Federal Trade Commission to Block Location Data Sales
IN THIS ISSUE: FTC to Block Location Data Sales; ChatGPT Programmed to Conceal; Amazon Nova Enters AI Space; TypeScript Over JavaScript: Making the Case; The Art of Graceful Degradation; Android 15 Does Windows, Sorta
FTC to Block Location Data Sales
The Federal Trade Commission last week announced its intention to ban the sale of location data collected from mobile users relating to healthcare, religion, politics and other categories deemed "sensitive" by the US agency.
ChatGPT is Programmed to Conceal
If AI has to be hard-wired to behave in a certain way, its accuracy can never be trusted. Just ask Brian Hood, the Australian mayor that ChatGPT falsely said had been imprisoned for bribery. Rather than repairing its tendency to hallucinate, OpenAI's solution was to block his name.
Part of Amazon's amazing success came from its ability to productize AWS, a system that it developed first for its own use. Last week it introduced Amazon Nova, a series of foundation models for generating text, images and video from text-based inputs.
TypeScript over JavaScript: Making the Case
From the title of the piece linked above ("Just say no to JavaScript"), one might think it was about the terrors of the world's most popular programming language. But it's actually making a case for switching to TypeScript, the strongly typed alternative that compiles into JavaScript.
The Art of Graceful Degradation
Let's face it, all apps fail at one time or another. To help maintain a pleasant user experience in the face of failure, it's best to design an app to behave well when one or more parts of it don't work as expected. Here's how to build an app that anticipates adapt to its environment.
Android 15 Does Windows, Kinda
As updates to Android 15 continue to appear, features dribble out like an ice cream cone in the desert. Among the most recent revelations is windowing of a sort, a new look for the Settings app and the return of lock-screen widgets. Learn about app behavior changes for Android 15+.
Edward Correia
