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date: 2024-01-19, from: Chris Heilmann’s blog
Forget about the Vision Pro, or whatever Samsung just brought out, we all know that the pinnacle of computing fun has been released in 1982 in the form of the Commodore 64. One of the coolest things you could show people when writing BASIC on it was the following one-liner: 10 print chr$(205.5 + rnd(1));:goto […]
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date: 2024-01-19, from: Om Malik blog
Editor’s Note: I want to take a moment to welcome new readers who have stumbled upon my internet homestead, thanks to Ben Thompson’s interview with me on the Stratechery Podcast (Subscription Required). We delved into the history of technology and my renewed enthusiasm for its future. And, of course, we chatted about Apple’s Vision Pro. Apple’s Vision …
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date: 2024-01-19, from: Om Malik blog
I want to take a moment and say a silent prayer for David Mills, the creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), which is fundamental to the functioning of networks. Mills, nicknamed the Internet’s Time Lord by his peers, passed away on January 17 at the age of 85. His contributions to the development and evolution of …
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date: 2024-01-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
A frightening example of the integrity-crushing intimidation of a possible Trump administration
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date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is a fascinating story.
Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley to speak to Invisible Ink, the CIA’s creative writing group.
I asked Vivian (not her real name) what she wanted me to talk about.
She said that the topic of the talk was entirely up to me.
I asked what level the writers in the group were.
She said the group had writers of all levels.
I asked what the speaking fee was.
She said that as far as she knew, there was no speaking fee.
What I want to know is, why haven’t I been invited? There are nonfiction writers in that group…
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date: 2024-01-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
What we must do
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date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.wired.com/story/one-part-of-apple-vision-pro-apple-doesnt-want-you-to-see/ Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/masimo-ceo-says-users-are-better-off-without-apple-s-oxygen-tool Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-19, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Cobwebbed Well, it is cold around here just now. Quote of the Day ”The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” André Gide Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news … Continue reading
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date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
Apple doesn’t have to make a platform-destructive money-grab policy change to ruin the Mac. They can ruin it simply by planting the seed of doubt that they might.
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date: 2024-01-18, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, My friend Harold Meyerson just wrote this for The American Prospect, and it’s so good and timely that I wanted to share it with you. In the wake of the midair blowout of a door on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 earlier this month, the lead that Airbus has taken over Boeing in the manufacture and sales of the world’s commercial aircraft has, not surprisingly, grown.
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date: 2024-01-18, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
You know how backups work great until you really need them? Below the fold, a lesson learned from my recent example of this phenomenon.So now I can travel with a Mac Air.
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date: 2024-01-18, from: Paolo Valdemarin’s blog
Sometimes it happens when I find myself walking in a new neighborhood, or maybe when I watch business parks outside a town while passing on a train: I’m fascinated by all these shops and industrial sheds with small companies logos on them. All these logos… Very rarely the graphic quality is any good, but I … Continue reading “I love logos”
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date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
After 175 million failed password guesses, a judge rules that the Canadian police must return a suspect’s phone.
[Judge] Carter said the investigation can continue without the phones, and he noted that Ottawa police have made a formal request to obtain more data from Google.
“This strikes me as a potentially more fruitful avenue of investigation than using brute force to enter the phones,” he said.
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date: 2024-01-18, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Right after his victory in Iowa, where he received 53% of the evangelical and born-again Christian vote, Donald Trump traveled to New York to plead his case — literally. He was in federal court today, where he’ll soon find out how much he’ll have to pay for defaming a woman he’s also been found liable for sexually abusing. You may want to think about that for a moment. And let us remember it’s only January. There are more trials to come starring the leading GOP presidential candidate.
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date: 2024-01-18, from: Robert Reich’s blog
They say they want to build public trust and avoid political upheaval, but they’re bankrolling election deniers
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date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-17/watching-netflix-on-apple-vision-pro-you-ll-have-to-use-the-web Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/17/apple-watch-series-9-ultra-2-without-blood-oxygen-sensor/ Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-17, updated: 2024-01-17, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-17, updated: 2024-01-17, from: Daring Fireball
No matter what the sport, no matter what the letter of the rulebook says, it’s never a good idea to piss off the refs.
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date: 2024-01-17, updated: 2024-01-05, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Interesting research: “Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?“:
Abstract: We conduct the first large-scale user study examining how users interact with an AI Code assistant to solve a variety of security related tasks across different programming languages. Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant. Furthermore, we find that participants who trusted the AI less and engaged more with the language and format of their prompts (e.g. re-phrasing, adjusting temperature) provided code with fewer security vulnerabilities. Finally, in order to better inform the design of future AI-based Code assistants, we provide an in-depth analysis of participants’ language and interaction behavior, as well as release our user interface as an instrument to conduct similar studies in the future…
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date: 2024-01-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
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date: 2024-01-17, updated: 2024-01-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-watch-redesigned-without-blood-oxygen-monitoring-to-avoid-import-ban/ Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-17, updated: 2024-01-17, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-17, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Often lost in the gamesmanship of border politics are details of those who tragically die trying to get to this country. In 2022, the most recent year for which records are available, nearly 700 people perished or disappeared trying to come to the United States. The International Organization for Migration says this is the deadliest land route for migrants worldwide.
