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Ian Betteridge

@ianbetteridge
66 posts
2025-01-07
The departure of Nick Clegg seems interesting given the timing of Meta's moderation changes.  Was Clegg advising that these changes wouldn't fly in Europe?  He's NDA'd up the wazzoo, so we won't find out for a while...
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

2024-07-20
Summary of how social media is performing over the CrowdStrike BSOD: Bluesky: Crickets, because not enough people are on Mastodon: Deep tech analysis from people currently doing front line support Twitter: Fake screenshots from Cryptobros Threads: Three day old content Facebook: Look at my cat!
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

Summary of how social media is performing over the CrowdStrike BSOD: Bluesky: Crickets, because not enough people are on Mastodon: Deep tech analysis from people currently doing front line support Twitter: Fake screenshots from Cryptobros Threads: Three day old content Facebook: Look at my cat!
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

2024-06-23
That's not the EU's whole approach.  Under Article 8(3) a gatekeeper can request that the Commission engage in a process to determine whether measures they intend to implement meet the requirements of the DMA.  That can, obviously, be done before launching a new feature. …
2024-06-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements

After the news broke yesterday - on a Friday afternoon, no less … Lloyd Coombes / iMore : Apple's biggest iOS 18 and macOS features, including Apple intelligence, won't come to the...

2024-05-27
Tempted to write an article headlined “Are LLMs really artificial intelligence?” because... well you know what the answer is.
2024-05-27 View on X
TIME

LLMs aren't sentient; they lack the physiological states required for sensations like hunger and pain, and thus can't have subjective experiences of such states

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human …

2024-05-25
The funny thing about Microsoft's new Recall feature is how little actual “AI” it's doing.  It's basically just making automatic screen captures, then running OCR and image recognition to create a semantic index you can search.  Unless I'm missing something, there's no LLM (or small language model) used in it. …
2024-05-25 View on X
BleepingComputer

A look at the privacy and security concerns surrounding Microsoft's Recall, which will record everything users do in Windows for up to three months by default

a ‘privacy nightmare’? Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest : Hands on with Windows 11 Recall AI: Snappy performance, works without internet Iain Thomson / The Register : Was there no on...

2024-03-24
First up, if you do not respect Walt's opinions, you're a fool.  Walt is one of my tech journalism heroes.  That said, I think he's missing a couple of points here.  Long thread incoming.
2024-03-24 View on X
Hardcore Software

A look at the US DOJ's lawsuit against Apple, comparisons to Microsoft suit in the 1990s, basic factual errors, why it is clearly a political case, and more

March 21, 2024 the United States filed an antitrust complaint against Apple.  The filing is a new approach to antitrust and hinges …

Hmm, I don't know who I should trust when trying to work out how strong the DOJ's case is - tech pundits or actual professors of antitrust law?  It's so hard to decide. https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-03-24 View on X
Hardcore Software

A look at the US DOJ's lawsuit against Apple, comparisons to Microsoft suit in the 1990s, basic factual errors, why it is clearly a political case, and more

March 21, 2024 the United States filed an antitrust complaint against Apple.  The filing is a new approach to antitrust and hinges …

2024-03-22
I have no proper opinion about the DOJ/Apple stuff yet, because like 98.7% of the people complaining loudly about how terrible it is, I haven't read the 88 page filing.
2024-03-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more

In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit fr...

I have no proper opinion about the DOJ/Apple stuff yet, because like 98.7% of the people complaining loudly about how terrible it is, I haven't read the 88 page filing.
2024-03-22 View on X
The Verge

In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay

Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.

2024-02-10
Yeah, this is why Apple needs all that power - so they can protect us from scam apps... oh.
2024-02-10 View on X
BleepingComputer

LastPass warns users about a fake copy of its app on Apple's App Store, with a similar name and logo, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials

2024-02-09
Yeah, this is why Apple needs all that power - so they can protect us from scam apps... oh.
2024-02-09 View on X
BleepingComputer

LastPass warns users about a fake copy of its app on Apple's App Store, with a similar name and logo, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials

what you need to know Amrita Khalid / The Verge : Fake LastPass phishing app nabs a five-star rating on Apple's App Store.The slyly named “LassPass” … Heinrich Long / RestorePrivac...

2024-02-03
The first time I used an iPad in public, someone laughed at it.  Just saying.
2024-02-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees

Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”

2024-01-01
This is a classic bit of meaningless tech boosterism.  Annualised revenue of $1.6bn sounds good!  But not if you're spending billions more than that... which OpenAI will be.  I would be willing to bet that, without the Azure credits which form the bulk of Microsoft's investment, they would be losing money on every query. https://wccftech.com/...
2024-01-01 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI recently topped $1.6B in annualized revenue, up from $1.3B in mid-October; some OpenAI leaders believe OpenAI can reach a $5B ARR by 2024's end

It's effectively an imaginary number.  It isn't the revenue made this year. … X: Ant Stanley / @iamstan : Annualized Revenue is a VC metric and different from Annual revenue. It is...

2023-12-16
I would, on balance, want to be part of a Mastodon instance which federates with Threads.  I also, 100%, absolutely support any individual or instance that doesn't want to, for whatever reason.  That is what federation is about.  Freedom of association and assembly are as fundamental as freedom of speech, in fact arguably more so. …
2023-12-16 View on X
The Verge

Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability

The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’

2022-11-04
For any Twitter employees in the UK under threat of redundancy: you want to read this. You have rights. https://www.gov.uk/...
2022-11-04 View on X
Washington Post

Twitter begins laying off staff, sending a “Your Role at Twitter” email to their company account for those staying and personal account for those leaving

Employees said the layoffs came across teams, as Twitter broadly reduced its workforce.

2022-10-10
See, I knew this would happen as soon as they decided it was pronounced jif not gif. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-10-10 View on X
The Atlantic

GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated

2022-10-04
Some bright Tory will soon be announcing that the UK isn't adopting this and will have its own “British Power Standard”, as if Apple or anyone is going to make a special version of the iPhone just for the UK. https://www.macrumors.com/...
2022-10-04 View on X
MacRumors

European Parliament votes 602 to 13 to enforce USB-C as the charging port for most devices by the end of 2024 and laptops by 2026; some small devices are exempt

The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range …

2022-09-30
Apple shouldn't be enabling Meta. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-30 View on X
Engadget

Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app

2022-09-29
Apple shouldn't be enabling Meta. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-29 View on X
Engadget

Meta confirms taking “enforcement actions” against The OG App, which offers ad-free Instagram feeds, as developer UN1feed says Apple removed the App Store app

A third-party Instagram app, called “The OG App,” which promised an ad-free feed more like the original Instagram experience …