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Apple’s AirDrop makes weird latency spikes for Wi-Fi wonks, researcher finds

2 months 3 weeks ago
Cupertino wants you on certain channels, and pushes back if you have your own preferences

Networking researcher Christoff Visser has found that Apple devices cause Wi-Fi networks to “jitter” due to traffic generated by the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) tech that powers the peer-to-peer AirDrop filesharing tool.…

Simon Sharwood

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI

2 months 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile, civil services claims 75,000 days could be saved by the tech each year

Ignoring the skeptics and threat of an AI bubble, the UK government is pushing ahead with AI "sandboxing" and backing a raft of projects it claims could benefit from red-tape cutting.…

Lindsay Clark