I’ve had a lot of fun playing "Void-X," a modern arcade shooter game. If you’ve ever emptied a whole pocket full of quarters into "Galaga" or "Zaxxon," you’ll love playing it, too -- especially in Vision Pro.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Weekend! This means it's time for another Apps of the Week roundup, and we have some great picks for you this week. There is an endless meme and image scroller, a simple nutrition guide, and an impressive, FDA-cleared stethoscope app. And as always, we've selected a fun [evil laugh] new game for you to check out.
The two-week return window for my Vision Pro is fast approaching, so I have to make my keep it/toss it decision in a matter of days. And I desperately want to keep it.
Update: The issue now appears to have been resolved and episodes are rolling out as intended once more. Original story below.
An Apple Podcasts bug is making listeners miss the newest released episodes of their favorite shows. Seemingly impacting some significant proportion of shows that released new episodes yesterday, the bug means that the Apple Podcasts app does not show the latest episode in the user’s library, nor will it automatically download it and appear in the Up Next queue.
There is a workaround that entails manually finding the exact episode in the search tab, but that requires the user to be aware that a new episode has been released in the first place …
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JumpCloud has released its Q1 2024 small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) IT Trends Report. The latest edition of the report looks into the impact of artificial intelligence on identity management, security challenges, economic uncertainties, and the growing reliance on managed service providers (MSPs) in IT operations. The report included 1,213 small to medium-sized (SME) IT decision-makers in the UK, US, and India.
人類的神經網路（大腦）和人工神經網路（ANN）的關係是什麼？有位老師曾經這樣比喻：就像是老鼠和米老鼠的關係。現實中的神經網路功能強大，但與人類的感知、學習和理解方式完全不同。比如 ANN 表現出人類感知中通常沒有的脆弱性，它們容易受到對抗性擾動的影響。一個圖像，可能只需修改幾個像素點的值，或者新增一些噪聲資料，從人類的角度，觀察不到區別，而對於圖像分類網路，就會辨識成完全無關的類別。
微軟已宣布將在 2025 年 10 月 14 日，全面停在支援 Windows 10 作業系統，但提供安全性更新到 2028 年 10 月為止，也使得數百萬部無法升級 Windows 11 的電腦，只能繼續使用過時且安全性較低的舊版作業系統，市場研究機構 Canalys Research 也預告，這將恐導致全球約 2.4 億台個人電腦面臨報廢。
而近日 Google 則在官方部落則表示，鼓勵將舊電腦安裝 ChromeOS Flex，取代 Windows 10 或是 macOS，改裝成 Chromebook 或 Chrome PC，不僅可以延長電腦的使用壽命，節省硬體更新成本，更能減少電子廢棄物的產生，同時也分享了安裝 ChromeOS Flex 的 11 個優勢。
ChromeOS Flex 作業系統優勢
由於 Chromebook 或 Chrome PC 即是搭載 ChromeOS Flex 作業系統，這個由 Google 推出的系統，核心架構源自於 Google Chrome 及Linux，特色就是開機快速、操作簡易、價格便宜，更重要的是對效能的要求並不嚴苛，因此，不少人會將舊的桌機或筆電，改造為 ChromePC 或 Chromebook，在「網路即平臺」的運作原則上，只要有 Google 帳號，就可以在連網後，使用 Chrome 瀏覽器、Google 雲端空間、Google 相簿…等，各式 Google 旗下眾多付費及免費的服務。
ChromeOS Flex 安裝及使用限制
