#iOS 8 2014

[complicatedbutchic]

iOS 8

[bibleofficial]

i just think it’s funny that raspberry pi seems to plan their releases around that of apple’s

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline

Monday (October 2), I'll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. On October 7–8, I'm in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.

Being watched sucks. Of all the parenting mistakes I've made, none haunt me more than the times my daughter caught me watching her while she was learning to do something, discovered she was being observed in a vulnerable moment, and abandoned her attempt:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance

It's hard to be your authentic self while you're under surveillance. For that reason alone, the rise and rise of the surveillance industry – an unholy public-private partnership between cops, spooks, and ad-tech scum – is a plague on humanity and a scourge on the Earth:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

But beyond the psychic damage surveillance metes out, there are immediate, concrete ways in which surveillance brings us to harm. Ad-tech follows us into abortion clinics and then sells the info to the cops back home in the forced birth states run by Handmaid's Tale LARPers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/29/no-i-in-uter-us/#egged-on

And even if you have the good fortune to live in a state whose motto isn't "There's no 'I" in uter-US," ad-tech also lets anti-abortion propagandists trick you into visiting fake "clinics" who defraud you into giving birth by running out the clock on terminating your pregnancy:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers

The commercial surveillance industry fuels SWATting, where sociopaths who don't like your internet opinions or are steamed because you beat them at Call of Duty trick the cops into thinking that there's an "active shooter" at your house, provoking the kind of American policing autoimmune reaction that can get you killed:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/14/us/swatting-sentence-casey-viner/index.html

There's just a lot of ways that compiling deep, nonconsensual, population-scale surveillance dossiers can bring safety and financial harm to the unwilling subjects of our experiment in digital spying. The wave of "business email compromises" (the infosec term for impersonating your boss to you and tricking you into cleaning out the company bank accounts)? They start with spear phishing, a phishing attack that uses personal information – bought from commercial sources or ganked from leaks – to craft a virtual Big Store con:

https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/business-email-compromise

It's not just spear-phishers. There are plenty of financial predators who run petty grifts – stock swindles, identity theft, and other petty cons. These scams depend on commercial surveillance, both to target victims (e.g. buying Facebook ads targeting people struggling with medical debt and worried about losing their homes) and to run the con itself (by getting the information needed to pull of a successful identity theft).

In "Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud," a new National Bureau of Academic Research paper, a trio of business-school profs – Bo Bian (UBC), Michaela Pagel (WUSTL) and Huan Tang (Wharton) quantify the commercial surveillance industry's relationship to finance crimes:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31692

The authors take advantage of a time-series of ZIP-code-accurate fraud complaint data from the Consumer Finance Protection Board, supplemented by complaints from the FTC, along with Apple's rollout of App Tracking Transparency, a change to app-based tracking on Apple mobile devices that turned of third-party commercial surveillance unless users explicitly opted into being spied on. More than 96% of Apple users blocked spying:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find/

In other words, they were able to see, neighborhood by neighborhood, what happened to financial fraud when users were able to block commercial surveillance.

What happened is, fraud plunged. Deprived of the raw material for committing fraud, criminals were substantially hampered in their ability to steal from internet users.

While this is something that security professionals have understood for years, this study puts some empirical spine into the large corpus of qualitative accounts of the surveillance-to-fraud pipeline.

As the authors note in their conclusion, this analysis is timely. Google has just rolled out a new surveillance system, the deceptively named "Privacy Sandbox," that every Chrome user is being opted in to unless they find and untick three separate preference tickboxes. You should find and untick these boxes:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-privacy-sandbox-ad-tracking-and-why-you-should

Google has spun, lied and bullied Privacy Sandbox into existence; whenever this program draws enough fire, they rename it (it used to be called FLoC). But as the Apple example showed, no one wants to be spied on – that's why Google makes you find and untick three boxes to opt out of this new form of surveillance.

There is no consensual basis for mass commercial surveillance. The story that "people don't mind ads so long as they're relevant" is a lie. But even if it was true, it wouldn't be enough, because beyond the harms to being our authentic selves that come from the knowledge that we're being observed, surveillance data is a crucial ingredient for all kinds of crime, harassment, and deception.

We can't rely on companies to spy on us responsibly. Apple may have blocked third-party app spying, but they effect nonconsensual, continuous surveillance of every Apple mobile device user, and lie about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

That's why we should ban commercial surveillance. We should outlaw surveillance advertising. Period:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ban-online-behavioral-advertising

Contrary to the claims of surveillance profiteers, this wouldn't reduce the income to ad-supported news and other media – it would increase their revenues, by letting them place ads without relying on the surveillance troves assembled by the Google/Meta ad-tech duopoly, who take the majority of ad-revenue:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

