Two cyberattacks that we know of happened this year and the extent of the second one is still unclear at this stage.
This is the same government that has pushed for:
- Chat Control v1 and v2 (client side scanning)
- Id requirement for social media (that just struck down by the courts)
- Arrested of the founder of Telegram because he refused to hand over its users data to the French government and used dubious charges to arrest him
Good luck with that. Mistral is never going to produce a frontier model. Their business model is to rely on the EU regulations and cater to the bureaucracy. I won't be surprised if their next model is specialized on generating laws/regulations for EU lawmakers so they can sell it to EU. That way their business would survive for the next 5-10 years till EU implodes.
Why is it so puzzling? EU has become nothing but an authoritarian regime even violating the sovereignty of member states. It was working fine and well when it was an economic union, but now it has become more of a mafia that infiltrate and try to control every aspect of life of Europeans.
US has been there for more than 250 years. How old is EU? Wait till the French debt crisis triggers the euro collapse and everyone in EU can live like the Greeks after the financial crisis, maybe except for the Germans. They always find a way
Certainly not above reproach, and there are reasons to have beef with them (I know I do). That said, they're doing some aspects of modern democracy better than the US, and we really ought to borrow each other's best ideas.
Democracy and EU in one sentence is quite funny. Non of the top EU heads are elected by people and yet those unelected corrupt heads want to create a surveillance regime. So much for democracy
the M5 Ultra will not have the 1.5TB RAM since they are not making any interposers for combining M5 Ultra Chips like the did for the M3, also there will be no M6 Ultra Chips
what is interesting is if this code for restriction for leased devices is also contained for regular phones so they could do the same to those with regular phones....
Are you concerned that they are going to do this to purchased devices? That would seem to be a PR disaster if it happened by accident, and a catastrophe if they ever did it on purpose. I assume there would be many safeguards in place to ensure that it cannot happen on purchased devices (though devices purchased on a payment plan could be subject to it).
I would be more worried about a company doing things that could be done surreptitiously, like spying on users. That could happen for years without the user knowing.
Nerfing a device, OTOH, is very obvious and would create a huge backlash. The safeguards would not be in place solely for the benefit of the user, but also for the benefit of the company.
What an interesting analogy. What would Apple stand to gain by nerfing phones that customers had already fully paid for? Is the theory that Apple would hold the devices hostage until more payments were made? That would seem to be an unmitigated disaster for the company.
With batterygate, there was a plausible reason for Apple to do what it did, but also self-interest that could have caused it. Here, there is no remotely discernible self-interest that would lead Apple to nuke its reputation by holding fully-paid devices hostage.
You missed the most important part: what Apple fanbois would not just tolerate it but would invent a way to rationalize it and sell it to themselves under 'it's actually good for us'. Just like they did during with Batterygate and a charging port on a mouse' bottom.
AppleInsider
https://appleinsider.com › articles › 24 › 10 › 29 › apples-magic-mouse-charging-port-design-has-never-been-a-big-deal
Keeping the Magic Mouse charging port on the base is fine
Oct 29, 2024 The newly updated Apple Magic Mouse now has a USB-C charging port, but it's still on the bottom — *and that still doesn't matter.*
EDIT: I don't know if Apple would find a way to actually use it but regarding "PR disaster if it happened by accident, and a catastrophe if they ever did it on purpose" - it would be not.
OK cool, well LMK what the reason would be for Apple to ever do that, and I'll be happy to walk through your thought experiment about how fanboys would love to have their devices nerfed.
I don't know if you have seen the EDIT in my previous comment.
> what the reason would be for Apple to ever do that
There is one glaring reason - money. I don't know if they would do it but there is no question what they would at least think about it, especially considering they do/would have the knobs to do it.
Here are my thoughts this is an amazing idea and I can see incredible potential because of its simplicity, I won on beginner one so far please play OPus Magnum by Zactronics for some inspiration this could be more developed. I can see myself playing this with piano music in the background and a story line. Additionally, when it start it does not have to start from zero you can add puzzles where a play was already happening and you are trying to win to make it more challenging. PLease talk to people with Game design experience and puzzle solvers. Awesome job
It is often commented how people who know they are recorded behave a certain way what is not commented on is how people who know they are recording other people behave. When you see your screen and you know you are recording them it creates this "power trip" it's feeling some of us know and love, but when we truly know it we don't love it anymore it's almost like a drug the high feels good the consequences are for others but that little guilt that lingers we don't like that. Now scale it at the size of an organization, the power trip with other people feel even more better, and the consequences ... well
yeah are you saying society does not have a job for an MIT graduate ? this is mistaken let them learn don't worry they'll find a job thank you for thinking about the job prospects for them since you know better than someone who got admitted to graduate school.
No this is not good for the World in case you have forgotten America is part of the world and though I hate what is happening just as much as anyone I will work to make this nation better. We are in a tough time and I genuinely do not know if things will get better but we will try.
I might've been exaggerating a bit, there's only one right now who's 90+, Paul Biya. Peter Mutharika will be 90+ when he steps down. Beji Esseni was 92 a few years ago. Many are 80+ and will not step down before dying
