At this point it's wrong to take the tariffs at face value, because they have nothing to do with policy or incentives. It's all a classic pump and dump scheme: 1) Announce tariffs on a company and drive the stock price down. 2) You and your friends buy up the stock. 3) Announce a "deal" has been made and there will be no tariffs. 4) Sell when the stock rebounds. 5) Move on to the next company.

I work at a major tech company and we have plenty of Rust projects and developers, and totally agree that it's not Duplos, but overall Rust is.. just fine. It's definitely not magic that makes code better and the toolchain is clearly immature. We have as many (and possibly even more) outstanding issues in our Rust code as any other codebase. IMHO, it's a language optimized for the wrong things (ie. stack allocation) at the expense of usability. It's no surprise that Rust performs a little worse than C code, because it was primarily designed to replace C++ which is an easier target to beat. I have no problem with Rust (like I said, it's fine), but people should stop pretending memory safety is the biggest problem in software development. We've had smart ptrs and other solutions for years now.

Between franchises, smartphones, digital distribution and product placement, AI has some tough competition for being responsible for ruining film.

In the next 5 years, a large part of every senior level job will become to document processes and what you know in writing. After a few years of that, junior level jobs will take off again.

Whatever you think of the companies he's involved in, it sure seems like he wants an award for "quickest to burn up all the fossil fuels to power computers".

Headline should say Vision Pro's content drought continues despite new 3D videos.

Rewriting your app in a "super safe" language is a guaranteed way to introduce a large numbers of bugs. But of course at some nebulous point in the future after a ton of effort you may have 1 or 2 fewer than the original code base.

Practically Apple can do whatever they want with their AI cloud systems, no outside developer is going to use them. Who would lock themself into Apple's services when they could easily use other systems that support Android and the web. Plus, Apple's release cycles are extremely slow.. Apple itself won't be launching any meaningful AI features until September 2025! Who would agree to operate on that timeline when competition is fierce. Apple's institutionally misaligned with the world of AI right now, so it'll be interesting to see if they decide to change their approach or just sit on the sidelines and try to swoop in further down the road. Talk of AI emoji and "black box" cloud services are just a bone to throw to Wall Street so they don't look empty handed.

I'm assuming this "secret lab for AI" has been leaked by Apple to try and boost their stock price now that Microsoft has solidly surpassed them as the world's most valuable company due to the prospects of AI.

Apple can certainly put together amazing teams, but they're at best in 5th place in AI (behind Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, Meta and probably others), and a lot of what's driving the excitement of the current gen AI craze is pretty far outside modern Apple's comfort zone.. open source, web-based, publicly available APIs, unclear business models, weird consumer experiences, etc. It honestly feels a little like their car project.. They'll be playing catch up with established players and could easily spend billions on AI every year on with no clear consumer end product in sight.

The serious security threats on iOS are all attacks that use iMessage to run code remotely, which means the attacks can be observed without a physical device. Just remember this the next time Apple tells you they need the App Store for "security", because of course the real attacks don't require apps or user interaction at all. Just specially crafted messages to an app you can't uninstall.

Exactly. But this is like the hell of sitting through a PowerPoint presentation only much easier for the presenter, so of course it'll probably take off.

It really looks like the stores that have massive increases in shoplifting are the same stores that are moving quickly to cashier-less self-checkout. Those stores then complain about how there's a sudden scourge of shoplifting and how we need better police protection, conveniently shifting the cost of monitoring customers from the store-paid cashiers to the local tax payer-paid police.

Apple really really wants to be seen as a technology company (despite dropping "computer" from their name) instead of being seen as "just" a consumer brand, so they need to attach themselves to AI. They actually have some interesting ML features and I love that they do things on-device, but between the Apple Car project cancellation and the predictable lackluster response to the Apple Vision Pro, they don't have anything big to get Wall Street and investors excited for the future. The fact that they're breaking their taboo of talking about unannounced products and research is a pretty strong sign that actual AI products are really far off. So yeah⦠this is all hype.

We have no idea what gets sent back to Apple. I ran a proxy server for a development project and happened to notice that around 1am every night my iPhone sent a sizable encrypted payload to Apple. What was in it? Only Apple knows. There is literally no way to verify what is or isn't sent back. Plus, their terms of service and privacy policy could easily have holes to allow anything, and even that's assuming you don't specifically change one of the many default settings to allow sending data back during setup or any OS updates.

What I like about the IPhone is that it just works. I don't have to fiddle with it, change settings, turn this off and that on, side-load what I want. Every Android I've ever had was a total mess, and a PITA. Ads, bloatware, malware, disjointed apps. At least with Apple, its only one company selling my data for texting and calling. If people wanted all of the extra stuff, they'd buy an Android.

Glad you're happy, but you literally lose nothing from having other options available on your device. Don't install other apps or turn other options on. Totally fine! Apple making the decision that other options should not be available is illegal under anti-trust law regardless and should be stopped. Android phones are an adware mess because the manufacturers install the crap. Do you really think Apple's going to start installing that crap on iPhones?