We're 30 years into the commercial surveillance pandemic and Congress still hasn't passed a federal privacy law with a private right of action. But other agencies aren't waiting for Congress. The FTC and DoJ Antitrust Divsision have proposed new merger guidelines that allow regulators to consider privacy harms when companies merge:

https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2023-0043-1569

Think here of how Google devoured Fitbit and claimed massive troves of extremely personal data, much of which was collected because employers required workers to wear biometric trackers to get the best deal on health care:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/google-fitbit-merger-would-cement-googles-data-empire

Companies can't be trusted to collect, retain or use our personal data wisely. The right "balance" here is to simply ban that collection, without an explicit opt-in. The way this should work is that companies can't collect private data unless users hunt down and untick three "don't spy on me" boxes. After all, that's the standard that Google has set.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/29/ban-surveillance-ads/#sucker-funnel

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[octahedral-chaos]

OCTAfan's Odd/ Obscure Characters Tournament: Round 2 Part 8

Ida (Monument Valley) VS The Diver (Abzu)

Quick Facts

Ida

Monument Valley is a puzzle game made and published by Ustwo Games.

It was first released on IOS on April 3rd, 2014, before being released on Android on May 14th, 2014.

The Diver

The Protagonist of Abzu, an adventure game

Made by Giant Squid, and published by 505 Games. It was released on 2nd of August, 2016.

[holmesoldfellow]

Books 1-8 of the "Sherlock, Lupin, e Io" (Sherlock, Lupin, and Me) book series by Irene Adler (Alessandro Gatti) illustrated by Iocopo Bruno (Piemme, 2011-2014)

[klimt7]

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle

[ Dante, Paradiso XXIII, v.145 ]

Perchè dietro questa ragazza

[ Angelina Mango ]

c'è una grande STORIA

Sanremo 2007

LAURA VALENTE & PINO MANGO

I genitori di Angelina partecipano all'edizione di Sanremo 2007 e cantano il brano "Chissà se nevica"

Anno 2014, 8 dicembre

Pino Mango durante il concerto a Policoro ( Matera) viene colto da malore e muore.

Poche settimane prima aveva confidato alla moglie Laura: "Cosa c’è di più bello che morire mentre fai musica davanti alla gente, e cioè mentre fai la cosa che ami di più in assoluto ?"

Anno 2019

La moglie di Mango, Laura Valente, ex cantante ed ex voce dei Matia Bazar, rilascia alcune interviste in occasione della pubblicazione del cofanetto con un volume contenente diversi scritti di Pino Mango, e il disco che rende omaggio alla sua intera carriera musicale.

L'intervista alla madre, Laura Valente [2019]

Anno 2024

Angelina Mango dopo aver partecipato alla edizione 2022 di "Amici", partecipa al Festival 2024 e trionfa con pieno merito sbaragliando avversari molto più noti e affermati di lei (Annalisa, Loredana Bertè, Mahmood, Emma, Fiorella Mannoia).

Nella serata di venerdì 9 febbraio con una esecuzione da brividi, che ha commosso tante persone sia in tv che nel Teatro Ariston di Sanremo, Angelina tributa un omaggio molto particolare, al padre Pino, eseguendo il suo brano "Rondine", in una versione del tutto inedita e con un nuovo arrangiamento curato da lei stessa e dal fratello maggiore Filippo (1995).

Ecco, davanti ad una famiglia così, davanti ad un rapporto di questo tipo, davanti a una Storia del genere, le parole, tutte le parole possibili si diradano, rimpiccioliscono e infine scompaiono.

Resta solo un silenzio di ammirazione e commozione.

In ciò che ci è dato scorgere, io stesso, lo ammetto, fatico a trovare le parole.

Solo l'ascolto e il silenzio hanno senso.

Davanti a certi "miracoli'", ci si sente smarriti e disarmati. La commozione sommerge ogni cosa.

Una emozione che mi fa vedere la "magia" che sa trasformare le vite delle persone. Che può illuminarle!

E poi c'è la gratitudine per questa grande emozione che arriva a mostrarci, la trama di luce che attraversa ogni tempo e ogni spazio.

Le altre riflessioni e considerazioni, fatele Voi.

Io mi tengo stretta, questa emozione.

Pino Mango soltanto pochi anni fa cantava un brano: "L'amore è invisibile"...

Io per una volta, sento di doverlo smentire.

Se siamo attenti, se impariamo a leggere e decodificare la realtà esterna, lo vediamo e lo sentiamo perfettamente, che l'Amore è l'energia, che innerva l'intero Universo.

Pino Mango, Laura, Filippo e Angelina stessa, ci tolgono ogni dubbio e incertezza al riguardo.

No. L'amore non è invisibile.

Lo possiamo annusare, fiutare nel vento e nel tempo, dentro le persone, in tutte le epoche.

Come un profumo di buono e di pulito, come un tepore di primavera, un sapore unico.

La magia che brilla negli occhi di chi è stato toccato da questo prodigio, arriva ovunque. È qualcosa di potente. Arriva a contagiarci e a cambiare, il nostro stesso modo di guardare il mondo.

