

Google and Apple SMS standards are confronted with the SMS standards of
iPhone SMS applications iMessage does not support the modern RCS standard. Therefore, text messages sent from iPhone to Android can only use the ancient SMS standard. RCS is a SMS standard launched in 2008 that aims to replace SMS, supporting richer features. Like iMessage, its information is delivered over the Internet, not through telecom operators. In order to enable iPhones to support advanced RCS specifications, Android has been constantly pressuring Apple and even made a special page with buttons on it that allow users to send messages to Apple's Twitter to urge it. But Apple just doesn't move. Now, just like the text messages sent to Android by iPhone, when an Android user responds to text messages sent by iPhone with an emoji, the text messages received by the iPhone user does not display the emoji, but a text description of the emoji, such as "Love".
Source: Insider
Lao Wang commented: After all, Apple feels that supporting RCS is not good for it, and it forces users to use its iPhone.

open source network security monitoring platform Zeek becomes part of Windows
Released in 1998 Zeek (originally named Bro) is being integrated into Windows and becoming part of Microsoft Defender, "now deployed on more than 1 billion endpoints around the world." Zeek can convert network traffic into compact and high-fidelity logs, file content and behavioral analysis to speed up security operations. Zeek's founder said, "I never thought that the network monitoring tools I developed would find a wider application in defense of endpoints - but it's part of the creative magic of open source development."
Source: Corelighttml7
Lao Wang commented: Microsoft has no psychological barriers to using open source software. Any good one will find a way to get it into Windows.

Apple announced that more ads will enter the app store from next week
Apple announced that starting October 25, in all countries except China, app-related ads will begin to appear in the "You May Like Also" section at the bottom of the Apple App Store's main "Today" tag and a single app list. This is the first time that developers have been able to advertise on the "Today" tag. Ads that “you might also like” are another way to increase the actual “app tax”, forcing developers to buy ads on their app pages to avoid others guiding customers away from their hands. Advertising in the Apple App Store was previously limited to keyword-based search results and the "suggestions" section of search tags. Apple hopes to nearly triple its current advertising revenue in the future to at least $10 billion a year.
Source: MacRumors
Lao Wang commented: So, as WIRED said, Apple is now an advertising company.