• gregorum@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      hush! we can’t our salacious headlines ruined with pesky details and nuance!

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzOP
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      9 months ago

      The timing is probably just coincidence. He probably submitted a bug bounty weeks or months earlier and it just now got included in release notes

      The fraudulent orders happened a few years ago, which was alleged recently

      The indictment states that the pair attempted to fraudulently obtain over $3 million from Apple through more than two dozen fraudulent orders. For orders that did complete, they obtained around $2.5 million in electronic gift cards and more than $100,000 in “products and services.” The scheme started in December 2018 and continued until at least March 2019.

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    9 months ago

    Well, that was a pretty cluelessly written article. The two things are entirely unrelated. The headline seems to imply that Apple changed its mind about the fraudulent activity and was wrong, but that is not what the details support.

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      9 months ago

      The article definitely could have been clearer, and the title is also clickbait. But what would be a better title? I tried drafting like 6 different ones and none were better.

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        I’d reverse it. “Security researcher who has been thanked by Apple for helping fix bugs in MacOS found to be a serial fraudster”

        Absolutely no reason to suggest that Apple “forgave” him, or that it was a mistake. I hate whoever wrote this article.

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    9 months ago

    I guess the title as is could make sense if fraud was part of stress testing

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    9 months ago

    What the fuck is that keyboard. Look, corporate news, if you want to try and be taken seriously you can’t use AI art. Point blank. Hear me now and believe me later.

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        9 months ago

        What the- ?? Do you see the ALT key in the middle of the picture? If that’s because the hands are wildly off center (which - wtf) then okay but that STILL doesn’t account for the “D” in the middle left being that far off. What’s that far off in the other direction, if this is supposed to be the center of the keyboard? Number keys? No. And that screen would have to be 22” long and 10” high if that was the case.

        These are clearly AI imaging artifacts.