Gadgets from Bill Handel’s Show today

I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. Maybe there’s a lag?

Untitled 25 August 2018

Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.

Untitled 25 August 2018

Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.

Leo’s News Links

Facebook adding "fbclid" parameter to outbound links. 22 October 2018

After doing a quick search on Google, I have noticed that a few websites have already had their pages indexed with this new “fbclid” parameter attached. Another good reason why you should always explicitly set the canonical URL for each page.

The Titan M Chip Powers Up Pixel 3 Security | WIRED 22 October 2018

Titan M heads off these boot-time attacks by tying into Verified Boot, a feature introduced in 2017 with Android Oreo. Verified Boot confirms that you’re running the correct version of Android as soon as you turn it on; by leveraging Titan M, the Pixel 3 ensures the integrity of that check before an attacker has […]

China requires blockchain-based information service providers to register users using real names, censor postings and store user data | South China Morning Post 22 October 2018

Under proposed new rules, companies and entities operating in China that provide blockchain-based information services will have to ask users to register their real names and national identification card numbers, censor content deemed to pose a threat to national security and store user data to allow inspection by authorities. The Cyberspace Administration of China published […]

Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows—it’s how it develops it | Ars Technica 22 October 2018

The decoupling of development and bugfixing is also an issue: during the development and integration phases the reliability and stability of the software will take a giant nosedive. The features being integrated are fundamentally untested (because testing comes later), and have never been used with each other (because they were all developed separately in their […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story 20 October 2018

This is an extraordinary statement from Cook and Apple. The company has never previously publicly (though it may have done so privately) called for the retraction of a news story — even in cases where the stories have had major errors or were demonstratively false, such as a This American Life episode that was shown […]

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