to celebrate St Patrick's Day I personally verified that today's episode
is 100 snag free you're welcome
snakes Samsung's exynos chipsets have a Galaxy's worth of vulnerabilities
according to Google's crack security research division project zero named for
the amount of Tolerance they have for insecure software
Google's team claims that on December 15 2022 they disclosed eight
vulnerabilities to Samsung four of those vulnerabilities allow attackers to
remotely compromise a phone with no user interaction and only require the
attacker to know the victim's phone number all those girls on Tinder asking
for your number they were hackers those boys on grinder
they just want to hook up before they hack you normally project zero gives
companies 90 days to patch an exploit before they disclose its details but
four out of the eight flaws are apparently so severe that Google is only
alluding to their existence alongside 10 other flaws that have not yet passed the
90-day Mark since being disclosed to Samsung but the move has apparently
prompted Samsung to release the names of the affected chipsets which have been
matched to multiple Samsung phones Vivo devices pixel 6 and 7 Series phones from
Google and even some cars cars if your
device is affected make sure to update as soon as possible and if you can't turn off Wi-Fi calling and vault volte
in your device settings apple is working on natural language generation features
for Siri information sourced from the TV
OS 16.4 beta implies apple is working on
a Siri natural language generation framework that could be used to juice
serious capacity for a natural language like the kind I use when I deck my this
this is of course not to be confused with unnatural language like black
speech High Valyrian and Welsh a move
like this from Apple makes sense since the proliferation of AI chatbots has
started to make your average Voice Assistant look kind of bad as things
stand right now A series new superpower is being reserved for the most important
tasks like telling jokes on your Apple TV and
that's it but the code for these natural language features is included across
most of Apple's operating systems and reports have said Apple Engineers are
testing language generating Concepts I wouldn't expect anything at the level of
chat GPT especially since Mark German said nope to that idea we here at
TechLink stand firm with the germ and on
the subject of AI it's been a big week for synthetic intellect that's what I
call it because I I'm smart yeah I I AI
image generator mid Journey finally figured out what human hands look like
to be fair these look pretty weird
in less polarizing news Google announced AI Integrations for workspace helping
you summarize emails in Gmail capture notes and meet and brainstorm in docs
which will come in handy when you get writer's block on the 400th page of your
fan fiction of Monk starring Tony Shalhoub monk really then just yesterday
Microsoft announced basically the same thing for Microsoft 365 but who wants to
write a thousand page epic about monk teaming up with Sam and Dean Winchester
defeat to defeat Godzilla with the power of love something I don't love is how
chat gpt4 was able to hire a taskrabbit worker and convince the human to solve a
capture for it the model was able to lie claiming to be a visually impaired human
and even if their worker saw through the LIE do you think they're turning down
and paying gig Roblox our employers now we'll all be working for the robots in a
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brilliant.org techlinked our quick bits are so fast Barry Allen was scared to
present them didn't even answer our calls a couple of weeks ago a leaker
claimed on Twitter that Apple plans to limit USBC functionality on its upcoming
iPhones continuing their historic tradition of making third-party
accessories work worse with iPhones than those made by companies who paid Apple
for a made for iPhone sticker who will save us it's the EU it's always the EU
they're in the future turns out the common charger law adopted back in
October forbids limiting charging speed on third-party cords although Apple
could still limit data transfer speeds unless you buy the USBC Pro Max xdr
complete cold influence sinus Apple device YouTube TV has raised its base
subscription costs by eight dollars a month meaning the streaming TV service
wait oh wait hold this is YouTube TV not premium
who cares meaning the streaming meaning the
streaming TV service's price is now double its launch cost on the bright
side they're reducing the 4K add-on from 20 bucks to 10 bucks that's pretty good
if you don't mind paying an additional ten dollars for the eight channels
actually supporting 4K and some of those 4K channels actually just being upscale
1080p the service had 5 million users as of last year and I'm sure they're all
thrilled to pay cable prices for fewer channels stop watching sports you guys
Mena verified is rolling out on Facebook and Instagram in the US giving Americans
the privilege to pay 12 a month for a check mark exclusive stickers on your
stories and other perks hey really is my mom all you have to do is provide a
government-issued photo ID to a company built on collecting and monetizing your
private data if the prospect of handing the zoc a photo of your driver's license
fills you with warm Sparkles the waitlist to sign up is open now Razer
has released the atlas a pane of tempered glass that you can swipe your
mouse all over for the low low price of a hundred dollars
don't worry about getting it dirty I expect Razer will start selling green
Windex for 50 a bottle what I didn't expect were these strange warnings on
the product page which seemed to warn users against using the atlas to start
fires as usual it's better to let your money on fire than buy from Razer though
see you later and Heinz has decided to do something about the worldwide decline
of soil Health due to over farming the ketchup company bravely built a
fortnight map called SOS tomatoes and then paid twitch streamers and
tick-tockers to spread awareness about it according to the drum the campaign is
designed to educate Gamers between ages of 18 and 34. so naturally they chose
the game that has captured the 8-12 demographic instead catch-up joke catch
up to the time ah I relish the opportunity to joke about Heinz uh it's
only natural for you to come back on Monday for more Tech news I mean what else could you do call your parents I'm
your daddy now ah I just read what it says guys I'm
sorry