you know TechLink is fine but I'm considering a new show called TechLink
light will cut every sentence in half I mean you can extrapolate the rest of
what I'm going to YouTube has brought back its premium light subscription
option a year after cancelling it apparently hoping it'll seem a bit more
enticing to users now that they made it worse see the previous iteration of
Premium light available in select etions
got you adree viewing but not downloads or background play for half the cost of
full premium the new premium light spotted by threads and Reddit users in
Australia Germany and Thailand still costs around half a regular premium sub
the only change appears to be that instead of no ads you now see limited
ads as seen in a screenshot posted by musician Jonah monzano YouTube says this
means most videos are ad free except for
music content and shorts and there will be non-interruptive ads when you search
and browse and sure the ads aren't barking at you like a dog but just by
being there they interrupt my
thoughts YouTube confirmed to Android authority that they're bringing the plan
back but instead of saying they're testing to see whether they can make
more money while offering users a worse experience for the same price they said
they're testing a different version that's not bad everybody's different
some of us are worse Microsoft and open AI have been thick as data Thieves for
years but now a new New York Times report says the two companies are
getting on each other's neural networks it technically still works that's what
Microsoft is getting a little competitive putting more resources into
building its own AI models and open AI wants even more compute power that's
probably exacerbating another conundrum they're trying to figure out the
question of how and when exactly Microsoft is going to see a return on
the $4 billion they've invested in open
AI as the Li lied profit controlled by a nonprofit transforms into your garden
variety for-profit company projecting itself to be both the doom and savior of
the world you know according to the times some at open aai will blame
Microsoft for not giving them the compute they need if some other company
is first to achieve AGI artificial general intelligence however according
to a clause in their contract if open aai does get to AGI Microsoft loses
access to the company's AI models how did things get this bad I don't know
maybe Sam mman has been paying too much attention to his eyeball scanning crypto
side hustle worldcoin which just rebranded to be just world and unveiled
a shiny new upgraded orb oh man I thought that thing was done can't keep
your eyes off that guy but for all the tension open Ai and Microsoft are still
good enough Pals to bring the chat GPT app to Windows they pressed the launch
button together it was like they were practicing for the day they'll have to
press the the kill switch for the nihilistic machine God they built
together only for it not to work and that's what friendship is all about I
learned that from Naruto Twitter AKA X is changing the meaning of the word
block on the platform to mean only block
engagement in a similar way to how they changed the letter X to mean Facebook
meets forchan with more ads somehow when the
change rolls out blocking someone will still let them see your posts but
they'll be powerless to like reply or repost any of them this way blocked
accounts can see if the blocker is sharing harmful or private information
about them at the cost of the blocker's own privacy but have you ever been
blocked it hurs but that's not the only tactically
genius move by Twitter this week they also updated their privacy policy to
allow third parties to train AI on your data unless you go to the settings and
opt out and they changed their terms of service to require legal disputes to
take place in a specific Texas Court District presided over by the supposedly
honorable Reed o' Conor an investor in
Tesla maybe Twitter's just grumpy the EU
just said the platform doesn't make enough Revenue to fall under the digital
markets act but it is subject to the Digital Services act under which Twitter
is facing potential fines the EU is reportedly mulling over whether to
consider Elon Musk as the provider of x
meaning that revenue from his other non-publicly traded companies SpaceX
neuralink xai and the boring company would be used to calculate those fines I
bet he wishes he had a block button for the EU right now you know
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here a federal judge in California has granted Google's request to delay an
order that would have forced them to open up the Play Store to host other app
stores after a court battle last year found the Play Store had become an
illegal Monopoly this may give Google some time to appeal the whole ruling
since they argue you can still download apps that aren't on the Play Store it's
Android you can sideload as an example they say fortnite can be downloaded in
three whole ways through the Galaxy store sideloading or the Epic gam store
except the Epic gam store itself can only be Sid loaded and epic removed
fortnite from the Galaxy store coincidentally in protest of how Samsung
started blocking side loading by default on their phones so there's not only just
one single option it's objectively harder than using the Play Store there's
got to be a word for that that makes one think of a round-faced cartoon man with
a mustache and a top hat his name's Uncle Penny bags Uncle Penny bags
researchers testing 6G wireless tech
have managed to transmit data at 938
gigabits per second or around 117
gigabytes per second while single data signals have been sent at over 1,000
gbits per second this test sent multilex
data across frequencies from 5 to 150
GHz using a combination of digital to analog converters optically modulated
signals and frequency locked lasers to create the nerdiest sentence I think
I've ever spoken now of course 6G won't provide a terabit per second download
speed all the time but if the ratio to average to top theoretical speed is
anything like 5gs real world 6G could be
13,000 times faster that may sound
ridiculous to you but actually yes I agree Qualcomm has apparently cancelled
the Snapdragon dev kit and refunded all orders according to Jeff gearing my
internet dad gearing received an email confirming the news from Arrow the
electronics company from which geerling received his devkit eventually geerling
initially expected to receive the devkit in July but didn't get it until last
month Garling himself called the devkit a missed opportunity so I'm sure he'll
be happy to get his money back maybe he can use it to buy a baseball glove and
we could I don't know maybe play catch
sometime Gigabyte is launching a Thunderbolt 5 addin card that it's named
Thunderbolts 5 a name that seems almost
purposely designed to cause confusion on
one hand it's great that users with old systems will be able to upgrade to
Thunderbolt 5 but it's named like the bootleg ripoff of a more popular movie
like Pulp faction or the lion queen
Thunderbolts 5 is a certified addin card
that has a pair of six pin PCIe power connectors and grants full Thunderbolt 5
functionality including up to 80 gbits per second of bidirectional bandwidth or
120 gbits per second unidirectional that's really cool but it's a bit like
instead of being named Robin Batman's sidekick was called Batman's
no Batman's really thinks he's going to
stop crime no and moly robotics wants
you to buy this personal chef Robo ARM
well probably not you unless you've got to spare $115,000 burning a hole in your
pocket and your spouse got mad the last time you bought a yacht without
discussing it first the cooking machine has one clear flaw in that it has no
means of sensing its environment it requires a human operator to prepare and
position the ingredients where it expects them to be and at that point you
might as well just make your own food the bot or or pay somebody to make use
the machine to make your food probably hire a pretty good Chef for that price
the bot also doesn't seem prepared for any kind of improvisation you'll need to
pick from a pre-approved list of dishes of which there are currently 12 hope
you're a big fan of spaghetti putanesca which fun fact means prostitute
spaghetti what but to learn more inappropriately
named past Ed dishes you'll have to come back on Monday and there will also be Tech news
but yeah whatever