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Apple Watch users are facing a problem with their batteries draining too fast. This started after the latest software update, watchOS 10.1, which came out in October.

User Complaints

 
People with Apple Watch Series 9 and older models are not happy. They say their watch battery dies quickly after the update. On Reddit, a Series 9 owner said, “After the 10.1 update my battery only last like 2-3 hours at full charge.” Another person shared, “Mine charges to 100% and then dies within 2 hours.” A Series 8 user also had the same problem.

Apple’s Response

Apple knows about this and is planning to fix it. A note to their Service Providers, which MacRumors saw, says an update will come out soon. Apple also tells users how to check their battery health in the…

Apple is taking aim at a tool the ad industry uses to monitor internet users by cracking down on “tracking parameters” from web links. 

Users encounter tracking parameters on URLs from an ad campaign circulating on social media or over email. The URL can contain special text to help marketers confirm that users are clicking their links through a marketing campaign. 

An example of a tracking parameter
(Credit: SEMRush)

However, tracking parameters can also help the ad industry profile a user’s web-browsing activity by indicating which sites they used to view and click on a marketing campaign. That privacy risk is causing Apple to take action. 

“Some websites add extra information to their URLs in order to track users across other websites,” the company says. “Now this…

Here is a look back at the most-read stories on Phoronix during Q1’22 with our daily content around Linux hardware, open-source news, and lots of benchmarking.

During this past quarter on Phoronix were 42 featured Linux hardware reviews written by your’s truly as well as 729 original news articles pertaining to Linux/open-source happenings. Fresh new and original content each and everyday continues to be the norm. Sadly still being the norm are the challenges of the web advertising industry and continuing to be compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and that of ad-blockers… Operations continue to be stretched thin here with being reliant on pay-per-impression web advertising to keep Linux hardware testing and the daily flow of news going ahead of Phoronix.com turning…

Seventeen-year-old New York-based hosting firm Squarespace has been dubbed by one Wall Street stock analyst “the iPhone of hosting.” 

That description is apt in more ways than one. 

Like the iPhone, there is a slick quality to many elements of Squarespace that is user friendly, especially to people with limited technical acumen, such as picking pleasing templates for blogging that provide an immediately attractive visual feel.

And similar to Apple products, the veneer of ease can produce a false sense of security. There are times when Squarespace won’t function the way you’d wish, and when it can cause frustration with functions that suddenly break, with little recourse except to be patient…