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改正刑法により7月から「同意のない性的行為」が性犯罪とされたことを受け、17日に弁護士監修だという性的同意を記録するアプリ「キロク」が発表されたが、懸念の声が多々上がり、配信延期となる事態となっているようだ（ITmedia, ハフィントンポスト, J-CAST）。

改正刑法の成立時に、この法律を回避するためには性行為の前に事前に契約書を交わさなければいけないのでは？というジョークがあったが、まさにそのままのアプリのようだ。一番の問題点は、改正刑法では同意が強制されたものだったりした場合契約は同意は無効とされるが、それをどうやって証明するのかという点。これに対して、開発会社では後から申し立てが行える機能を追加するとしているが、それであれば結局同意を記録したところで何の意味もないのでは？という身も蓋もないツッコミがなされている。

また情報漏洩の懸念や、開発会社や弁護士が社名や名前を出さずに発表を行ったことにも懸念の声が集まっているようだ。

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Apple's increasing use of "serialization," which pairs hardware components with the logic board using proprietary software locks, is making simple repairs on devices like iPads and iPhones harder and more expensive. In a recent Forbes article, a repair expert claims the Apple Pencil won't work properly on the iPad Pro if the display is replaced with a non-genuine Apple part, or even a screen from another iPad. From the report: This has now been extended to the displays of fifth and sixth generations of the iPad Pro 12.9-inch and third and fourth generation 11-inch tablets, repair expert Ricky Panesar, founder of iCorrect.co.uk, told me. While repairing a customer's device, Panesar found that the Apple Pencil wasn't delivering straight lines when the iPad display was replaced with a screen from another Apple iPad. "We found with the newer versions of the iPad that when you put a new screen on, even if it's taken from another iPad, the pencil strokes don't work perfectly." Panesar explained to me. "They have a memory chip that sits on the screen that's programmed to only allow the Pencil functionality to work if the screen is connected to the original logic board." He continued. In practice, Panesar found that lines drawn on the replaced display (Panesar says he doesn't use aftermarket parts for repairs) with the Apple Pencil aren't completely straight. He demoed this in the video [here]. Panesar isn't the only person to discover this, a Reddit post from May complained about the same issue. The poster claimed to have bought a sixth generation iPad Mini from a reseller, which is having the same squiggly line problem. Commenters pointed out that the issue is likely related to serialization and linked to Panesar's video.

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米国でスターバックスのモバイルアプリに障害が発生し、ユーザーが注文していない品の用意ができたという誤った通知を多数送って混乱を招いたそうだ (INSIDER の記事、 The Verge の記事)。

トラブルが発生したのは 19 日。データ侵害を懸念するユーザーもいたが、同社によれば通知は誤って送られたもので、注文していない品に課金されることはないという。また、アプリで部分的な障害が発生し、事前注文機能や支払い機能も使用できなくなったそうだ。

米スターバックスのモバイルアプリでは昨年 5 月にも障害が発生して事前注文機能と支払い機能が使用できなくなっていた。今年3月にはテスト用の通知を誤って送り、この時もデータ侵害が懸念されたという。

スターバックスに限らず、スラドの皆さんが利用するお店のアプリで何か困ったことはあるだろうか。

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WhatsApp has announced it is retiring its Electron-based desktop app, forcing users to switch to the native app for their OS to continue using WhatsApp. Android Police reports: Back when WhatsApp was in the early stages of development, the developers created an app for desktop, based on the Electron JavaScript framework. This allowed them to share a code base between WhatsApp Web and the new, platform-agnostic desktop app that worked on both Windows and macOS. Around four weeks ago, a countdown timer showed up on the main screen of this desktop app, announcing its shutdown. Doomsday is now here and WABetaInfo reports anyone visiting the Electron-based app just sees a screen saying "App expired." The deprecated app helpfully links to the native WhatsApp Desktop app available on the Microsoft Store or the Mac App Store. The new native app has been stable for around a year now, but is still relatively new. Some users may lament the transition period was too short, or the native app still doesn't have all the functionality for business users, like catalog management and quick replies, and they would be right.

