X, formerly Twitter, now sorts posts by like count on profiles when signed out
X, formerly known as Twitter, now sorts posts by like counts as opposed to the order in which they were posted when users are logged out. Posts, formerly called tweets, still appear in chronological order on profiles when you’re logged into the social network, but once you log out, they
Read moreElon Musk reportedly donated $10M to a fertility research project
Elon Musk, CEO of the company formerly known as Twitter (now X), has reportedly donated to a fertility and population research project in Texas. According to Bloomberg, Musk, who’s been vocal about his belief that population collapse could end humanity, gave $10 million to the Population Wellbeing Initiative (PWI), a
Read moreWhen to refactor your code?
Make refactoring part of your Definition of Done by utilizing my developer tool — CodeLimitContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreCross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attack in Modern Frontend Web
Vulnerabilities and solutionsCyber crime (Image licensed to the author)Today’s story is about the “XSS” gang. It’s a gang known for its cyber-criminal attacks, particularly XSS or “Cross-Site Scripting” attacks.This time, the gang attacked the website of a large company called “Appliance Garden.” The company enlisted the services of the cybersecurity startup
Read moreSkich, a discovery app for mobile games, now lets you launch and manage downloads
Skich, a Tinder-like game recommendation app where users swipe and discover mobile games based on their interests, rolled out a new feature that allows users to launch, collect, sort and delete games on their devices without leaving the app. Dubbed “Game Launcher,” the new feature collects games that users have
Read moreAdvanced Tessellation with Metal: Dynamic B-Spline Surface
Advanced Tessellation With Metal: Dynamic B-Spline SurfaceFigure 1: Real-time Shallow Water Simulation and Cloth (Flag) Simulation on iPhone 13MiniTessellation is a GPU-supported technique for generating a fine mesh surface from much fewer control points. It is achieved by geometrically subdividing a rectangular or triangular area called patch into much smaller triangles by
Read moreNYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge New York City is banning TikTok from city-owned devices and requiring agencies to remove the app within the next 30 days. The directive issued Wednesday comes after a review by the NYC Cyber Command, which a city official said found that TikTok “posed
Read moreGoals and Failure Modes for RFCs and Technical Design Documents
Lessons learned from experience steering technical design collaborationImage generated by Midjourney: A scroll depicting an architecture diagramAt a certain scale and ecosystem complexity, software engineers need a way to socialize their bigger design ideas outside of code review. Sometimes this starts as engineers just informally writing their ideas down in
Read morePhoto layout app Series makes it easier to post your panos to Threads
Series, an iOS photo app that helps you layout your photos in creative ways for posting on social media, is now shaping up to become the must-have companion app for users posting their photos to Instagram Threads. On Threads, users soon realized that you could view images full screen and,
Read moreThis $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password
Attendees at Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, are used to weird shenanigans, such as a seemingly innocuous wall of computer screens that display people’s passwords sniffed over the conference Wi-Fi network. But at this year’s event, even conference veterans were confused and concerned when their iPhones
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