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MacsWithPenguins said:

We take our super-computer smartphones for granted now and people don’t give it much thought — how much power is inside them. However, with a smartwatch .. cramming so much intelligence into a wrist watch (which is likely going to get thinner over time, as graphene batteries are introduced in these devices), is somehow more impressive […]

Anyone wonder what size an MRI machine would be, if it was to be developed by a Silicon Valley company?

 Build numbers please?

Why can’t you finally get into the habit of publishing build numbers?

ikir said:

CheeseFreeze said:

Apple's vision of putting user privacy-first is just marketing.
They just 'turn off' their mantra in Belarus, China, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines (and counting)....

 Nope Apple is doing a lot. Sadly there is nothing you can do here, just stop selling your products. And what you achieved?
And this has nothing in common with CSAM discussione where multi DB are used so no one is in control of them, indeed CSAM would be available (not anymore) on USA only where there are entities who protect children. Apple always did what is possible to do, even when their choices are easily manipulated by detractors. But in this case Apple can’t do nothing. And it is pretty sad.
you should angry with our politicians who have more power to change Russia government.

It has EVERYTHING to do with CSAM scanning: because which databases are used isn’t a technical but a policy decision, and when Russia demands that they decide which hash databases to use, Apple will comply.
The only way out, is not to offer the feature.

Also, owners of a device should have authenticated root access to their device, such as to be able to scan their device for unauthorized spyware, or to manually install VPN software without Apple’s or some government’s consent,

“Security through obscurity” never works, what does work is “trust but verify”. Apple bets on the former and prevents the latter, and that’s JUST WRONG.

And that right there proves that CSAM scanning would turn into an unmitigated disaster, as demands for control over the content of the hash database and notifications of matches be in the hands of government agencies would come as soon as the “feature” would be deployed.

It also shows why side loading and authenticated root access by owners of a device must be possible: to load apps that Apple can’t or doesn’t want to offer on its brand, sales, and local laws driven AppStore:

users must be able to have the ultimate decision over what software runs on their devices and have the ability to inspect the running system for spyware etc.

The “just trust us to do the right thing” and “do no evil” approach has run its course. It’s time for “trust but verify”…

Let’s be realistic: Microsoft CANNOT support Windows on M-series CPU Macs, at least not until Apple wants is and actively supports it (maybe even pays it) and Apple doesn’t seem to have any intentions to do so.

Why? Because the M1 chip, while having ARM standard cores, also has proprietary GPU cores and proprietary neutral cores. In short, M$ could only support a fraction of what the CPU has to offer, and would need to rely on costly reverse engineering for the rest, something they’d have to repeat with each iteration of Apple Silicon.

At this point, it’s not even clear if Apple isn’t forking the entire ARM architecture: Apple has introduced proprietary extensions that stand at odds with ARM’s recent extensions to the instruction set.

ARM pushes Ethos (NPU) and Mail (GPU), and as far as I understand Apple’s NPU and GPU cores aren’t superior implementations of the same architecture (as is the case for the CPU part of the M-series chips). So in essence, let’s be clear: Apple’s M-series is only ARM architecture in regards to the ever less relevant CPU part of the SoC, NPU and GPU cores are utterly proprietary, closed, undocumented in need of reverse engineering, designed to be accessed through Apple’s APIs and libraries.

Now tell me again how Microsoft could possibly support Windows on M-series hardware, except through an inferior emulation that’s performance limited because it can’t use the hardware to the fullest. There will of course be VMs that will run it, as whatever standard hardware M$ will support, can be emulated; but it will be “unsupported, use at your own peril”.

It’s also not clear if and when Apple will implement the new developments in the ARM architecture, or just roll their own extensions:

https://www.arm.com/why-arm/architecture/cpu