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January 19, 2023

Daily Tech News 19 January 2023

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Apple's new M2 MacBooks and Mac Minis are out. Should you buy one? No. (Sneak.Berlin)

Remember the fuss when Apple was planning to scan the photos on your iPhone and alert the police if they thought anything on there might be untowards?

Well, they've implemented that, only on MacOS.

Without telling anyone.

And you can't turn it off.

This is unusual behaviour for Apple. It's not like they tracked all their users with unencrypted cookies, systematically locked users out of their own systems, or disabled third-party firewalls and network monitors that would let you track such activity.

Oh, wait, they did all those things.

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Microsoft may start laying off 10,000 staff this week amid slowing economy. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, let's not panic until it's confirmed.
Microsoft starts laying off 10,000 staff amid recession. (Tom's Hardware)

They used the R word.
Amazon is laying off 18,000 staff. (Bloomberg)

I might feel bad about this if these companies didn't suck so much.
Speaking of suck, a TV adaptation of Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber is under way... With Stephen Colbert named as the series producer. (Variety)

Yeah, this is going to be bad.
Mailchimp got hacked. Again. In exactly the same way as last time. (Tech Crunch)

See my note about feeling bad if they didn't suck so much.
Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records. (Substack)

San Francisco?

(Checks.)

Los Angeles. Not too far off.

Disclaimer: Not like IRyS who immediately identified the location as Sydney and then spent two minutes looking for Australia on a map.

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