There is a good chance that you might have missed the most important technology news of the day — at least in my opinion. China has asked Apple to remove WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram and Signal from its app store in the country. The Wall Street Journal, which has the exclusive, reports: Apple said it was told to remove certain apps because …
There have been multiple attempts to create a new social network that tries to mimic Twitter as a short-text-oriented real-time platform ever since Twitter (nee X) started to fray. Mastodon is the choice of the proponents of the Indie web; BlueSky, a network promoted by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and Warpcast, which has its roots in the decentralized …