The Washington Post: ‘Fact-Checking President Trump’s Coronavirus News Conference’

Apple Disables Clearview AI’s iOS Developer Certificate for Abusing Enterprise App Distribution for Its Creepy Facial Recognition App

The Washington Post: ‘Fact-Checking President Trump’s Coronavirus News Conference’

‘Plague Inc.’ Removed From Chinese App Stores Amid Outbreak

The Man Behind the ‘2020 Astros Shame Tour’ Twitter Account

Apple Disables Clearview AI’s iOS Developer Certificate for Abusing Enterprise App Distribution for Its Creepy Facial Recognition App

Swift Argument Parser

Nate Cook: We’re delighted to announce ArgumentParser, a new open-source library that makes it straightforward — even enjoyable! — to parse command-line arguments in Swift.[…]In addition to what we’ve seen so far, ArgumentParser supports --flag argu…

How Crash Bandicoot Hacked the Original Playstation

Ars Technica (via Hacker News): For today’s episode of War Stories, Ars Technica sat down with Naughty Dog Co-founder Andy Gavin to talk about the hurdles in bringing the original Crash Bandicoot to gamers around the world. When Andy and his partner…

Shadow Cloud Gaming Service Removed From the App Store

Tim Hardwick (Reddit): Cloud gaming service Shadow has had its apps removed from the App Store after it was found to be in violation of Apple’s guidelines. For those unfamiliar with the service, Shadow allows subscribers to play triple-A titles on t…

Plague Inc. Removed From the China App Store

Eliza Gkritsi (via Cabel Sasser): Popular infection simulation game Plague Inc. has been removed from Chinese app stores, Apple and Xiaomi users noticed today, after enjoying renewed popularity during the Covid-19 outbreak. […] Chinese authorities h…

Google Earth Beta Supports Other Browsers

Tom Warren (via Hacker News): Google is opening up its web-based version of Earth to browsers like Firefox, Edge, and Opera today. The search giant originally launched Google Earth on the web back in 2017, and axed its desktop apps at the same time.…

Craig Federighi’s Advice

UC Berkeley (via Scott): Craig Federighi (B.S. ’91, M.S. ’93 CS), the senior vice president of software engineering at Apple, Inc., delivers some “Questionable Advice from One Very Lucky Berkeley Engineer.”This View from the Top conversation with De…

Apple Disables Clearview AI’s iOS Developer Certificate for Abusing Enterprise App Distribution for Its Creepy Facial Recognition App

Disney Blocks John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ Episode Critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

MI5 Chief Asks Tech Firms for ‘Exceptional Access’ to Encrypted Messages

‘Mug’

Nine Questions About the Rumored iPad Smart Keyboard With Trackpad

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Iconfactory’s delightful new notepad app for Mac and iOS.

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Iconfactory’s delightful new notepad app for Mac and iOS.

MarkdownAttributedString

Craig Hockenberry (tweet): This project is an Objective-C category that generates rich text by reading Markdown as the source code. It also allows you to write Markdown using attributed strings. The code only processes link and emphasis span element…

Kr00k Wi-Fi Vulnerability

Dan Goodin (via Juli Clover): Billions of devices—many of them already patched—are affected by a Wi-Fi vulnerability that allows nearby attackers to decrypt sensitive data sent over the air, researchers said on Wednesday at the RSA security conferen…