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Jonathan Corbet, writing at LWN: In the fast-moving open-source world, programs can come and go quickly; a tool that has many users today can easily be eclipsed by something better next week. Even in this environment, though, some programs endure for a long time. As an example, consider the PostgreSQL database system, which traces its history back to 1986. Making fundamental changes to a large code base with that much history is never an easy task. As fundamental changes go, moving PostgreSQL away from its process-oriented model is not a small one, but it is one that the project is considering seriously. A PostgreSQL instance runs as a large set of cooperating processes, including one for each connected client. These processes communicate through a number of shared-memory regions using an elaborate library that enables the creation of complex data structures in a setting where not all processes have the same memory mapped at the same address. This model has served the project well for many years, but the world has changed a lot over the history of this project. As a result, PostgreSQL developers are increasingly thinking that it may be time to make a change.

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theodp writes: "My advice to all the young tech enthusiasts, future engineering managers, and CTOs is simple," writes Vadim Kravcenko in The Surprising Power of Documentation. "Cultivate a love for documentation. You may view it as a chore, an afterthought, or a nuisance. But trust me when I say this: Documentation isn't just a task on your to-do list; it's a pillar for success and a bridge that connects ideas, people, and vision. Treat it not as a burden but as an opportunity to learn, share, and create an impact." So, what would Goldilocks make of your organization's documentation -- Too much? Too little? Just right? Got any recommended tools and management tips for creating useful and sustainable documentation?

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Apple has released (PDF) its first App Store Transparency Report, as mandated by a lawsuit settlement in 2021. In 2022, the report reveals that over 1.6 million apps were rejected, 186,195 apps were removed for violating App Store rules, and China topped the list with the most government-requested app takedowns. MacRumors reports: In 2022, there were 1,783,232 apps on the App Store, with 6,101,913 total app submissions received and 1,679,694 apps rejected for various reasons like safety, performance, design, and legal. Apple provides numbers on the specific App Store guidelines that were violated by rejected apps, with the highest number of single rule rejections (149,378) due to violations of the Design 4.0 rule and the DPLA 3.2 Fraud rule (32,009). A total of 253,466 app submissions were approved after rejection when developers worked with Apple to resolve issues, and 186,195 apps were removed from the App Store for breaking the App Store rules. The majority of apps removed from the App Store were games, followed by Utilities, Business, and Education. Apple outlines the total number of apps removed from the App Store due to government takedowns, and China is at the top of the list. The Chinese government asked Apple to remove 1,435 apps, but 1,276 of those apps were games that were removed for not having the GRN license that China requires. Apple removed 14 apps at the request of India's government, 10 apps for Pakistan, and seven apps for Russia. In other countries including Turkiye, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Italy, Latvia, and Nigeria, fewer than two apps were removed at the government's request. Developers appealed 18,412 app removals in total, and Apple restored just 616 developer accounts. Apple says that apps that are appealed were typically pulled from the App Store for fraud or illegality, which is why the rejected appeal number is so high. There are 36,974,015 registered developers, and in 2022, Apple terminated 428,487 developer accounts. According to Apple, developers are removed from the Apple Developer Program "for a number of reasons," but most commonly because of accounts that are connected with other terminated developer accounts. 3,338 developers appealed their App Store bans, and Apple reinstated just 159 accounts. Again, Apple says that this is because "most developer account terminations that are appealed are removed from the App Store due to fraud," so Apple rejects most of them. 282,036,628 customer accounts were terminated, but that number does incorporate all accounts created, even those made on the website by non-iPhone and iPad users. There were 656,739,889 average weekly visitors to the App Store and 747,873,877 average weekly app downloads. Customer accounts searched the App Store 373,211,396 times on average, and 1,399,741 apps appeared in the top 10 results of at least 1000 searches. You can download the report from Apple's legal site.

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Apple is bringing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to the iPad. Both apps will be available for $4.99 per month or $49 per year on iPad starting on May 23rd. For comparison, buying Logic Pro on a Mac costs $199.99, and buying Final Cut Pro normally costs $299.99. From a report: The video and music editing apps will come with enhancements specifically for iPads. Final Cut Pro, for example, will come with a new jog wheel that's supposed to make the editing process "easier than ever," allowing you to navigate the magnetic timeline, move clips, and perform edits using just your finger and multi-touch gestures. There's also a new feature called Live Drawing that lets you use your Apple Pencil to draw and write directly on top of video content. If you have an iPad Pro with an M2 chip, you can use the Apple Pencil's hover feature to skim and preview footage without even touching the screen.

