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• Molly White

Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory agencies wash their hands of any crypto industry oversight

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• Jason Kottke

JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold...

JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold or because he felt unwelcome. Protesters lined his route all the way back to the airport in Burlington (about a 50-minute drive). Reports are that he didn’t even say thank you.

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• John Gruber

Claim Chowder: Ming-Chi Kuo on Demand for the iPhone 16 Lineup

medium.com/@mingchikuo/iphone-16-first-weekend-pre-order-analysis-estimated-total-sales-of-about-37-million-units-pro-0a04869b147c

Ming-Chi Kuo, back on Sunday September 15: Based on my latest supply chain survey and pre-order results from Apple’s official websites, I’ve compiled key data on iPhone 16’s first-weekend pre-orders for each model, including pre-order sales, average delivery times, and s...

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• John Gruber

WorkOS Radar

workos.com/radar?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=q12025

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Does your app get fake signups, throwaway emails, or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bots attacks and brute force attempts?

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Your users trust you. Keep it that way. Check out WorkOS Radar today.

Link: workos.com/radar?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS…

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• John Gruber

Elon Musk, Weirdo Extraordinaire

tmz.com/2025/03/01/elon-musk-new-baby-14th-child-shivon-zilis/

TMZ: Seems Elon Musk is truly going to colonize Mars ... even if he has to do it himself, ’cause the tech mogul just welcomed his 14 child! Elon helped break the news Friday along with Shivon Zilis, with whom the billionaire already had three children. You know what yo...

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• Jason Kottke

I’ve been updating this post about JD Vance’s ski vacation to Vermont...

I’ve been updating this post about JD Vance’s ski vacation to Vermont with new information in the comments, including a video of Vance skiing and being called “Putin’s puppet” as he skips the lift line. Best sign: VANCE SKIS IN JEANS.

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• Jason Kottke

Trump Betrays Ukraine in White House Ambush of Zelenskyy

Here’s a straightforward description of Trump’s “ambush” of Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Heather Cox Richardson: Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russ...

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• John Gruber

★ Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?

Nora Deligter, writing for Screen Slate in June 2023, “Elegy for the Screenshot”: About five years ago, Catherine Pearson started taking screenshots of every bouquet featured on The Nanny (1993–1999), the six-season CBS sitcom that was then streaming on Netflix. She was ...

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• John Gruber

Matthew Green: ‘Dear Apple: Add “Disappearing Messages” to iMessage Right Now’

blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/03/01/dear-apple-add-disappearing-messages-to-imessage-right-now/

Matthew Green: If you install WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Snap or even Telegram(please don’t!) you’ll encounter a simple feature that addresses this problem. It’s usually called “disappearing messages”, but sometimes goes by other names. I’m almost embarrassed...

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• Jason Kottke

Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter

JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT, a 15-minute drive from where I live. This mornin...

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• John Gruber

Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With a Bit of the Old Ultra-Violence

wsj.com/tech/meta-apologizes-for-error-that-flooded-instagram-with-violent-content-c207d5f5

Meghan Bobrowsky and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: Meta apologized Wednesday night for what it said was an “error” that led to graphic and violent videos flooding the feeds of a vast number of Instagram users, including minors. The videos, which we...

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• John Gruber

Microsoft to Retire Skype in May

microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/02/28/the-next-chapter-moving-from-skype-to-microsoft-teams/

Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft: In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern c...

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• John Gruber

Meta Fired ‘Roughly 20’ Employees for Leaking

theverge.com/labor/621059/meta-fires-20-employee-leakers

Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge: Meta has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company,” according to a spokesperson. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our poli...

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• John Gruber

Framework Introduces New Laptops and First Desktop

frame.work/blog/highlights-from-the-framework-2nd-gen-event

Founder Nirav Patel, writing this week on Framework’s company blog: We went live this morning at the Framework (2nd Gen) Event with our biggest set of announcements yet: Framework Desktop, Framework Laptop 12, and the new Ryzen AI 300 Series Framework Laptop 13. You can ...

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• Jason Kottke

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand...

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” Because the US is a Russian ally (or satellite?) now I guess.

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• Jason Kottke

Trump Ejects Zelenskyy From White House

Trump just kicked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House after berating him for being “disrespectful” in the Oval Office. The astonishing turn of events could scramble international affairs in Europe and around the globe. During his visit with Trump...

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• Jason Kottke

Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement. An excellent piece by...

Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement. An excellent piece by Clara Jeffery on how boycotts can work to combat evil and the lessons we can take from the 80s boycott of South Africa.

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• Jason Kottke

Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a...

Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a letter to the US Attorney General asking whether she’s under investigation for “educating her community about their constitutional rights”. I love that she CC’d Trump.

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• John Gruber

Trump Claims to Have Spoken With Starmer Regarding Apple Encryption Backdoor Demand

thespectator.com/topic/spectator-interview-president-donald-trump-full-transcript/

Ben Domenech interviewed President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office, after Trump’s meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Spectator has published the entire transcript, and I read it so you don’t have to, to get the part about Apple and the UK’s encryption backdo...

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• Jason Kottke

Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties...

Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties and free markets” with a piece *in the Post* calling Donald Trump “the single greatest threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ in the United States today”. 👏