Hypercritical: Apple Turnaround

Hypercritical: Apple Turnaround: With every red badge in iOS Settings, every pop-up come-on to subscribe to Apple TV+, and every multi-billion-dollar product placement deal, Apple chips away at the customer experience in exchange for income growth.

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Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court | TechCrunch

Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court | TechCrunch: Gonzalez Rogers ruled Apple was in ā€œwillful violationā€ of the court’s injunction on anticompetitive pricing and commissions, which would have seemingly allowed Fortnite to return to the App Store. But Apple sat on the submission for a week instead, neither approving nor denying… Continue reading Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court | TechCrunch

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Think Grok is bad? Microsoft made an AI so evil it had to be erased (twice)

Think Grok is bad? Microsoft made an AI so evil it had to be erased (twice): Backlash against Musk’s AI chatbot was prompt, forcing his company, xAI, to quickly respond, blaming Grok’s unchecked and unwanted mentions of a claimed “genocide” on “an unauthorized modification” made by a rogue employee to “the Grok response bot’s prompt… Continue reading Think Grok is bad? Microsoft made an AI so evil it had to be erased (twice)

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Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech – The New Stack

Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech – The New Stack: When asked about the ā€œlow code, no codeā€ trend, Gosling expresses skepticism rooted in historical context: ā€œPeople have been saying low code, no code for decades. That was the pitch for COBOL.ā€ He noted that such approaches typically excel in… Continue reading Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech – The New Stack

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Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ā€˜white genocide’

Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ā€˜white genocide’: Indicating that a rogue employee was to blame, the post added new measures would be brought in to ensure that xAI employees ā€œcan’t modify the prompt without reviewā€. It said the code review process for prompt changes had been ā€œcircumventedā€ in the… Continue reading Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ā€˜white genocide’

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Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now | The Verge

Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now | The Verge: Jeff Bezos now has no choice but to insist that Amazon display tariffs on its website now. None. Zero. If he doesn’t insist on it, he will prove himself to be among history’s least principled cowards.

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Katy Perry can’t sell tickets, Gayle King under microscope after Blue Origin backlash: Source

Katy Perry can’t sell tickets, Gayle King under microscope after Blue Origin backlash: Source: King, who is considered a news journalist, and therefore is expected to play by CBS News rules of ethics — in which you are not supposed to accept any gifts, let alone one that costs millions — is said to be,… Continue reading Katy Perry can’t sell tickets, Gayle King under microscope after Blue Origin backlash: Source

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AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain • The Register

AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain • The Register: The problem is, these code suggestions often include hallucinated package names that sound real but don’t exist. I’ve seen this firsthand. You paste it into your terminal and the install fails – or worse, it doesn’t fail, because someone has slop-squatted that exact package name.

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Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica

Great lesson on how to booger up a software rollout. Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica: The app situation has become a headwind to existing product sales, and we believe our focus needs to be addressing the app ahead of everything else. This means delaying the two… Continue reading Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica

I’ve created a simple Azure pipeline to list the available version of Xcode available in Azure Devops.

2024-11-15T16:12:05.6560090Z ##[section]Starting: Select Xcode Version 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6568780Z ============================================================================== 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569020Z Task : PowerShell 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569140Z Description : Run a PowerShell script on Linux, macOS, or Windows 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569360Z Version : 2.247.1 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569480Z Author : Microsoft Corporation 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569610Z Help : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/powershell 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569810Z ============================================================================== 2024-11-15T16:12:06.3313040Z Generating script. 2024-11-15T16:12:06.3438110Z ========================== Starting Command Output =========================== 2024-11-15T16:12:06.3465730Z [command]/usr/local/bin/pwsh -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command . ‘/Users/runner/work/_temp/c.ps1’… Continue reading I’ve created a simple Azure pipeline to list the available version of Xcode available in Azure Devops.

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