🔗 Articles: Saturday 30.Mar.2024
AppleInsider: AT&T’s customer passcodes, personal info compromised in breach
AT&T is finally resetting passcodes for current customers after hackers stole a trove of customer data more than two years ago.
The vast majority of the compromised passcodes belong to some 65.4 million current and former AT&T customers. However, the company has reset passcodes for 7.6 million of its current customers, in the typical abundance of caution often cited.
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The stolen data was first reported on hacker forums in 2021. AT&T denied that the hack was real — until now.
AppleInsider: Learn to code in Swift with new Apple tutorial guides
Apple has launched a new tutorial webpage featuring beginner resources for programming using Swift, Swift UI, and Xcode.
Ahead of its annual Worldwide Developer Conference this June, “Develop in Swift Tutorials” has appeared on the the company’s developer website. It offers guides intended to encourage new would-be developers.
The site is aimed at those with little or no prior coding experience. It features step-by-step guides on how to install Xcode, create a new project in Swift, and creating a simple app using SwiftUI.
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In addition to the foundations of SwiftUI and app navigation, there is a section of the tutorials devoted to spatial computing and developing for the Apple Vision Pro. The listed requirements for the tutorials include a Mac running either macOS Sonoma or Ventura, Xcode, and “curiosity and imagination.”
Common Dreams: ‘Obscene’: Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel
”‘Quietly,’” Palestinian American writer and political analyst Yousef Munayyer scoffed in response to the report. “This is cowardly from the administration. If you are going to be full backers of genocide, own it. We see you and history sees you as well.”
“It is scary to think of the world U.S. support for Israel is creating. A world with no rules, no limits in war, where norms don’t exist, and where genocide is supportable,” he added. “Good luck getting anyone to listen to you about international law after this.”
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“The U.S. cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000-pound bombs that can level entire city blocks,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on social media Friday. “This is obscene. We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel.”
Guardian: ‘You wouldn’t put your dog in this river’: Boat Race exposes Thames Water failings
Thanks to the vast amounts of sewage now being dumped in the Thames, prevalence of the bug was 10 times higher than what is considered to be safe. As a result, crews from both boats were warned not to take a dive into the Thames at the end of the race lest they suffer diarrhoea, kidney failure or sepsis.
And the culprit? Thames Water, which has been found to have been releasing effluent directly into the river and its tributaries on a grand scale. One recent study indicated that the utility firm had pumped at least 72 billion litres of filth into the river since 2020, enough to fill 29,000 Olympic swimming pools.
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Last week, the company’s leadership was denounced as a disgrace by the communities secretary, Michael Gove,and accused of taking excess profits while failing to invest in badly needed infrastructure. Now the renationalisation of Thames Water has become a real prospect. The water industry was privatised by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, and if Thames Water is renationalised this would confirm in many people’s minds that the whole exercise had been a very costly fiasco.
There may be organizations that are worth privatizing, but many were privatized for the wrong reasons and they have cast a long shadow.
Guardian: Le Crookie: after the cronut and the cruffin, latest croissant hybrid takes Paris by storm
Teenagers queue outside bakeries to buy pastry seen on TikTok that puts American twist on French pâtisserie.
Sounds worth investigating!
Guardian: ‘Feeble, desperate, mentally unfit’: Biden changes tack to mock Trump
“It’s very sad that the other side is now starting to play the same game. This looks like we’ve lost as a society, because everyone plays that game now,” West said.
For now, it is hard to tell whether Biden cracking jokes about Trump will be a winning strategy. There is evidence, however, that Republican and Democratic voters increasingly view members of the opposing party with contempt.
Guardian: Explorers unlock the mystery of ‘pirate king’ who vanished after huge heist at sea
Kingsley and Cowan discovered that the letter links Avery with one of the first great spy rings, believed to have included Daniel Defoe, the Robinson Crusoe author, and Thomas Tenison, the archbishop of Canterbury. Together, they were protecting Protestant England from the threat of “popery”, a Catholic invasion from France and an enemy seizing the throne.
Last Updated: 30.Mar.2024 23:44 EDT