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Casey Newton interviewed Adam Mosseri on the First Year of Threads. He talks about a lot in here, but Adam brings up the fediverse in an answer, and that is of course the thing people like me are most interested in. Here's what he said: The fediverse is
Cloudflare: Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. It’s
Eugen Rochko on the official Mastodon blog: Highlighting journalism on Mastodon You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app. This highlights writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse,
Jonathan Maze writing for Restaurant Business: McDonald's Is Ending Its Drive-Thru AI Test McDonald’s is ending its two-year-old test of drive-thru, automated order taking (AOT) that it has conducted with IBM and plans to remove the technology from the more than 100 restaurants that have been using
Sean Endicott: Ever Put Content on the Web? Microsoft Says That It's Okay for Them to Steal It Because It's 'Freeware.' "With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine): “Someone else did it” is a fine argument for a five-year-old. And consider the response further. If Srinivas wanted to be ethical, he had some options here. Option one is to terminate the contract with the third-party
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: Why AAA Games Promoted by Apple Flop in the App Store Assassin's Creed Mirage was downloaded approximately 123,000 times since June 6, Appfigures says. However, it has only managed gross revenue of $138,000. The report believes that the revenue level indicates that
Filipe Espósito writing for 9to5Mac: US carriers enabling RCS for iPhone users running iOS 18 beta 2 Now it seems that these carriers have flipped the switch and are now enabling RCS for users running the latest iOS 18 beta. Amazing! I can’t wait to text full-size photos to
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Preparing for the Era of Orchestrated Apps When everything is orchestrated properly, all the capabilities of all your apps are put into a big soup, and the AI system at the heart of your device can choose the right capabilities to do what you need
Jason Kottke: Walmart Is Switching to Electronic Price Tags Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”. No one wants this!! No one wants surge pricing on ice cream and price increases on items already in your cart. The
John Gruber: WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence [A]ccording to well-informed little birdies, Vision Pro is already making significant use of the M2’s Neural Engine to supplement the R1 chip for real-time processing purposes — occlusion and object detection, things like that. With M-series-equipped Macs and iPads, the Neural Engine is
Ari Saperstein writing for The Guardian: Accessible and ‘A Pleasure to Read’: How Apple’s Podcast Transcriptions Came to Be Apple’s podcast app will transcribe every new uploaded episode. “We wanted to do it for all the shows, so it’s not just for like a narrow slice of
Ivan Mehta for TechCrunch: The Apps That Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2024 In 2002, Apple released Sherlock 3 with features similar to Watson, making Karelia’s app redundant. Since then, people in tech circles have used the term “Sherlocking” whenever they want to refer to a new feature from Apple
From Apple’s Machine Learning Research blog: Introducing Apple’s on-Device and Server Foundation Models We train our foundation models on licensed data, including data selected to enhance specific features, as well as publicly available data collected by our web-crawler, AppleBot. Web publishers have the option to opt out of
Daryl Baxter writing for iMore: iPadOS 18 Looks Great, but It Still Doesn't Fix the iPad's Biggest Problem I want to be clear — the features that Calculator brings to the iPad, as well as the Math Notes that you can use with Apple Pencil and Notes