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date: 2024-01-17, updated: 2024-01-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-on-apple-vision-pro-ushers-in-a-new-era-of-storytelling-innovation-and-immersive-entertainment/ Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-17, from: John Naughton’s online diary
This is how you do it Trinity Street, Cambridge. Quote of the Day ”I love criticism so long as it is unqualified praise.” Noel Coward Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Tuba Skinny | Jubilee Stomp – Royal Street … Continue reading
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date: 2024-01-16, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
The curl project has been accepted as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities in all products directly made or managed by the project. If I’m counting correctly, we are the 351st CNA. The official announcement from Mitre states: curl is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for all products made and managed by the … Continue reading curl is a CNA
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date: 2024-01-16, updated: 2024-01-16, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-16, updated: 2024-01-16, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/16/24039983/supreme-court-epic-apple-antitrust-case-rejected Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-16, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends, The mainstream media still don’t get it. This morning’s New York Times tried to describe it and utterly failed: “Donald J. Trump’s decisive victory in Iowa revealed a new depth to the reservoir of devotion inside his party. For eight years, he has nurtured a relationship with his supporters with little precedent in politics. He validates them, he entertains them, he speaks for them and he uses them for his political and legal advantage.
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date: 2024-01-16, updated: 2024-01-17, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-previews-new-entertainment-experiences-launching-with-apple-vision-pro/ Save to Pocket
date: 2024-01-16, updated: 2024-01-05, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Over at Wired, Andy Greenberg has an excellent story about the creators of the 2016 Mirai botnet.
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date: 2024-01-16, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Immigration has always been Donald Trump’s most compelling issue. It was a major factor in his Iowa victory last night and is his best hope for returning to the presidency. Many Republican officeholders and office seekers recognize this and follow Trump’s lead.
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date: 2024-01-16, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Two cases to be argued tomorrow before the Supreme Court threaten hundreds of consumer and environmental protections
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date: 2024-01-15, updated: 2024-01-15, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-15, updated: 2024-01-15, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-15, from: Om Malik blog
CES 2024, unlike its predecessors, lacked the usual impact because tech companies now prefer their own events for product releases. This was an in-between year, and no one knew what to build, or whom to copy. As is usually the case, the looming shadow of Apple, along with the launch of its Vision Pro device, only highlighted the fact that this …
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date: 2024-01-15, updated: 2024-01-05, from: Bruce Schneier blog
New research demonstrates voice cloning, in multiple languages, using samples ranging from one to twelve seconds.
Research paper.
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date: 2024-01-15, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Why today’s Iowa Republican caucuses won’t represent America.
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date: 2024-01-15, from: John Naughton’s online diary
In flight Two of my kids, on a memorable day on the Mayo coast, way back in 2004. Quote of the Day ”There’s no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” H.L. Mencken As we may be destined to discover … Continue reading
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date: 2024-01-14, updated: 2024-01-14, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-14, from: Om Malik blog
A Man may make a Remark –In itself – a quiet thingThat may furnish the Fuse unto a SparkIn dormant nature – lain –Let us divide – with skill –Let us discourse – with care –Powder exists in Charcoal –Before it exists in Fire –A Quiet Thing, Emily Dickinson When reading this poem, I was …
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date: 2024-01-14, from: Om Malik blog
I could use the rain as an excuse, but that would be a cop-out. I did go out often, and there were opportunities to capture images. The rain itself gave me so many opportunities. Even when I did find images that spoke to me, I couldn’t get things to work out. Usually, my everyday camera, …
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date: 2024-01-14, updated: 2024-01-09, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
The list is maintained on this page.
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date: 2024-01-14, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
We saw a remarkable video on social media this week, a new rendition of John Mayer’s Grammy-winning “Waiting on the World to Change,” performed by 100 artists from dozens of countries around the world.
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date: 2024-01-14, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
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date: 2024-01-14, updated: 2024-01-14, from: Daring Fireball
It’s just not clear at all exactly what Apple needs to allow to comply with the DMA, nor do any of us outside Cupertino have any idea what Apple plans to do.
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date: 2024-01-14, updated: 2024-01-14, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2024-01-14, updated: 2024-01-14, from: Daring Fireball
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