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Soon, neurological implants will make having a bad case of the Mondays a thing

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of the past. But the future's not here yet, so this is the tech news you get.

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Twitter, aka Elon Musk's X, is officially under investigation in the UK

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after its AI Grock, went full goon mode,

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allowing users to generate thousands of non-consensual sexualized images of

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women and children directly in the timeline. UK media regulator says

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Twitter may have violated the Online Safety Act, which requires platforms to

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block illegal content. UK technology secretary Liz Kendall announced the

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government is also bringing a new law into force this week, making it illegal

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for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate

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images. If found guilty, X faces fines of up to 10% of global revenue. Finally,

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it's based on percentages. Orcom could seek a court order to block the platform

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entirely in the UK, a net social good.

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Malaysia and Indonesia have already blocked Grock. And Democrats in the US

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are now asking Apple and Google to boot Twitter from their app stores. Musk,

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much like that kid in elementary school who flipped the Monopoly board if he

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lost, responded by complaining that people are looking for any excuse for

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censorship and suppressing free speech

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in a masterclass of public relations. He reposted AI generated images of UK Prime

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Minister Kier Starmer in a bikini. >> It's a good point. Hm. Never thought

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about it like that. >> You can't stop me from doing this. Kier [laughter]

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free speech. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

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also decided to wade into the fray. Why not? Calling the ban an attempt by

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gatekeepers trying to censor political opponents and arguing that all AI models

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go off the rails sometimes. The difference is not all AI models are

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baked directly into social platforms where they can generate CSAM right into

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the replies and wake up believing they're Hitler every other week. Also,

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going off the rails is usually seen as a bad thing, Tim. Eg. trains.

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Cloudflare just got slapped with a 14 million euro fine by the Italian

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government for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

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Italy's piracy shield law demands websites get nuked within 30 minutes of

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a copyright complaint with little to no judicial oversight. Cloudflare CEO

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Matthew Prince called it a scheme run by a shadowy cabal of European media

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elites. Ooh, drama. Prince threatened to

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pull all Cloudfare servers out of Italy,

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discontin free cyber security services for Italian users, and cancel pro bono,

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which I think is Italian [laughter] protection for the Milano Cortina

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Olympics. His exact words, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Now that's a

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spicy CEO. [laughter] In fairness to

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Prince, Italy's track record with implementing this law isn't great. Last

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year, they accidentally blocked Google Drive in the country for three hours.

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Mama mia. Researchers found hundreds of legitimate websites caught in the

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crossfire while actual pirates just move

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to the new address. Those have got to be some of the best pirates I've ever seen.

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Over in the UK, again, some members of parliament want to follow Australia's

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lead with a Conservative party proposing to ban people under the age of 16, if

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you can call them people, from social media entirely. The UK government also

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just ordered Ofcom to explore clientside scanning as a way to catch terrorism and

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CSAM related messages hidden by endtoend encryption protocols, aka allowing the

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UK government to read every message on your phone before it's encrypted. And

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speaking of digital crackdowns, Discord just got banned in Egypt, Jordan,

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Turkey, and Russia. Users reported stuck

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on loading screens, the telltale sign of government block rather than a service

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outage. In unrelated news, ProtonVPN saw

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a 103% spike in signups on Saturday alone with usage still climbing.

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>> Wow, good for them.

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>> Apple is gearing up to finally hopefully launch its big Siri refresh by

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partnering with Google's AI, spurning Open AI in the process, and making Siri

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a Gemini, which is too bad. My tarot card reading warns against befriending

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Geminis. I guess I've got no choice but to switch to Grock. Reuters calls it a

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multi-year deal. And in a joint statement, Apple and Google stressed

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that Gemini will complement Apple's own AI work rather than replace it. You

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know, some cost fallacy. Uh with user choice, ondevice processing, and privacy

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protections highlighted. At the same time, Google is pushing AI powered

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shopping, adding buy buttons in Gemini and AI search, and introducing a

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universal commerce protocol designed to let AI agents interact with multiple

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retailers in a standardized way. Not all of Google's AI experiments are moving

