Celebrate with a damn fine cup of joe — and some great savings on coffee and coffeemakers.
Port of San Diego hit with disruptive ransomware attack – CNET
There’s no safe harbor here.
‘Fortnite’ Season 6 Lands, and the Rest of the Week in Games
We’ve got skins, pets, and spooky purple lights everywhere—and even some stuff that isn’t ‘Fortnite.’
Google Maps in CarPlay isn’t the dream you’ve been waiting for
Apple’s iOS 12 update didn’t bring many changes to the in-car CarPlay system that’s been around for a few years. But there is one notable improvement: it now supports third-party navigation apps. Yes, that’s right. That means you can now use Google Maps, Waze, or some other navigation app in CarPlay instead of Apple’s default Maps app.
Both Google Maps and Waze have released updates to their iOS apps that added support for CarPlay already, and I’ve been testing them for the past week or so. Unfortunately, due to CarPlay’s inherent limitations and a number of bugs and performance issues, neither Google Maps or Waze are particularly compelling compared to their Android Auto counterparts or even Apple’s own Maps app.
Enabling Google Maps…
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Apple Store robbery ring: 17 charged in $1M scheme – CNET
The alleged crimes took place across 19 counties in California.
Voting Machines Are Still Absurdly At Risk
A new report details dozens of vulnerabilities across seven models of voting machines—all of which are currently in use.
Who are DC’s Birds of Prey? A look at the team as its movie casts Huntress, Black Canary – CNET
The female superteam is due to get a movie in 2020, but the squad’s been around since 1996.
Reddit adds appeals process to offensive-subreddit Quarantine policy – CNET
The goal is to “incentivize positive behavior,” apparently.
Apple wins appeal of $234 million patent dispute with university
A federal appeals court has ruled in Apple’s favor in a patent dispute with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The court ruling, initially spotted by Reuters, said that that Apple didn’t infringe on one of the university’s patents, overturning a prior ruling in the university’s favor that had fined Apple $234 million. Another $272 million was later added to that fine to account for Apple’s continued use of the patent, but that will presumably be thrown out now that the underlying judgment has been reversed.
The patent suit started back in 2014 when the university’s licensing arm — the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) — filed a lawsuit saying that several iPhone and iPad processors used technology it had developed. The…