雖然 ChromeOS Flex 對硬體規格的要求並不嚴苛，並支援 Windows、Mac 或 Linux 裝置，但要透過 Chrome OS Flex 改造為 ChromePC 或 Chromebook，還是有硬體上的條件限制。
架構：Intel 或 AMD x86 64bit
處理器及顯示卡：建議 2010 年後製造
記憶體：4GB
儲存空間：16GB
BIOS：完全管理員訪問權限
注意：不適用 Intel GMA 500、600、3600、3650 顯示晶片
另外，改裝為 Chromebook 或 Chrome PC 後，還必須習慣「網路即平臺」的運作原則上，大部分的工作都必須連網才能執行，即使有離線模式，但最終還是要連網完成同步。且若是習慣 Windows 系統的操作模式及軟體安裝習慣，更是需要時間才能適應 Chromebook 或 Chrome PC。
動手裝 ChromeOS Flex
用 ChromeOS Flex 打造 Chromebook 有三大步驟，分別為建立 USB 開機碟、安裝至舊桌機或電腦、透過網路為其他電腦安裝。由於 Google 將 ChromeOS Flex 定位在企業或教育上使用，但也開放給任何人下載，只要在官網上填入基本資訊，即可免費下載使用，而在開啟製作 ChromeOS Flex 開機碟前，還必須準備 8GB 以上的 USB 隨身碟，或是 SD 記憶卡，且建議格式化後再使用。
Gemini 1.5 Pro 配備了 128000 個 token 上下文視窗。但從今天開始，少數開發人員和企業客戶可以透過 AI Studio 和 Vertex AI 的私人預覽版在最多 100 萬個 token 的上下文視窗中進行嘗試。Google還進行了一些最佳化，以改善延遲、減少運算要求並增強使用者體驗。
谷歌 CEO Sundar Pichai 和Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis 對新模型進行了專門介紹。
即使在其上下文視窗增加的情況下，Gemini 1.5 Pro 仍維持高水準的性能。在針對性地將一小段包含特定事實或聲明的文字放置於長文本中進行的「稻草堆中的針」（NIAH）進行評估中，1.5 Pro 在長達100萬個token的資料組中，1.5 Pro 99%都能找到嵌入的文字。
Gemini 1.5 Pro 還展示了令人印象深刻的 「上下文學習（in-context learning）」 技能，這意味著它可以從長提示中給出的資訊中學習新技能，而不需要額外的調校。Google在 MTOB （Translation from One Book ）基準測試中測試了這項技能，該基準顯示了該模型從以前從未見過的資訊中學習的能力。當給它Kalamang語（一種全球使用人數不到 200 人的語言）的語法手冊時，該模型可以學習將英語翻譯成Kalamang語，其水準與學習相同內容的人能力差不多。
由於 1.5 Pro 的長上下文視窗是大型模型中的首創，因此Google正在不斷開發新的評估和基準來測試其新功能。
On this week’s edition of 9to5Mac Overtime, Fernando and Jeff discuss their latest Apple Vision Pro impressions, upcoming 2024 iPads, and iPad hardware and software wishlists.
In November, Apple surprised us all when it announced that RCS support would come to the iPhone sometime this year. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent way too much time since then thinking about why Apple reversed course.
OpenAI 在其關於Sora的部落格文章中坦承，其新應用可能存在一些潛在的缺點。該公司表示正在開發一些浮水印技術，以標示其生成器創建的內容，並正在與專家合作，探討如何讓Sora將會引發的 AI 生成垃圾氾濫變得不那麼有害。Sora目前尚未向公眾開放，OpenAI 表示其正在創建系統，拒絕生成暴力或色情圖像的使用者請求。聲明指出：
這種問題框架有點可笑，因為 OpenAI 的新工具可能如何被濫用已經非常明顯。Sora將大規模生成假內容，這一點不用懷疑。其中一些內容很可能會被用於網路政治假訊息目的，有些可能被用於協助各種欺詐和騙局，還有一些可能被用於產生有害內容。OpenAI 表示希望對暴力和色情內容施加有意義的限制，但網路使用者和研究人員已經展示了他們破解 AI 系統以生成違反公司使用政策內容的精明手段。所有這些Sora內容顯然會淹沒社群媒體，使普通人更難區分什麼是真實的，什麼是假的，並使整個網路變得更加令人厭煩。要搞清楚這一點，不需要成立一個全球專家小組。
還有其他一些顯而易見的缺點。首先，Sora及其類似產品可能會對環境產生巨大影響。研究表明，從環境角度來看，文字到圖像生成器比文字生成器更糟糕，產生一個 AI 圖像所需要的能量與智慧型手機充滿電所需的能量相同。其次，新的文字到影片生成技術可能會損害影片創作者的經濟來源，因為當創建一個影片只需要按一個按鈕時，為什麼公司要支付創作者來製作視覺內容呢？
就這個國家的企業階層而言，除了金錢，沒有什麼真正重要。環境去死吧，藝術家去死吧，一個沒有虛假資訊的網路去死吧，政治話語的健康去死吧，任何阻礙利潤動機的東西都去死吧。任何可以用來賺錢的東西都應該被榨乾，即使它只是一個軟體程式，它唯一真正的用途就是可以做出牛仔倉鼠騎著龍的影片。正如一位 X 使用者所說：「這就是一群傻瓜為了環境而犧牲的東西。愚蠢。垃圾。就像這樣。」
Apple this week stopped signing iOS 17.3 following the release of iOS 17.3.1 a few days ago. This means that iPhone and iPad users can no longer downgrade to this version of the operating system if they’re already running a newer version of iOS.
Based on Succubus.With.Guns.Campaign.WINDING.PATH-TENOKE ISO release: tenoke-succubus.with.guns.campaign.winding.path.iso (4,613,548,032 bytes)
Game version: Steam BuildID 13403147; 2 DLCs (Campaign “WINDING PATH” & Costume “Joy of Succubus”) are included and activated
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from 4.3 GB to 816 MB)
Installation takes less than a minute
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 4.3 GB
Language can be changed in game settings
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Game Description
You’re playing as a demoness called by lay occultists. During the summoning ritual, they made a mistake and raised the dead, while turning themselves into zombies.
Now you have to return home by jumping to other worlds through portals, all while making your way through the hordes of the undead.
What’s the game all about?
It’s a simple campaign-style, third-person shooter.
Shoot zombies and other monsters to move to other worlds. Defeat all the bosses guarding the portals.
As you progress through the game, look for new weapons and hidden ammo. Use them sparingly: it’s not so easy to beat the undead in combat.
Backwards Compatibility
This repack IS NOT backwards compatible with my previous SWG repack.
Last fall, mophie launched a MagSafe charger that dared to extend what’s possible – quite literally. I’ve been using the new mophie Telescoping 15W MagSafe Stand for the past few months, and have fallen for its adjustable design and premium build.
What does Apple Vision Pro actually do? Thanks to these visionOS app developers, the answer is a lot. While it’s not a comprehensive list of every visionOS app, these are some of the many experiences possible on Apple Vision Pro!
Based on Skibidi.Toilets.Invasion-TENOKE ISO release: tenoke-skibidi.toilets.invasion.iso (9,739,163,648 bytes)
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Smaller archive size (compressed from 9.1 to 6.5 GB)
Installation takes from 8 minutes (on 24-threads CPU) up to 43 minutes (on 4-threads CPU)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 9.3 GB
Language can be changed in game settings
Repack uses compression library by Razor12911
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Copy contents of “_Windows 7 Fix” folder to the game root to be able to play on Windows 7
Game Description
Welcome to Skibidi Invasion, a heart-pounding FPS zombie shooter where you must obliterate cyborg toilets and restore order to a world in chaos! Armed with an array of weapons, unleash your fury against the rebellious toilets across seven distinct locations, each offering its own challenges and opportunities for strategic mayhem.
PLAY ON 5 UNIQUE MAPS
From dilapidated city streets and eerie graveyards to abandoned factories and secret underground bunkers, prepare to battle the cyborg toilet menace in diverse environments teeming with danger.
COLLECT ALL WEAPONS
Choose from a vast arsenal of weapons, from traditional firearms to experimental gadgets, each with its own modifications and upgrades.
IMPROVE YOUR CHARACTER
But victory won’t come easy – pump up your main character with enhancements to accelerate movement, increase damage output, and unlock special abilities. Strategize wisely, hone your skills, and prepare for the ultimate showdown against the Skibidi rebellion.
We may have just gotten our first hardware leak for the iPhone 16 lineup. On social media today, Majin Bu shared an image that they say is the “new camera module of the iPhone 16.” The image shows a vertically-oriented camera layout, a change that has been rumored multiple times by other sources.
Facing industry rumors of Xbox bowing out ahead of leaked exclusives being ported, Microsoft Xbox executives double down on the future of Xbox. Some questions remain on Xbox console hardware in the long-term, but the brand is here to stay.
