Covered this week; Happy New Year, one and all… Notable 2017 deaths in the world of entertainment… When will Jeff Sessions go the fuck away already… Safety in the rideshare industry… Getting into the iMac Pro’s T2 chip… This is how the Meltdown exploit works… David Letterman’s new talk show…
January 1, 2018
Happy New Year, one and all…
January 2, 2018
Musicians and actors that the world lost in 2017… some sad names on this list from Rolling Stone.
January 3, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that he plans to rescind the Cole memo, the Obama-era policy instructing federal prosecutors not to charge marijuana-related offenses in states where the drug is legal.
January 4, 2018
“You might think ridesharing companies would be doing everything they can to ensure driver safety. But it turns out what they can do is limited by the kind of businesses they are. Because drivers operate as independent contractors instead of employees, the companies can’t offer true safety training. Under federal law, training is a signifier that someone is an employee, and both Uber and Lyft have fought bitterly against re-classifying drivers as employees. By the very nature of how on-demand businesses operate today, drivers in many ways have to go it alone.”
January 5, 2018
“I’ve spent the last week with Apple’s new iMac Pro, and in most ways it’s just a faster Mac. It’s the first pro Mac desktop in over three years and the fastest Mac yet made, granted, but still entirely familiar. And yet in many ways—some noticeable, some entirely invisible—this new Mac is completely different from all past Mac models.”
January 6, 2018
“Meltdown and Spectre are the two latest exploits throwing the tech world for a loop. They have a lot in common with each other; both depend on built-in features of your computer’s processor.” Here’s a layman’s explanation.
January 7, 2018
“David Letterman has detailed his upcoming Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the former late-night host’s first TV project since exiting The Late Show in 2015.
