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- Chrome iOS Browser on Blink – “The Blink-based port of Chrome iOS is a large and laborious project. Igalia has made significant contributionsā¦ we believe that we are on the right track for eventually replacing WebKit by Blink on Chromium related products for iOS.”
- Coalition for App Fairness Statement on Legislation to Address Online Platform Monopolies in Korea – “Assemblyman Kim Nam-geun introduced legislation to put an end to the abusive behaviors of Apple and Google on mobile devices.”
- Upcoming customizable select dropdown demo that falls back to a traditional select menu. (Chrome Canary, Experimental web flag)
- Bypassing airport security via SQL injection – “Anyone with basic knowledge of SQL injection could login to this site and add anyone they wantedā¦ allowing themselves to both skip security screening and then access the cockpits of commercial airliners.”
- Reckoning: Part 2 ā Object Lesson “What hath we wrought? A case study, in which Alex Russell looks at BenefitsCal -the state of California’s recently developed portal for families that need food stamps. It’s a front-end catastrophe. “SPAs are ‘YOLO’ for web development.”
- What RSS Needs by Mark Nottingham
- Before Filing that Keyboard Bugā¦ – Are you using a Mac or another Apple iDevice and think you found a keyboard bug? Try these settings tweaks first, says Adrian Roselli
- Misfire: We’re in a bad place when even the W3C TAG falls for Apple’s privacy schtick – “The TAG missed a critical opportunity to call for legislative fixes to the technically unfixable problems it failed to enumerate”, grumbles Big Al, legitimately.
- Apple trying to pressure WeChat into blocking a payment loophole; developer refusing – An odd fight to pick; “when Trump threatened to ban WeChat, analysts estimated it could cause global iPhone sales to fall by as much as 30%.”
- Using the term āartificial intelligenceā in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions – “When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions,ā he said. āWe found emotional trust plays a critical role in how consumers perceive AI-powered products.ā
- Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTubeās and Instagramās sensitive content bans – “Deep in the heartlands of Brazil, Indigenous creators are having to censor themselves to avoid getting banned on social platforms”. Because on the world-wide web, everyone should conform to prudish Californian social mores, of course.