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[inthedayswhenlandswerefew]

Hello dearest Maggie! Thank you for blessing us both chapter 1 of In The Gloomy Depths, I am so here for the vibes of a Titanic AU and already know I'm gonna be down for Aegon so bad! 💜

I actually have a few questions if you don't mind me asking! First of all, I was wondering how you plot out your stories, in the sense that, are you stories set in stone when you begin writing or do they ever change along the way? Just because I was thinking of your Martyrs polls and how you kept threatening everyone with snakes, so I didn't know if those who selected that option brought about the ending? (No spoilers 🐍🤣)

Secondly, I know you don't fancast your Readers, but do you have any inspiration for the main gal in your new story? Kinda like all the 60s moodboards you used for Io or how you envisioned Chips as a redhead?

And thirdly (and you of course don't have to answer any of the above ahahaha), could I pretty please be added to the tag list? So much loveeeee ❤️

Awww Phoebe my beloved, thank you for reading 🥹🥹 I'm so excited about this fic and I can't wait to show you what happens next!!! It's only 7 chapters, so we'll be moving quickly... 😏😉

My stories are always set in stone in terms of the major plot points, which definitely includes any deaths! So no need to feel guilty, Martyrs was always going to go in that direction, none of the poll participants are responsible 🥰 With that said, there are sometimes minor details of a story that pop up as surprises to me. Some examples would be Fosco baking Io ossi dei morti in Chapter 4 of 1968, or Team Tahoe camping in an RV alongside Lake McConaughy in Chapter 8 of Martyrs. Neither of these details change the overall trajectory of the story, they just flesh out details of characters and settings.

As far as the protagonist for In The Gloomy Depths (she'll have a name soon! 🥰), Galway girls are known for having black hair and blue eyes. I actually spent a week in Ireland while studying abroad in 2014, and I remember the tour guide mentioning it! Below are a few pictures that I associate with our misfortunate heroine:

You can find my Pinterest board for In The Gloomy Depths here!

And finally, of course I'd be delighted to add you to the taglist! Welcome aboard, bestie 🥳🚢💎

[jade-everstone]

OC-Tober 3: Old OC

old oc... seems like a good chance to talk about a long term oc & (former) namesake of my accouts; Jade Embers!

I say former since I changed her last name from Everstone to Embers earlier this year since she's not as representative of me these days. Io's filled the role of 'sona & mascot since.

Left is a recent render, and right I'm pretty sure that's the first colored pic I made of her. Also, even though these were made 8 years apart it's still nice to see how far I've gotten. (and the fact I got a proper scanner years later. The old pic's lineart was taken from a low-res phone pic. How far we've gotten lol)

For those new around here or are just stumbling on my accout, Jade is the laid-back, 'friend-of-everyone' type in my OC cast. She lives in an apartment with her girlfriend Iri, and is one the more outgoing & foolhardy of the two.

Her character & story has changed a lot since I first made her wayyy back in 2014 (damn, nearly 10 years ago). Back when she was still supposed to be a 'sona of mine. Her first backstory was actually a high-fantasy story about meeting up with an evil world destroyer and through her journey reforming them. But I didn't get far with that & just kept her as a regular fursona afterwards.

I don't have art from that version of her story scanned so here's some other ancient Jade art of mine:

Though since then, she's long drifted off from being a 'sona after I started using her as a comic character. To think she went from being a chosen-one fantasy hero to just chilling in an apartment with her GF. I can respect that lol.

[curiositasmundi]

[...] «Da un piccolo, ma grande, liceo di Napoli, voglio lanciare un messaggio perché la cultura non sia mero nozionismo settoriale né piatta dialettica. Solo con la cultura si capiscono le cause delle guerre e si costruisce la pace: la cultura è valore universale, della [tribù umana], per cui Dostoevskij è patrimonio dell’umanità», disse allora. Putin commentò il murales dicendo che Dostoevskij era «ormai stato cancellato in Occidente» e che «l’ultima operazione così massiccia per distruggere la letteratura indesiderata era stata condotta in Germania dai nazisti», ma disse anche che opere come quella di Jorit gli davano speranza per il futuro. Jorit aveva detto, in risposta: «È mai possibile che sono riuscito a fare più io, semplice cittadino, per la pace con un murale che il nostro governo? Non è che in fondo in fondo ai nostri leader questa guerra fa quasi comodo?». Da allora Jorit è stato più volte sia in Russia che nel Donbass, regione orientale dell’Ucraina dove dal 2014 è in corso una guerra fra combattenti filorussi finanziati e armati dalla Russia e esercito ucraino. Nel settembre del 2022 a Mosca Jorit ha realizzato un murales dedicato a Julian Assange, fondatore di Wikileaks e personaggio considerato molto divisivo, tra chi pensa che sia un eroe che subisce una persecuzione ingiusta per aver svelato i “segreti dei potenti”, e chi lo ritiene una minaccia per la sicurezza nazionale per aver collaborato con l’intelligence russa – volontariamente o meno – per influenzare il risultato delle elezioni statunitensi del 2016, quelle vinte da Donald Trump. Intervistato da Repubblica sulla sua scelta di realizzare un’opera d’arte in un paese autoritario come la Russia, dove la libertà di stampa ed espressione è fortemente limitata dal governo e c’è una lunga storia di dissidenti politici incarcerati o assassinati, aveva risposto «in Russia non c’è libertà di pensiero? Questo lo sta dicendo lei». Nel luglio del 2023 era poi stato fortemente criticato per essersi recato a Mariupol, città del sud-est dell’Ucraina occupata da mesi dall’esercito russo, per dipingere un murales raffigurante una bambina con i colori della bandiera russa dipinti nelle iridi degli occhi e circondata da due missili con la scritta NATO, benché la NATO non abbia condotto alcun attacco missilistico contro Mariupol. Nei post pubblicati su Instagram mentre era a Mariupol, Jorit scrisse che «ci hanno mentito su Vietnam, ci hanno mentito sull’Afghanistan, ci hanno mentito sull’Iraq, ci hanno mentito sui Balcani e ci hanno mentito sulla Libia e sulla Siria. E ora ho le prove: ci stanno mentendo anche sul Donbass. Qui l’etica non c’entra nulla, diffidate da quelli che vorrebbero farci la morale, hanno le mani sporche di sangue. Qui non c’è nessuno da liberare. È tutto l’esatto opposto di quello che ci raccontano in TV. La resistenza che avremmo dovuto appoggiare è quella del popolo del Donbass che lotta da 8 anni per liberarsi da un regime; quello di Kiev che di democratico oramai non aveva più niente». [...]

