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Monthly update #0321 • January 2017

Monthly update 321 • January 2017 • 2017-01-01 - 2017-01-31

Monthly Updates

Privacy Roundup #0126 • January 2017

January 2017 opened the Trump era with an order stripping privacy protections from non-citizens, while ransom crews wiped exposed databases and surveillance vendors learned they could be hacked too.

Privacy

Faster Mix-and-Match Builds with Precompiled Bridging Headers

Build times in Xcode projects that mix Objective-C and Swift rise due to the Swift compiler re-processing large bridging headers for each Swift file.

Development

Swift Evolution Status Page Now Available

Apple announced the new Swift Evolution status page as a central spot for details on proposed changes to Swift.

Development

What is datastored?

If you see datastored running on your Mac, here is what this CloudKit data storage process does.

Mac

Sherlock

Sherlock is a British crime drama series. It aired on BBC One from 25 July 2010 to 15 January 2017. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created it. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective in modern day London who solves cases the police cannot.

TV Series

Privacy Roundup #0125 • December 2016

December 2016 closed the year with record breaches, a landmark European ruling against mass data retention and fresh state-sponsored hacking that pushed surveillance and security to the centre of the privacy debate.

Privacy

Monthly update #0320 • December 2016

Monthly update 320 • December 2016 • 2016-12-01 - 2016-12-31

Monthly Updates