av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 28, 2019 | Lästips
In a huge room somewhere near Apple’s glistening new campus, highly advanced machines are heating, cooling, pushing, shocking and otherwise abusing chips. Those chips – the silicon that will power the iPhones and other Apple products of the future – are being put through the most gruelling and intense work of their young and secretive lives. Throughout the room are hundreds of circuit boards, into whoch those chips are wired – those hundreds of boards are placed in hundreds of boxes, where these trying processes take place.
Those chips are here to see whether they can withstand whatever assault anyone might try on them when they make their way out into the world. If they succeed here, then they should succeed anywhere; that’s important, because if they fail out in the world then so would Apple. These chips are the great line of defence in a battle that Apple never stops fighting as it tries to keep users’ data private.
Källa: Inside Apple’s top secret test labs where iPhone defences are forged
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 26, 2019 | Lästips
Hussein Kesvani är journalist och under 2017 fick han flera anonyma meddelanden på Twitter från en användare som hävdade att hans religion, Islam, är ond.
Till slut mötte de båda, journalisten och nättrollet.
In 2017, I started to receive messages from a Twitter user who called themself True Brit, telling me that my religion was “Satanic”, “barbaric” and “evil”. Bearing a profile image of the St George’s cross and a biography that simply read “Anti-Islam, stop Islamic immigration now”, True Brit often spammed me with pictures taken from anti-Muslim websites, blogs and Facebook groups. Sometimes they would be cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad as a sexual deviant. Other times, I would be sent memes I had seen circulating in rightwing communities online, depicting groups of south Asian men who had been arrested for child sexual grooming, or alleged Syrian refugees who were, supposedly, secret members of Isis. One meme showed a man with a long beard, in battle camouflage, brandishing a pistol in one hand and holding the hand of a woman wearing niqab. In bold white writing below the image were the words “EUROPE IN 2020”.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 26, 2019 | Lästips
AMONG THE MEGA-CORPORATIONS that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one small device you keep on you at almost every moment. A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along with phone makers — some 100 different companies in 50 countries — by offering the use of even more surveillance data, pulled straight from your smartphone by Facebook itself.
Offered to select Facebook partners, the data includes not just technical information about Facebook members’ devices and use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, but also their past locations, interests, and even their social groups. This data is sourced not just from the company’s main iOS and Android apps, but from Instagram and Messenger as well. The data has been used by Facebook partners to assess their standing against competitors, including customers lost to and won from them, but also for more controversial uses like racially targeted ads.
The Intercept
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 19, 2019 | Lästips
Vem mördade statsminister Olof Palme – en fråga som fortfarande är obesvarad och som beskrivs som ett nationellt trauma. Brittiska The Guardian berättar om händelserna, utredningen och om en mordutredning som fortfarande är aktuell 33 år senare.
The mystery of Palme’s death has become a national obsession. “One of my earliest memories is of my parents discussing who killed Palme,” a friend I met while living in Sweden for the past couple of years told me. “I can’t describe to you how deep this is in the Swedish soul.” The murder has inspired films, plays and music, and has even been cited as a factor in the worldwide explosion of Scandinavian crime fiction. A number of Swedish amateur detectives have devoted much of their lives to solving the case. Investigating it has led some of them to break the law and driven others to something approaching madness.
The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 17, 2019 | Lästips
Ever since the App Store for the iPhone debuted back in 2008, there have been millions of apps available to us at our fingertips. There are definitely plenty of big name apps that we are familiar with and probably use on a daily basis, but what about some other, lesser-known apps that are also quite useful to have around? We’ve rounded up some of the best iPhone apps that you should be using, but probably haven’t heard of them before. These apps will make your life easier, and then some!
Källa: Here are some great iPhone apps that you may not have heard of
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 15, 2019 | Lästips
When did your Mac last start up? Mine’s only been running continuously now for nearly ten days, but unless something forces me to, I don’t intend restarting it for another couple of weeks, and only shut it down completely a couple of times a year. Whoch is better, then: a daily boot, or leaving your Mac on as long as possible?
Traditional arguments about this have been based on the last generation of computers, with internal hard drives. I’ve been leaving my desktop Mac running constantly for many years now, and started doing so largely to reduce the risk of hard drive failure. This iMac Pro no longer has internal storage whoch spins platters, so it’s time to reassess what I do.
Källa: Should you leave your Mac running all the time?
