The Spy is a French limited series. It aired on Netflix on 6 September 2019. Gideon Raff created it. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Eli Cohen, a real Mossad agent who went undercover in Syria during the early 1960s and rose to the highest levels of its government.
September 2019 stacked leaky databases, a record children's privacy fine and two landmark EU and US court rulings into one of the busiest privacy months of the year.
The month a rescue ship sat off Lampedusa for three weeks while Brussels haggled over who would take which migrants, Brexit Britain was told the backstop was non-negotiable, and the EU funded a robot that reads your face for lies.
Swift 5.2 focuses on delivering significant improvements in quality and performance.
Swift 5.1 advances Swift 5 by introducing module stability, enabling binary frameworks that work across compiler versions, alongside library evolution support for resilient APIs.
In iOS 13 where a change in NSData’s description format, from a full hexadecimal string to a summarised form, breaks push notification workflows that relied on string manipulation of deviceToken in application(_:didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:).
Downton Abbey (2019), directed by Michael Engler, continues the story of the Crawley family and their servants as they prepare for a royal visit from King George V and Queen Mary. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.ScreenSharing, controlling the Screen Sharing viewer app.
If you see uninstalld running on your Mac, here is what this app removal process does.
August 2019 was dominated by the voice assistant listening scandal as Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook were each caught letting humans review private recordings, while a run of careless breaches spilled biometric, payment and hotel data.
Day 7 of my trip to England.
Day 6 of my trip to England.
Monthly update 352 • August 2019 • 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
Day 5 of my trip to England.
Day 4 of my trip to England.
Day 3 of my trip to England.
The month the Union handed its five biggest jobs to people nobody voted for, scraped a new Commission President through by nine votes, and fined a chipmaker for charging too little.
Day 2 of my trip to England.
Day 1 of my trip to England.
Swift 5.1 introduces Thread Sanitizer on Linux, enabling runtime detection of data races in multithreaded code, which can cause unexpected behaviour or memory corruption despite Swift's single-threaded safety guarantees.
If you see cmio.registerassistantservice running on your Mac, here is what this camera registration process does.
Monthly update 351 • July 2019 • 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-31
July 2019 was defined by record regulatory penalties, a wave of cloud misconfigurations and breaches, and fresh proof that voice assistants and police camera networks were quietly turning people into data.
Transparency may not seem particularly exciting. The GIF image format which allowed some pixels to show through the background was published over 30 years ago.
The month Brussels weaponised stock-market access against the Swiss, lectured Italy on its own budget, struck down a Polish law and a German toll, and banned the plastic straw.