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  • Apple expects high demand for 'iPhone 13,' orders over 100 million A15 processors

    May not all be for iPhones. Apple may just want to cut down on CPU diversity, and throw the A15 into all the iPads, aTV, iPhones, homePods, and call it a day, being able to fluidly shift CPUs between the various product lines to match demands. As CPUs move to a smaller scale the cost savings of using older tech may disappear.
    SGilbert
  • NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

    Sure, they are 100% correct.
    The question is, whose laws?
    In Nazi Germany law abiding citizens had nothing to fear, either; it was just that the laws were written in a way that was atrocious,
    In pre-abolishionist US, law abiding citizens had nothing to fear, either; except runaway slaves weren’t “law abiding”.

    So, frankly, who gives a flying fuck about the law? It’s ethics that counts, not some bendable laws.
    baconstangmattinozdysamoriawatto_cobra
  • Of course Nomad made a leather cover for Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack

    Hm, not sure what that does to thermal management…
    …leather is a pretty good insulator.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple to remove popular DOS emulator for iOS from App Store

    Apple must make a distinction between loading app running natively, and emulation within the sandbox of an emulator.

    Every Game that load additional levels from an external file does in essence the same thing.

    For similarly stupid reasons I can’t run a NeXT emulator on the iPad Pro, and frankly, running my entire NeXT legacy setup (“giant 8GB HDD with four 2GB partitions”, 256MB RAM, 40MHz 32-bit CPU) is something the iPad Pro could emulate while essentially idling.

    The AppStore restrictions against emulators and virtual machines are ludicrous.
    Just as the restrictions of not loading macOS as dual-boot or VM on an iPad Pro with MagicKeyboard.

    Both are artificially crippling a powerful product.
    KITAelijahg
  • Senators want to make social media liable for spreading health misinformation

    About time! It’s ridiculous what outrageously unscientific crap is disseminated about health related topics online.
    The anti-vaxxer crap is only a small part of it.

    It’s ludicrous that companies like Apple must go through all sorts of regulatory hurdles just to be able to offer some health data monitoring on a watch, while companies like Facebook aid and abet to large profits the spread of deadly health disinformation.
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