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Microsoft が米国の経済制裁の対象となっていないロシアの民間企業とのビジネス再開を決めたと Kommersant が報じている (Neowin の記事、 Kommersant の記事、 NEXTA のツイート)。

Microsoft はロシアのウクライナ侵略に伴う制裁措置で更新プログラム提供を中止していたが、今年に入って制限が緩和されたと報じられた。その一方で、Microsoft プレジデントのブラッド・スミス氏は 3 月にロシアでの新規販売を停止すると発表している。

Kommersant によれば、Microsoft は今年初めから国際的企業のロシア代表事務所にソフトウェアライセンスの更新を持ち掛けているという。記事では Microsoft がロシアでの存在感を維持し、海賊版を防止するためだとする市場関係者の見解を紹介しているが、Microsoft 製品は並行輸入のパッケージ版が流通しているとの記述もみられる。

業界団体 RAUIE (Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs) のビタリー・マンケビッチ氏は Microsoft のロシアでのビジネスに対する西側当局の圧力が強くないことから、Microsoft がロシアでビジネスを再開できるかどうか様子を見ているとの見解を示している。マンケビッチ氏によれば、Microsoft は複数のロシア企業にもソフトウェアライセンス更新を持ちかけているという。

Microsoft は 4 月、2012 年から 2019 年にかけてロシアなど経済制裁対象国の団体や個人にソフトウェアライセンスを販売し、ライセンス認証したとして米当局に民事制裁金を科せられ、財務省外国資産管理室 (OFAC) へ約 300 万ドル、商務省安全保障局 (BIS) へ約 62 万ドルを納めることに合意している(PDF)。

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Checkmarx の年次アプリケーションセキュリティ報告書「Global Pulse on Application Security」によると、86% の組織が既知の脆弱性を含むコードをデプロイしたことがあるそうだ (Checkmarx のブログ記事、 BetaNews の記事)。

報告書では調査会社 Censuswide を通じて全世界 1,500 人以上の CISO や AppSec 管理者、開発者から収集したデータと、クラウドベースのアプリケーションセキュリティプラットフォーム Checkmarx One のデータをまとめたものだ。既知の脆弱性を含むコードを本番環境にデプロイする頻度に関する設問では、23% が頻繁 (Often) と回答し、45% が時々 (Sometimes)、18% がまれに (Rarely) と回答しており、合計で 86% が脆弱性を含むコードをデプロイしていることになる。なお、わからない(Not sure)という回答も 1% あり、既知の脆弱性を含むコードをデプロイしたことがない (Never) という回答は 13% となる。

既知の脆弱性を含むコードを使用する理由として AppSec 管理者とソフトウェア開発者の 40% 近くが「ビジネスや機能、セキュリティに関連した締め切りに合わせるため」といった時間不足を挙げているという。また、CISO の 3 分の 1 近くは開発者が常時ポリシーに従っているとは限らないと認識しているそうだ。

88% の組織は自ら開発したアプリケーションの脆弱性によるセキュリティ侵害を過去 12 か月間に受けており、AppSec 管理者の 41% がオープンソースソフトウェアのサプライチェーン攻撃、開発者の 40% はクラウドリソースやコード化されたインフラストラクチャ(IaC)、コンテナの誤設定をセキュリティ侵害の原因に挙げているとのことだ。

