It's tech news time right now, but after we film this, I'm gonna go listen to SCA
on my Zoom and plan the release of my NFT collection. It calms me. Google has
found a way to force Apple's AirDrop feature to work with Android's similar
quick share feature. It only works on the Pixel 10 lineup for now, but
complaining about that would be a bit like complaining about the distance a
pig flew. To trigger this dark magic, iPhone users can set AirDrop to allow
files from everyone for 10 minutes and
boom, they'll be able to receive files from the enemy. Even better, this ritual
goes both ways. So, you can drop stuff from iOS onto your Android, too. What's
even crazier, though, is that Google went rogue and did this on its own.
essentially forcing Apple to communicate like an introvert being pulled out of
the laundry room at a party by their friend who's annoyingly social, but also
maybe they have a crush on, so they go with them. >> I've seen that movie.
>> And don't worry, Google wants you to know this new feature is secure, too.
Releasing a security blog post all about it, stating that they built the feature
in the Rust programming language to avoid common security bugs and promising
they'll support contacts mode on iOS at
some future point. For now though, if iPhone users want to get a drop from
their Android buddy, they're going to have to risk also getting the local
aspiring rappers mixtape. >> Riley, I'm I'm like a young Eminem.
>> It's like following you around. They're going to open up airrop any any time
now. Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino
has the entire maker community on alert after updates to their terms,
conditions, and privacy policy signaled a potential shift away from the
company's open-source roots. These new changes include restricting the reverse
engineering of their platform, expanding
data collection rights under Qualcomm ownership, and introducing vague
language about the ownership of user generated content. Now, many fear this
could let Qualcomm claim broader control on existing or future projects, with
sections of the agreement potentially giving Qualcomm blanket authority over
the patentability of anything built using Arduino tools. Even if the AGPL
licensed dev environment and firmware technically remain open source, the
wording is open-ended enough that people worry Qualcomm is laying the groundwork
for future lockdowns. Open source hardware company Adafruit publicly
criticized the move, pointing out that imposing enterprise style software as a
service rules on a community-run platform is a surefire way to destroy
trust. Before buying Arduino, did Qualcomm actually know what open-source
means? Tell you what, I'll open source my feelings right now. Boo.
Bad. Dell and HP have discovered a new way to make some of their business
laptops worse. And no, it's not another round of questionable product names.
Small victories. Apparently, these companies decided to start disabling
HEVC hardware decoding on several laptops, even though the feature is
supported by their CPUs at a hardware level. These cuts are leaving affected
users wondering why they were suddenly faced with web video showing continuous
loading loops and random errors. Well, as indicated in spec documents for
models like the HP ProBook 460G11,
hardware HEVC support is turned off by
design. And as for Dell, there's a clue buried on a support page that only shows
devices with optional upgrades like a 4K screen or a discrete GPU having access
to the decoder. Those ones are special. Neither company has offered up a real
explanation, but what we do know is that HEVC license fees are going up from 20
cents to 24 cents per laptop. So, to be
fair, it probably ends up being a good chunk of change, but have a hard time
believing it's making either HP or Dell gasp for air. Careful, there partner,
don't want you having to pay a whole dollar to Microsoft to turn the feature
back on. And that wasn't a joke. That's the official recommendation. How does
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have called the Quickbits a flop and a fad. But they're still talking about the
Quickbits, aren't they? So Microsoft is
rolling out a preview of its Xbox full screen experience to any Windows 11 PC,
not just handhelds. although you'll have to download the Windows Insider build to
get it. Now, this gives desktop, laptop, and tablet users the ability to boot
into the same controller friendly console-like interface as the ROG Xbox
Ally and Ally X, skipping loading the desktop, potentially boosting
performance, and totally redeeming the Xbox marketing team. I guess everything
really is an Xbox except me. Unless my parents lied to me.
>> Who told him? >> He can't discover he's an Xbox. We're a
PlayStation family, damn it. A new Android Trojan called Sternis is
reportedly stealing WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal messages by abusing Android's
accessibility service to read messages after they're decrypted on screen,
meaning it completely sidesteps the task of having to break encryption first. It
can also generate fake banking loginins, enable full remote control of a device,
and log every tap to harvest credentials. It can do it all. The worst
part, Sternis is only in early testing among hackers. So once it fully rolls
out, it's going to cause even more consternation.
Meta is saying Dios Mio after a Spanish
court said hola and ordered them to pay
479 million euros to 87 Spanish news
outlets. Boravore. The court ruled that Meta broke EU data protection and
antitrust laws by unfairly using the personal data of its users to make
targeted ads, giving it a serious edge over local media. Meta has slightly
improved its rules around data collection consent, but the judge
estimated Meta made over 5 billion euros
from ads during the 5 years before the change. Of course, Meta is saying no
manes and planning to appeal the ruling, but similar claims being investigated in
France might soon have them shouting, "Sacray blue."
Silicon Valley investors are reportedly funding a human embryo gene editing
startup led by UC Berkeley biochemist
Lucas Harrington raising about 30 million USD from backers including
software engineer and husband of Sam Olman Oliver Molharin and Coinbase CEO
Brian Armstrong. The company says it's focused strictly on lab research and
definitely 100% will not test their findings if safety is found wanting
because uh fun fact, geneediting human embryos is illegal in most countries.
Don't they remember what happened to the guy in China who geneedited three
embryos and then seemingly got edited out of existence himself? Those kids
were actually born. >> They don't have a father anymore
>> anymore. I don't think I don't think they were his kids. Never mind.
>> And XAI's Grock chatbot has been sickantingly pumping his daddy Elon's
tires in a bunch of now deleted interactions. The chatbot said Musk is
more fit than LeBron James and disrupts comedy more than Jerry Seinfeld, but
doesn't go quite as far as to say that Musk would rise from the grave faster
than Jesus Christ. That would be a bridge too far. Grock appears to really
respect baseball player Shohei Otani, though, who it admits Musk could not
strike out. Now, if you thought all of this was just Musk ego tripping, the
soon-to-be trillionaire tweeted that this latest Grock crash out was once
again caused by someone else manipulating the chatbot, absolutely
proving it wasn't him this time by disparaging himself with what Lionus
would call the hard R word. I dropped my
fair share of hard Rs back then because we didn't even the term hard and it'll
be rude if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news. Hey, did you know
that Microsoft's Zoom wireless sharing feature was widely known as squirting?
>> Is that real though? >> Google it. Google it.
>> Well, those NFTts aren't going to sell themselves. See you later.