Da: Lo street artist italiano che fa propaganda a Putin - IlPost

[retrocompmx]

Efemérides Tecnológica: 2 de junio de 2014 - Novedades del Apple WWDC 2014

¡Recordamos la WWDC 2014 de Apple! 🍎 El 2 de junio se lanzó iOS 8 (¡con Extensiones y teclados de 3ros!), OS X Yosemite (¡cambio visual!) y el revolucionario lenguaje Swift. Un evento clave para el ecosistema. #retrocomputingmx #WWDC2014 #apple #iOS8 #yosemite #swift

[designaldohas]

Graphic Design Trends (2011–2015) – The Fall of Texture, Rise of Flat

If 2016–2020 was the era of refinement, then 2011–2015 was the disruption phase. Digital design shifted dramatically, moving away from realism toward simplicity and usability. Flat design didn’t just arrive—it stormed in, kicked over the bookshelf, and changed everything.

📱 1. Flat Design Goes Mainstream

The early 2010s brought a rejection of skeuomorphism—the style that mimicked real-world textures (wood, leather, shadows). Apple’s shift from iOS 6 to iOS 7 in 2013 was the watershed moment. Suddenly, icons were flat, colors were bold, and gradients were exiled.

Why it mattered:

Flat design prioritized clarity and speed

It was easier to scale across responsive devices

It looked “modern” and digital-native

Popularized by: Microsoft’s Metro UI and Apple’s iOS 7. Google soon followed with Material Design in 2014 (but that’s more next article).

🎯 2. Focus on UI/UX Simplicity

As mobile apps boomed, user experience became the center of attention. Designers trimmed the fat from interfaces, removing clutter in favor of clean navigation and touch-friendly elements.

Key trends:

Larger buttons

Minimal menus

Icon-based navigation

Mobile-first mindset

Tools like Sketch (launched in 2010) gained traction as designers ditched Photoshop for digital-focused UI work.

🎨 3. Vibrant Colors & Minimal Palettes

This era loved two extremes:

Bright, punchy neons and primary colors (think Windows 8)

Or ultra-minimal color schemes (black, white, grey + 1 accent color)

Color wasn't just for decoration—it was used for hierarchy, feedback, and accessibility.

✍️ 4. Typography Goes Digital-Friendly

Web typography got a serious glow-up in this era:

Web-safe fonts evolved to include open-source options like Google Fonts.

Sans-serif fonts ruled: Helvetica, Open Sans, Lato, and Roboto were in every designer’s toolbox.

Designers used font weight and size creatively to guide user flow—bold headlines, clean body text.

It wasn’t fancy, but it was functional and consistent.

💡 5. Responsive Design Becomes Mandatory

The age of one-size-fits-all websites was over. Enter: responsive design. With the iPhone, iPad, and countless Android devices flooding the market, designers had to think in fluid grids, breakpoints, and scalable elements.

Milestones:

2010: Ethan Marcotte coins “responsive web design”

2011–2015: Every respectable site goes mobile-friendly or dies trying

🧰 6. Designers Shift Tools: Sketch Enters the Scene

Photoshop was great for photo editing. But for UI? It was... clunky. Enter Sketch, a vector-based tool tailored for interface and web design. By 2015, Sketch had become the go-to app for digital designers.

