- Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists | Ars Technica
"The Flame espionage malware that infected computers in Iran achieved mathematic breakthroughs that could only have been accomplished by world-class cryptographers, two of the world's foremost cryptography experts said." (cryptography malware flame dopost )
- The MacBook Air wedge aesthetic: Now an Apple patent | Business Tech – CNET News
Defensible? "Apple secures a patent for the wedge profile sported by the MacBook Air." (laptops patent dopost apple )
- David Cameron faces his moment of truth at the Leveson Inquiry – Telegraph
"David Cameron found himself insensibly drawn into the Murdoch system of government originally perfected when Tony Blair was prime minister. Social and political life merged as the senior British representatives of the Murdoch machine were absorbed into David and Samantha Cameron’s inner circle, a repeat of what had happened earlier under Blair and Brown. This course of action, so natural at the time, was in due course to result in the Prime Minister’s summons to a grilling at the hands of Lord Justice Leveson this Thursday. The Prime Minister has a very embarrassing set of questions to answer." (politics rupert_murdoch leveson_inquiry david_cameron )
- iOS v Android: why Schmidt was wrong and developers still start on Apple | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"Google's chairman predicted six months ago that app developers would start on Android first rather than Apple's iOS – but they haven't. Why not? And why do iPhone users update so quickly?" (software_development ios android dopost )
- Confessions of a recovering Objectivist | Victoria Bekiempis | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"For a time, I was a devotee of Ayn Rand's ideas. Now I see what a pernicious philosophy rational egoism is – and how dumb!" (politics ayn_rand )
- The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar
"On Twitter, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats has compiled nuggets of narrative wisdom she's received working for the animation studio over the years." (advice story_telling pixar )
- Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS | The Verge
The sad and revealing story of Palm's rise and fall: "At that time, Apple was almost singlehandedly dominating the smartphone supply chain [...] "We told HP we needed better displays [for the Pre 3]. They'd come back and say, ‘Apple bought them all. [...] The same thing happened with cameras. We'd pick a part, turns out Apple picked the same part. We were screwed left and right."" (apple hp history hardware dopost palm_pre palm )
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