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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:48PM (#50407436)
One of the blocked phrases is "iMessage isn't working".
> The hilarious thing about this is that there was an initial hack, and then like a month later another one that was equally successful. Who could have possibly seen that coming lol.

How many information security or IT people do you imagine a typical European grocery store employs?

That's the thing: we build IoT technology that requires constant unobvious maintenance, and we then sell it to people who can't possibly do this kind of maintenance. This is on us, not them.

Re:The End of AI Frontiers on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:37PM (#50406833)
The article is about a guy leaving Microsoft and the disbanding of an internal team called "AI Frontiers".
No. All bounty programs allowed submissions without ID, compliance came into play only if you were given a reward and decided to accept it.

This was moved to the front of the reporting process specifically to combat AI-generated vuln report spam - basically, requiring you to "burn" your real ID if you're submitting slop. Kinda ironic that this is now preventing people from submitting security reports to AI companies.