jayyhu

For those curious, the two Xcode projects they found infected on Github were:

  ragulSimpragma/twitterTask
  yimao009/MVC-MVP-MVVM

Fortunately they look like personal projects so the spread seems minimal so far.

Apple seems to suggest that all well behaving programs:

>use the sysctlbyname function to check the hw.optional.avx512f attribute

So my guess it they probably just replace the AVX instructions with no-ops and let it blow up if the correct checks/fallbacks aren't in place.

>Rosetta translates all x86_64 instructions, but it doesn’t support the execution of some newer instruction sets and processor features, such as AVX, AVX2, and AVX512 vector instructions.

No AVX will probably mean that the vast majority of pro/graphics intensive apps won't work out of the box with Rosetta.

The author was/is a core contributor to the Swift language, (formerly) working for Apple.

According to their docs[1], three different ways of quantizing your model are supported - one of which is quantization-aware training (3).

[1] - https://pytorch.org/docs/master/quantization.html#quantizati...

In this scenario, I was thinking the federal government either through legislation, or executive action.

However, I'm not trying to push any political agenda, I just thought it was interesting that this was a good example of tech platforms being too powerful.

Right now, it seems that Apple has a lot to lose if the CCP were to suddenly cut off access to China -- both in terms of supply chain and in terms of market access. With an independent App Store, the CCP would have less leverage over the platform, since as a services-only company, it would be far less dependent on China. (In this scenario however, the Apple hardware division as a separate entity will still be very beholden to the whims of the CCP as they still depend on China for its supply chain and market access.)

If you look at Google right now, their Play Store still has the app available, mostly I believe, because the CCP has little or no leverage over Google to force their hand.

I do agree, tho that allowing side loading apps would also sidestep this issue altogether.

I think Apple's action here provides a good case for breaking up platforms. If the App Store were decoupled from the main hardware-making and hardware-selling part of Apple, then there wouldn't be a conflict of interest between providing a neutral app-selling platform and retaining access to foreign markets.