Why it changed the game:

Symbols and shared styles

Pixel-perfect precision

UI kits galore

🖌️ 7. Skeuomorphism Gets the Boot

Remember leather-bound calendar apps and felt-textured Game Centers? Yeah, Apple does too—and regrets it.

From 2013 onward, skeuomorphism was no longer considered “classy.” It was… cringe. Designers embraced flat shapes, simple icons, and clean surfaces.

Fun twist: That old leather calendar? It was actually based on the one in Steve Jobs’s yacht.

🤯 Unique Fact of the Day

When Apple launched iOS 7 with flat icons, it reportedly confused millions of users. The visual leap was so dramatic that many thought their phones had a bug. It sparked hundreds of memes—and a few app redesigns in panic.

🎨 Creative Challenge

Design a mock app dashboard using flat design principles:

No gradients, no shadows

Use bold color blocks

Stick to two fonts max

Keep spacing tight but readable

Extra credit: make it responsive across mobile, tablet, and desktop mockups.

https://letterhanna.com/graphic-design-trends-2011-2015-the-fall-of-texture-rise-of-flat/

[complicatedbutchic]

If someone has a folder with these apps on their phone ... run away.

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CDN07免备案高防CDN：9 年实战经验构筑全球安全加速壁垒

在网络安全威胁与全球化业务需求同步激增的今天，如何兼顾“快速上线”“安全防护”与“全球加速”成为企业的核心课题。作为深耕行业9年的技术先驱，CDN07自2014年起便以“技术创新+实战打磨”为双引擎，打造出兼具免备案便捷性与企业级防护力的高防CDN解决方案。截至2023年，已累计为5000余家企业拦截超10万次DDoS攻击，其“全球节点+T级防护+AI智能”的三位一体架构，正重新定义跨境网络基建的安全标准。 一、9年技术深耕：从亚洲到全球的安全版图扩张 CDN07的技术进化史，始终与行业痛点深度绑定： 2017年：自主研发BGP智能防御体系，突破亚太地区备案与防护瓶颈，为跨境电商、流媒体平台提供首个“免备案+高防”一体化方案； 2020年：完成全球30+核心节点布局（覆盖亚太、欧美、中东等8大区域），同步启用加密货币支付生态，支持USDT等主流代币匿名结算，首年即服务超2000家Web3.0企业； 2022-2023年：技术再升级——AI驱动流量清洗系统实现单点峰值防御1.5Tbps，联合AWS、Cloudflare构建“边缘计算+深度威胁分析”混合架构，日均处理1500+跨国攻击，防护精度提升至99.99%。 数据印证：某金融科技公司接入CDN07后，因备案流程耗时缩短80%，新产品上线周期从30天压缩至1天；同时，DDoS攻击导致的交易中断次数从月均12次降至0次，业务稳定性获国际监管机构认证。 二、七大核心优势：重新定义高防CDN价值标杆 1.全球节点战略：亚太覆盖之王，实时协同加速 节点密度领先：亚太地区部署15+节点（香港、新加坡、东京等），覆盖80%的亚洲用户，比同类型CDN节点数多30%，本地访问延迟低至20ms； 分布式智能调度：通过Anycast技术实现跨区域流量无缝协同，静态资��缓存命中率达92%，动态内容路由效率提升40%，全球用户均享“本地服务器”级访问体验； 高可用保障：多点冗余架构确保节点故障时自动切换，网络可用性达99.99%，彻底告别“单点崩溃”风险。 