I don’t care how far behind they are with AI because I don’t want AI on my phone anyway.

I hope Apple releases some open source AI tooling to re-gain good will. Would love to see some more competition in the AI space.

That’s literally never going to happen. Closed-source proprietary stuff is their MO.

If Siri is enabled, then the default behavior of long-pressing the power button brings up Siri instead of turning off the device. IIRC you can disable that behavior without having to disable Siri, but there’s no way to set the “action button” to open Siri; if you want a Siri button, it needs to be the power button.

Why would Craig be any better? Modern macOS and iOS are far from innovative.

However, someone who writes articles for a platform called “Apple Insider” is likely to have some level of stock in the company.

That would be Apple Insider Trading.

Our team will handle all the paperwork and finer details of filing insurance claims and police reports to provide you a smooth transition of ownership and plausible deniability.

That should be higher up on the page, since that’d be the primary value of that service.

Honestly I’m surprised Elon hasn’t killed the SLS and given SpaceX that contract; it’s one of the few things that would both benefit him and increase the efficiency of the government. He’s probably scared of Boeing suiciding him.

Yeah, I read that and I think it’s a weak justification.

And they had this revelation and newfound sense of caution immediately after their main source of income was jeopardized? And they made this change at the exact same time they started forcing users to give them a worldwide commercial license to everything you enter through Firefox? Sure, Jan.

Apple is already displacing Google’s monopoly.

…The reason being that they can’t legally claim they don’t sell your data.

The fact that they think they need to cover their ass about selling user data is concerning enough.

I think most people would be happy if the Mozilla CEOs “only” got a few hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. The current pay is literally millions.

I think they just got too comfortable with the Google money coming in.

Apple has the funds to maintain WebKit by themselves, and they wouldn’t want it to be cross-platform.

I don’t think Mozilla had any involvement in Servo.

The problem with Mozilla is that their route back to greatness would require consolidation that cannot and will not happen due to lack of trust and diverging goals.

I completely disagree; any capital available to Mozilla would be funneled into all the wrong places. Proton would go bankrupt for the sake of Mozilla’s AI and CEO bonuses.

Firefox should split from Mozilla like Thunderbird did, and only then consider partnering with another project. Actually, a partnership between Firefox and Thunderbird would be great.

X’s official support channel, which has been dormant since August, has so far remained silent on the outage, but one user asked Grok—X’s chatbot that provides AI summaries of news—what was going on, and the chatbot echoed suspicions about the DDOS attack while raising other theories.

That’s not how LLMs work… Why is Ars endorsing that brain-rot?

The firings will continue until quality improves

Either you believe what he says, or you don’t.

That’s a false dichotomy. 10% of what Trump says is true but 90% of what he says is insane, so 9% of what Trump says should legitimately concern everyone. Because we don’t know which 10% is true, we have to be concerned about everything he says.