jSnively

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jdw said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

On the contrary, I haven't complained about you at all. I have poked fun of your lack of self-awareness.

Not "at all"???
"On the contrary" indicates you disagree with me.  So let's ponder what you wrote earlier in response to me...

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We run negative stories about Apple all the time, whether that be bad keyboards, overheating laptops, workers rights, etc. We are not a PR arm of Apple. The main focus of our job here is to report accurate and up-to-date information on the largest company in the world. When we veer off that focus slightly, it's because the content is Apple adjacent and it affects our user base. We are also (as far as I know) the only Apple focused publication willing to stamp rumors with a score to help keep people informed. We like talking about crazy Apple rumors too, but the context of "this is real fun to talk about" vs "hey, this is probably real" is important. 

We wrote that article, in large part, to capture search traffic because it surfaced as something people are looking for... a lot. As Mike said earlier, it has been on our list for a while. The Twitter saga itself has been ongoing for a while now. I do not see that as us pushing an agenda so much as responding to an existing demand. I understand you take issue with the tone of the piece, but I guess the question I have for you would be what you think our responsibility is to Twitter? Should we be sanitizing our content for an external company? That kinda spits in the face of a lot of journalistic ethics. Personally, I would rather run with the author's original intent and text intact than tell them to "clean it up" so as not to upset some people. Will we always get that balance right? no, we're human after all. If we whiffed on this one, we will take the lumps.

All that said, I do not see anything that is factually incorrect inside this article. If you think there is something please let us know and we will address it. 

charlesn said:

Please, AppleInsider, drop the charade and end the stupidity of the Rumor Score. So unknown person "zwz," with no known or verifiable record of leaking, says some sh*t and you slap a "Possible" on it. Well, sure--I guess anything's possible on any given day, so I guess anything anyone claims going forward gets a Possible. Hey: Apple Car is coming in 2027! You read it here first! "POSSIBLE"

SuntanIronMan said:

The rumor score of “Possible” doesn’t quite match with the language of the article (“dubious”, “grain of salt”, “doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense at times”, “shady”, “questionable specs”, “likely wrong”).

”Shady” especially. Shady connotes a sense of… I don’t know… the possibility of immoral character or unethical behavior, maybe. “Shady” is quite strong of a word to use… while then still saying it’s “Possible”, lol.

DAalseth said:

“Possible” is being way too generous, should be more like B&#$!@*T.
The item is over a year and a half out if then. At this point few of these details would be finalized. 

Y'all are correct about the rumor score, we're looking into it (I don't want to unilaterally just change it.) Mike has COVID, I was out sick Tues/Wed, and Kasper is deailng with faimly issues. Mistakes happen, but it has been a rough week over here 🥴

williamh said:

jSnively said

In a truly E2E (iCloud photos are not unless you turn it on) system, hash scanning doesn't work as Apple never sees the original content on their servers. The only way to do it is to scan on device before anything goes anywhere. Apple's original annoucment around this effort was somewhat convoluted (but actually pretty smart) and didn't trigger on single matches (for fasle-positive reasons you mention) but it did have to do with scanning actual content not just hashes, which is why there's probably confusion.

As I understood it, your device would have a csam hash database and your device would hash your images, so the detection would happen on your device using data on your device.  In any case, the technique involved hashes and not trying to determine the image content. 

I'm trying to think back to the last time this came up and we looked into it for editorial purposes. IIRC it's either actually illegal (there's a lot of really unintuitive laws around this stuff) or at the least just a very bad idea to distribute that databse to the phones in the first place, as it can be extracted and used to circumvent detection. There were also concerns about 'posioining' the database with other content, espeically in countries with fewer (or no) freedom of speech protections. 

There was a fuzzy ML implementation approach akin to Microsoft's PhotoDNA included in the initial pitch as well. It wasn't just a dumb hash based solution, as it (and Microsoft's in-use PhotoDNA) are designed to detect changes (cropping, mirroing, color shifting, etc.) in the content while still idenitfying it. I do not recall off the top of my head if they ever released a full whitepaper on the approach. Someone else can dig it up if they care (edit: elijahg did link the pdf above.)

I beleive it took about half a week after researchers got ahold of Apple's implementation for testing to make it reliabally generate false positives, which meant the whole thing was ultimately useless. Some of these projects are still up on github like https://github.com/anishathalye/neural-hash-collider . That's why Apple really decided not to do it in the end. It was a clever approach from a privacy respecting perspective, it just didn't work well enough and had some external world-facing issues to boot.

The lawsuit itself is frought with problems. Keep reading AppleInsider and we'll keep you updated on its progress 😁

It happened to me just the other week. Usually does about once or twice a year and has for a while. No real rhyme or reason 🤷

cia said:

Who is AL and why do people keep talking about him??

Paul Simon, I think. You can call him that

Calvinator said:

iOS_Guy80 said:

First time I have heard of Kendrick Lamar.

Now what does that tell you about the selection process for one of the world's most watched events of the year?

Absolteuly nothing. It tells me he lives under a rock

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entropys said:

Is the character in the Wuthering Waves  game named Cathy?

Also, “they”. Are we talking multiple personalities as well as amnesia?

Like most of these gachas, you choose the male or female version of the player character when you start. "They" would be correct since it is ambigous and up to the player to decide. However, in this case "they" refers to the player not the character... so you'd still be wrong even if you didn't read it incorrectly 😉