スラドの皆さんはコードに脆弱性があると知りながら使わざるを得ない場面があるだろうか。

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The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade. From a report: The so-called Shanghai update enables investors to queue up to withdraw Ether coins that they had pledged to help operate the network in return for rewards, a process called staking. Tim Beiko, who helps to co-ordinate the development of Ethereum, posted on Twitter on Wednesday that the upgrade is now "official." The network revamp -- also known as Shapella -- is designed to let people exit an Ether staking investment and has stirred debate on whether the appeal of the largest token after Bitcoin will increase over time. "Ethereum is updating and navigating with great skill -- so far anyway -- and cementing its position as the No. 2 crypto," said Aaron Brown, a crypto investor who writes for Bloomberg Opinion. He added that the network is "moving to the future much faster than Bitcoin." About 1.2 million of Ether tokens -- worth approximately $2.3 billion at current prices -- are expected to be withdrawn over the next five days, according to researcher Coin Metrics. Some $36.7 billion of Ether is locked up for staking, data from Staking Rewards shows.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Jonathan M. Gitlin: A perennial question that has accompanied the spread of Android Automotive has been the question of support. A car has a much longer expected service life than a smartphone, especially an Android smartphone, and with infotainment systems so integral to a car's operations now, how long can we reasonably expect those infotainment systems to be supported? I got the chance to put this question to Dirk Hilgenberg, CEO of CARIAD, Volkswagen Group's software division: Given the much longer service life of a car compared to a smartphone, how does VW plan to keep those cars patched and safe 10 or 15 years from now? "We actually have a contract with the brands, which took a while to negotiate, but lifetime support was utterly important," Hilgenberg told me. The follow-up was obvious: How long is "lifetime"? "Fifteen years after service, and an extra option for brands who would like to have it even longer; you know, we have to guarantee updatability on all legal aspects," he said. "So that's why we are, as you can imagine, very cautious with branches of releases because every branch we need to maintain over this long time. So when you have end of operation and EOP [end of production] and it's 15 years longer, we still have to maintain that; plus, some brands actually said 'because my vehicle is a unicorn, it's something that people want even more, they only occasionally drive it but they want to be safe,'" Hilgenberg told me. (The unicorn reference should make sense in the context of VW Group owning Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Porsche, whose cars are often collected and can be on the road for many decades.) In those cases, CARIAD would provide continued support, Hilgenberg said. "Especially as cybersecurity, all the legal things are concerned, you see that already. Now we do upgrades and releases, whether it's in China, whether it's in the US, whether it's in Europe, we take very cautious steps. Security and safety has, in the Volkswagen group, you know, the utmost importance, and we see it actually as an opportunity to differentiate," he said. In an update to the article, Ars said CARIAD got in touch with them to add some clarifications. "As part of its development services to Volkswagen's automotive brands, CARIAD provides operational services, updates, upgrades and new releases as well as bug fixes and patches relating to its hardware- and software-products. We usually support our hard- and software releases for extended periods of time. In some cases this can be up to 15 years after the end of production ('EOP') for hardware and 10 years after EOP for software releases. Moreover, there are legally mandatory periods we comply with, e.g. cybersecurity as well as safety updates and patches are provided for as long as a function is available. In addition, there may be individual agreements with brands for longer support periods to specifically satisfy their customers' needs," wrote a CARIAD spokesperson. Ars notes: "there's no guarantee that OEMs can make the business model work for this long-term support."

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Microsoft の 1 万人規模のレイオフで、AI 組織内の倫理社会チームが消滅したそうだ (Platformer の記事、 Neowin の記事、 Ghacks の記事)。

チームは製品設計に AI 原則が密接に組み入れられていることを確実にする役割を果たしていたが、Microsoft が AI をメインストリームの製品として世に出すタイミングで失われたことになる。同社では AI 開発を進めるにあたって適用すべきルールや原則を作る Office of Responsible AI が活発に活動しているが、その原則を製品に反映させるためには具体的にどのようにすればいいのかをチームが指導していたという。

チームの縮小は昨年 10 月から始まっていたが、組織再編を進めるサティア・ナデラ氏などからの圧力が非常に強く、人員を削減する以外の選択肢はなかったようだ。AI 担当コーポレートバイスプレジデントのジョン・モンゴメリー氏は「チームがなくなるのではなく進化していくのだ」と説明し、メンバーの多くは AI 組織内の他部署に異動していった。規模が縮小されたチームでは計画の遂行が困難になっていたが、3 月 6 日になってモンゴメリー氏がチームの解散を告げたとのこと。

チームは製品に AI 原則を反映させる一方で、製品の行き過ぎを防ぐ役割も務める。そのため、ライバルよりも先に製品を出したい上層部では、長期的な視点で考えることに特化したチームに対する興味が薄れているとも考えられるとのことだ。

