today's Tech news is extra premium so
it's sponsored by serto software that helps detex threats on iPhones we'll
have more to say about them later but until then speaking of iPhones and
premiums Apple just got fined 1.8
billion EUR or almost $2 billion by the
EU after Spotify complained about the company's anti-competitive App Store
practices ah apple and anti-competition a love story for the ages while that
might not sound like a lot for a multi-trillion dollar company the find
is almost four times larger than expected and actually caused Apple to
lose $80 billion in market value the
fine was levied after the European commission discovered that Apple bans
music streaming app developers from telling iOS users about cheaper
subscription Services outside their apps and also bans them from providing any
instructions on how to subscribe to said cheaper options these shocking facts
were uncovered by an exhaustive investigation lasting hundreds of
seconds it probably costs a lot though these practices undertaken by Apple are
illegal under EU law they have such good laws there and the block has ordered the
company to stop it now unsurprisingly
Spotify is happy with the decision while Apple pretty miffed Tim Cook and and the
boys Tim Cook and the boys Tim Cook and the boys they they say that they plan to
appeal the ruling claiming that the commission failed to uncover any
credible evidence of consumer harm I mean people love love being overcharged
isn't that why they buy iPhones Intel is shaking things up with their upcoming
aerol Lake processors at least that's aord reports from a reputable Chinese
leaker Golden Pig upgrade which is also the title of a movie cataloging my glow
up through college in a post on Billy Billy translated by video cards the
leaker claimed that AOL lake is highly unlikely to be named 15th gen and will
instead be core Ultra processor Series 2
according to wccf Tech this means Intel's 14th gen Raptor Lake CPUs will
be the last lineup to use separate naming schemes for desktop and mobile
processors furthermore Golden Pig States AOL Lake will ditch low power ecores and
hyperthreading and will only feature up to four x e cores Z cores half the
amount of XE cor's meteor Lake God even more shocking despite Intel hyping up
their 20 Ang from process the leaks suggest that most of aerol Lake will use
tsmc nodes apparently only mid-range AOL Lake processors with six pees and eight
e cores will actually use Intel's 20a
but it's unclear if that's just for mobile CPUs or for desktop skes as well
this is of course all unverified so we'll have to wait and see when AOL leag
actually launches but these allegations could still affect Intel CEO Pat
Ginger's chances of being named this year's sexiest Pat Ginger Alive by
People magazine he's in contention meta has
decided to stop paying Australian news Publishers after the company's current
deal EXP fires meta signed agreements in 2021 after the country's news media
bargaining code took effect the legislation allows the government to
designate digital platforms like Facebook as subject to certain
obligations if it is determined that there is a significant bargaining power
IM balance between said platforms and Aussie news businesses so far no
platforms have been designated due to agreements like the one meta has decided
to end but after meta announced their decision last week while also stating
that they would be deprecating Facebook's dedicated news tab in
Australia and the US the Australian government is looking to take action
against the check giant for its part meta claims that this decision was made
to better align their Investments with their services that people value the
most claiming the use of Facebook news in Australia and the US had dropped by
80% in the last year meta has also claimed that news makes up less than 3%
of what people see in their Facebook feed but the Aussie government has
fought back against that statistics they say the company has deprioritized news
content personally I agree the reason only 3% of what you see on Facebook is
news is because 17% of what you see are angry posts from older relatives and 80%
are ads now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by CTO one of the most
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like a box of chocolates if that box only fit five chocolates and the
chocolates were actually small news stories you eat them with your ears
apple is facing a class action lawsuit over alleged anti-competitive behavior
in the cloud storage Market this time a complaint filed in California accuses
the company of restricting certain Apple device file types to only back up to
iCloud things like app data and device
settings the filing alleges this allows Apple to stifle competition and infl
prices making iCloud one of the company's most profitable products the
lead plaintiff's representation the haens Burman Law
Firm has brought multiple class actions against Apple in the past including the
2011 lawsuit over price fixing in the Apple Books app it it makes sense if
there's anyone that knows something about overcharging it's a lawyer AMD's
CTO has teased AI powered FSR in an
interview with YouTube channel no priors lot of letters in there but what
whatever during the conversation the AMD executive and master of paper Mark paper
Master said we're enabling our gaming devices to upscale using Ai and 2024 is
really a huge deployment year for us at this point we aren't sure if this AI
upscaling will be limited to new hardware like what NVIDIA does or if
it'll be more accessible for older cards all we know for sure is that Mark paper
Master possesses at least 1,000 origami
cranes and they do his bidding Google seems to be planning to add a satellite
SOS feure to pixel phones based on an update for the Adaptive connectivity
Services apps according to Google news on telegram the feature sounds very
similar to iPhone's emergency SOS via satellite functionality unlike Apple's
version though satellite SOS teases a partnership with Garmin based on
screenshots users will be able to purchase Garmin search and rescue
Insurance cool I mean the last thing you
want to be worrying about while you're fighting for your life after falling off
a cliff is if you can even afford to get your ARM reattached thanks Garmin Google
has reportedly approached meta to partner on his in development Android XR
platform only to find themselves coldly rejected which is basically like getting
turned down for prom by that weird kid who bites according to meta CTO Andrew
Bosworth affectionately known as boss who confirmed the story Mena would love
to work with Google to create a cohesive VR ecosystem it's just that Google's
terms are just too restrictive meta Quest already uses an Android Fork as
its OS but they probably prefer to make their platform the standard rather than
submit to Google's demands demands like go to prom with me and stop biting some
people like the biting and China has plans to expand its already massive
video surveillance Network casually known as Skynet to the Moon as security
for the unmanned research station the country plans to start building in 2028
the system will reportedly monitor both infrared and visible light spectrum
using 3 and 1/2 oun cameras equipped with AI chips capable of identifying
locating tracking and aiming at suspicious targets independently if the
system detects abnormalities it will sound an alarm and initiate appropriate
response measures like sending a high-tech cyborg assassin back in time
to kill the mother of the human resistance leader to prevent him from
ever being born this could be a movie and a new
episode of TechLink will be born on Wednesday I can promise you it'll be
lightning and semi- trucks getting chopped in half but you better watch it
anyway or else will find you