2.T级分布式防护：从流量洪水到精准拦截 多层过滤体系：融合网络层BGP流量清洗（50G-1.5Tbps弹性带宽）、应用层WAF规则（防御OWASPTop10漏洞）、数据层IP隐身技术，形成立体防御矩阵； 零中断体验：某游戏厂商在峰值攻击期间（流量超800Gbps），API接口响应延迟仅增加5ms，用户几乎无感知，彻底颠覆“攻击必断网”的行业痛点； 弹性扩展能力：支持按需升级防护带宽，从小型博客的50Gbps基础防护到企业级1T+定制方案，适配全规模业务需求。 3.AI智能防御体系：让防护策略“自我进化” 实时动态清洗：AI引擎基于20万+攻击样本持续学习，自动识别新型CC攻击（如变异指纹攻击），清洗策略更新速度从人工调整的24小时缩短至30秒； 毫秒级响应机制：通过机器学习预测攻击峰值，提前5秒启动带宽扩容与节点负载均衡，拦截效率比传统规则引擎提升70%； 自适应调优：针对金融交易、直播推流等不同场景，自动匹配防护强度（如交易页面开启严格人机验证，静态页面放宽访问限制），在安全与体验间找到最优解。 4.实时大数据监控：让安全状态“全程可视” 全链路数据追踪：提供实时流量监控仪表盘，支持查看各节点带宽使用率、攻击类型分布、页面加载速度等20+核心指标，异常流量波动自动触发邮件/短信预警； 智能策略调优：基于每日10TB+流量数据分析，动态调整节点缓存策略与防护阈值，某电商平台通过数据调优，首页加载速度提升35%，攻击误判率降至0.05%； 决策支持工具：导出PDF版安全报告，包含攻击拦截记录、性能优化建议，助力企业通过ISO27001等合规认证。 5.全场景适配解决方案：不止通用防护，更懂行业痛点 金融行业：定制“交易链路加密+API精准防护”方案，支持PCI-DSS合规，防御针对支付接口的撞库攻击与数据窃取； Web3.0领域：兼容区块链节点部署，提供USDT匿名支付对接API，防护智能合约平台免受DDoS+DNS劫持双重攻击； 游戏直播：推出“实时推流加速+防作弊SDK”，移动端延迟降低至150ms，同时拦截外挂程序的流量伪装攻击。 6.全匿名支付生态：隐私保护与全球结算双赋能 加密货币友好：支持USDT（ERC-20/TRC-20）、BTC等主流代币支付，去中心化结算无需绑定银行账户，交易记录上链存证不可篡改； 匿名化部署：用户注册仅需邮箱，无需提交企业资质或个人身份信息，从接入到支付全程保护数据隐私，特别适配敏感内容平台； 开放生态架构：不限制域名内容类型（如论坛、UGC社区），打破传统CDN的“内容审查”枷锁，构建安全开放的网络环境。 7.成熟定价与服务体系：从初创到企业的全周期陪伴 弹性套餐设计：基础版800美元/月（50Gbps防护+15+亚太节点），企业版最高5000美元/月（1.5Tbps防护+全节点覆盖），支持按流量计费与带宽峰值预警，避免资源浪费； 全链条服务保障：提供7×24小时多语言技术支持（中英日+技术文档），平均响应时间8分钟；专属客户经理协助方案定制，从域名解析到攻防演练全程托管； 持续迭代承诺：每季度更新防护算法与节点配置，2023年累计发布12次重大升级，确保客户始终使用行业领先的防护技术。 三、三大明星产品：精准匹配不同业务场景 1.高防服务器：香港/内地免备案，高并发场景首选 硬件配置：搭载最新IntelXeon处理器+企业级SSD，单节点IOPS达50万+，支持10Gbps端口突发流量； 场景适配： 游戏服：香港节点低延迟适配东南亚玩家，内置防CC攻击模块保障登录服务器稳定； 金融交易：内地免备案服务器支持沪深港通数据交互，硬件级加密保护用户交易数据； 差异化优势：相比传统服务器，部署时间从3天缩短至2小时，攻击响应速度提升60%。 2.高防CDN：安全与速度的“双引擎” 核心能力：全球节点加速+T级流量清洗二合一，支持HTTP/2、QUIC协议，页面加载速度平均提升65%； 技术亮点：智能DNS解析系统自动识别用户地域，优先分配同洲节点；动态内容通过EdgeComputing边缘处理，减少源站压力70%； 典型案例：某跨境电商使用后，欧美用户订单页加载时间从4秒降至1.5秒，促销期流量攻击拦截率达100%，GMV同比提升22%。 3.APP防护解决方案：移动时代的安全铠甲 产品矩阵： APP盾：SDK轻量化集成，提供数据加密、设备指纹识别，防御恶意抓包与程序逆向； 游戏盾：针对手游实时对战场景，优化UDP协议传输效率，同时拦截DDoS导致的断线重连问题； 技术优势：支持iOS/Android双平台，接入成本比传统安全方案降低40%，某现象级手游通过防护后，外挂程序检测率提升至98%，用户留存率提高15%。 四、选择CDN07的三大理由：不止是产品，更是安全伙伴 实战经验背书：9年累计处理超10万次攻击，防护过金融、游戏、Web3.0等8大领域头部客户，攻防策略经过真实战场验证； 技术自主可控：核心引擎100%自研，拒绝第三方插件依赖，从流量清洗到AI算法均具备独立知识产权； 全球化合规：服务器部署于塞舌尔、美国等数据隐私保护法地区，支持GDPR、CCPA等国际合规要求，助力企业出海零障碍。 结语 在“备案繁琐、攻击频发、跨境低效”的三大挑战下，CDN07免备案高防CDN以“技术深耕+场景定制”给出最优解——从亚太节点密度之王到T级防护技术先驱，从AI智能防御到全匿名支付生态，每一项创新都直击行业痛点。无论您是需要快速上线的初创团队，还是追求极致安全的跨国企业，CDN07都能为您构筑“安全无死角、加速无延迟、合规无担忧”的全球网络防线。

