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  • 'Love Island' star says someone tracked her with an AirTag

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    neilm said:
    I'd have left the offending AirTag on the airport parking shuttle or someplace similar. Should keep the stalker harmlessly entertained for hours and hours.
    Stash it in a hard-to-find spot on the plane. It'll drive the stalker batty to see "you" flying all over the place for weeks.

    Personally, not being an airhead, I would have kept it. Either you can get the police to subpoena Apple to find the stalker, or you can factory reset it and get a free Airtag.
    watto_cobra

  • Starting April 1, all a Twitter blue checkmark will mean is the user is paid

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    mainyehc said:
    Public officials should just show Phony Stark the finger and move to Mastodon altogether. Heck, the US Government should create its own instance for all its agencies, duh.
    Phony Stark. I like it. Reminds me of the line from the 1989 Batman movie. "Maybe it should be Bruce Vain."
    watto_cobra

  • AirTag tracks car thieves, but vehicle wrecked during police chase

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    lkrupp said:
    There is nothing in the article that says there was any high speed chase - they may have just driven off without any chase and crashed.
    Exactly. The actual report does not mention a chase. As police approached the vehicle it drove away at high speed and crashed shortly thereafter. So we start with a misinformed headline, then that misinformation is enhanced and commented on by busybodies with agendas. And we wonder wonder why our society is as screwed up as it is.
     Oh, really? I "enhanced" it? So Appleinsider didn't write:
    Police quickly tracked down a stolen car with the owner's AirTag inside, but the thieves then crashed it during a high-speed chase.
    and
    However, as the Durham PD officers approached the stolen car, the thieves drove it away at speed. The thieves reportedly almost hit a police cruiser, and did shortly afterwards crash the car on Martin Luther King Jr Parkway.
    As for being a busybody, if that means worrying about the safety and lives of innocent bystanders who are injured and killed during police chases, then I'm guilty and proud of it.

    mknelsonbonobob

  • AirTag tracks car thieves, but vehicle wrecked during police chase

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    Never should have been a high-speed chase. First, everybody knows they're dangerous, which is why they're against department policy in many cities. And second, it's being tracked. That's the whole point of the story. They could have kept a discreet distance until it parked. The Airtag battery would have lasted and they couldn't have lost track of the car. Better yet, you never know what kind of goodies those thieves might have led them to if you had just followed them. Maybe a chop shop. There was no need to catch them immediately.
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  • Apple's iPhone is boiling oil resistant -- briefly

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    iOS_Guy80 said:
    Give me a minute to think, when was the last time I was boiling oil?
    Well, when the Saxons had crossed my moat and were climbing the ramparts, I needed something to repel them.
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