Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.

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Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine

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Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive

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