Apple: Apple today announced the expansion of its Self Service Repair and Genuine Parts Distributor programs to Canada, providing individuals and independent repair professionals across the country broader access to the parts, tools, and manuals needed to repair Apple devices. As with other regions where Self-Service Repair is available, manuals are available on Apple’s website, […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, in a tweet that happens to be the only communication of this news so far: Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
Nice scoop from Eric Schwarz: Over the past week, I’ve been working to track down the new owner of MacSurfer’s Headline News, a beloved site that shut down in 2020 and has recently had somewhat mysterious revival. Fortunately, after some digging that didn’t really lead anywhere, I received an email from its new owner, Ken […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
Sydney Bradley, Business Insider, last week: The viral Tea app, which lets women post anonymously about men, has a new rival: TeaOnHer. In a gender flip, the new app is for men. TeaOnHer is largely a copy of the original, but for men instead of women. Its description in Apple’s App Store is nearly identical […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
Thomas Germain, BBC News, covered the Pew report about the relationship between Google’s A.I. Overviews and click-through traffic: Pew says it’s confident in its research. “Our findings are broadly consistent with independent studies conducted by web analytics firms,” [Pew’s Aaron] Smith says. Dozens of reports show AI Overviews cut search traffic as much as 30% […]| pxlnv.com
Mike Masnick, Techdirt, reacting to Grok’s Nazi turn: We need to take back control over the tools that we use. Especially these days, as so many people have started (dangerously) treating AI tools as “objective” sources of truth, people need to understand that they are all subject to biases. Some of these biases are in […]| pxlnv.com
Michal Tsai: I find this really confusing, but I think when they say “single business model” they mean unifying the CTF and the CTC and the previous “alternative” terms for apps that are not using the traditional App Store model. There are still two models in that you can do the simple flat rate that’s […]| pxlnv.com
Zoe Kleinman, Liv McMahon, and Natalie Sherman, BBC News: “Apple Intelligence features are in beta and we are continuously making improvements with the help of user feedback,” the company said in a statement on Monday, adding that receiving the summaries is optional. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text […]| pxlnv.com
Cyrille Louis, Le Figaro, originally in French and translated here with DeepL: After four days in police custody, Pavel Dourov, founder and boss of the encrypted messaging service Telegram, was indicted in Paris on Wednesday evening by two examining magistrates for a litany of offences relating to organised crime, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau announced in […]| pxlnv.com
French magistrate Laure Beccuau (PDF) on Monday disclosed the reasons for Pavel Durov’s arrest and detainment. The first two pages are in French; the last two are in English. Mike Masnick, Techdirt: In the end, though, a lot of this does seem potentially very problematic. So far, there’s been no revelation of anything that makes […]| pxlnv.com
Jess Weatherbed, the Verge: Image manipulation techniques and other methods of fakery have existed for close to 200 years — almost as long as photography itself. (Cases in point: 19th-century spirit photography and the Cottingley Fairies.) But the skill requirements and time investment needed to make those changes are why we don’t think to inspect […]| pxlnv.com
How much sales experience you need to get hired is greatly dependent on your transferrable skills, the job you’re after, and the size of the company you’re applying to. So we’re going to break all that down into helpful bites to aid you in finding the sales job that’s right for your level of experience. …| FollowUp.cc Blog
