Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Apple announces iPhone 17e. With the 17 series chip (A19), double the storage (256 GB), and finally, magnets on the back (MagSafe). Suggested price is the same as the previous model, USD 599.

Microsoft bans the use of the word “Microslop” on Copilot's Discord server and then shuts it downWindows Latest. I know some readers are fed up with AI, but this is too funny to pass up.

/e/OS 3.5. The new version of the European “degoogled” Android brings security fixes from LineageOS 22.2, WebAssembly support in the web browser, and improvements for the Fairphone 6.

Splittio. An app for splitting expenses, similar to Splitwise and Splid, for Android and iOS. Free, with paid AI features.

WalletWallet. Don't worry, it's not a rerun. Alen, who develops this web app that creates cards for the iOS Wallet app, sent an email to let us know the new features: real-time preview, barcode scanner, logo uploading, and an API for developers. And it's still free.

Glyph Navigator. A beautiful website with original navigation featuring various glyphs.

Motorola and GrapheneOS announce long-term partnership

For several months, the maintainers of GrapheneOS, an alternative, security and privacy-focused version of Android, had been talking about a partnership with a major manufacturer. On Monday (2nd), at the Mobile Web Congress (MWC), we found out who the partner is: Motorola Mobility.

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Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Meta: Parents will be alerted if their children search for suicide and self-harm. The alert will be triggered if the minor searches "repeatedly in a short period" for terms related to these subjects. It will begin "in the coming weeks."

HBO Max’s password-sharing crackdown will expand globally in 2026The Wrap. The practice has already been curbed in the US since last August. We can't have good things, can we…

Samsung’s redesigned Galaxy Buds 4 lineup has retooled sound, improved ANC and new featuresEngadget. The slap on the wrist given to Samsung's designers had the desired effect and, unlike the Buds3 Pro, the new model is not a copy of Apple's AirPods Pro. (The features are identical, however.)

Typhoon. This weather forecast app has been rewritten in Qt 6. The look hasn't changed, but it's become more flexible (window resizing, transparency effects) and now has a Windows version in addition to Linux.

Random colour. A color fills the screen. Each time the page is reloaded, the color changes.

Movie Game. Watch the trailer and try to guess the movie's IMDb rating.

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Samsung unveils Galaxy S26 series. The main new feature unrelated to AI is the Galaxy S26 Ultra's “Privacy Screen,” which obscures the screen at wider angles, on demand. Even notifications (and only notifications) can be obscured. All three models are now available, and more expensive than S25 series.

Age requirements for apps distributed in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. Brazil is the most affected by this round of changes, as a result of a new law (“ECA Digital”) that takes effect in March.

Projectivy Launcher. Alternative launcher for Android/Google TV, with no ads or recommended content.

Mixflow. Music streaming to listen to in the background while you work or study. It supports account creation; I don't know what the difference is between that and just listening without signing in.

Dither Image Online. Another image editor with the dither effect. In the Tool menu, there are more similar effects.

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

AI kill switch in Firefox. As expected, Firefox 148 comes with a button that turns off all AI features in the browser. Now available.

I played it. App to manage your “backlog” or the list of video games you want to play. Free, for iOS/iPadOS, and developed by reader Hugo dos Anjos.

Letters to a young creator. The Steve Jobs Archive has released a new free book, Letters to a young creator, featuring letters from public figures telling “What it takes to make something great.”

Experiment with Pixels. Neal's new game is a simulator of everything, with materials that react like in real life, with a pixelated appearance.

Hacker Typer. A fake terminal that is filled in from any key pressed. Except for F, which (de)activates full screen. Press Alt three times to receive an access granted message.

Firefox 148, released on Tuesday (24th), features a kill switch for the browser's AI features. Below it are selective controls for specific features. All of them are located in a new area in the settings (about:preferences), called “Artificial Intelligence Controls.”

This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby

With the success of Meta's camera glasses, there is now a risk of being recorded without consent or knowledge and ending up exposed in a crude video on TikTok or Instagram.

The manufacturers claim that a subtle light on the frame indicates when they are filming. It is not always easy to see the light, and anyway it is trivial to disable it.

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Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links, Ars Technica. The people behind archive.today did some nasty things to a blogger who tried to identify them: they launched a DDoS attack against the blog and altered archived pages to tarnish his reputation. When an archive becomes susceptible to tampering, it ceases to be reliable.

Meta director of AI safety allows AI agent to accidentally delete her inbox, 404 Media. This is the person responsible at Meta for ensuring that AI does not do things that are harmful to people.

Ente Locker. New app from Ente for storing important documents. The code is open source, and you can store up to 100 items for free. (Paying subscribers have a higher limit of 1,000 items.)

Cine. A new, attractive player for Linux (Gnome/GTK). Under the hood, it's the reliable mpv that does the heavy lifting.

Global Animal Consumption. Using data from official sources, this website displays the growing numbers of animals slaughtered for human consumption. (The numbers are frightening.)

Accessibility for Everyone. This and other books from the late A Book Apart are being distributed free of charge by the authors. They seem to be a little outdated, but there are some timeless titles.

Why doesn’t Anthropic use Claude to make a good Claude desktop app?

Anthropic's Claude desktop app is built using Electron, a technology that combines a web app with an instance of Chromium in a cross-platform executable.

Several apps use this technology: Microsoft Teams, Slack, Signal, Discord, Spotify, VS Code. Electron facilitates the creation and maintenance of apps for multiple operating systems using a common language, the same as the web version of these apps.

The negative side effects, however, are just as significant. Each open app consists of an additional Chromium running, which can saturate the computer's resources, slowing it down or crashing it. And although it is possible to make adjustments so that the application feels at home on each OS, few bother to do so. It looks like… a website, just in a separate window from the browser.

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Confirming the rumors, the upcoming iOS 26.4 is expected to bring end-to-end encryption to messages exchanged between iPhone and Android using the RCS standard. There’s more: as this feature depends on a newer version of RCS, 3.0, other welcome additions are also expected to arrive: editing and deleting sent messages, reactions (tapback) without duplicating messages, and replying to specific messages.