mmm tech news it's really such a great
protein rich snack but please really don't eat the moisture absorbing packet
inside the bag apple released iOS 14.5 last week
complete with a new app tracking transparency feature which forges iphone
apps to ask permission before collecting user data for ad personalization well
facebook obviously hasn't been a big fan of it so they might start showing pop-up
education screens that educate the user on the benefits of personalized ad
tracking thank you thanks facebook you see idiot end user
allowing tracking will help keep facebook free of charge and support
businesses that rely on ads to reach their customers the notice may also pop
up on instagram which is who knew owned by facebook
it's no secret that ad tracking is a big source of revenue for facebook and other
social media platforms but the implication is that facebook may charge
you money in the future wait facebook are you are you threatening me do you
know who i am of course you do because you know the
intimate details of everyone's life then you know what i'm capable of which is
not paying for facebook damn it very capable of not doing that so capable
researchers have found new variations of the infamous specter bug which affects
nearly every Intel and AMD CPU out there it continues to haunt us like some kind
of some kind of ghost
exactly patches for existing spectre-related vulnerabilities do
nothing to protect processors against these new flaws but there's good news
these flaws are extremely hard to exploit requiring an attacker to
directly target your machine and get through every other layer of security
first so we may not see any fixes for current cpus especially as the patches
would reduce performance even more so than the first round of spectre bugs
man this specter is even more relentless than the one from james bond that's not
a different metaphor it's not the same thing it's not a ghost i wouldn't go so
far as to call foldable phones all the rage i mean do you know anyone that
actually has one no no what do you mean Linus yeah yeah he doesn't actually use
it because it's kind of crap but that isn't stopping apple from dipping its
toes into the folding water as a report from longtime
apple analyst ming chi kuo indicates that cupertino wants to sell up to 20
million samsung OLED based foldable iphones in 2023 that's still a little
ways off but several notable chinese phone manufacturers are expected to
start selling foldable models within the next year and may end up shipping a
total number of units close to what apple is looking at selling just two
years from now but just watch these folding iphones are gonna be way cooler
than air tags they're gonna have a room for a loop in it are they gonna be air
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the apple versus epic trial started on a decidedly unepic note when the phone
line that allowed observance to listen in on the proceedings was left unmuted
really somebody's getting fired gamers quickly
started chiming in asking for fortnite mobile back are you is this a joke no oh
geez and using plenty of foul language the court did eventually get things
under control but they think they should have left it the gamers probably had some good points to make about all of
this people on the ground yeah yeah cause that's what lawsuits are
about the end users verizon is selling yahoo
and aol to an investment firm for five billion dollars
wait aol is still around and worth money what
turns out it is as aol was actually the parent of engadget techcrunch and a few
other well-known sites yahoo of course still offers email a web portal and
sports coverage amongst other things this would all sound pretty routine if
verizon hadn't bought the two legacy internet companies for nine billion in
2015. they didn't get the memo about the
dotcom bubble bursting i guess back in the 90s i i'm not very good at
math but i'm thinking those numbers don't line up
they were taking a gamestop bet ah
Intel has big plans for its fabs in the us as team blue has announced he'll be
spending three and a half billion dollars you know this just
so much math to be upgrading its fab in new mexico creating 700 jobs the
refurbished plant will be using foveros a method that allows 3d stacking of
chips that Intel expects will make its manufacturing more versatile and more
competitive with the likes of tsmc maybe it'll be fueled by uh green chilies
that's what we've been missing yeah just squeeze it on there i'm more of a red
chili kind of guy if you're a playstation gamer that's been hoping for a better chat form you're in luck as
discord is looking to be coming to psn early next year unfortunately we don't
know if it'll be akin to the full fat version for desktop or if it'll be
scaled down somewhat but it'll be nice to have an option that appears to be
more cross-platform rather than relying on relatively discordant services that
isn't owned by microsoft not yet
it might still happen and fingers crossed random products you
buy off amazon might be getting a little safer a court in california has ruled
amazon bears responsibility for the safety of the products it sells even if
those products aren't amazon branded there are obviously lots of shady
products on amazon marketplace from third parties so hopefully now that
automatic knife block you've got your eyes on won't kill you like last time
until amazon kills you that's our show come back wednesday for more tech news
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