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    Apple releases iOS 18.6, macOS 15.6, and other updates as current gen winds down

    I don’t want to be “that person” but if you are asking this question you should not have installed the public beta. That being said, you will need to wipe the phone using a computer and restore using the latest official release. If you want to restore from backup after that, you need to make...
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    How do hackers get passwords? Sometimes, they just ask.

    This (to a degree). Outsourced IT have SLA’s to meet. Often they are out of touch with reality due to cost measures from one of the parties. It’s possible that the full playbook of identity verification may have taken a longer period of time, which may have been causing SLA’s to not be met for...
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    RFK Jr.’s CDC panel ditches some flu shots based on anti-vaccine junk data

    Just wait until some other US governmental board adjusts the standards of what define an autism diagnosis to enable the statistics they need to prove they are correct. Correlation does not equal causation but many don’t understand or care…
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    Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2

    I partially disagree. Before the transition to Apple Silicon some Intel models were getting 8 years of yearly feature updates before being sunset and receiving their two years security only patches. I think Apple wants to get back to 7-8 years of feature updates again, though AI requirements may...
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    Anti-vaccine advocate RFK Jr. axes COVID shot guidance for pregnant people, kids

    This is bigger than a psyops project. My gut feeling is this is a big eugenics project to reduce the world population, starting with all the ”undesirables” and getting them to believe the opposite is occurring to them. Perhaps there’s psyops in play but I feel Ike it’s a big ole “use them till...
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    Mozilla is killing its Pocket and Fakespot services to focus on Firefox

    Real (not sarcastic) question - in 2025 is this a real concern? Chromium is open source using the BSD license. It could be forked if enough of the community felt it was going in the wrong direction. Internet Explorer was always closed source, and gained its lead due to what at the time was...
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    In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

    To add to your observation - "old" notepad.exe is also the only notepad installed with Windows 11 LTSC Enterprise and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC editions.
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    Epic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOS

    The iPhone was introduced in 2007. The iOS App Store was introduced in 2008. Android's HTC Dream, and the Blackberry Storm was released in 2008. Palm Web OS devices were released in 2009. I'm unsure what you mean that they would have been unable to bring their apps to those platforms. There...
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    Epic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOS

    Google was the only company making software for Windows Phone? Did Google kill iOS by not offering turn-by-turn in the Maps app for three years (2009 - 2012) until Apple Maps was released, and then suddenly Google Maps with turn-by-turn was released a few months later? If this was the case...
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    Epic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOS

    I’m going to have a different take here that may or may not be popular: Developers (and publishers like Epic) should have had more foresight into developing for multiple mobile platforms in the 2007 - 2010 timeframe when Apple and Google were emerging. Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry, and...
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    Microsoft extends Office support on Windows 10 through 2028

    I believe we are about 2 years away from Windows 12. Windows 11 was released 6 years into the introduction of Windows 10. Microsoft has settled into 5/10 support intervals on their products. My educated guess is autumn 2026 for Windows 12. One other thing to note is that with Windows 10, every...
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    Software update makes HDR content “unwatchable” on Roku TVs

    Truth. The first 16 years of my life, the majority of my TV watching when in my own bedroom was on a 13” black and white Zenith television, with only 5 local stations to choose from that would be considered high quality. The remainder from out of market all had varying amounts of banding, snow...
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    White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs

    Trump: Bring back manufacturing to the United States. Also Trump: Cancel manufacturing in the United States (some spacecraft).
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    Microsoft pushes unphishable logins forward with new sign-in options

    Strictly in the context of how Microsoft uses them, a PIN is a supplemental method of authentication for Windows Hello. The PIN is stored locally in the TPM on each device, and has no linkage to a Microsoft Account. You can include letters and numbers by selecting a checkbox, so it can be as...
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    Google search’s made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said, explained

    There are probably some general knowledge questions that the AI Overview feature is good at providing answers for, however if you work in IT and do search's - it's awful. For example, today it suggested that I silently install an a Mac application by applying msiexec command switches to a dmg...
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    Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

    Apple does make huge orders of RAM in bulk for their entire line of SoC’s. Since Intel is only shipping a couple of SoC’s in this configuration the pricing may not be as favorable. Apple’s operations team is also one of the best in the world for predicting manufacturing needs so they don’t over...
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    Trump orders DOE to make AI a national priority while plotting agency’s death

    The more we read about Trump’s cuts and policies, the more we begin to understand that each individual department is doing them on their own, and just making sure to get the public-relations/messaging approval from Trump himself or his inner circle. He’s definitely governing as a CEO rather than...
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    Report: Apple will take another crack at iPad multitasking in iPadOS 19

    Apple keeping iPad OS and macOS separate has always been the correct decision. People were quite unhappy with Windows 8 with its “touch first” philosophy at the first two layers of the OS. However even today software devs have not updated their Windows UI’s for convertibles and 2-in-1’s so they...
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    Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days

    That’s not necessarily the point here with these reboot settings. If your phone was seized for any reason involuntarily, and someone is trying to read data off the phone, they now have less than 72 hours to break into your phone with various tools before it goes into an even more secure...
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    Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders to “assess” Trump tariff effects

    Did you receive this information about the stock ticker from Fox News? (It’s not true) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-remove-stocks-ticker-trump-tariffs/