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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x07 "Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass" in c/startrek@startrek.website
[–] alecto@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Admittedly, I’ve enjoyed most of SNW’s gimmick episodes. But- this season it really feels like they’ve dropped all pretense and gone all in on the genre mixing and callbacks. My feeling is the sci-fi and moral intrigue is a bit lacking.

Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] alecto@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I wonder if this is them getting the “we’re using Google” out of the way before a larger announcement of what they’ve been working on

Sounds like Google is helping fine tune a model and Apple will be hosting it. Apple’s Private Cloud Compute has a pretty robust privacy and security architecture, so hopefully this will be the capability of Gemini without Google’s prying eyes

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Who is backing Biden? We're keeping track (www.npr.org)
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iOS 17.3 Beta Adds New Stolen Device Protection Feature to iPhone (www.macrumors.com)
 

The first iOS 17.3 beta rolling out to developers today includes a new "Stolen Device Protection" feature that is designed to add an additional layer of security in the event someone has stolen your iPhone and also obtained the device's passcode.

When the feature is turned on, iPhone users are required to authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID for additional actions, including viewing passwords or passkeys stored in iCloud Keychain, applying for a new Apple Card, turning off Lost Mode, erasing all content and settings, using payment methods saved in Safari, and more.

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Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications (www.reuters.com)
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…both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.

In a statement, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications.

"In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests."