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Get wrecked, Perplexity
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine):
“Someone else did it” is a fine
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A couple reasons I think big games on iPads and iPhones aren't setting the world on fire
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: Why AAA Games Promoted by Apple Flop in the App Store
Assassin's Creed Mirage
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RCS is rolling out to iOS 18 beta users (as long as you’re on a major carrier)
Filipe Espósito writing for 9to5Mac: US carriers enabling RCS for iPhone users running iOS 18 beta 2
Now it seems
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Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps
When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities
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Digital price tags are a good thing
Jason Kottke: Walmart Is Switching to Electronic Price Tags
Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to
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This might be why the Vision Pro doesn’t get Apple Intelligence
John Gruber: WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
[A]ccording to well-informed little birdies, Vision Pro is already making significant use of
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Apple Podcasts transcriptions rock, and they could rock even harder
Ari Saperstein writing for The Guardian: Accessible and ‘A Pleasure to Read’: How Apple’s Podcast Transcriptions Came to Be
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We’ve all gotten pretty loose with the term “Sherlocked” these days
Ivan Mehta for TechCrunch: The Apps That Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2024
In 2002, Apple released Sherlock 3 with features
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Yes, Apple is also training on public web data
From Apple’s Machine Learning Research blog: Introducing Apple’s on-Device and Server Foundation Models
We train our foundation models
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THAT FEATURE IS SO COOL! I’ll never use it, though.
Daryl Baxter writing for iMore: iPadOS 18 Looks Great, but It Still Doesn't Fix the iPad's
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Who will get your vote in the Miss AI pageant?
Chloe Veltman for NPR: Fake Beauty Queens Charm Judges at the Miss AI Pageant
Models created using generative artificial intelligence
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What happens when you defederate a server
Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis, and Aaron Shaw in their study, The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity:
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Windows Recall seems like it may actually be a security mess
Tom Warren: Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’
Despite Microsoft’s promises of a secure and
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Donald Trump goes up 34 on his nearest competition
David Remnick: Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial | the New Yorker
The conviction on these felony
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My desire to kill iPadOS has been greatly exaggerated
Jeff Benjamin writing for 9to5Mac: Improving iPadOS != making it macOS
For years, the iPad Pro has sported hardware under the
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Guillermo Del Toro convinced Alfonso Cuarón to direct Prisoner of Azkaban (thank you, Guillermo!)
Carly Thomas for The Hollywood Reporter: Alfonso Cuarón Says He Directed ‘Harry Potter’ Movie Only After Guillermo Del Toro Called
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Vibes-based security and Windows Recall
Paul Thurrott: Windows 11 Recall Is Not a Privacy Concern
But we all knew this was coming, that privacy advocates
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I’ve defended Google search for years, but their AI answers suck so hard
404 Media: Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
as the prophecy