‘Tech Titans Gave Their House Testimony Virtually, but It Was the Congressmen Who Departed From Reality’

★ Trump Floats Illegally Delaying Election

This tweet is the low point in this whole years-long nightmare of a presidency, and yet simultaneously the *reaction* to the tweet is the high point.

Speculation in JavaScriptCore

Filip Pizlo: This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine. Speculative compilation is ideal for making dynamic languages, or any language with enough dynamic feat…

macintosh.js

Felix Rieseberg: This is Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Yes, it's the full thing. Via Dan Moren: I fired it up to take it for a spin and it worked pretty well, though I did run into some bugs with scro…

Keeping Dropbox

David Sparks: iCloud Drive and sharing have not failed me. On the contrary, they have worked better than I expected. […] The trouble is those instances where I am not in control. For example, I have many clients who have never heard of iCloud Drive …

Exposure Notification Update

Howard Oakley (Hacker News): According to figures obtained by the BBC, of the 83 million people in Germany, only around 16 million have downloaded this app since it launched in June. That’s less than 20% of the whole population, and probably around …

Trump Floats Illegally Delaying Election

‘Tech Titans Gave Their House Testimony Virtually, but It Was the Congressmen Who Departed From Reality’

★ Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing

It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules.

Dropbox Dark Pattern

Nick Heer: While the biggest tech CEOs testifying before some of the dumbest people are stymied by WebEx problems, I want to direct your attention to this Dropbox screen. Would you assume that both of these buttons are tappable? Tyler Hall: No way t…

Tim Cook’s App Store Testimony

Juli Clover (also: 1, 2): Apple CEO Tim Cook is today participating in an antitrust hearing with the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. [……

★ Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing

It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules.

★ Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing

It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules.

Coronavirus Disinformation Video Seen 20M Times Before Facebook Took It Down

Coronavirus Disinformation Video Seen 20M Times Before Facebook Took It Down

Coronavirus Disinformation Video Seen 20M Times Before Facebook Took It Down

Trump Retweeted a Doctor Who Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 Treatment

Ike on Leadership

National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien Tests Positive for COVID‑19

The Talk Show: ‘The Least Worst’

Schiller Interview Before the App Store Hearing

Stephen Nellis (via MacRumors): But when the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers, Philip W. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice presiden…