#apple and artificial intelligence

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Apple at the Innovation Crossroads: Still Leading, or Losing Ground in 2024?

Apple has long been synonymous with innovation, setting trends and pushing boundaries in the tech industry. However, as the landscape evolves and competition intensifies, the question arises: Is Apple still the king of innovation? Let’s delve into recent trends and insights to provide tech enthusiasts with a glimpse into Apple’s future. Apple’s Legacy of Innovation Apple’s legacy of innovation…

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Big tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it’s getting hard for the industry to hide the true costs of the data centers powering the tech revolution. According to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the “in-house” or company-owned data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are likely about 662% – or 7.62 times – higher than officially reported.

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Even though big tech hides these emissions, they are due to keep rising. Data centers’ electricity demand is projected to double by 2030 due to the additional load that artificial intelligence poses, according to the Electric Power Research Institute. Google and Microsoft both blamed AI for their recent upticks in market-based emissions.

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Whether today’s power grids can withstand the growing energy demands of AI is uncertain. One industry leader – Marc Ganzi, the CEO of DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that owns two of the world’s largest third-party data center operators – has gone as far as to say that the data center sector may run out of power within the next two years.

15 September 2024

[technologywhis]

Oh yes — that’s the legendary CIA Triad in cybersecurity. It’s not about spies, but about the three core principles of keeping information secure. Let’s break it down with some flair:

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1. Confidentiality

Goal: Keep data private — away from unauthorized eyes.

Think of it like locking away secrets in a vault. Only the right people should have the keys.

Examples:

• Encryption

• Access controls

• Two-factor authentication (2FA)

• Data classification

Threats to it:

• Data breaches

• Shoulder surfing

• Insider threats

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2. Integrity

Goal: Ensure data is accurate and trustworthy.

No tampering, no unauthorized changes — the data you see is exactly how it was meant to be.

Examples:

• Checksums & hashes

• Digital signatures

• Version control

• Audit logs

Threats to it:

• Malware modifying files

• Man-in-the-middle attacks

• Corrupted files from system failures

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3. Availability

Goal: Data and systems are accessible when needed.

No point in having perfect data if you can’t get to it, right?

Examples:

• Redundant systems

• Backup power & data

• Load balancing

• DDoS mitigation tools

Threats to it:

• Denial-of-service (DoS/DDoS) attacks

• Natural disasters

• Hardware failure

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Why it matters?

Every cybersecurity policy, tool, and defense strategy is (or should be) built to support the CIA Triad. If any one of these pillars breaks, your system’s security is toast.

Want to see how the CIA Triad applies to real-world hacking cases or a breakdown of how you’d protect a small business network using the Triad? I got you — just say the word.

[mouseydate]

I mean it was about time I changed the wallpaper from the default

[im-lost-in-ikea]

my teacher started talking today about AI as a weapon of anti-intellectualism, and maybe that was common knowledge for everybody else but I was shocked

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now do this for the rest of tech, oil industry, et al…

dearest beekeepers…

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thinking once again about how dead apple applies to the state of artists in the world. how shibusawa strips people of their abilities (here seen as their art) and reduces it down to a bare commodity with no soul or unique characteristics. this is the exact same thing, in my eyes, that ai art is doing. how shibusawa’s complete and total separation of the “art” from the “artist” is really just stealing an element of them and leaving them for dead. how this is what ai does, it strips the art it steals of all connection to the artist, making a soulless object with nothing standing out about it

thinking (sobbing) about how though it wasn’t intended, dead apple very much applies to the content-ification and commodification of art and the growing danger for artists in the world

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Apple Just Exposed the Truth About AI — And It Changes Everything

For the past two years, artificial intelligence has dominated headlines, fueled market booms, and sparked debates across boardrooms and bedrooms alike. Startups were born overnight. Stocks soared. Even your fridge might be “AI-powered” now.

But while the rest of Silicon Valley was racing to slap “AI” on everything short of a banana, Apple stayed unusually quiet.

Until now.

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[worshiptheglitch]

This scathing piece is easily the most significant of John Gruber's long career as the preeminent Apple watcher, even if it is quite late (as he concedes). But I think he misses a bit of the bigger picture.

While he can almost grasp the concept, Gruber continues to be blind to the truth that AI corrupts everything it touches. Its very function as a consumer product is to mislead, to pretend to a human wrote something, to pretend a human drew something, to pretend it comprehends.

The innovation of OpenAI is in releasing a product before it's ready, with no care for repercussions on society, and without even knowing how it works. It was a capital I Innovation because it changed everything. Everyone followed their lead. Release AI products, for some reason, no matter the what.

Apple's caught between two worlds: Apple's, where they announce and make deliberate products that are intended to be humane and useful. Contemporary tech's, where everything's a hustle and a con and they'll engage in a coup and force AI on us all before they'll make a product with care and humanity.

Shareholders are not smart. They are greedy and stupid and shortsighted. Markets are not collective wisdom. They are collectors of humanity's worst instincts. They're going to pick the hustler every time.

Much like with Tim Cook's donation and appearance at Trump's inauguration, Apple has capitulated. I get that Trump is a sticky situation, but Cook folded instantly, making the rest of the country's weak sauce response look revolutionary by comparison.

With AI and with Trump, there was no attempt to be clever or better or thoughtful or strategic. It was, OH SHIT WE NEED TO GET IN ON THIS CON RIGHT NOW OR WE'RE FUCKED!

We don't want to think different. We want to be the same.

[zohansworld]

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