Sam Biddle (via John Gruber): Offered to select Facebook partners, the data includes not just technical information about Facebook members’ devices and use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, but also their past locations, interests, and even their soci…
Lees meerTengfei Tu et al. (PDF via Susan Potter): In this paper, we perform the first systematic study on concurrency bugs in real Go programs. We studied six popular Go software including Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC. We analyzed 171 concurrency bugs in to…
Lees meerJohn Wilander: The combination of third-party web tracking and ad campaign measurement has led many to conflate web privacy with a web free of advertisements. We think that’s a misunderstanding. Online ads and measurement of their effectiveness do n…
Lees meerCabel Sasser: After more than 20 years of making quality apps you love for Mac and iOS, Panic was ready to try something new… …and that something was hardware. Playdate (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It’s got a…
Lees meerGitHub (tweet, Hacker News): Funding developers through GitHub Sponsors is one more way to contribute to open source projects you appreciate. Help developers get the resources they need, and recognize contributors working behind the scenes to make o…
Lees meerVLC (Hacker News): One major design goal is to expose what UI frameworks need. Several user interfaces, like Qt, Mac OS and Android, will use this API to display and interact with the main VLC playlist. The playlist must be performant for common use…
Lees meerJames Riordon: My Dad (90 yrs old) has developed cognitive issues, including the inability to reconcile symbols. He can’t use Apple Mail anymore as Mail compose window removed the ability to show text labels with buttons. Thanks @tim_cook Happy Glob…
Lees meerIan King and Kartikay Mehrotra (Hacker News, MacRumors): U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh sided with the Federal Trade Commission in a case brought in 2017 accusing the company of anti-competitive practices. […] “Qualcomm’s licensing practices have stra…
Lees meerKurt Wagner (via Cabel Sasser): Some journalists first noticed and started tweeting about seeing more ads on Twitter earlier this week. Not all Twitter users have the same ad load, which means the experiment won’t affect everyone. Some people see mo…
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