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.
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design https://search.marginalia.nu/
A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
Nature
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead…
Scientific Reports - RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different
Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu https://waydro.id/
Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities https://habr.com/en/post/579714/
Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7514448
Downsides of Offline First https://rxdb.info/downsides-of-offline-first.html
Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/
VGC
The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked
Source codes and user payouts among the data released in a 128GB torrent…
Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/
Simple Thread
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with…