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Pomiferous: database featuring more than 7,000 apple varieties

Pomiferous is the world's most extensive database of apples, containing information regarding more than 7,000 varieties. They're organized by name, pollination group, harvest period, and other characteristics.

Pomiferous is brought to you by two great friends each bringing their own unique skills, background, energy and imagination to a site that we hope will be of use to apple enthusiasts.

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can agentic AI consent on your behalf?

Tech companies have been promising that online shopping or booking a hotel can soon be handled by AI. Just tell it the different standards you're setting and to pick the cheapest price, and off you go.

We've seen agentic AI spectacularly fail; email inboxes cleared out, databases and hard drives deleted, and more. Where a few might really be down to hallucination or inexplicable actions, others…

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FBI Extracts Deleted Signal Messages from iPhone Notification Database

404 Media reports (alternate site):

The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database….

The news shows how forensic extraction—­when someone has physical access to a device and is able to run specialized software on it—­can…

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