If you live in one of the top 60 metro areas, which is a lot of the population of the US, Amazon says you are getting over half your deliveries from them same-day or next day. According to geekwire.com, Amazon says it has achieved its fastest delivery speeds on record after overhauling its U.S. operations to put more items closer to customers. Amazon also makes the claim that it was able to hit the new delivery milestone while improving safety. That bit hasn’t been independently verified. The company says that they really didn’t get the better delivery times by making workers work faster…it really was positioning the items closer to customers that did the trick. 

Just as a lot of Apple watchers are getting excited about the upcoming iPhone 15’s getting smaller bezels around the screens, and the Pro models getting titanium for lighter weight, comes this. Macrumors.com reports that Apple also plans to reduce iPad bezel sizes. Apple is using a process first used on Apple watches called LIPO…NO, not liposuction…it stands for Low-injection pressure-over molding. With that kind of a tongue twister, you can see why they call it LIPO. So far, no word if the thinner bezels will make it to iPads yet this year, or in 2024. 

In good news for consumers…or at least less bad news, the Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new rules that require public companies to report data breaches within 2 days. Mashable.com says that SEC ruling goes on to say that the four-day rule can be delayed if the U.S. Attorney General decides that sharing the cybersecurity incident “would pose a substantial risk to national security or public safety.” In Europe, companies now have 3 days to report breaches.

A growing problem has been fake photos and videos…so-called ‘deep fakes.’ Now researchers at MIT have come up with a way to make deepfakes harder. Bgr.com reports its software called PhotoGuard. It changes certain pixels in an image, making it impossible for the AI to see them. The pic won’t change for us humans. Let’s hope that Android and Apple’s iOS adapt this to protect people. Here’s a link to the video that shows how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTC59Q6ZDNM&t=2s

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.