Asinine Tech

Bunch of reviews to read this week, the Anandtech one is fairly long and detailed. Other than that, didn’t get much reading done as I’ve been sick through most of the week, blergh.

• 70+ different types of home routers(all together 100,000+) are being hijacked by GhostDNS by yegenshen
• Pixel 3 XL review—Google software deserves better than this hardware by Ron Amadeo
• The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets by Andrei Frumusanu
• Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland by Scott Gilbertson

Autumn is fully upon us. It is all rainy, cloudy and the leaves are turning orange and falling to the wet earth.  Also, I tried a pumpkin spice latte for the first time this week, it was alright.

• macOS 10.14 Mojave: The Ars Technica review by Andrew Cunningham
• The Gorgon Group: Slithering Between Nation State and Cybercrime by Robert Falcone, David Fuertes, Josh Grunzweig and Kyle Wilhoit
• Why are Apple Watch faces such a mess? by Jason Snell
• Choosing to stay out of the community by Rachel
• One Year of #MeToo: What Women’s Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do by Jia Tolentino
• Why American Democracy Was So Easy to Destroy by umair haque

Only three links this week! Been distracted by Forza Horizon 4 all week, an excellent game. Now back to the English countryside!

• iPhone XS: Why It’s A Whole New Camera by Sebastiaan de With
• Inside the Magecart Breach of British Airways: How 22 Lines of Code Claimed 380,000 Victims by Yonathan Klijnsma
• Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed by Ron Amadeo

If you are going to read anything from this week’s list I would recommend the first one, it is well worth reading.

• Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladon Joler
• The Man in the Yellow Shirt by Amy Westervelt
• The Gentle Verb: An Essay by Cara Ellison
• watchOS 5: The BirchTree Review
• Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? by Two-Bit History

Big week for Apple related news! I highly recommend reading through the iOS 12 MacStories review, it is a long read but worth it. Also, as promised last week, there are a lot more things in the list this week.

• iOS 12: The MacStories Review by Federico Viticci
• The iPhones XS by John Gruber
• The Cheat Sheet: September 13, 2018 City Council by Neville Park
• Linux kernel hastily adopts standard Code of Conduct by Otter Tech
• Software disenchantment by Nikita
• Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong by Michael Hobbes
• No, I Will Not Debate You by Laurie Penny
• iPhone XS and XS Max Teardown by iFixit
• Apple Watch Series 4 by John Gruber