Interrupt is a weekly newsletter compiled from the most interesting things I have come across this week. Sometimes along with my original writing.

Big News and Happenings

Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service — www.theverge.com

Music. Movies. TV Shows. Games and now phones. In future, it looks like everything will be available on subscriptions. Well why not? Companies love recurring guaranteed revenue.

Google and Spotify team up on new ‘User Choice Billing’ for Android

Google and Spotify are experimenting with giving users alternative ways for payments. It will open up to more app developers gradually.

First Microsoft, then Okta: Lapsus$, the New ransomware gang dumps data from both companies

Nvidia unveils 144-core Grace CPU superchip — www.tomshardware.com

Nvidia unveiled its new 144-core Arm-based Grace CPU Superchip at GTC 2022 and claims that it's 1.5x faster than AMD's EPYC Rome

Sony’s competitor for Game Pass could appear next week — www.theverge.com

After years in denial phase that Game Pass is not profitable, it looks like PS's subscription service might be launched next week.

Instagram launches chronological 'Following' and ‘Favorites’ feeds — techcrunch.com

Genuinely the best changes they have done recently. Everyone has been asking for it. Now iPad app please!

What I Found

Introduction to Plaintext Productivity

The Plaintext Productivity system is for knowledge workers who are getting things done.

GitHub - ahhhh6980/Mosaic: turns pixels into emojis — github.com

Takes a folder of images (as a palette), and an image, and figures out how to tile the palette to resemble the image!

Introducing MDN Plus

MDN is the best there is. Although not happy with changes, MDN is an invaluable resource that deserves all web developers' support.

What I read

I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues — aschmelyun.com

Why WhatsApp Survived Russia’s Social Media Purge

Russia says Meta is an extremist organisation and banned Facebook and Instagram but WhatsApp is a different story.

Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark

No Is A Complete Sentence

Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don't have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway? Or has someone tried to get you to help with something and impressed upon you just how important it is? You probably told them "yes" out of guilt or obligation…

Moxie Marlinspike - My first impressions of web3

Why don't you use technology X

TrueCaller exploited India’s weak data laws to build a caller ID empire

A weeks-long investigation by The Caravan shows the Swedish company has used India’s lack of a comprehensive legal framework surrounding data protection to advance its business.

CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text — twitter.com

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