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williamh said:

chasm said:

netrox said:

If it's encrypted end to end, how is it possible to detect CSAM? 

That question is way above my pay grade to know, but my GUESS is that, as Apple mentioned in the original announcement, even an encrypted photo can be algorithmically searched for a certain pattern, in this case human nudity.

Now lots of perfectly innocent pictures contain some level of nudity, so — again, guessing here — that is combined with where the image was sent and/or uploaded by. If any of the recipients or senders is a child account, that plus the nudity might flag it — and then law enforcement could be contacted to obtain a court order to decrypt.

The basic concept of CSAM scanning doesn't involve searching for patterns in your images, not nudity or anything else.  The way it worked was to compare hashes of your images to a database of hashes of known CSAM images.  The database came from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which maintains hashes of the images that were proven in criminal cases to be of minors.

The concerns of having CSAM on our devices as part of the detection were unwarranted and based on a misunderstanding of how the system works.  A potential valid concern is the probability of hash collisions.  I recall Apple's response on that was that they weren't going to alert on single matches.

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.

mikethemartian said:

How bright do you need a display to be when it is sitting right in front of your eye?

A ton of the light is lost in the optics -- like 80%+ in a pancake lens. So to directly answer the question, way more than you would for say a TV

apple4thewin said:

Can someone explain to me why only Apple is getting attacked? Consoles such as the Switch and Playstation don’t allow alternative app stores. In the switch’s Fortnite case VBucks aren’t usable if you got them from outside the switch store/battle pass. In fact I logged into my account on Playstation and I had 4,700 vbucks while My Switch said 700.

This is why: https://data.ai/en/insights/mobile-gaming/2023-gaming-spotlight-report/

the default appears to be on, but the iPad UI can still be a little buggy. You know what does work well though? Steamlink. The only iPad Game I need : )

charlesn said:

Serious question; what's with Apple Insider's negative headlines about Vision Pro? Apple sold half its sales target for 2024 in the first few hours of pre-orders and your headline takeaway the other day was that they were "struggling" to market it. Now you headline the 150 native apps available as "few and far between." As you acknowledge several paragraphs down, VP hardware for developers has been in limited supply, and even for those who've received it, how much time have they actually had to develop for a new computing platform that's unlike anything we've seen before? Do you actually think it's news to first year buyers of Vision Pro that current availability of native apps isn't robust? I'm thinking that anyone spending $3500 to buy v1.0 of Vision Pro now knows exactly what they're buying into. 

Serious answer: This is information of value to the public. We have a lot of different opinions here on staff when it comes to AVP, and we let the editors say the things they think are worth saying. Obviously we ensure what we write is factually correct, but as a rule we try not to edit perspective or voice. Saying "look how many they sold!" and then in the same breath saying "obviously everybody knows what they're getting" rings hollow to me. You think 180K developers bought the headset? Apple certainly doesn't agree, because that's not how they've selling it. So, the answer is yes. Absolutely. I suspect lots of people bought this thing on an questionable promise.

Our job is not to cover Apple only in a positive light. There's a lot of exciting stuff about the Vision Pro, and those articles exist on this website as well.