Notices by Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ (brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net)

Gene Burrus, who headed up Microsoft legal after the landmark IE browser monopoly case writes "Apple has again asked the Supreme Court in the United States to excuse its engagement in unfair methods of competition and contempt of court to preserve what Apple apparently perceives as its fundamental right to selectively abuse and exploit its substantial market power it wields with iOS to extract rents from mobile app developers" https://burruscompstrategies.com/blog/f/how-many-bites-at-the-apple

The World Atlas of Sausages https://planetwurst.com

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

"A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away." https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles

Under the hood of MDN's new frontend https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-front-end-deep-dive/ - in which it is revealed that using React to serve essentially static content "accumulated quite a lot of technical debt", and is better replaced by ... Web Components and CSS, AKA "the web platform". And also the revolutionary new concept of "Shipping only what's required". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-front-end-deep-dive/

The JD Vance effect. He killed a pope, went to see Orban and caused him to get booted out by a huge majority. Someone get JD shaking hands with Putin, asap.

Huge kudos to President Trump! The strait of Hormuz is open again, just as it was before he bombed Iran. The aged Ayatollah's younger and more hardline son is now Iran's leader; petrol is 30p a litre up in the UK; allies are alienated; thousands are dead (even some saintly Americans), and billions of US taxpayers dollars have been squandered. Truly a 5D chess masterstroke.

2.5 hours from the deadline after which "a whole civilisation will die", according to the President elected by a majority of Americans, even after he tried to stage an insurrection, and was found liable for sexual abuse. What a time to be alive.

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/claude_code_source_leak_privacy_nightmare/
If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code

I Decompiled the White House's New App https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Quantum Computers Need 20x Fewer Qubits to Crack Crypto https://www.byteseu.com/1908147/ "Google estimated the 1,000 wealthiest exposed Ethereum accounts, holding roughly 20.5 million ETH, could be cracked in fewer than nine days." Awwwww.

A policeman stopped me, and yelled "papers". I shouted "Scissors!", and continued walking.

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

The Enshittificator - a Norwegian documentary about the life of an Enshittificator and how the Internet and AI has enhanced his productivity. https://vimeo.com/1168468796

I don't understand- the FIFA Peace Prize winner said last week that the Iran war was "very complete". Perhsps next we'll hear that the Russian war in Ukraine has resumed after he ended it 24 hours after taking office.

Last week, for the For A Better Web podcast, I had the pleasure to interview Patricia Egger, goddess of security at @protonprivacy about how you can educate less tech-literate friends and family on keeping themselves secure and private online. https://vivaldi.com/blog/patricia-egger-proton-for-a-better-web/

Today's Vivaldi desktop snapshot has a trial of a new onboarding step for people to quickly configure Vivaldi for assistive tech, keyboard-only use or with visual impairments.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/easier-onboarding-for-all-users-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3969-3/

Industry rumours say "Windows 12 will not treat AI as an add-on feature, but will anchor it as a fundamental part of the system. Copilot is evolving from an optional assistant to a central control instance. OS-wide integration will replace selective AI functions." ooh, and "Transparent glass elements characterize the appearance". Hallelujah! https://www.pcworld.com/article/3068331/windows-12-rumors-features-pricing-everything-we-know-so-far.html

Shirt manufacturers: a shirt without a breast pocket is only half-finished. Do better.

State of the Browser 2026 was jolly good fun and all the beautiful people were there. (I was allowed too, because @Vivaldi was a sponsor.)