I just tested this in the U.S. with a toaster plugged into my outlet and there was a 40 Hz peak in the graph. I had a hard time telling where the wires were in the wall, though, maybe because the toaster itself was too close.

“entii-for-workcubes” is a pretty good pun!

I don't know man, "Wiindows" was right there and they chose "entii"? I weep for the missed opportunity more than anything.

Maybe it was a legal worry.

As I understood it, Memory Integrity Enforcement adds an additional check on heap dereferences (and it doesn’t apply to every process for performance reasons). Why does it crush hacking rather than just adding another incremental roadblock like many other mitigations before?

I'm not certain there is a performance hit since there is dedicated silicon on the chip for it. I believe the checks can also be done async which reduces the performance issues.

It also doesn't matter that it isn't running by default in apps since the processes you really care about are the OS ones. If someone finds an exploit in tiktok, it doesn't matter all that much unless they find a way to elevate to an exploit on an OS process with higher permissions.

MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) is also has a double purpose, it blocks memory exploits as they happen, but it also detects and reports them back to Apple. So even if you have a phone before the 17 series, if any phone with MTE hardware gets hit, the bug is immediately made known to Apple and fixed in code.

An exploit in TikTok is bad if your goal is to gain access to a TikTok account. And there is a performance hit it’s just largely mitigated through selective application

Private Cloud Compute uses their own hardware: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

Thanks! I wonder how they enforce retention of personal data if a user adds identifying data and they use a model from anthropic or wtv like others said. maybe that is the wrong question at all if they are using their own models but i thought they didn't. Apple's AI strategy on the whole sounds coherent to me but the specifics are super confusing.

Extra pedantic: that’s the en dash, the em dash is option-shift-hyphen

TIL! Thank you

Am I the only one who feels like it isn't the responsibility of backbone ISPs to filter traffic like this? In the case of a DDoS situation I could get behind it, but in this case I feel as though it's not Cogent's problem if I want to use telnet from a device on Charter's network to a Vultr VPS, even if it may be ill-advised.

(Of course, the article only speculates that this traffic filtering is what's going on; there isn't any hard proof, but it feels plausible to me.)

I feel like the nondeterminism makes LLM-assisted programming a different sort of concept than using a compiler. Your prompt isn't your source code.

Apple also puts fn/globe in the bottom left corner and control to its right.

Yeah, but that's conflating that a key labeled "control" for a Windows machine and a key labeled "control" for a Mac refer to different concepts.

In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support. There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and playing DOOM at around 31:34 here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-app...

Sounds like the GPU architecture changed significantly with M3. With M4 and M5, the technique for efficiently reverse-engineering drivers using a hypervisor no longer works.

> In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support.

Thanks, I guess I stand corrected.

> There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and playing DOOM at around 31:34 here

That is encouraging! Still, there is no way for a normal to user to try to install it, unless something changed very recently.

If you “fling” the page, lift your fingers off, and then tap with two fingers, does the page come to a stop?

Just tested - it does indeed.