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“A little over a year ago, Microsoft bought beloved calendar app Sunrise. For the past 14 months or so, things have been more or less business as usual… at least for customers. But this week, the other shoe finally dropped: August 31st will be the last day that Sunrise exists as a standalone app. Sure,…
Oh sure, this won’t end badly: “”Facezam could be the end of our anonymous societies,” Kenyon told the London Telegraph. “Users will be able to identify anyone within a matter of seconds, which means privacy will no longer exist in public society.” But Kenyon thinks this serves some greater purpose than simply allowing shy guys…
At first blush, the idea of scanning images synced up to iCloud for child sexual abuse materials against the hash list of known CSAM images seems like a good idea. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse myself, I want tech companies to takes some initiative to deal with this issue. They also want to scan images on kids’ phones using AI to see if kids are getting into any trouble with sending or receiving sexual material. Again, that sounds like a good thing. But, as the EFF points out, this all requires a backdoor, and backdoors, once created, almost never remain used for just one purpose.
Via my lovely wife and her watchful eye for things that would help me be a better traveler/techie/photographer, you can currently get $50 off a Sandisk iXpand device. We’ve all been there. We’re on a trip and taking tons of photos with our iPhones. Then, all of a sudden, you get that dreaded message that…
Here’s something I’m sure some people never expected to see me working on… So far, so good. I’m not having too much difficulty getting things setup the way I like, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by silly little things that are just nice. For example, the fact that the power cord is magnetized on the…
As most of you know, I love OneNote, I love my GTD TiddlyWiki, I simply love tools that help keep you organized, and on top of things. Given that, I was quite intrigued by a post I ran across from Stowe Boyd about the announcement of Zoho Notebook. This might warrant keeping an eye on,…