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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    kmarei said:
    Pema said:
    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    Absolutely spot on. 
    This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global. 
    Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?

    Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go. 

    Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards. 

    We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go. 

    This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there. 

    And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem. 
    you started with your conclusion (MS s bad)
    then you made the facts fit this narrative

    only problem is, you didn't actually read the article :)
    Microsoft was not involved in this issue, it was Crowdstrike alone.
    which is why the solution came from Crowdstrike

    Yep. The geniuses at the EU made it so cloudstrike can bypass Microsoft safeguards entirely and push their own junk directly onto Microsoft systems. 

    Nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the EU giving unscrupulous developers unfettered access. 

    There should be a class action suit against the EU from all counties and corporations as well as all individuals affected. 

    While cloud strike deserves criticism, it’s not really their fault entirely. Any developer will have mistakes. But the big lawmakers, who are trying to steer the world where they want - bear responsibility for throwing the toddlers into the deep end of the pool and then doing nothing when they can’t swim. 

    Reverse these stupid policies. 


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  • Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what ...

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    People are weird. 

    Cook turned Apple into an unbelievably successful wonder machine. 

    Its products are the best in each category and the best quality out there. 

    Apple doesn’t have to invent something new all the time. They just need to make the best products on the planet. And they do. 

    Apple car wasn’t a failure. It was a skunkworks project that ended up not getting greenlit. It wasn’t something apple announced or sold that then failed. 

    Apple intelligence is more or less what was advertised, with some chunks needing revision and Siri not ready. 

    People also have to remember that apple went out of its way to respect privacy in training tje ai and ethically purchased the rights to the data it uses. So you can reward the criminals who steal or you can be patient with the only player out there still respecting you as a human being. 

    I’d gladly pay for the latter. 

    And that’s why Cook deserves his paradise even today. He’s not going to sell Apple’s soul for the sake of short term gain. He sees the long play. And in the meantime, it’s not like apple isn’t the best game in town as it is. 


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  • Tim Cook sells Apple stock worth in excess of $50 million

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    oksure said:
    Does no on else find this gross, and at the systemic root of wtf is wrong in our country?  Seems like a nice guy you'd root for but then no.  Just another greedy fuc*ing cog in the wheel.  Don't really think he moves the needle either, other than a somewhat impressive Jobs facsimile come wwdc.  Bullshit human being unless I'm really missing something.

    No. When you are responsible for growing a company by the billions, you make big bucks to. 

    The only things gross about it to me is that he’s making that money and I’m not. - and that you spent all of your one post in AI history to attack someone’s reward for their achievements. 
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  • Apple appeals against EU mandate that it freely share its technology

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    Not only is it a privacy risk, it’s STEALING - illegal in snd of itself. Apple paid its own money, blood, sweat, and tears building its tech. And the EU wants to steal it and give it to everyone else? What the heck? Pure evil. They really aren’t even hiding it anymore. 

    If all else fails, leave the EU. That’s just wrong. There is no way to defend that. 
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  • Mac Studio gets an update to M4 Max or M3 Ultra

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    gwmac said:
    This is what I and a lot of other 27 inch iMac owners have been waiting on.  My only remaining decision is what monitor to buy. I want to get at least a 32 inch so was considering the

    Dell UltraSharp 32 4K Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U3225QE

    Does this seem like a good monitor to pair with my new studio? I get a $200 Dell credit every 6 months with my Amex Business Platinum card so that will knock it down to $749. 

    Nah. We've been waiting on a new 32" iMac.
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  • Apple sues Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks

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    Afarstar said:
    Hopefully Prosser et al will feel the full weight of the law. Mark Gurman must be another leaker in Apple’s sights. 
    Pretty sure Gurman is a strategic leak partner of Apple’s. 
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  • Apple Intelligence transcription is twice as fast as OpenAI's Whisper

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    Finally a win for Apple Intelligence. 

    Hopefully it just goes up from here. 
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  • Apple hits back at DOJ antitrust suit paragraph by paragraph in scathing response

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    The DOJ suit is ridiculous. Good on Apple to fight. 

    Now if only Apple Would show this kind of backbone with the EU…
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  • Google loses to Epic Games in Play Store appeal

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    Weird. 

    So… if you own a golf course or movie theater, and have a store that sells first and third party goods in the property, then you have to allow others to set up their own store on your golf course or cinema?

    the whole thing is bonkers. 

    Google should take it to the Supreme Court… no wait. Google will mess it up somehow. APPLE should take it to the Supreme Court. 

    Tje kind of thinking that has gone into some of these decisions is so remedial, you have to wonder how the judges got into their positions. But it’s not like the 9th circuit is known for the best and brightest to begin with. 
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  • US fears iPhone supplier BOE is a Chinese military company

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    anthogag said:
    It's easy to suspect Chinese companies because China isn't a democracy. China's government is always there planning for the long-term because they aren't going anywhere. A democracy is much more dynamic. The best route for China to get a long with the West is to become a democracy. 
    Not just thst, but they had a spy connected to Eric “the gas” Swallwell, had numerous spy balloons over the ISA, including military installations, had its scientists infiltrating American academic institutions, smuggling in biological agents that can destroy crops, etc. also, Chen and Lai were recently found to have been agents of the PRC conducting intelligence work under the guise of legal permanent residency (Chen) and tourism visa (Lai). And that’s just a drop in the bucket. 

    In the USA, companies do their own thing. In China, the government has its hand in everything, even Apple’s data centers. In some cases, the company acts as an extension of the government itself. 

    So it’s not just “being afraid of the unknown” or of something different. It’s having legitimate concerns that a proven adversarial nation will have ubiquitous reach inside American territory via the most poults smartphone in the planet. 

    That’s a really sneaky thing if true. Is it true? We don’t know yet. But such a concern is valid snd it’s good that the DOD is looking into it. 
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