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058: Face ID, Firefox, and Windows SNAFUs, plus Bitcoin FOMO

Published 2017-12-21 firefox smashing access

Is Face ID racist? Has Mr Robot infected your Firefox browser? Has Microsoft pushed a buggy password manager onto your Windows PC? All this and much much more i…

Sextorting the US army, and a Touch ID scam

Published 2018-12-06 mastercard smashing scam

Fitness apps exploit TouchID through a sneaky user interface trick, tech giants claim to have a plan to banish passwords, and you won't believe who was behind a…

Deux fois moins cher qu’un Tesla Model Y : Volkswagen casse les prix avec l’ID. ERA 5X en Chine

Published 2026-11-14 5x chine prix

Volkswagen lance officiellement son nouvel ID. ERA 5X en Chine, pour un prix de départ sous les 15 000 euros. Ce SUV électrique compact affiche jusqu’à 520 kilo…

Unity

Published 2015-02-03 7675 unity covers

This show covers Unity: A Toolchain and set of three scripting languages primarily for making games. Tools of the show: Jason: Meld http://meldmerge.org/ Patric…

Connecting async/await to other Swift code

Published 2021-06-22 withid document asynchronous

Let’s explore a few ways to “bridge the gap” between the new world of async/await and other kinds of asynchronous Swift code.

Codable synthesis for Swift enums

Published 2021-09-10 enums codable associated

How Codable’s auto-synthesis works for enums, and how that part of the system has been upgraded in Swift 5.5 to support associated values.

Swift actors: How do they work, and what kinds of problems do they solve?

Published 2021-11-25 userstorage await private

Let’s explore Swift’s version of actors, and what kind of problems that we could solve by defining custom actor types within our code bases.

Combining opaque return types with primary associated types

Published 2022-11-13 withid types type

How Swift’s opaque return types can be combined with primary associated types in order to create powerful abstractions without the need for any type erasure.

Decoding Swift types that require additional data

Published 2025-07-01 favorites decoding configuration

How Swift’s CodableWithConfiguration API can be used to inject additional, required data into a type’s decoding process, without having to use optionals or decl…

Deciding between ‘let’ and ‘var’ for Swift struct properties

Published 2025-07-24 imageurl struct properties

Does marking a given Swift struct property as either ‘let’ or ‘var’ simply determine its mutability, or is there more to it? Let’s explore!