Dave Lee

Thankfully nobody was hurt by the bureaucratic incompetence falling from the sky

Was gonna go uptown but my subway stop has collapsed 👍

Luigi Number One 🏳️‍🌈

Also — Craig has put his fortune into journalism ever since!

Following these directions (minus the pickle. I’m not a psychopath)

My entire apartment smells like Burger King but it’s worth it

Amazing opening day win for @cambridgeunited.bsky.social !!

Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data President Donald Trump said he was directing officials to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after a report showed US job growth cooled sharply over the l...

The War on Truth www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I also think it'd be dubbed a revival of the whole ID cards thing

Bloomberg: "X Corp. must face some revived claims in a lawsuit from victims portrayed in child sexual abuse material who allege the social media platform failed to effectively report the illegal content, a federal appeals court ruled Friday."

Et voila!

An age-gated App Store could restrcit VPNs to minors also

Is that not a MUCH preferable state of play than sharing that information with porn sites? We confirm our age for all sorts of purposes.

The biggest justification for OS-level age verification is that it stops parents having to be vigilant over the dangers of new apps. Current controls rely on parents staying on top of trends. I struggle with that and it's my full-time job!

a) could've been part of this Act. b) You think kids are abandoning an iPhone for a Linux build? c) They already do!

Why would anyone? Write a law forcing it.

We have age-gated systems for those other things you mention already.

Meta Is Right. Apple and Google Can Do More to Protect Kids. The owner of Facebook and Instagram proposes the sensible idea of always requiring a parent’s approval whenever someone younger than 16 tries to download an app from the companies’ stores.

Meta has rightly been pushing for that here. Wrote about this in November 2023. Are you telling me the companies that created Apple and Google Pay, integrated with millions (?) of websites, can't solve this? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

How many teenagers are accessing porn on a Windows PC?

Still don't understand why there's not more pressure on Apple and Google to handle age verification at the operating system level. Sites like Pornhub should be legally mandated to request a simple "yes/no" from the device for access to over-18 content. Why can't it be that straight forward?

Yes, Google, this was a complete surprise to you

Sex toy maker Lovense threatens legal action after fixing security flaws that exposed users' data | TechCrunch The internet-connected sex toy maker said it fixed the vulnerabilities that exposed users' private email addresses and accounts to takeovers, but said it was also planning to take legal action followi...

Sex toy maker Lovense threatens legal action after fixing security flaws that exposed users’ data

(via @technologyreader.bsky.social)

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Sources: thousands of US export license applications, including for Nvidia chip shipments to China, are stalled due to turmoil at the US Commerce Department (Reuters)

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Which companies will be brave enough to say the T word? Evidently not Nintendo

Has there, Jeff?

Can't help feeling my vibe-coded log-in screen is as watertight as it could be

Arriving in London and demanding tea and marmalade sandwiches with Paddington Bear

Nintendo Switch prices are going up after this weekend The Switch is about to get pricier.

Nintendo Switch prices are going up in the US after this weekend. The price hike will affect the family of original Switch systems, including the Lite and OLED, as well as some Switch 2 accessories www.theverge.com/news/717325/...

Apple and Cook Get a Boost — and Breather — From iPhone Sales A blowout quarter, tariff-related or not, put AI questions on the back burner for now.

Read my @opinion.bloomberg.com column here (gift link for Bluesky!)
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Apple store foot traffic and web visit data shows a bit of a spike in the two weeks following Trump's Liberation Day tariff announcement -- but it was short-lived. Cook said yesterday that 1 point of a 10% revenue increase could be attributed these pull-forward sales

Maybe he was right