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One of the novelties in Apple's next operating system is macOS 13 Ventura, which will be released in October, which is the sixteenth version of Safari. However, that brand new browser has been available to download separately since Tuesday and offers a few useful new features. Tab groups allow Mac users to organize their favourite tabs in an organized manner. You can then quickly reaccess them via the sidebar of Safari, which has been redesigned in version 16. What's especially new, however, is that you can create tab group homepages, each with its own background photo and favourites. Soon you will also be able to share the groups (via the Messages app) with other macOS Ventura users or iPhone owners who have upgraded to iOS 16. Handy if you want to plan your next holiday toge...

A man was kicked out of his Google account and received a visit from the police for sending a photo of his child's genitals to his doctor. The story sounds like a privacy nightmare. The toddler in question had swelling around his crotch. In preparation for a video consultation, he sent pictures of the condition to the doctor at the request of medical personnel. The facts date from February 2021, when many doctors' practices in the US were not easily accessible due to corona. The condition was treated with antibiotics. However, two days later, the man notified Google that his accounts were being blocked for harmful content, violating Google's policy, and may have committed illegal acts. As a result, the man no longer had access to emails, contacts, or online photos, and even hi...

Apple wants its employees to be back in the office at least three days a week from September 5. It's not the first time Apple has tried to get people back to the office. However, several lockdowns over the past two years have slowed down previous efforts. In practice, Apple will require employees to work from the office on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third day determined by individual teams. That's an adjustment to the original plan, which required office work on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Apple first announced its three-day office work policy in June 2021. Since then, however, there have been several new Covid peaks worldwide, with the result that Apple limited its policy to two office working days per week. The new policy will go into effect for Apple locations in Silicon...

After criticism from users, the privacy-friendly search engine will also stop tracking by Microsoft.   DuckDuckGo is a search engine that does not track you online and thereby omits trackers or other techniques to identify you online. In addition, it also has extensions for Firefox and a mobile browser. In May, the organization was criticized for this. Despite its promise, DuckDuckGo's browser still contained Microsoft tracking scripts. That is why it is now announcing that that too will be discontinued. CEO Gabriel Weinberg also explains why: "We were restricted from applying 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection to Microsoft tracking scripts by a policy requirement linked to our use of Bing as the source of our search results." Now that requirement is no longer there, and Weinbe...