Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman.

John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman. www.wired.com/story/tim-co...

-no phones, keep in rfid/faraday bags in there backpacks.,
-stop the computer based, chromebook based learning model.
-bring back writing on actual paper, writing answers on tests, writing spelling words etc.
-focus everything back to basically 1800 era schooling.

#tech #education #politics #us #ai #future
I am pretty sure to "prep" for the future, need need to do a few things to our us education system

-remove the entire test based model, all of it. no multiple choice, no scantrons, no standard testing. kill it all.

#iphone #apple #signal #android #techsky #tech #cybersecurity #opsec
well it seems there some app hygenie when using signal messenger we should be concerned about. the article says
iphone but just assume everywhere.

/action items it article.....
www.androidheadlines.com/2026/04/sign...

we shoudl standardize our taxes on the rich to what many other nations do just to level them playing field.

Sometimes vaccine efficacy is subtle. Sometimes it isn’t. Graph showing the number of measles cases after the 1st and 2nd MMR vaccines were recommended.

@drneilstone.bsky.social

Mdm doesnt work with lockdown
support.apple.com/en-us/105120

Assume if its already installed it may or may not work but it wont i stall

Only real issue is issued with mdm.

We have been dumbing down and dumping on our education system since 1980 what did people expect was going to happen

anybody with any military knowedgele knows ground work in
Iran is a mess. its mountians, and that plus prepared troops and drones would be messy.

Iran War: Gulf states debate US bases, military alliance The view that the US didn't consult regional allies before going to war with Iran, then Iran's retaliation, are raising doubts in the Gulf states: Did hosting US bases make them safer? Or did it make ...

#iranwar #iran #middleeast #tech #techsky #news #cybersecurity
This is the point of what Iran is doing; their attacks are not random and not without thought.
www.dw.com/en/iran-war-...

The Proliferation of DarkSword: iOS Exploit Chain Adopted by Multiple Threat Actors | Google Cloud Blog DarkSword is a new iOS exploit chain that leverages multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to fully compromise iOS devices.

#cybersecurity #apple #ios #iphone #privacy #google #lookout #verify
New stuff from google et al on an ios exploit chain pretty interesting read
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

How to Scan a QR Code on Samsung? QR codes have become a cornerstone of modern financial transactions — from instant bank transfers to contactless payments at checkout. On Samsung devices, scanning a QR code takes seconds, but doing i...

#payments #tech #techsky #qr #samsung
Here is a decent article on using QR codes
theconservativenut.com/how-to-scan-...

#iranwar #middleeast #tech #techsky #drones #news
#ukraine
Ukraine has become a leader in anti-drone warfare. and is now helping many ME nations. Ukraine is now becoming an arms exporter....
lemondenews.com/politics/gul...

Well, yes but its still based on Android ASOP.....

Ukraine-tested Shahed interceptors offered to Gulf states as Iran threat grows | The National

Defensive weapons such as interceptors now a 'must' for a Middle East under fire

Yeah, nobody can fight forever...

History has shown that wars without proper objectives tend to go and end poorly. This war had no real objectives and no exit plan.

I think this is a huge issue; some places in the EU have strict laws and guaranteed funding to prevent this. We should have LONG since protected our newspapers, sites, and sources.

really? How is congress ok with this nonsense?

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs soon Meta has confirmed that, soon, it will remove support for end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. Confirmed on a support page,...

#instagram #tech #techsky #privacy
seems meta is removing E2E in insta DMs
9to5google.com/2026/03/13/m...

and just like that, Ukraine expertise in drone warfare. has and will have made them a player in drone warfare. drones, are a major part of war now and that will only grow. using multi million dollar missles against a drone swarm is not effective.

Now we know why they pushed anthropic so hard and are going to punish them for not knelling.

Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design | TechCrunch It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions. 

It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions. 

#mageia #linux #linuxdesktop #vivaldi
if you rename a host and you have already installed vivaldi it breaks to fix
killall vivaldi-bin vivaldi
then
rm ~/.config/vivaldi/SingletonLock
rm ~/.config/vivaldi/SingletonSocket
rm ~/.config/vivaldi/SingletonCookie

Overall i like mageia, its kde is feels really polished and stable. and in my HyperV VM very stable so far and very usable as a work VM dev VM.

you can use XRDP with enhanced session mode sorta thing. though i didnt have to.

install hyperV daemons
dnf install hyperv-daemons
systemctl enable --now hypervkvpd
systemctl enable --now hypervvssd

disk pref
edit /etc/default/grub
ADD elevator=noop to the end
rerun grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

FIX screen res
edit /etc/default/grub
line: `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="..."`
ADD video=hyperv_fb:1920x1080 to the end repalcing the vga at the end

update grub
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg