I have an older Quest of and a mobile one that I just gave away. The Quest was used for a few days and put on a shelf, something I keep meaning to go back and play with. Then I got an email from Facebook saying I needed to make a Facebook account to keep using my hardware that I (didn't actually) pay for (long story, test sample) but did own. FSCK that. There are a few things that are dealbreakers for me in the tech world and a forced Facebook/Meta spyware account is near the top of the list.

At CES this year, VR/AR stuff was in pretty high numbers in high profile areas but the interest seemed a bit tepid. At MWC last week, there was precious little VR/AR and it was mostly ignored. I think we have reached the 3D TV phase of VR and it is all downhill from here. Discounts are telling, not much to save the sector now, it will become an admittedly useful niche device but mainstream is dead. AR is a different story but we are years away from basic usefulness there.

Yawn. It deserves a quick flaming death but VR will drag on for a while yet. The sooner it drops out of the media hype cycle, the better for us all.

              -Charlie

So basically any site with a comment section or that reports on anything close to the topics of piracy, security, or whatnot is dead. As are search engines themselves, and anything with user content that is not strictly and extensively modded by humans.

Good luck with that.

There is a good reason for them doing this, or at least a really good bit of plausible deniability. If you have ever been on the receiving end of Samsung's attention, you will know they are a vindictive company so I am under know illusions that this is an intentional way to screw those who unlock their phones.

That said the excuse they will use is that the camera is now 'secure' and part of the secure boot/root of trust chain and is critical for security and transaction mechanisms. Kinda true as long as you ignore the billions of 'unsecure' cameras out there, but lets pretend they don't exist. In short they are saying on a rooted phone, the camera app that can do things, likely sign but any attestation of state is what matters, can no longer be secure and won't run. Thus the camera is bricked.

"This is for your own good". And their profits. Now you know why.

              -Charlie

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

"Are Apple's Privacy Changes Hypocritical, Unfair to Facebook and Advertising Companies?"
Hopefully, yes.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

True but that is the whole point of platforms like Facebook, they are in the business of choosing what you should see and not see. You might not have noticed but you don't get uncensored, full streams in Facebook, ever. You can't even force the option if you want to, they curate what you see 100% of the time so by your definition they are in the business of censorship.

The fact that they will not curate obviously harmful product is bad enough. The fact that they promote it preferentially because it is more profitable is completely unacceptable. They had, and probably will have again when eyes are off, an advertising keyword for pseudoscience. They know what makes them money and that ALWAYS overrides any even blatant negative affects.

Add in the fact that they are legally shielded from being held accountable for their actions and you have a perfect storm. If they were just repeating what users post without any interference, your point might stand. They aren't so it doesn't.