Leading mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon brand has finally arrived in the audible realm. It hopes its new sonic logo will become as iconic as the sounds associated with NBC, Netflix, and McDonald's.
It’s been a while since I’ve found a fantastic new indoor HomeKit camera, but the is proving to be an excellent option. With support for local recording over an SD card, HomeKit Secure Video, and TP-Link’s cloud service, there are plenty of options to choose this camera for indoor recording needs. One thing I especially want to call out: it supports Wi-Fi 6!
The Instagram team is known for being a bit late to the party when it comes to adopting new iOS features. And while there are a number of users incessantly asking for an iPad app, Instagram has decided to give its iOS users something else: an App Clip.
An Android trojan called GoldDigger surfaced last year that can steal biometric data and more from victims to compromise their bank accounts. Now the threat has evolved into the GoldPickaxe trojan that can infect iOS and Android. Fortunately, there are several simple ways to protect against the first iPhone trojan, here’s what you should know.
Sponsored by Day One: Day One makes journaling a simple pleasure across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Now with support for shared journals and journaling suggestions. Get started today for free.
A very rare LaserDisc prototype has been sold on eBay for the eye-watering sum of $1,000. Yet there is no content description for the Philips-made HD Mac 12 Glass Plate N.66733 - Laserdisc Prototype, which looks old and possibly deteriorating.
A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.
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Intel is in talks with the U.S. government over a $10+ billion subsidies + loans package. 
▲ 微博上的小米 14 Ultra 爆料資訊。
步驟2.清單跳出後，接著點開「設定與支援」的箭頭圖示。
步驟3.清單展開後，點擊齒輪圖示的「設定和隱私」選項。
步驟4.畫面跳轉後，於「設定」區塊按下「安全性和帳戶存取」。
步驟5.接著於右邊找到帶有鎖頭圖示的「安全性」選項。
步驟6.畫面跳轉後，在上方的「雙因素驗證」區塊內，找到「雙因素驗證」選項並點選。
步驟7.再來按下尚未被打勾的「驗證應用程式」選項。
步驟8.接著請準備好 Google Authenticator、Authy 之類的 OTP 軟體，然後點擊「開始使用」。
步驟9.透過手機上的 OTP 軟體，掃描畫面上出現的 QR Code，完成後按「下一步」。
步驟10.畫面跳轉後，填入手機 OTP 軟體於當下所產生的最新驗證碼，接著按下「確認」。
步驟11.看見「你已準備就緒」即代表兩步驟認證設定完成；點選「取得備用代碼」來建立無法登入的救援機制。
步驟12.拍照、截圖螢幕，或者點擊「複製密碼」，將畫面上的備用代碼保存至安全的地方，若手機遺失、OTP App 遭移除而無法登入時即可使用。
▲ 領先基礎模型的上下文長度
Seagate reportedly second sources heating lasers for HAMR heads from Sony. 
Elliot Coll shows off a cool tiny retrogaming handheld that features an RP2040 microprocessor with a design that resembles an original Game Boy. 
ASML's revenues in calendar 2023 are by $3 billion dollars higher than Applied Materials's revenue in 2023. 
Facing industry rumors of Xbox bowing out ahead of leaked exclusives being ported, Microsoft Xbox executives double down on the future of Xbox. Some questions remain on Xbox console hardware in the long-term, but the brand is here to stay. 
A research paper has concluded that the slow pace of fab construction in the U.S. is largely down to suboptimal regulation. 
Leading mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon brand has finally arrived in the audible realm. It hopes its new sonic logo will become as iconic as the sounds associated with NBC, Netflix, and McDonald's. 
Presidents' Day weekend is here. Stock up on tech without breaking the bank, thanks to some of our great deals. 
ASML mulls Hyper-NA lithography with a higher than 0.7 numerical aperture in 2030s. 
A very rare LaserDisc prototype has been sold on eBay for the eye-watering sum of $1,000. Yet there is no content description for the Philips-made HD Mac 12 Glass Plate N.66733 - Laserdisc Prototype, which looks old and possibly deteriorating. 
A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.