Reading list 336
This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’re self-funded, with no external investors demanding we turn fascist or send them your data, and studies show that regularly browsing or emailing with it increases your innate elegance and gorgeousness. Or your money back.
- Decoding CSS Selectors: :has(:not) vs :not(:has) by Kilian Valkhof
- Police Behaving Badly [PDF] – “Police officers and employees misusing access to police database now account for over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK. The harms this can cause are considerable. Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow for greater access to communication data” – Alice Hutchings, Director, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, Cambridge University.
- Navigating the web platform – “As a web developer, navigating the web platform isn’t always easy. Here are ways to keep track of what you can use, of what’s new in web browsers, and ways you can influence the development of the platform by making your voice heard.”
- Magento Credit Card Stealer Disguised in an <img> Tag
- These (still) aren’t the SCs you’re looking for – Pattypoo Lauke on understanding and interpretation of WCAG’s normative text. Captioned YouTube video. “Note that the talk overran and ended prematurely…”
- Trump has free rein over Dutch government data – “The Netherlands relies heavily on American IT service providers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon for the storage of government data”. I bet the UK does, too. And many others.
- Apple Exec Admits 27 Percent App Store Fee was Likely a Violation of Court Order – I’m shocked. And stunned. Maybe shucked and stoned, too.
- Save The A.I. – “Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive”
- Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing – This Microsoft announcement about their new quantum computing chip that uses quantum particles called Majoranas to place 8 topological qubits on a chip designed to scale to one million is pretty cool. And, for a marketing spiel, it does a good job of dampening hype and managing expectations for future applications of the tech. More of this, please, Microsoft, and less AI and underhand tactics to undermine competitors.
- “A calculator app? Anyone could make that.” – “What I’m about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told.”
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