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While Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS 8, has been rolling out since Sept. 17, 2014, Google has just announce that its latest operating system, code named Android L, is now released as Android Lollipop 5.0 on 17 October 2014. Both Android and iOS have a large developer community. Android has power of opensource and enormous free learning resources and android programming books available for app developers. Though iOS is not an opensource software it still has strong community support and professional help in terms of learning resource and iOS Programming books readily available for developers. Some developers may be required to do development on both Android and iOS due to a large customer base or other compelling reasons. You must also check our recommended tools for mobile development productivity - Mobile Development Productivity Tools. Even before we start comparing, some of the things you must know about iOS and Android are listed here - iOS app development and Why developers prefer Android . Let us see in this article which platform could emerge as a winner, given that both pose themselves as strong contenders for acceptance in the developer community. What Comes With Android Lollipop 5.0 To begin with, let us take a quick peek at the Android Lollipop 5.0. According to Google’s Blog, Lollipop is designed to be the largest as well as most ambitious release on Android. With it are included over 5,000 new API’s for developers. It offers a completely new UI design that creates a consistent experience across the mobile as well as internet spectrum by offering a new Google-wide standard called material design. Google’s new innovation called material design offers developers elements such as new theme, new widgets for complex views, as well as new APIs for custom shadows and animations. Hence, developers can utilize the material them for a new style for their apps, while system widgets allow them to set their color palette. At the same time, default animations allows for touch feedback as well as activity transitions. It is worthy to note that this new design language is consistent across Android, Google Chrome, Chrome OS as well as Android wear. This design adds animation to everything from tapping the numbers on the phone dialer to sliding apps in as well as out of the screen. Further introduced is a new runtime, within which developers can test their apps and get them ready for ART (Android Runtime), which is the default runtime in the next mobile platform release from Google. Furthermore, Android Lollipop 5.0 offers enhances notifications and the ability to get control over where notifications appear and even how they look. Developers will now be able to sync them to non-handheld devices too. Also, this OS promises increased energy efficiency through Project Volta, which is Google’s effort to make the platform more energy efficient. Developers will thus be able to given more control over resource usage and save energy. Another advantage that Android 5.0 Lollipop has managed to bring is that it presents notifications from your lock screen. Users can answer calls without unlocking phones and notifications can easily be acted upon or dismissed without having to perform routine actions such as swipes or taps. What Comes With IOS 8.0 Next, let us take a quick look at iOS8, which has many new features compared to iOS7. Features as well as functionality take precedence over design in iOS 8. Readers will remember that iOS 8.0 was released with bugs, and Apple had to release an emergency fix to bring back many features that were missing there. Alongside Swift and Apple Pay, which is one of the most popular features of iOS 8, another commended feature of iOS 8 is the Continuity, which as new concept that allows the user to pick off from a device on another device. Continuity allows calling and messages on any devices running iOS 8 and continue web browsing, photo editing, or any other app that the user might be working on.

It also offers support for third party keyboards. Thus, users can utilize keyboards of their choice, if they are not content with the predictive keyboard that Apple has included in its iPhone 6 or iPad devices. Additional features include Spotlight search that has been improved on iOS 8 along with other features such as iMessages, Family Sharing, Health Kit and Home Kit, Wi-Fi Calling, Shazam Integration, Siri, and many other features. So Which OS Will The Developers Prefer? Both Android 5.0 Lollipop as well as iOS 8 brings a lot of improvements as compared to the preceding mobile operating systems. For both the companies involved, it involves a lot of stakes including their reputation. As both these operating systems have been launched at the same time, it will take some time for developers to decide whether they favor either of both of these operating systems for their development needs. Let us examine this aspect in brief. IOS 8 Developer Verdict While examining iOS 8, developers will realize that iOS 8 is tearing down the older foundations and attempting to replace it with a new and friendlier platform. The iOS 8 platform has been thrown open to developers like never before. The iPhone is no more an appliance, but a platform, which the developers can truly exploit for their benefit. Apple has opened up many parts of the iOS 8 that were previously off-limits to third party developers. Now third party developers can develop apps that can integrate into Apple’s sharing system, while replace iPhone’s keyboard or put themselves into Apple’s photos app. Also, widgets can be put into the Today tab or even the Touch ID fingerprint scanner can be used to authenticate the users. Thus, the present version of iOS 8 includes features that were not heard of just a year back. It can be said that Apple has made the biggest change to iOS 8 and how it works, since the launch of the App store in 2008. This makes iOS a friendlier and more useful platform that what users could access before. However, iOS 8 is not entirely without fault. It is full of bugs and at the same time, it is one of the most unpolished versions of iOS in recent years. Already, a number of developers are taking advantage of the new widget functionality in iOS 8’s new widget functionality. However, they have obtained mixed results. Also, third-party keyboard support is present; however, its use ranges from being barely usable to sometimes buggy. Data sharing between some apps is now possible, while the photos app is a huge improvement. Whatever inclusions are present, the full potential of iOS8 still remains to be see, which won’t be visible for weeks or even months after release. Android Lollipop Developer Verdict At present, the Android Lollipop 5.0 is not quite yet the finished product, and Google has warned that the developer build could cause lost data as well as unexpected crashes. However, many developers have reported that they haven’t experienced any crashes or bugs. Conclusion Developers are considering the Android version to be extremely rock solid and it seems that this version will emerge as the favorite amongst developers, although it is too early to say right away! This is Ella Bell, working with IT Company Fusion Informatics since the last 3 years. She enjoys writing articles as a hobby on topics related to software, mobile app, tutorial etc.

