Linked List: August 29, 2016

Monday, 29 August 2016

Wired: ‘How to Digitally Erase All Your Stuff When You Quit Your Job’ ★

The article is kind of blah — I’ll bet most DF readers know this stuff already. But the comments from stick-up-the-ass IT professionals are solid gold.

Apple Event: Wednesday September 7 ★

Jim Dalrymple:

Apple on Monday send out an invitation for a special event to be held on September 7 at 10:00 am. This year’s event will be held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California.

I made a lucky guess.

The visual style of the invitation strongly suggests bokeh, giving credence to what I first heard two years ago: that Apple is shooting for SLR-quality imaging in the iPhone cameras (or at least, alas, the Plus model).

Dalrymple:

There has been speculation that new Macs will also be announced at this event, but I don’t think so. I’ve previously outlined my reasoning for thinking the company will not introduce Macs in September.

Only a fool bets against Dalrymple, so I won’t. It makes sense to me, however, that Apple would announce new Macs alongside the new iPhones. The iPhones are already sharing the stage with the new Apple Watch 2 models, and I got the feeling last year that Apple very much wanted to stick with just one fall event. If Dalrymple is right, though, I would guess the new Macs will be introduced in October — not with an event, but with small-scale private media briefings.

The Verge: ‘Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics’ ★

This headline is charitable at best — the real headline should be “Facebook fires human curators, false headline immediately goes viral”.

Update: Ars Technica nails it: “Facebook Fires Human Editors, Algorithm Immediately Posts Fake News”.