Notices by Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social), page 2

Hallucination isn't a side effect of an LLM's output. Hallucination *is* the LLM's output

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura likely you didn't see it or didn't hear it when it came in, or you're on a Focus mode like DnD that turns off notifications; it might be sitting in Notification Center for you

"Apple has twice rejected documents it submitted to launch the Epic Games Store because the design of certain buttons and labels was similar to those used by its App Store, the video-game publisher said.”

It'll be fun to watch Epic steamroll its way through the illegal ways Apple is using the Notarization process to prevent legitimate apps in the EU
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112733944236541136

So looks like the EU’s framing of the missing feature narrative is that withholding features is a strong indicator of intent for anticompetitive conduct. This means anything Apple tries this excuse on in the future is going to open them up to further scrutiny and laser-focus legislators on potential problem areas. Good job Apple! Just what you wanted 😜

I’m not entirely sure commentators are aware that Apple has not been shipping its full featureset around the world for decades. My country never got TV shows in iTunes. I’ve had an iPhone for 17 years without access to Visual Voicemail. Apple’s News app isn’t available here. There’s no cellular Apple Watch. And so on. No tears will be shed for Apple Intelligence in the EU

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura keep up https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/21/apple-intelligence-europe-delay/

"We have a number of Apple issues. I find them very serious, I was very surprised that we would have such suspicions of Apple being noncompliant”

"This is not what we expected of such a company”
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112640420132181098

Journalists are massively misunderstanding what the 'Threads API' actually is.

It's not for third-party clients, it's for automation & marketing. You can’t access a timeline via the API, or do search, or anything like that. It's for posting, reading replies, and replying to replies of a post. Bots and CRMs

"You may use the Threads API to enable people to create and publish content on a person’s behalf on Threads, and to display those posts within your app solely to the person who created it.”

I never expected to see a Chess update in macOS in 2024, but here we are!

It is the first time the renderer has been updated since I believe Mac OS X v10.3, twenty-one years ago (!)

I think macOS Sequoia is the last release you can reasonably expect to run on Intel; half the WWDC keynote was AI features that don't run on Intel Macs, including Xcode's new editor functionality, and the visionOS SDK already requires ARM. You can only expect more from here. The writing is clearly on the wall; if we get next year's release, it would be unnecessarily generous of Apple

The new AppIntents for Apple Intelligence stuff is a whooole lot of learning to do to implement a feature that only works on a tiny percentage of Apple's device lineup*. I don't have an iPhone or iPad that can run or test any of this stuff.

(*So far)

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura it should work? It’s just a mass storage device, which iOS supports

Here’s a little more from a different vantage point. What a beautiful place

Walked along the Cliffs of Moher with the Avata 2 today. Exploring on foot is one thing, but flying like this? Magical

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura Pages is on the Mac and has a similar feature set to iOS, and more

Showing the M4 chip so early gives Apple a rare opportunity to show off high-end iOS 18 AI features at WWDC that might otherwise have relied on the new SoCs in September's iPhones

The Helldivers 2 furore is bonkers. If you missed it, Sony, seemingly against wishes of the dev studio, pushed to add a mandatory PSN Network sign-in months after launch on one of their biggest, most popular games on PC, and not only did the community revolt (dropping review score into the teens), but the game is now pulled from 177 storefronts and Steam are issuing refunds (as PSN only works in certain countries). The studio has told players to make their voices heard

https://www.eurogamer.net/helldivers-2-has-been-pulled-from-sale-in-177-countries-as-its-psn-linking-requirement-rolls-out

If you thought Apple's war with Epic was dramatic, wait 'till their war with China 😛
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112361912902454740

Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

Two of Apple's platforms now count as gatekeepers under the DMA, which opens sideloading/alternative app stores for any developer who wishes to use them!

…but of course, virtually nobody will because of the toxic Core Technology Fee, which leaves a Sword of Damocles hanging over any business that dares to participate — the rules of which Apple can rewrite, at any time, in their favor. The consequences of which have already forced the @delta devs out of the App Store in the EU

@EU_Commission