Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie has been covering the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editorial Director at Mobile Nations, analyst at iMore, video and podcast host, you can follow him @reneritchie on [Snapchat](https://www.snapchat.com/add/reneritchie), [Instagram](https://instagram.com/reneritchie), or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/reneritchie).

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Latest articles by Rene Ritchie

Google Pixel 4 review: From an iPhone user's perspective

By Rene Ritchie published 22 November 19

Google, Apple, and Mozilla found blocking Kazakhstan's spy-certificate

By Rene Ritchie published 21 August 19

Google, Apple, and Mozilla are blocking a root certificate Kazakhstan ISPs were forced to install to spy on citizens

Twitter finally details new API, screws third-party apps — again

By Rene Ritchie published 16 May 18

Twitter has finally announced details for it’s new Account Activity API, which replaces the Streaming API third-party clients have relied on up until now — and the news isn’t good.

Favstar Destroyer: Twitter API hostility claims another service

By Rene Ritchie published 14 May 18

Favstar, a popular service for seeing which of your tweets were the most loved and discovering other popular tweets, will be shutting down on June 19, 2018. Because, Twitter.

#EFAIL vulnerability: What PGP and S/MIME users need to do right now

By Rene Ritchie last updated 19 November 19

Apple vs. Samsung: State of the mobile silicon

By Rene Ritchie last updated 16 November 21

Uber covered up a hack that compromised 57 million accounts

By Rene Ritchie published 21 November 17

Uber was hacked. 50 million rider accounts were accessed. 7 million driver accounts as well. And Uber paid $100,000 to cover it all up.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down. Are you affected?

By Rene Ritchie last updated 19 November 19

Facebook and its related networks, Instagram and Whatsapp, experienced an outage that prevented some users from accessing either the entire service or some functionality within the service.