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Apple's fix for bad AI notification summaries won't actually improve results
Wesley Hilliard said:You can turn off AI notifications on a per app basis, as was stated in the article. Developers can't opt out by default today, and maybe that can come in a later update, but users do have control over the feature. I personally don't understand the outrage towards this feature. I find it quite useful.
You don't understand why BBC is upset that Apple Intelligence is mischaracterizing BBC articles? How would you feel if someone summarized this very article as "Apple refuses to fix BBC article summaries"?
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DOJ seeks to break up Google ad business after illegal monopoly ruling
Alex_V said:I find it astonishing that regulators are not addressing the problem of surveillance of private citizens by companies. The one notable exception is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s as if lawmakers and representatives around the world are utterly unaware of the appalling surveillance capitalism business model of companies like Google, Facebook, and others. I really think that is the problem: most people, including politicians, believe that Google and Facebook are giving out free lunches.
It's not so hard to understand when one finds out that the government buys that data from companies to make an end run around Constitutional restrictions on acquiring that data themselves, which requires judges and warrants.
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DOJ seeks to break up Google ad business after illegal monopoly ruling
Alex_V said:
Do you have any evidence for that? I’ve never heard of anything of the sort, except that probably the Chinese state’s has user data from domestic companies, and maybe Russia too. The point is that Google, Facebook have more data on us than KGB or the East German Stasi had on their citizens, and it’s not a problem. I just don’t get it.beowulfschmidt said:
It's not so hard to understand when one finds out that the government buys that data from companies to make an end run around Constitutional restrictions on acquiring that data themselves, which requires judges and warrants.Google "government buying private data to avoid constitutional restrictions" if you need more.DuckDuckGo returns similar results.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook attending Trump inauguration after $1 million donation
fred1 said:Apple pay’s millions in bribes to lawmakers every year, also known as “lobbying”, why not give a mil to the president. I hope he has a good seat at the inauguration.
Right. If graft is gonna be legal and "OK" for congresscritters, then it oughta be OK for presidents too, however big a dumpster fire they are.
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France fines Apple over App Tracking Transparency, but doesn't order changes
If they had said, "ATT is fine, but Apple has to follow the same rules, so since you didn't, we're fining you," that would have been pretty legit.Instead they said, "ATT is fine, nothing wrong with it. But we're going to fine you anyway. Because we can, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it."
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US lawmakers denounce UK's secretive attack against Apple encryption
The solution is simple. Pass a law that requires U.S. corporations to reveal any such demands by foreign governments to the public.
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Apple sues Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks
Gosh, amazing how every already knows the details of what actually happened. Who needs courts and facts when internet randos are on the job. /s
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Courts say AI training on copyrighted material is legal
This will hold until Disney gets involved.
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Meta has poached two more heavyweights from Apple's AI team
Well, these people were obviously not as dedicated to Apple as they should have been, otherwise they would never have left such an awesome company for such a sh*thole of a company as Meta. Apple is better off without them. /s
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How to build your own online e-book library using Calibre
Ofer said:Will calibre import DRM-protected files?
Amazon and other DRM users would like you not to do that, but there is a way. I will not detail that way here. You should be able to find it easily enough.
