Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-common-voice-adds-16-new-languages-and-4600-new-hours-of-speech/
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…
CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative https://calyxos.org/
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-apples-child-protection-features-spark-concern-within-its-own-ranks-2021-08-12/
Reuters
Exclusive: Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks -sources
A backlash over Apple's move to scan U.S. customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images has grown to include employees speaking out internally, a notable turn in a company famed for its secretive culture, as well as provoking intensified protests…
1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016) https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/19/1800s-astronomical-drawings
Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration https://getsturdy.com/
Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt https://scotthelme.co.uk/heres-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/
Scott Helme
Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt!
As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web,…
Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
GitHub
GitHub - ManimCommunity/manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations. - ManimCommunity/manim
My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1146135405793669121
Twitter
foone
Ahh yes, my mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption so it can accept incoming connections. This is a totally normal thing to happen
Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers https://www.axios.com/apple-settles-developer-class-action-c13bb308-daf3-4231-a399-ffd48b6b2c52.html
Axios
Apple makes App Store concessions to settle developer suit
The company agrees to offer some additional freedoms to developers.
Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/
blog.pimaker.at
Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video] https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.17.html
Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22643800/apple-google-south-korea-app-store-payment-legislation-passes
The Verge
Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares
A major milestone in global anti-trust legislation
Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/
MacRumors
Apple Delays Rollout of Controversial Child Safety Features to Make Improvements
Apple has delayed the rollout of the Child Safety Features that it announced last month following negative feedback, the company has today...
Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cybercom-says-mass-exploitation-of-atlassian-confluence-vulnerability-ongoing-and-expected-to-accelerate/
ZDNET
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability 'ongoing and expected to accelerate'
IT leaders have taken to Twitter to confirm that the exploitation is ongoing globally.
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908
MIT News
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
For the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created. The demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build…
Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store
The Verge
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
The app store model on trial.