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December 21st, 2023 | Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
Dec 22, 2023
This podcast discusses topics like Apple allowing some iOS apps to track user locations, the battle with Beeper Mini over encrypted chats, a vulnerability in Google OAuth, legal battles over ad blocking extensions, revolutionizing asteroid defense, and enhancing nursing home ownership information.
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- ArcSiv now offers papers in HTML format, improving accessibility for researchers with disabilities and enabling interactive scholarly communication.
- Apple's alleged enablement of silent tracking of user locations through a hotspot helper API raises concerns over user control and calls for greater transparency.
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ArcSiv's Upgraded Accessibility Features
ArcSiv, a hub for scientific research, has expanded its accessibility features, offering papers in HTML format alongside PDFs. This initiative aims to enable researchers with disabilities to access papers via technology such as screen readers. Commenters discuss the improved compatibility with screen readers and mobile accessibility offered by the HTML format, along with challenges in reading mathematical scripts. HTML's potential for interactive scholarly communication and semantic searching is also discussed.
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