Dropping the tech giants

No, I’m not doing that. I stopped using Google once, but they ensnared me again. I’m weak, I know. Anyway, this…

If you’re an avid Twitter and iOS user, chances are you’re using Tapbots’s Tweetbot. I used to do that, but something about it didn’t really connect with me. Twitterrific on the other hand, did. It’s not without its quirks but I prefer it to other options.

Day One is my journaling app of choice. They’re branching out, offering printed journals if you want them. A brilliant move, but journals have a tendency to be kind of personal. Don’t worry, Day One’s got you covered:

The privacy of your printed…

Wired reporting on the Windows ransomware that’s wreaking havoc at the moment:

One reason WannaCry has proven so vicious? It seems to leverage a Windows vulnerability known as EternalBlue that allegedly originated with the NSA. The exploit was dumped…

Fascinating story about fake IDs, present and past:

The fake ID racket wasn’t always so easy. In 1994, one of my 10th-grade classmates in boarding school purchased a fake ID kit from a graduating senior for $700. Even at 15, Phil had a remarkable…

This was bound to happen:

O2-Telefonica in Germany has confirmed to Süddeutsche Zeitung that some of its customers have had their bank accounts drained using a two-stage attack that exploits SS7.

In other words, thieves…

The Atlantic tries to figure out how much caffeine is unhealthy to put in you body. Yes, it’s about coffee. The number 400 mg is thrown around as a limit:

Four hundred milligrams amounts to around four cups of coffee in the old-style sense of the…

Alan Moore being Alan Moore, in an interview regarding (but not limited to) the Spirits of Place anthology he’s got a story in:

Ideas are usually generated by the act of writing itself. William Burroughs spoke of ‘the word vine’; the…

Motherboard tells the story about the NES emulator Nesticle, an interesting read for those of us who used it back in the day:

NESticle, nonetheless, did something amazing: It allowed people to play old Nintendo games on cheap computers made by Packard Bell and other…