The month Brussels discovered solidarity, by which it meant outvoting the nations that disagreed, and an Advocate General quietly admitted the data deal protecting half a billion people had never been worth the paper it was printed on.
Jean-Michel Jarre's 2015 album, a sweeping collaboration record where the electronic pioneer works with many artists.
If you have downloaded Xcode from Apple, you have seen a .xip file. Here is what it is and how it works.
A junk tells De Cock that his addicted girlfriend has promised fifty thousand euros to whoever kills her wealthy father. Soon that father is found dead in the canal.
Monthly update 305 • September 2015 • 2015-09-01 - 2015-09-30
September 2015 paired a wave of record-setting breaches with landmark surveillance reforms, as courts, regulators and Edward Snowden himself pushed the privacy debate forward.
If you see diagnosticd running on your Mac, here is what this unified diagnostics process does.
When the Snowden revelations first came to light, it felt like we might be heading towards an Orwellian dystopia. Now we know that the situation is much worse.
The month Brussels handed Athens another 86 billion euros, lectured Hungary for building a fence while its own borders dissolved, and discovered that nobody could find the off switch for a crisis it had spent a decade designing.
Inside Out (2015), directed by Pete Docter, shows the mind of Riley, an eleven-year-old girl. Amy Poehler voices Joy, the leader who keeps smiles. Phyllis Smith acts as Sadness, soft and blue.
Rebecca St. James's 2005 release, bright, well-built pop songs. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
If you see iOSScreenCaptureAssistant running on your Mac, here is what this iPhone screen capture process does.
NSURL is Foundation’s class for URLs. Create it with NSURL(string:), it returns nil if the string is invalid.
Monthly update 304 • August 2015 • 2015-08-01 - 2015-08-31
In a heatwave, De Cock finds the body of an animal activist with six small dead dogs beside him. The motive is a puzzle.
August 2015 turned private lives into public spectacle, as the Ashley Madison dumps, fresh surveillance disclosures and a string of firmware and browser flaws showed how little control people held over their own data.
The month Brussels strapped Greece to the gurney, billed solidarity on migration as a triumph while two members walked out, and the Parliament voted that photographing a building might one day need a licence.
If you see misagent running on your Mac, here is what this provisioning profile process does.
TobyMac's 2015 album, bright Christian hip hop and pop rock about living each day as if it counts.
A young woman reports her brother missing, and De Cock finds him dead at the clubhouse of a charity. The dead man held five hundred thousand euros and a dark secret.
July 2015 was dominated by the Hacking Team leak, which laid bare the surveillance trade, alongside the Ashley Madison and OPM breaches and a hardening fight over encryption.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.ActivityMonitor, controlling what Activity Monitor shows.
If you see systemstats.analysis, systemstats.daily, or systemstats.microstackshot_periodic on your Mac, here is what they do.
Monthly update 303 • July 2015 • 2015-07-01 - 2015-07-31
The month a court told Germany to stop worrying about money printing, five presidents drew up plans for a eurozone treasury, and Greece prepared to vote on whether it still wanted to be in the club at all.