![]() ![]() SMS phishing, or “smishing,” has been on the Posted an Instagram story about it and have gotten plenty of Verge employees on other carriers have also encountered them. Last few days - same for its MVNO Visible - and several Getting similar spam from their respective numbers over the Into the sender details took me to my own contact card. As best my iPhoneĬould tell, it was a legitimate message from me to myself. Spoofed as coming from my own phone number. Was something different about this particular message: it was Groan, roll my eyes, and quickly delete such a thing, but there Little gift” for supposedly paying my phone bill. This morning, I received a very blatant spam text offering me “a Wednesday, 30 March 2022 A Spate of SMS Spam From People’s Own Phone Numbers ★ Willis had the it that all great acting stars do: once you saw him in a role, it was impossible to imagine anyone else playing that part. I’ve been a huge Bruce Willis fan ever since Moonlighting (a show that, to my mind, doesn’t get nearly the credit it deserves for ushering in the modern era of “prestige TV”). According to The Times, Willis made 22 movies in 4 years. Sad story, but it explains Willis’s seemingly-odd low-budget film choices in recent years. Filmmakers proceeded to quickly film the actor’s parts, even as Willis questioned where he was: “I know why you’re here, and I know why you’re here, but why am I here?” two crew members said he asked aloud. ![]() “They stated that he was happy to be there, but that it would be best if we could finish shooting him by lunch and let him go early,” Johnson recalled of the conversation. Eads - and bluntly asked about the actor’s condition. Concerned about Willis’ mental state, he said he approached the actor’s team - which is led by his assistant-turned-handler Stephen J. But when the filmmaker and the actor met briefly before shooting began in Georgia last April, “it was clear that he was not the Bruce I remembered,” Johnson said. Johnson, who directed the low-budget film “White Elephant,” first worked with Willis decades ago when he was a stuntman. In interviews with The Times this month, nearly two dozen people who were on set with the actor expressed concern about Willis’ well-being. Meg James and Amy Kaufman, reporting for the LA Times:Īccording to those who have worked with the elder Willis on his recent films, the actor has been exhibiting signs of decline in recent years. LA Times: ‘Bruce Willis’s Aphasia Was Suspected by Coworkers for Years’ ★ John Siracusa: ‘Independence Day’ ★įinally. Count me on the side of his second argument. Three-minute clip from CNBC’s Squawk Box, wherein Jon Fortt argues - compellingly - both sides of the “What’s the business case for Apple’s original content strategy?” question. Jon Fortt Argues Both Sides of Apple’s Original Streaming Content Strategy ★ But it seems a bit odd that it took Facebook six months to fix this one, given how intense the scrutiny of the company has gotten for the very problem this bug made worse. It really does sound like a bug, and some bugs really are devilishly tricky to track down and fix. Subside a few weeks later and then flare up repeatedly until the Unable to find the root cause, the engineers watched the surge Outside fact-checkers, the News Feed was instead giving the postsĭistribution, spiking views by as much as 30 percent globally. Of suppressing dubious posts reviewed by the company’s network of The report, which was shared inside the company last week. Surge of misinformation began flowing through the News Feed, notes The engineers first noticed the issue last October, when a sudden Internal report on the incident obtained by The Verge. “integrity risks” over the past six months, according to an The Verge: ‘A Facebook Bug Led to Increased Views of Harmful Content Over Six Months’ ★Ī group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive rankingįailure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to There are some people who report getting good 5G coverage in remote locations that have poor LTE coverage, and 5G seemingly does work much better than LTE in places like stadiums and arenas with big crowds of people. Most of them seem to agree with Bray ( and me) that 5G offers no substantial practical advantages over LTE. Survey I ran, looking for actual real-world 5G impact to see if Iīray collected a lot of comments from various readers. Offered, or I didn’t believe the opportunity was anywhere near bigĮnough to justify the trillion-dollar build-out investment. I didn’t believe the supposed customers really needed what 5G Saying that obviously there’d be lots of opportunities for Pitches from companies who wanted to be part of the 5G build-out, When I was working at AWS, around 2017 we started getting excited Linked List: March 2022 Thursday, 31 March 2022 Tim Bray, 5G Skeptic ★ ![]()
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