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After debating the term in a recent Slashdot subthread, longtime reader Tablizer wants to pose the question to a larger audience: what exactly are 'microservices'? Over the past few years I've asked many colleagues what "microservices" are, and get a gazillion different answers. "Independent deploy-ability" has been an issue as old as the IBM hills. Don't make anything "too big" nor "too small"; be it functions, files, apps, name-spaces, tables, databases, etc. Overly large X's didn't need special terms, such as "monofunction". We'd just call it "poorly partitioned/sized/factored". (Picking the right size requires skill and experience, both in technology and the domain.) Dynamic languages are usually "independently deployable" at the file level, so what is a PHP "monolith", for example? Puzzles like this are abound when trying to use the Socratic method to tease out specific-ness. Socrates would quit and become a goat herder, as such discussions often turn sour and personal. Here's a recent Slashdot subthread debating the term.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When you first start messing with the command line, it can feel like there's an impermeable wall between the local space you're messing around in and the greater Internet. On your side, you've got your commands and files, and beyond the wall, there are servers, images, APIs, webpages, and more bits of useful, ever-changing data. One of the most popular ways through that wall has been cURL, or "client URL," which turns 25 this month. The cURL tool started as a way for programmer Daniel Stenberg to let Internet Chat Relay users quickly fetch currency exchange rates while still inside their chat window. As detailed in an archived history of the project, it was originally built off an existing command-line tool, httpget, built by Rafael Sagula. A 1.0 version was released in 1997, then changed names to urlget by 2.0, as it had added in GOPHER, FTP, and other protocols. By 1998, the tool could upload as well as download, and so version 4.0 was named cURL. Over the next few years, cURL grew to encompass nearly every Internet protocol, work with certificates and encryption, offer bindings for more than 50 languages, and be included in most Linux distributions and other systems. The cURL project now encompasses both the command-line command itself and the libcurl library. In 2020, the project's history estimated the command and library had been installed in more than 10 billion instances worldwide. How do you celebrate a piece of indispensable Internet architecture turning 25? Stenberg plans to host a "Zoom birthday party" at 17:00 UTC time on March 20. Double-check that time in your area: "It is within this weird period between [when] the US has switched to daylight saving time while Europe has not yet switched," Stenberg writes on his blog. Stenberg plans to sip on a 25-year Bowmore Islay single-malt Scotch, while presenting the project's history and future plans while taking questions. (A link to the Zoom call will be added to Stenberg's blog post closer to March 20.)

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NVIDIAは28日、同社のGeForce RTX 30/40シリーズ向けに低解像度のビデオを超解像化できるドライバ「RTX Video Super Resolution（RTX VSR）」の提供を開始した。この機能は、Microsoft EdgeまたはGoogle Chrome上で再生している低解像度のビデオを最大4Kまで超解像化できるもの（NVIDIA、AV Watch、NVIDIAの説明動画、検証動画）。

リリースによると、インターネット帯域幅の80％ほどがストリーミングビデオであり、その90％は1080p以下の解像度でストリーミングされているという。見る側が1080pを超えるディスプレイ環境を用いている場合、画面の解像度に合わせたスケーリング処理が必要となるが、現状の多くは簡単なアップスケーリング技術を用いていることから、ぼやけた絵面になっていることが多いとされている。RTX VSRでは低解像度のコンテンツを最大4Kにアップスケールするだけでなく、AIを用いてビデオのシャープネスと明瞭度を向上させるとしている。

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dcblogs writes: Despite the demand of employers like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, AT&T and others, nearly 40% of software engineers preferred only remote roles, and if their employers mandated a return to the office, 21% indicated they would quit immediately, while another 49% said they would start looking for another job, according to Hired's 2023 State of Software Engineers. This report gathered its data from 68,500 software engineering candidates and a survey of more than 1,300 software engineers and 120 talent professionals. Employers open to remote workers "are able to get better-quality talent that's a better fit for the organization," said Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired, a job-matching platform for technology jobs.

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headless 曰く、

Microsoft が Word からドキュメントを Kindle に送る「Send-to-Kindle」機能を開発しているそうだ (Microsoft 365 のロードマップ、 Neowin の記事)。

Microsoft 365 のロードマップによれば、Send-to-Kindle 機能はユーザーが Microsoft Word ドキュメントを Amazon アカウントと Kindle デバイスにエクスポートできるようにする機能だという。提供時期はプレビュー・一般向けともに 2023 年 3 月となっている。

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