Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed legislation to ban TikTok from the state, but it won't go into effect until January 1 and could be overturned.A state-level TikTok ban has been passed in MontanaThere have been many calls to ban TikTok in the United States over fears of Chinese surveillance. Even as the government seeks methods to ban the app outright, one state government has taken the initiative. Read more...

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed legislation to ban TikTok from the state, but it won't go into effect until January 1 and could be overturned.A state-level TikTok ban has been passed in MontanaThere have been many calls to ban TikTok in the United States over fears of Chinese surveillance. Even as the government seeks methods to ban the app outright, one state government has taken the initiative. Read more...

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed legislation to ban TikTok from the state, but it won't go into effect until January 1 and could be overturned.A state-level TikTok ban has been passed in MontanaThere have been many calls to ban TikTok in the United States over fears of Chinese surveillance. Even as the government seeks methods to ban the app outright, one state government has taken the initiative. Read more...

France has been investigating Apple since December after the organization Halte à l'Obsolescence Programmée (HOP) accused the company of "planned obsolescence" over serialized repair parts, according to French news agency AFP. Apple's self-service repair program requires customers to enter a device's serial number when ordering parts for devices like iPhones and Macs, and any parts ordered need to be paired with the same device after installation. HOP said this policy gives Apple the potential to restrict repairs to approved technicians only, and limit the functionality of devices repaired with uncertified parts. The organization added that Apple's self-service repair program is bad for the environment given that Apple ships large and heavy tools to customers. Do-it-yourself repair website iFixit also expressed…

Macworld After announcing its big yearly operating system update in its WWDC keynote on June 6, 2022, and following months of beta testing, Apple made iOS 16 available to be installed on iPhones on September 12, 2022, followed by iPadOS 16.1 on October 24. But while tons of new features arrived in September, and even more in the months that followed, there is still more to come as Apple continues to work on iOS 16. In this article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about iOS 16 and how it’s going to affect your iPhone and iPad experience if you haven’t updated yet, including new features, design changes, and details of any issues and flaws people are encountering…

Ahead of Apple's imminent switch to USB-C on iPhones, the EU Commission issues a warning not to restrict the functionality of non-MFi cables. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)