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Re: Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

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A lot of the discussion here is pretty surprising. Saying "The information is in people's heads" is wild considering the allegations involve taking screenshots of documents, not just fond memories of working on hardware. Apple deserves a lot of criticism for how it's acted when losing employees, but these allegations are about a lot more than that.

Apple still has to prove the allegations and show that they justify an injunction against the product itself

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Tangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s

Wow red polo with a green polo underneath and double popped collars That’s a brave look

I like it actually :)

No comment about Loopt or his work since then however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt#SMS_invitation_issues

Just happy to see anything other than grey on dark-grey. The colors are very Apple/SONY too.

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Wow red polo with a green polo underneath and double popped collars That’s a brave look

Did you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...

I am quite sure long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt will eventually make a come back, given all the nostalgia wave from Gen Z, experiencing their grandfathers teenage years.

Re: Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

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Saw this in the legal filing: "he took advantage of an authentication bug to gain access to Apple’s confidential third-party cloud repository to download at least thirty-seven highly sensitive and proprietary technical documents related to, among other things, Apple’s hardware technologies and research and development." Anybody know what they mean by "third party" ? Who provides Apple internal employees with a cloud…

what's the authentication bug?

If you've logged into GitHub anywhere else, SSO won't sign them out.

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Good thing there’s no bitter contingent of devs who hate Sam!

He’s arguably one of the more hated public figures outside of politics, it would be much easier to list his die-hard fans.

Does Musk count as outside or inside politics?

Re: Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

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This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter from last year https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ . If this lawsuit results in the whole thing getting canned it might actually be good for OpenAI because it'll save them from pouring further billions down the drain over what will eventually be the Humane Pin 2.…

Tangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s

Wow, unbelievable find

Re: Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

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post #272

A lot of the discussion here is pretty surprising. Saying "The information is in people's heads" is wild considering the allegations involve taking screenshots of documents, not just fond memories of working on hardware. Apple deserves a lot of criticism for how it's acted when losing employees, but these allegations are about a lot more than that.

Apple still has to prove the allegations and show that they justify an injunction against the product itself

You think Apple would go through all this trouble if they didn't think they had a rock-solid case?
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