Supreme Court Justices Deny Spat on Gorsuch Wearing a Face Mask

NPR: ‘Fissures at the Supreme Court Suggest Justices Are Like a Dysfunctional Family’

No More iOS 14 Security Updates

Juli Clover: Last week, MacRumors shared news that Apple had stopped releasing iOS 14 security updates and was pushing those still on iOS 14 to upgrade to iOS 15, an apparent reversal of a promise to allow users to stay on the iOS 14 operating syste…

1Password Series C Funding Round

Jeff Shiner (tweet, Hacker News): I’m delighted to announce that 1Password has raised $620 million in our latest investment round that values our company at $6.8 billion. This moment represents a lot of hard work by a lot of amazing people. Most day…

Making Mac OS X Unix Compliant Certified

Terry Lambert (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): I was the tech lead at Apple for making Mac OS X pass UNIX certification, and it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX™ trademark in advertising. […] W…

Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard

Tom Warren (Hacker News): Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the troubled publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The deal will value Activision at $68.7 billion, far in excess of the $26 billion Microsoft paid to acquire LinkedIn …

An Examination of the Bug Bounty Marketplace

Bounty Everything (PDF, via Bruce Schneier): Ellis and Stevens’s research offers a historical overview of bounty programs and an analysis of contemporary bug bounty platforms — the new intermediaries that now structure the vast majority of bounty wo…

Will the U.S. Government Approve Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?

★ A Five-Letter Word for ‘Rip-Off’

Some good rules of thumb, if you’re weighing whether a derivative new work crosses the threshold into ripping off the original.

★ A Five-Letter Word for ‘Rip-Off’

Some good rules of thumb, if you’re weighing whether a derivative new work crosses the threshold into ripping off the original.

Will the U.S. Government Approve Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?

Bartender and the Notch

Josh Ginter (via Matt Birchler): Bartender provides other customization options to fit your needs. You can ensure specific icons are always visible, other icons always hidden, and you can put spacers between icons to provide breathing room. You can …

Army Spouse Uses AirTag to Track Down Shady Moving Truck Driver

Mozilla Stops Accepting Cryptocurrency, Wikipedia May Be Next

Will the U.S. Government Approve Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?

BackLog 1.0

Matthias Gansrigler (tweet): It’s complicated, or at least cumbersome, to get logs that predate you clicking “Start streaming” in Console.app – Apple’s recommendation for it is to create an entire system diagnostics report and look for files in ther…

Austria: Google Analytics Violates GDPR

noyb: In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (“Datenschutzbehörde” or “DSB”) has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR. This is the first decision on the 101 model…

NPR: ‘Fissures at the Supreme Court Suggest Justices Are Like a Dysfunctional Family’

COVIDtests.gov: Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

Omicron: ‘A Flash Flood More Than a Wave’

How Omicron Symptoms Differ From Delta, Past COVID-19 Variants