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Apple’s infamous for shifting priorities after announcing new game technology and walking away from it.

Michael Tsai - Blog - The Trouble With Mac Gaming

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On its second pass of the case, the Ninth Circuit said it relied on a Supreme Court decision last June, during which the U.S. top court took its first look at the decades-old CFAA. In its ruling, the Supreme Court narrowed what constitutes a violation of the CFAA as those who gain unauthorized access to a computer system — rather than a broader interpretation of exceeding existing authorization, which the court argued could have attached criminal penalties to “a breathtaking amount of commonplace computer activity.” Using a “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, the Supreme Court said that when a computer or website’s gates are up — and therefore information is publicly accessible — no authorization is required.

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms – TechCrunch

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And it’s more insulting when that click-hiccup is keeping you from an news site you actually subscribe to.

The news industry will stop saying overdue UX fixes are too hard

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