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The Reinforced-by-Law Edition Sunday, March 10, 2024

Privacy Is Not A Thing In Augmented Reality, by Matthew S. Smith, IEEE Spectrum

Ultimately, Godwin said the tech industry has a lot of work to do before users can “trust” companies with the data AR/VR headsets can collect. He pointed to other professional industries, like medicine and law, that have specific codes of ethics which, in some cases, are reinforced by law. It’s not enough for each company to set its own individual policies as they will and react to potential problems as they occur.

Base Model M3 MacBook Air Has Faster SSD Speeds After Controversy With Previous Model, by Joe Rossignol, MacRumors

Max Tech's teardown video confirms that Apple has returned to using two 128GB storage chips for the new 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage, compared to a single 256GB chip in the equivalent model with the M2 chip. This change results in faster SSD read and write speeds in tests, as the two chips can process requests in parallel.

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Voice Control Is A Great Hidden Feature In macOS That Gives You Hands-free Control Of Your Mac, by Kristina Terech, TechRadar

Even if it doesn't necessarily impact your accessibility, you can still try a different way of using your computer where you use your voice to control more, and your mouse or trackpad less.

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The Browser Company Feels Gross To Me Right Now, by Matt Birchler, Birchtree

But if you listen to them lately, namely their CEO, you’ll get a message from them that’s more like, “you know what sucks? The web! What if we piggybacked on Google’s search results, which we also say suck but are essential for Arc Search to function, stole every bit of writing other people have made and regurgitate it to you as a few bullet points?” The Browser Company seems to consider the ultimate goal to be people use Arc to ask questions and never see an actual website, they just see Arc giving them all the answers. They show links in their “browse for me” summaries now, but I get the impression they would like to get rid of those if they can.

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Today, while texting, Siri auto-suggestion gave me "it's", when it is obvious the correct word that it should suggest is "its".

Bad Siri. Bad.

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