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forward. The company has pulled AI overviews for some medical searches

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after concerns about accuracy and potential harm for sensitive health

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queries dying in a scene. Which reminds

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us that Google's accumulate all data in the universe approach might not gel all

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that well with Apple's supposed commitment to user privacy. But

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regarding their partnership to relaunch Siri, Apple emphasizes that personal

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data won't be used for advertising or profiling. And I have learned that

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code on the screen to get started. There's actually a team of Russians out

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to get the quick bits in order to harvest valuable juices and convert them

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into new super steroids, BUT WE WON'T

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LET THEM. VALVE'S upcoming Steam machine

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may have just leaked at some check retailers with the listing showing a 512

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GB model around $950

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and a two TB version near $1,70.

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That's based on a rough conversion from Czech Coruna,

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>> a baggo. Oo, I want to take [laughter] you. >> WCCF points out that similar hidden

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listings popped up at multiple stores, though they likely include some retailer

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markups. Compared with consoles like the PS5, that's definitely on the pricey

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side, but Valve has not confirmed any official prices yet, and I always

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anxiously await the word of Gabin. Should I read the next bit, Gabin? His

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silence speaks volumes. Windows 11's latest insider build allows admins to

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finally uninstall Microsoft C-Pilot as long as the device is managed and you're

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the administrator. This works on pro, enterprise, and edu versions, giving IT

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teams more control over the AI tools on work devices. Copilot has

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single-handedly turned me into a gruff, individualistic veteran cop from an 80s

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action movie. I work alone. I don't want a co-pilot. Not after what happened to

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Clippy.

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As for other Microsoft news, in what I'll tentatively call a developing

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story, it appears that Twitter and YouTube users are finding that a Windows

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7 activation key belonging to infamous dead American financier, human

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trafficker, and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein can be used to

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successfully activate Windows 7 Home Premium. Good job. Free Windows. Now

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you're on a watch list. Was it worth it? Micron is trying to smooth things over

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as it shuts down its consumer brand. Crucial, reassuring users they're

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somehow still looking out for consumers. I don't know how, but maybe they'll

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explain that to us later. At the same time, the company warns that the DRAM

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shortage could stick around until 2028. We might not even be around back then,

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meaning higher RAM and SSD prices are probably here to stay

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>> by themselves. In [laughter] fact, as PC Gamer points out, a Tokyo computer shop

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is so desperate for inventory that it's put out a call for customers to sell

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their used gaming PCs offering pretty high prices for desktops, laptops, and

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even non-gaming rigs because new stock is critically low amid ongoing hardware

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shortages. At least Japan's got great convenience stores and delicious

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okonamiyaki. First time I've read that ever. All I've

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got is a Windows 7 activation key and my faith in Gabin. SpaceX just got FCC

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approval to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites, which will end up

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bringing their total to around 15,000. And they'd better hurry. China just

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filed to put 200,000 satellites in orbit. These maneuvers are happening

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amidst a Starlink blackout occurring in Iran, where authorities are using

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military jammers to block satellite internet. Trump says he's talking to

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Elon Musk, their friends on again, about restoring the internet in Iran, which

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I'm sure he'll get to once he's done his flame war with the entirety of the UK

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government. And Overview Energy just demonstrated sending beams of power from

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a moving airplane to devices on the ground, proving their airborne energy

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transfer concept can actually work. Announced in December, the tech was a

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successful proof of concept. And while it's still early days, it's a promising

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step towards space-based solar power, where sunlight collected in orbit could

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be sent down to Earth just like the regular sun does, or used in other

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high-tech energy applications in the future. It feels good to end the show on

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an upbeat note like that. Oh. Oh, no. No. They're going to use airplanes to

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block out the sun and steal all the solar energy, aren't they? We're always

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getting Mr. Burns. >> It's like he never died. >> But you're not going to get burned if

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you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. In fact, you might even get to see

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a new beefcake. James, what is it? I've

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convinced the Quickfits to lend me some valuable juices and I'm going to

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experiment with super steroids. >> He's joking. >> Do he's joking, guys. [laughter]