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1 week ago | macstories.net | John Voorhees

Apple has been using differential privacy for nearly ten years to collect its users data in a way that isn’t traceable back to an individual. As Apple explains in a recent post on its Machine Learning Research site: This approach works by randomly polling participating devices for whether they’ve seen a particular fragment, and devices respond anonymously with a noisy signal.

1 week ago | macstories.net | John Voorhees

April 24th marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of the Apple Watch. To mark the day, Apple has announced Global Close Your Rings Day, encouraging Apple Watch users to meet their daily fitness goals. If you have an Apple Watch and close your Activity rings on April 24th, you’ll get a special limited edition award on your watch and animated stickers in Messages. Apple is also giving away a special pin that the company says is inspired by the award, starting April 24, while supplies last.

1 week ago | macstories.net | John Voorhees

Spring is the perfect time for a deep clean—including your Mac! Mac Washing Machine X9, from Intego, the leader in macOS security, helps you declutter, optimize, and speed up your system with ease. Clean Up Your MacOver time, junk files like caches, temporary data, and unused language files accumulate, taking up valuable space and slowing down performance. Washing Machine X9 identifies and removes them automatically, ensuring your Mac runs smoothly and efficiently.

1 week ago | macstories.net | John Voorhees

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1 week ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

Yesterday, Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information, published an outstanding story detailing the internal turmoil at Apple that led to the delay of the highly anticipated Siri AI features last month. From the article: In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to a thunderous response from the tech industry and public. Within Giannandrea’s AI team, however, senior leaders didn’t respond with a sense of urgency, according to former engineers who were on the team at the time.