Five years from now:

Apple spokesman claims reports that eye-tracking Accessibility feature usage was sold ‘exaggerated’

A spokesman for Apple dismissed reports that the company’s eye-tracking accessibility feature—designed assist impaired users with using their device by detecting eye movements—was also tracking their interest in potentially sensitive topics and selling the data to advertising partners and law enforcement agencies, calling the allegations “grossly exaggerated” and stating “the term ‘sell’ demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the structure of Apple’s partnership agreements as detailed in the Terms of Service”. Whistleblowers claim the software runs constantly even when not enabled, and allegedly checks reading speed and pupil dilation to gauge interest in products and services, but also in “sensitive topics”. According to data mined by researchers from the University of [Blue State], this allegedly includes topics such as race relations and white supremacy, protesting and civil disobedience, firearm ownership, industrial sabotage, anti-corporate activism, abortion, environmentalism, police brutality, and political movements. Apple declined to comment further after the conclusion of their press release.

Yes, because it perpetuates demand.

I guarantee you at least 75% of the histrionics are coming from astroturfing competitors.

“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is reprehensible, bloodthirsty, and a clear example of state gangsterism. Accordingly, we given given him a score of 7.3.”

What can it even cost, at a ceiling? A few hundred thousand a year? I million? Even a hundred million? I expect it’s way less, but even if it’s half a billion, that is pocket change in the first world. If your government can’t afford to write off an expense that miniscule, you live in a failed state.

Inb4 people start shilling Brave, it’s spyware and nobody cares about your shitcoins

“AI’s idea of what constitutes a human face is the kind of face most frequently considered human by AI”

I don’t think it was ridiculous at all, and I wholeheartedly believe this would negatively impact the giant space slugs from Empire Strikes Back. Can’t you tell how serious I am?

Less harmful to Earth’s environment, anyway. The environment on those asteroids is going to be all kinds of fucked up, hard luck for any giant space slugs that might be living there.

Houston is the only team that got a bye to not be eliminated. I knew as soon as they brought out this format that this would happen consistently, and it has.

Simpsons called it:

/b/ took a big shit in summer 2007 and hasn’t been anywhere near as good since then, and it wasn’t even good before then. The rest of the site, especially the smaller SFW boards, has decent content if you know where to look. /po/ is one of the best places online for papercrafting and origami, for example

Imb4 astroturfers start whining about how the finewoven case works just fine for them and this is all very entitled really and then make a #lowsodiumfinewoven hashtag on twitter to talk about how great the cases are

ÑVP and it’s not close

Broke: T-Mobile denies new data breach rumors, points to authorized retailer

Woke: T-Mobile denies new penetration rumors, fingers authorized retailer

Amazing. Bold. Courageous. Disruptive. Exceptional.

The all-new iCloth, just $38.99.

Oh and look, The Verge already has a review out:

The iCloth promises superior cleaning with a premium look and feel. While the iCloth failed to fully remove a single smudged fingerprint from our test model iPhone 15 Pro Max despite the application of an entire liter of Windex, we feel it delivers on its promise due to the premium look and feel of this one-of-a-kind accessory. A bargain at only twice the price of the identical earlier model, the iCloth comes in a whole spectrum of one dazzling color and offers a stylish device care option with premium look and feel. In addition, the accessory is very smart-looking in this posed photograph where I pretend to use it on my Apple Watch, showing off its premium look and feel. All in all, this is the smart device cloth for an enlightened consumer. Also it has premium look and feel.

Usability: 3/10
Premium look and feel: 10/10
Overall score: 9001/10

The point is to use messaging apps as a data collection vector. Once they hit user saturation, they shut it down. That’s what all their product shutdowns are about: they run out of useful analytics.

Lies about what this is created for:

• monitoring customer responses
• scanning for ‘distressed’ women in danger

Comprehensive list of all things this is created for:

• ads
• demoralization
• identifying, stalking, and punishing malcontents
• stalking prospective rape victims

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