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During a Summit of His Exes, Joe Jonas Linked Up With… Nathan Fielder??
Jezebel,
Never in my life have I yearned to be a fly on the wall more than at this Saturday night dinner where Taylor Swift convened a few close friends. Because it wasn’t just another ~girl’s night~, it was a summit of four different ex-girlfriends of the Jonas Brothers, a band that apparently managed to get around in the… Read more...
https://www.manton.org/2023/11/05/u-at-the.html
Manton Reese,
U2 at the Sphere. This is from the very beginning of the show, no spoilers. Incredible concert and venue.
https://www.manton.org/2023/11/04/hoover-dam.html
Hoover Dam.
https://www.manton.org/2023/11/04/during-covid-i.html
During COVID, I thought for sure no one would ever want to go to Las Vegas again. Stuck in a poorly-ventilated room with no windows and people smoking? No thanks! Yet here I am in the city. U2 at the Sphere tonight.
Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API
mjtsai,
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to critics looked more like DRM for websites.[…]Apple incidentally has already shipped its own attestation scheme called Private Access Tokens, which while it presents some of the same concerns […]
Apple’s Three Safaris
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: “Same Safari. Different device.”Cupertino also […]
FTX Trial
Molly White (via Nick Heer): We got our first glance at the FTX codebase on Friday. The prosecution brought out Github screenshots as they questioned cooperating witness Gary Wang, the former CTO of FTX who at various times was responsible for the codebases powering both FTX and Alameda Research. Wang has pleaded guilty to four […]
Apple’s Q4 2023 Results
Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors: The Company posted quarterly revenue of $89.5 billion, down 1 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.46, up 13 percent year over year. “Today Apple is pleased to report a September quarter revenue record for iPhone and an all-time revenue record in Services,” said Tim […]