“My predictions have a pretty good track record,”

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.

Gonzalez Rogers ruled Apple was in “willful violation” 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 the game’s publication, while its lawyers crafted a response.

Apple continues to disappoint.

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 on X.”

Does Musk need authorization to make changes?

When asked about the “low code, no code” trend, Gosling expresses skepticism rooted in historical context: “People have been saying low code, no code for decades. That was the pitch for COBOL.” He noted that such approaches typically excel in narrow domains but struggle with complexity outside their specific focus areas.

“My biggest problem with AI and ML is just the names.” He suggests that “advanced statistical methods” would be a more accurate descriptor than terms that invite misleading analogies to human reasoning. In his view, these technologies represent “extremely complex hammers and screwdrivers”: tools that humans use rather than autonomous systems that threaten jobs.

..and my personal fav:

“You get started on a vibe coding session, and it can actually be pretty cool, but as soon as your project gets even slightly complicated, they pretty much always blow their brains out.”

Indicating that a rogue employee was to blame, the post added new measures would be brought in to ensure that xAI employees “can’t modify the prompt without review”. It said the code review process for prompt changes had been “circumvented” in the incident. A new 24/7 monitoring team is also being brought in to deal with answers not caught by automated systems, xAI said.

So now Musk is a Rogue Employee?

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.

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, by my sources, “under the microscope” right now, especially with CBS mornings’ dismal ratings.

She needs to go. Her integrity is shot.

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.

If you all work obscenely hard, at the end you can celebrate your accomplishments by getting fired.

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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 major new product releases we had planned for Q4 until our app experience meets the level of quality that we, our customers, and our partners expect from Sonos.

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2024-11-15T16:12:09.0604100Z Xcode_16.2.0.app
2024-11-15T16:12:09.0613280Z Xcode_16.2.app
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2024-11-15T16:12:13.2746490Z selecting
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2024-11-15T16:12:13.4746130Z /Applications/Xcode_16.app/Contents/Developer
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trigger:
- develop

pool:
  vmImage: 'macos-14'

jobs:
- job: iOS
  steps:
  - task: PowerShell@2
    displayName: Select Xcode Version
    inputs:
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      script: |
         echo Mac OS version:
         sw_vers -productVersion
         echo Installed Xcode versions:
         ls /Applications | grep 'Xcode'
         echo currently selected xcode:
         xcrun xcode-select --print-path
         echo selecting latest xcode...
         sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode_16.app
         xcrun xcode-select --print-path
         xcodebuild -version

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