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Cara Giovanna,

Milano, 9 marzo 2025

Domani sarà un giorno speciale: il 10 marzo, il giorno in cui raggiungi il traguardo degli ottant’anni, splendidamente portati. Ho voluto scriverti questa lettera per festeggiare te, la tua musica, la tua energia e l’amicizia che ci lega, un’amicizia che per me è un dono prezioso, nato quasi per caso e cresciuto negli anni tra cassette, 45 giri, CD, social network, telefonate e incontri a Milano.

Mi ricordo ancora di te nelle tue prime apparizioni in televisione, quando eri ospite a “Settevoci”, la trasmissione di Pippo Baudo che andava in onda la domenica pomeriggio. Ero un ragazzo allora, e guardavo il programma insieme a mio padre. A lui piacevi tantissimo: lo colpivano il tuo abbigliamento: giacca e pantaloni scuri, così eleganti e fuori dal comune, e quel tuo diastema che ti rendeva unica. Io sentivo che c’era qualcosa di speciale in te. A distanza di tanti anni, non ricordo chiaramente su chi ti imponesti al tuo apparire (ricordi l'applausometro?) e da quale cantante fosti eliminata dopo un tot di puntate, ma quelle immagini sono rimaste impresse nella mia memoria come un primo seme di ciò che sarebbe venuto dopo.

Un paio d’anni più tardi, quando le musicassette iniziarono a soppiantare i trentatré giri – anche se per un periodo breve – trovai in un negozio di dischi di Cividale una tua cassetta dal titolo “Ho passato un brutto inverno”. Non avevo un’autoradio, ma il mio glorioso radioregistratore Grundig, che mi è durato più di trent’anni, era sempre lì, adagiato sul sedile accanto al mio mentre guidavo. Prima una Fiat 850, poi una Simca grigio metallizzata: quelle erano le mie compagne di strada, e la tua voce mi teneva compagnia nel tragitto dal recapito bancario di San Leonardo del Friuli, dove ero impegnato dalle 8:15 alle 13:00, fino alla filiale di Cividale, dove proseguiva il resto della mia giornata lavorativa. Percorrevo sempre lo stesso percorso, e c’erano punti precisi della strada in cui partivano le canzoni che amavo di più. Tra tutte, “Ricordo di un amore” era la mia preferita – anni dopo scoprii che era una cover di “Dearest” dai “Trafalgar” dei Bee Gees, e questo la rese ancora più speciale ai miei occhi. Il grande successo “Il mio ex” era ancora di là da venire, ma già allora la tua voce aveva il potere di tenermi compagnia, di farmi sentire meno solo, di trasformare un semplice viaggio in un momento di emozione.

Facciamo un salto di trent’anni. Entrato in possesso di un personal computer, mi iscrissi a MySpace e lì ebbi la fortuna di avere tra i miei amici virtuali Paolo Limiti. Gli scrissi per chiedergli un aiuto: nella tua canzone “Un nido rosa” – una cover del successo di Wanda Osiris che avevi inciso nella sua splendida raccolta “Canzone, amore mio” – c’era una parola che non riuscivo ad afferrare. Con la sua gentilezza, Paolo mi rispose che quel termine era “chiaror”. Quel piccolo chiarimento mi spinse a creare un primo video di quel motivo, che amavo tanto sia per la tua interpretazione che per la parte musicale. E poi, quasi come un segno del destino, poco dopo mi arrivò la tua richiesta di amicizia su MySpace. Da lì è iniziato tutto: la piattaforma ha chiuso, ma il nostro legame no. Da virtuale si è trasformato in reale, con due incontri a Milano nel 2014, che custodisco nel cuore e le nostre frequenti telefonate che hanno reso la tua voce – quella stessa voce delle cassette – una presenza viva nella mia vita.

Oggi, alla vigilia dei tuoi ottant’anni, ho voluto mettere per iscritto questi ricordi perché penso che tu sia una persona straordinaria. Arrivare a questa età in splendida forma, ricca di vitalità, energia e voglia di fare, immersa in mille progetti e con uno sguardo sempre rivolto avanti, è qualcosa di meraviglioso. Sei un esempio di come si possa vivere con ottimismo e passione, e questo mi riempie di ammirazione. La tua musica è stata la colonna sonora di tanti momenti della mia vita, e la tua amicizia è un regalo che non smetto di apprezzare.

Cara Giovanna, ti auguro un compleanno pieno di gioia, circondata dall’affetto di chi ti vuole bene e dalla soddisfazione di tutto ciò che hai costruito. Ottant’anni sono un traguardo importante, ma per te sembrano solo un nuovo inizio. Continua a brillare, a cantare, a ispirare. Io sarò sempre qui, con il mio Grundig immaginario, ad ascoltarti e a ricordarmi di quell’amore che hai saputo raccontare così bene.

Con tanto affetto, Paolo