ArsTechnica on PassKey and how it has failed

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From Dan Goodwin at ArsTechnica.

It is so true, PassKey sounded so promising, but instead it is useless. First off since you have tot have a password and a PassKey means you gain no security benefits. And since every login is different, most the time there isn’t even an option to login using your PasKey.

Making me feel really old, MacRumors on today being the 41st anniversary of the Mac

From Hartley Charlton at MacRumors, Apple’s Macintosh Turns 41 Today.

Holy Cow, does this make me feel old. I has an Apple IIc with Green only monitor before I had a Macintosh (in fact I didn’t have a Mac until the Mac Classic, which I still have), but I do remember using the Mac + in School. OMG it was so amazing. It just changed everything.

And of course I still use one today (with a little use of a Microsoft surface, though I still had a Mac too).

Premiere Pro Beta ads visual search!

From Jessica Nuñez at Adobe Community, Now in Beta: Search Panel Finds the shot faster with visual search.

Now in Premiere Pro (beta), AI-powered Media Intelligence automatically identifies visuals such as people, objects, location, camera angles, and more across thousands of clips in seconds. With the new Search panel, use natural language to find these visuals, plus spoken words in transcripts or clips with embedded metadata like shoot date, location, or camera type – all at the same time. The media intelligence analysis is faster than real time and runs locally on your computer, there is no internet connection required. Your media and searches are never used to train Adobe’s AI models. 

This new search can help you at any stage of your edit, whether you’re diving into organizing hours of new footage, or you need to quickly find that one shot you know you’ve seen before.  

This is awesome, and I can’t wait to try it out as this is AI truly helping an editor vs being something to replace an editor (though it will certain hasten less need for assistant editors).

And here is the page on Adobe for the new feature.

California Wild Fires are brutal

I am already taking care of of our 7 month old full time, but we are also surrounded by the California wild fires, so it might take me a little while to do any posts. I already have literally zero free time. And have been doing posts on my iPhone, which is almost always dead as it is my only access to the internet.

So I will get back to regular posts, but it might take me a little bit.

I already know people who have lost their houses and who are watering their places to keep embers from catching, so we are pretty lucky so far, so everyone keep safe.

9to5Mac on Data Brokers may be forced to use protections that credit bureaus use

Data brokers may be banned from selling your personal data without good reason

From Ben Lovejoy on 9to5Mac.

This is a nice first step, as they can only use your data for things like credit checks, but data brokers should be illegal anyway. And in fact companies should be fines for every time they breach or release any of your personal data[

Merry Christmas

Hope you are all having a great holiday season!

We are having a wonderful holiday with family and hope you all do too.