In the past, they have provided information on which workloads they use.
For instance, the file compression workload on version 6:
This workload compresses and decompresses the Ruby 3.1.2 source archive (a 75 MB archive with 9,841 files) using different compression codecs (such as LZ4 and ZSTD). It also verifies the files using the SHA1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) function.
They do mention that the change is meant to reflect how real world programs handle various types of workloads.
> In Geekbench 7, a workload only runs in multi-threaded mode if the task it models actually runs multi-threaded in real applications. For example, the HTML5 Browser test isn’t included in the multi-threaded suite because web browsers are single-threaded (or lightly threaded).
You do know that we are discussing something that Apple talked about doing, but never did vs. something that Google has been doing for years?
And no, this particular article about Google attempting to have innocent parents arrested was published before Apple even discussed scanning images users manually uploaded to their publicly accessible web album on iCloud.
Informed consent would require Google to inform you that their AI server will scan every photo you take with your device and report you to the police if it should detect (or hallucinate) something it doesn't like.
Did he set up his device to upload his private data to Google, or did Google create an OS that automatically sent everyone's private data to their AI server for scanning without explicit consent?
This is an image that he did not send off of his device to anyone except his doctor's office, yet Google reached into his private data and scanned it anyway.
Google reported him to the police based on a single false positive.
To add insult to injury, even after the police contacted Google to tell them that they had cleared him of wrongdoing, Google refused to restore access to his account.
They do mention that the 8 Gig version of the laptop is stuttering while just working on Google Docs in a way that the 16 Gig version does not.
> The Surface Laptop would hang for a few seconds like this several times a day, even when I thought I wasn’t pushing it too hard. I’ve had these temporary freezes while just working in some Google Docs — no Teams call running or anything streaming in the background.
The issue seems to be that there isn't enough RAM for light multitasking or heavier applications without hitting the swap file hard enough that the system stutters.
Personally, I would rather see public resources used to teach parents how to use the existing controls (in iOS and Android) to restrict what their own kids can do on their own smartphone.
However, if a school district wants to restrict the use of smartphones during the school day for all students, I would be OK with that.
Dave Cutler created and ran the Windows NT product line through Windows 2000.
Other people ran Windows XP, but Cutler was still in charge of Server 2003 before moving on to special projects like creating 64 bit Windows and Microsoft Azure.
His attitude towards the eradication of known bugs really led to Windows feeling rock solid, with the exception of driver bugs (being the leading cause of blue screens).
Macs allow the machine owner to install (and boot) a completely unsigned OS on a different partition without having it affect security when you do boot MacOS.
The Mac partitions are encrypted by default and the system partition is signed and read only.
When the new leadership team took over, they announced that they would prioritize upstreaming the existing work over adding support for newer hardware.
Upstreaming their changes into the kernel took time.
Now the announced that they had started work on the M3 in February and things are progressing well.
> On top of the above, we also have PCIe, WiFi, Bluetooth, NVMe, keyboard, trackpad, and other core SoC block drivers working in Linux for M3 series machines. Most of this work has come by way of Yureka, who has been very busy hacking on both m1n1 and Linux with her M3 series machines for a while now. We still have a ways to go before we can start enabling Asahi Installer support for these machines, but progress is rapid so watch this space!
That sounds more like talented people doing meticulous work than doom.
The infection spread based on being in the same enclosed space as an infected person, and was not based on being only a few feet apart.