Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-02-01

Last show of the week, last show ever for Kate and Matt. They’re heading back to Toronto tomorrow. They don’t seem too sad about it though. #

Apple preaches privacy. Lawmakers want the talk to turn to action. - The Washington Post 16 July 2019

A number of privacy advocates and U.S. lawmakers — who did not attend the meeting — say Apple has not put enough muscle behind any federal effort to tighten privacy laws. And state lawmakers, who are closest to passing rules to limit data sharing, say Apple is an ally in name only — and in […]

The new 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model | iMore 15 July 2019

The French site conducted some tests on the new 2019 MacBook Air using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and it achieved speeds of 1.3 GB/s read and 1 GB/s write. Compare it to the 2018 MacBook Air, which achieved 2 GB/s read and 0.9 GB/s write.

Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software - WSJ 15 July 2019

The Apollo guidance computer—the first digital general-purpose, multitasking, interactive portable computer—laid the foundations of much of the digital world we know today, from the fly-by-wire cockpits of commercial jetliners to the multitasking smartphones we carry in our pockets.

Cheap automatic license plate readers are creeping into neighborhoods. 14 July 2019

Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke - The Verge 14 July 2019

the United States government spent months coming up with a punishment for Facebook’s long list of privacy-related bad behavior, and the best it could do was so weak that Facebook’s stock price went up.

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