Paul Alcorn writing for Tom’s Hardware The bug causes irreversible degradation of the impacted processors. We’re told that the microcode patch will not repair processors already experiencing crashes, but it is expected to prevent issues on processors that aren’t currently impacted by the issue. and Intel advises all customers having issues to seek help from its customer support. Because the microcode update will not repair impacted processors, the company will continue to replace them. Intel has pledged to grant RMAs to all impacted customers.

Emma Roth writing for The Verge X’s lawsuit, which you can read in full at the bottom of this story, cites a July 10th report about the WFA from the House Judiciary Committee, which said the WFA and GARM’s “collusive conduct to demonetize disfavored content” was “alarming.” Earlier this month, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 40 companies involved with GARM to ask why the advertisers “boycotted” right-wing outlets like The Joe Rogan Experience, The Daily Wire, Breitbart, or Fox News.

Samantha Cole writing for 404 Media (Apple News) Slack messages from inside a channel the company set up for the project show employees using an open-source YouTube video downloader called yt-dlp, combined with virtual machines that refresh IP addresses to avoid being blocked by YouTube. According to the messages, they were attempting to download full-length videos from a variety of sources including Netflix, but were focused on YouTube videos. Emails viewed by 404 Media show project managers discussing using 20 to 30 virtual machines in Amazon Web Services to download 80 years-worth of videos per day.

Inspirational Skeletor💀 @skeletor@mas.to 3:10 PM • August 2, 2024 (UTC)

BasicAppleGuy @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social Notes >>> 2:10 PM • August 2, 2024 (UTC)

Dan Whateley writing for Business Insider (Apple News) Google repeatedly pushed back the date for when third-party cookies would vanish from Chrome. Partners who tested the feature, such as ad-tech firms Index Exchange and Criteo, as well as industry group the IAB Tech Lab, expressed concerns that Privacy Sandbox was not yet ready for prime time, arguing it posed a risk to publishers and programmatic players. In a recent report, Criteo forecasted that publishers’ Chrome ad revenue would drop by around 60% on average if third-party cookies were turned off. (Disclosure: This reporter previously worked at the ad-tech firm The Trade Desk.)

Emanuel Maiberg writing for 404 Media (Apple News): The news shows how Google’s near monopoly on search is now actively hindering other companies’ ability to compete at a time when Google is facing increasing criticism over the quality of its search results. And while neither Reddit or Google responded to a request for comment, it appears that the exclusion of other search engines is the result of a multi-million dollar deal that gives Google the right to scrape Reddit for data to train its AI products.

Jen Simmons @jensimmons@front-end.social Apple Maps is now on the web. https://beta.maps.apple.com/ For more info: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/07/apple-maps-on-the-web-launches-in-beta/ 7:55 PM • July 24, 2024 (UTC)

Technology Connections @TechConnectify@mas.to Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing." Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does" Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness.

Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe: @brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net 🤖 3:22 PM • July 16, 2024 (UTC)

Simon Willison @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page: chrome.runtime.sendMessage( "nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome", { method: "cpu.getInfo" }, (response) => { console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2)); }, );

Dan Goodin writing for Ars Technica Like most other large advertising networks, Google Ads regularly serves malicious content that isn’t taken down until third parties have notified the company. Google Ads takes no responsibility for any damage that may result from these oversights. The company said in an email it removes malicious ads once it learns of them and suspends the advertiser and has done so in this case.

Juno Jove @jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is the new captcha. 12:25 PM • June 27, 2024 (UTC)

Penny Daflos @pennydaflos@mstdn.social AI is everywhere but the practical applications have seemed far off Not so for the BC Wildfire Service Last year they started piloting machine learning to forecast fire growth and relied on it heavily My exclusive look at how they’re using it, and its limits 👇 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/buying-time-inside-the-ai-technology-trained-on-b-c-wildfires-1.6942869 3:45 AM • June 27, 2024 (UTC)

Jordan Morgan @jordanmorgan@mastodon.social Reminder as a user and a dev: If you’ve got app intents, you can say “Hey Siri, what can I do here?” and intents will be suggested. It’s a good way to discover shortcuts in other apps too. 6:40 PM • June 26, 2024 (UTC)

Jared Newman writing for Fast Company The key to Siri’s upcoming overhaul is a developer feature called “App Intents,” which lets app makers define what actions their users can take and exposes them to other parts of iOS. If a to-do list app supports App Intents, for instance, you may be able to search for agenda items in the Spotlight search menu, or add tasks as part of a routine in the Shortcuts app.

Church of Jeff @jeffowski@mastodon.world #IT #DadJokes 8:55 PM • June 25, 2024 (UTC)

The Verge @verge@mastodon.social Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms. 6:00 PM • June 25, 2024 (UTC)

Richard Lawler writing for The Verge Apple says upcoming features like its Apple Intelligence generative AI tools, iPhone mirroring, and SharePlay screen sharing may not be available in the European Union this year, as reported previously by Bloomberg.

Amish Super Model @AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social Maybe American Politicians need to post this in all their offices: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 6:12 PM • June 20, 2024 (UTC)

Jo Borrás writing for Electrek A few short weeks after labor negotiations led to a six-week UAW strike at GM plants, GM board members approved a $10 billion accelerated stock buyback plan. This week, the board kicked off that initiative with a $6 billion purchase and raising its shareholders’ stock dividend by 33 percent (to 12 cents per share) in the first quarter … a move that, to this writer, seems like a blatantly cynical cash-grab and shockingly shortsighted dereliction of the board’s fiduciary duty to the well-being of the company.

Obviously from the great xkcd.