This claim is getting legs so I checked. Indeed, Google Trends in the US is currently very close to the February 2009 peak for "help with mortgage." 😔 trends.google.com/trends/explo...

Amazing new security. "Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security …" security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

"The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI application from the application stores due to GDPR violations." www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

Mozilla says ad blockers may become illegal in Germany: blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/20... 1/2

Walmart. Aug 10: John, thanks for your order Aug 12: Your order is delayed Aug 13: Your order is delayed Aug 14: Your order is delayed Aug 15: Your order is delayed Aug 15: Canceled Tell me again how they are going to catch up to Amazon.

"Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website (…) The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention." techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

The first rating of my new novel is up on Amazon. And it's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-ha... #booksky

Oh man.

"CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007. (…) Now we can make those animations scroll-driven with nothing more than a few lines of CSS." webkit.org/blog/17101/a...

Do people really read 99k words in 7-8 hours? There are fast readers for sure, but this kind of metadata always puts me off. It kind of tells me I'm not a good (enough) reader. #Booksky

Create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac with Container. Open source, written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. No Docker or similar needed. · GitHub repo: github.com/apple/contai... · Intro presentation: developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

Looking forward to watching "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina" with Lance Reddick in his final screen appearance. Not to mention the amazing Ana de Armas from "Knives Out" and "Blade Runner 2049" in the lead role. ballerinamovie2025.com

Victoria's Secret: "Valued customer, we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident. We have taken down our website and some in store services as a precaution." www.victoriassecret.com

Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color? Well, now you can, with contrast-color(). Here’s how it works. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

Bluesky uses a Google Docs form to collect personally identifiable information to get accounts verified. The form requires a Google login. They present the link to the form with "Trust is everything." @bsky.app, please change this and don't send people's data to Google. Thank you!

A sign of success, I guess.

Some new Kobo eReaders and all refurbished ones are sold out in their US store. Either people are reading a lot or there's some tariff thing going on. New: us.kobobooks.com/collections/... Refurbished: us.kobobooks.com/collections/... #Booksky

What happens when a hacker receives a message that his lost love may still be alive? Find out in SUBMERGED, the latest #hardscifi release from John Wilander. #scifi #novel #bookrelease #BookSky https://oxlk.io/VT8c

The day has come – my new hacker thriller is out! Including hardcover and paperback. Amazon: www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-ha... Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/id67... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Internet sovereignty, superpower conflict, and the continued saga of West Wilder. #Booksky

My Google Play Books account has been in preliminary policy review for three weeks. My next novel will be released on Saturday, just not on Google. I've emailed them twice and get responses that don't make sense. I may give up. 😔

Pre-orders for my new hacker thriller "Submerged" are active! · Amazon: www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-ha... · Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/id67... · Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Release on May 3rd. That's when the paperback and hardcover become available too. #Booksky

Hello, #Booksky and happy #WorldBookDay! Don't miss the Cyberpunk and Hacker Thriller Authors starter pack: go.bsky.app/5NKqKDQ

Kobo Plus launches in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru: kobowritinglife.com/2025/04/23/r...

#NaNoWriMo is shutting down due to several years of deteriorating finances and inability to focus on fundraising because of child safety issues with the Young Writers space that had to take priority. Full notes from the Executive Director on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6N... #Booksky

Safari now supports CHIPS – opt-in partitioned cookies! Cross-site resources that aren't from known tracker domains can set cookies with response headers like this: Set-Cookie: TestCookie=12345; SameSite=None; Secure; Partitioned See under "Networking" in this post: webkit.org/blog/16574/w...

Finally push notifications for the web have a good design. "Meet Declarative Web Push" webkit.org/blog/16535/m...

I have approved the proof of the cover of my upcoming hacker thriller "Submerged." 🥳 Cover reveal shall happen in my next newsletter issue! Subscribe 👉🏼 hackerfiction.net/subscribe/ #booksky

Gutenberg and the Digital Horizon – printed books and what happens if they're not digitized. Plus photos from the Gutenberg museum. That's all coming in tomorrow's newsletter issue! Subscribe here: hackerfiction.net/subscribe/ #booksky

Rest In Peace, Angie Stone: apnews.com/article/angi... She died in a car crash. 💔 What a great singer and composer she was! I've watched her concert "Pure Sessions" so many times. Here it is on YouTube: youtu.be/WrypF2OuMq4

"The developer, Netflix, Inc., is raising the price of this subscription from $15.49 per month to $17.99 per month. Your subscription will automatically renew for $17.99 per month starting March 22 unless you cancel at least a day before."

”As part of this package of U.S. investments, Apple and partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support Apple Intelligence” www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

”Bond franchise shifts to Amazon as Broccoli family steps back (…) The agreement coincides with the retirement of Wilson and Broccoli from active production of the Bond films.” www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

”The European Parliament has asked lawmakers, parliamentary assistants and staff to use Signal, an end-to-end-encrypted messaging app (…) The advice comes after it was revealed that a China-linked hacking group called Salt Typhoon conducted large-scale intrusions” www.politico.eu/article/euro...

New hacker review – Source Code, the movie. Enjoy! hackerfiction.net/blog/2025/fe...

"Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but the text has been available on the business’s website since at least August 2020" www.theverge.com/news/608188/...

This weekend it’s time for the February issue of my newsletter Hacker Chronicles! Featuring an interview with fellow author John Sundman about his 90s hacker novel ”Acts of the Apostles.” You can subscribe to my newsletter here: hackerfiction.net/subscribe/

I'm in a cozy loft in central Germany (AirBnB), going through the copyedit of my upcoming novel. 👨🏻‍💻📖 Sitting under an angled window, the nano-texture display of my MacBook Pro is so darn good. Very happy with that upgrade.

It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info

I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing. I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft." Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.

Congratulations! We are all within hours of surviving 2024 & ready to face the challenges of the decade that will be 2025.

With the massive personal data leak from Volkswagen Group we’ll finally see what GDPR is worth. As an EU citizen and VW owner, I hope we see real consequences that drive change. arstechnica.com/cars/2024/12...

Breaking News: Jimmy Carter has died at 100. A one-term president and peacemaker from Georgia’s farmland, he was beset by crises in office. nyti.ms/49WdF3G

I guess I’m not the only one spending the holidays trying to reach my 2024 reading goal. 😄

Regarding the H1B immigration debate, I was reminded of this dark quote:

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁🎅🏼

Safari 18.2 on iOS/iPadOS connects over HTTPS by default. Also, there’s a setting for HTTPS-only which prompts the user to accept or deny a fallback to a non-secure connection. webkit.org/blog/16301/w...

It was great meeting up with Daniel Suarez last month. His novels ”Daemon” and ”Freedom (tm)” are part of hacker fiction canon. We had a chat about writing but also the current state of cybersecurity. I have on my list to enjoy his recent, award-winning sci-fi novels.

”A federal appeals court ruled Friday that TikTok can be banned in the U.S. over national security concerns, upholding a federal law requiring the popular social media app to shed its Chinese ownership (…) The ruling rejected a First Amendment challenge” www.wsj.com/politics/pol... [$]

’When asked if Bluesky would always be free of advertisers like it is today, Graber said: “I don’t think that’s necessarily true.”’ techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/b...

State of cookies on the web almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/cook...