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  • Apple loses 'Amazing Stories' showrunner over creative differences

    If "Planet of the Apps" starring that vacuous charlatan Gwyneth Paltrow is any indication of Apple's idea of original programming then I I won't be watching, let alone paying for it.
    cornchip
  • Siri now actively used on more than 500M devices, up from 375M in June

    Other than setting timers and alarms or calling friends with easy to pronounce names, Siri is so unreliable that I've stopped bothering to use it anymore. On my Apple Watch it's a joke.

    "Deep learning"? Deep what exactly?
    aylk[Deleted User]SpamSandwichking editor the grate
  • Apple, ARM & Intel facing potential Israeli class action suit over Meltdown & Spectre

    Soli said:
    What’s next?

    Class action lawsuits against Microsoft or Apple whenever a security exploit is discovered in their OS?

    The only absolute with regards to computers (software & hardware) is there will always be bugs/exploits. You simply cannot design something that will be 100% free from any bugs. All you can do is put in an effort to minimize these from happening, and WHEN they happen provide a quick response to deal with the issue.
    "Lawfirm Sues Major Tech Companies on Behalf of all Other Cardinal Numbers for Only Focusing on Numbers One and Zero"?
    Odds are they'll get even.
    SolirazorpitStrangeDaysberndogwatto_cobra
  • Video: How Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection in Safari works

    cornchip said:
    It’s even worse than what this article outlines. I’m a designer and was playing around with creating custom textures in Procreate. I wanted to make a custom bark texture. So I image searched “bark” with DDG - I’m fairly certain, it’s my default - (in safari). I used an image on the second or third row & Never thought another thing about it until a few days later. When I got an email... to my personal freelance email from a company called “Bark”. The aim of bark (supposedly, I’ve never contacted them yet) is to match designers with people who need designers to design things for them (for next to nothing no doubt). Somehow it dawned on me about my search a few days earlier. I went back to safari and did an image search with DDG. scroll scroll..... nothing seemed to pop out as unusual. So researched with g!... scroll scroll......


    and and there it was.


    amongst nothing but pictures of bark. A little logo I recognized from a bizarre, unsolicited email. A little icon of a dog barking.

    i don’t know what’s going on there, but it’s incredibly powerful, insideous, and creepy as shit. I don’t know if Apple has solved for this thing exactly, but I applaud their efforts in this area and perhaps they will get to this type of spying in the future if this measure is not effective against it yet.
    Wow, that would not only piss me off but be the reason I'd never do business with "Bark". Talk about casting a wide net! From time-to-time I get unsolicited but targeted email and I let those businesses know that I've blacklisted them (and I'm sure they give a ****). Like the stock photo site 123RF.com where I'd regularly purchased images until they decided I needed to be spammed as well (ignoring that I was not subscribed to their marketing emails).
    cornchipwatto_cobra
  • iMac Pro arrives at Apple's retail stores

    mdirvin said:
    I just received an e-mail from B&H, mine has been shipped for delivery on 1/3/2018.  Specked with a 10 core, 2 TB SSD, 64 GIG, and Vega 64/16G video card.  So built to order have already arrived.

    Mike
    Rumours are that Apple's releasing a special Rose Gold iMac Pro (with hot pink Magic Mouse) for Valentine's Day so I'm holding off ordering until then. Otherwise yours sounds like an okay machine.  ;-)
    DavidAlGregory