We’re all so numb to big numbers now but do you realize how much $40 billion is??
If I remember correctly, the UN’s World Food Program calculated it would cost $6.6 billion to END WORLD HUNGER. $40 billion is six times that amount. On stock buybacks.
If you configured your iPhone to never allow an app to access your location, you may have been tracked anyway. Release notes for iOS 16.3 make mention of CVE-2023-23503, which Apple says may allow an app to bypass your privacy settings.
A blogger reports that an app from a Brazilian company iFood was able to track users' location even when they restricted the app's access. I haven't confirmed the report, but the screenshot seems convincing.
I wonder how long this vulnerability was in effect. There may have been massive amounts of location data that was collected without users suspecting a thing.
I'd ask Apple for details, but the company would never answer.
https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/ifood-bypassing-ios-privacy-location/
One of the biggest Brazilian apps/startups, iFood, was peeking at iOS users location when it should’ve not. A reader of Manual do Usuário (my Portuguese-written blog) noticed the glitch/bug while using iOS 16.2. iFood, Brazilian largest food delivering app evaluated at USD 5.4 billion, was accessing his location when not open/in use, bypassing an iOS setting that restrict an app’s access to certain phone’s features. Even when the reader completely denied location access to it, iFood’s app continued to access his phone’s location.
This is why digging through random government documents is fun.
Newly published documents indicate Google Fiber has homed in on Boise and surrounding Ada County as its expansion targets in Idaho.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/google-fiber-eyes-boise-idaho-expansion-target
For the newly discovered (by me) hashtag #RomanSiteSaturday, photos I took a few years ago of the massive (nearly 50m high) Pont Du Gard aqueduct & bridge in southern #France, constructed in the 1st century CE.
#romanruins #romancivilization #Romanworld #Roman #PhotographyOnMastodon #photography #travelphotography
An enormous study of data on 3,814,479 participants (888,463 cases and 2,926,016 controls) found that #COVID19 increases the risk of:
Rheumatoid arthritis 198%
Ankylosing spondylitis 221%
Mixed connective tissue disease 214%
Systemic lupus erythematosus 199%
Inflammatory bowel disease 78%
Celiac disease 168%
Type 1 diabetes 168%
Mortality 20%
This isn't just "the flu." Please stay up to date on recommended boosters and #WearAMask.
There are a growing number of case reports of various autoimmune diseases occurring after COVID-19, yet there is no large-scale population-based evidence to support this potential association. This study provides a closer insight into the association ...
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