California: Criminal rings loot billions in jobless funds

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sophisticated hackers, identity thieves and overseas criminal rings stole over $11 billion in unemployment benefits from California last year, but the extent of the fraud might grow far larger: billions more in payments are under investigation. Read more

Underused and Overused GCD Patterns

All serial queues ultimately target a global queue, which is responsible for actually executing the work; but, for historical reasons, the default target is an overcommit queue. That means it has a higher max thread cap and creates threads more aggressively. This avoids that. Read more

Apple’s Supply Chain

Biden’s question put Cook, who’d become Apple’s CEO the previous August, in an awkward position. He was the architect of the strategy to outsource Apple’s production to China, a trend of increasing concern for the Obama administration. Read more