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#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage

It’s update day again, with Apple releasing minor feature updates to all its current operating systems with improvements in iPhone voice quality and crash detection, duplicate checking in iCloud Shared Photo Library, notifications for Web apps added to the Home Screen, and more. There are also security updates for the older iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Sad news—the venerable photography website DPReview is shutting down, the victim of corporate parent Amazon’s cost-cutting measures. Professional photographer Jeff Carlson pays his respects to a site that has been the Internet’s go-to source for camera and lens reviews for decades. Finally, Adam Engst looks at LucidLink, an innovative cloud-storage service that breaks from the Dropbox mold to provide direct, rather than synced, access to cloud-native data. Notable Mac app releases this week include macOS Monterey 12.6.4 and Big Sur 11.7.5, Safari 16.4, Pixelmator Pro 3.3.2, Zoom 5.14, and Default Folder X 5.7.6.

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