donald Trump said he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter” and will stick to his own social-media platform, offering an initial response to Elon Musk's poll …



A look at the growth of esports tournaments in India, which are attracting prime-time TV audiences with both players and viewers mostly using mobile phones (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)

Alex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg:
A look at the growth of esports tournaments in India, which are attracting prime-time TV audiences with both players and viewers mostly using mobile phones  —  Next to a primary school and a shabby playground in India's financial capital Mumbai stands a plush four-story building that's home to the world's newest breed of athlete.



Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter : Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection ...