A mathematical miracle enables Apple's servers to process your photos while never knowing anything about them| boehs.org
Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon)The internet is full of experts| lapcatsoftware.com
Matthew Green on Bluesky: I love that Apple is trying to do privacy-related services, but this [“Enhanced Visual Search” setting] just appeared at the bottom of my Settings screen over the holiday break when I wasn’t paying attention. It sends data about my private photos to Apple. The first mention of this preference I can […]| pxlnv.com
Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon)Technology is never a substitute for consent| lapcatsoftware.com
Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon)Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15| lapcatsoftware.com
Secure and private AI processing in the cloud poses a formidable new challenge. To support advanced features of Apple Intelligence with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a groundbreaking cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing. Built with custom Apple silicon and a hardened operating system, Private Cloud Compute extends the industry-leading security and privacy of Apple devices into the cloud, making sure that personal user da...| Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud - Ap...
About two years ago, I switched teams at Google to focus on fully homomorphic encryption (abbreviated FHE, or sometimes HE). Since then I’ve got to work on a lot of interesting projects, learning along the way about post-quantum cryptography, compiler design, and the ins and outs of fully homomorphic encryption. If you’ve heard about FHE and you’re a software person, you’ve probably heard two things: it lets you run programs directly on encrypted data without ever decrypting it; and i...| Math ∩ Programming