welcome to the realm of my people a land
flowing with tech news used to flow with
milk and honey but we found out pretty quickly why that wasn't sustainable the
smell the M2 MacBook Air can be upgraded
to pretty much match the performance of an M2 MacBook Pro just by including some
tiny coolers called air Jets inside the chassis according to a number of outlets
who all posted about it this morning as if they're in a club I haven't been
invited to the air jets are solid state active cooling chips made by a company
called FR Fray I tried my best FR what
it's worth who installed them in a MacBook Air and invited The Verge PC
World and a small man who also works in our building to check it out and sure
enough the air jet equipped M2 MacBook Air performed as well as the M2 MacBook
Pro in a longer cinebench test where thermal throttling held back the vanilla
fanless MacBook Air it was left to
slowly cook its own insides while continuing to try and run the Benchmark
I mean it's inhumane so FR is pleading with apple and other laptop makers to
please buy our air Jets and integrate them into laptops so that no MacBook Air
or the human thighs upon which it may rest has to suffer like this come on
students aren't allowed to have hot plates in their dorms it's against regulation the inid ification of the web
was exemplified this week when Tech bro Jake Ward's Twitter post about pulling
off SEO Heist went viral while many
initially thought said Heist was a way to stick it to Google's search engine
optimization Paradigm which has been blamed for many of the web's structural
problems Jake was actually sticking it to his company's competitor and Humanity
at large The Heist involved indexing all
the URLs in the sitap for this competitor company feeding those into
Jake's byword service to generate article titles and outlines with AI and
then then having AI actually write all those articles to be published online in
other words this guy tweeted instructions on how to actively try to
make the internet suck just taking a big dump into The Well of knowledge as I
said this process of figuratively kicking the worldwide web's shins for
money is called in ification as coined by journalist and possible
inventor from the future Corey docto but Google actually has been trying to fix
some of the web's SEO problems this morning they released more tools that
can help content appear higher in search results if they're from social media
sites or discussion forums where the posts are 100% human generated the Bots
are gone Elon did it meanwhile nonhuman
generated videos are getting a lot more impressive thanks to new releases this
week from stability Ai and Runway stable
video diffusion is a new AI video generator that can create 2 to 4 second
long video clips from a single image and do it locally on an NVIDIA GPU while
similar tools have been available for a while stability has released the code
and weights for their model which is exclusively for research if you're more
into losing money to make money AI video company Runway released its motion brush
tool which lets you paint on areas of an image that you would like the AI to
wiggle a bit for you this part right here just kind of yeah that's that's art
seriously though the results are pretty impressive even if AI video is still
limited to generating only a few seconds of the time but if that annoys you
you're in luck Runway also announced runway. TV a 24/7 stream of content made
using runways generative AI tools I dipped in there for about a minute
before I was overwhelmed by the mix of perverse Fascination and existential
dread but I can say it is definitely
content something's happening on that web page now it's time for quick bits
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like this the perfect time for quick
bits yes let's at Microsoft's request
cyber security firm Blackwing intelligence sounds intimidating tested
the biometric authentication in three laptops from Dell Lenovo and Microsoft
and found that the embedded fingerprint sensors could all be bypassed with
relative ease somewhat ironically Microsoft was the easiest which is
probably not what Microsoft wanted to hear this is a dastardly smear campaign
by Microsoft against Microsoft only the
Lenovo device offered encrypted host to sensor communication and while all three
technically supported Microsoft's secure device connection protocol only the Dell
device came with it enabled by default look Microsoft I don't want to sound
like your mom here but there's there's no point in you having a safety helmet
if you're just not going to wear it okay just just put just wear the helmet I'm
worried sick multiple users have taken to Google support forms to complain
about their files disappearing from Google Drive many even complained that
their folder structure had reverted back to an earlier State like a digimon that
had been energy blasted a few too many times it's been a long time since I've
watched that I don't know if it's accurate a Google employee on the Forum
said they're investigating the issue and warned affected users not to make
changes to their Google drive or the app data folder on their PC if they use
desktop syncing hopefully they find out what happened soon and what happened is
that barge snatched that data up he's was doing that he thinks it's a prank
Bard come come on give it back that's not oh Scamp police are warning parents
about the dangers of name dropping this is not to be confused with the
phenomenon of aged out Frat Boys claiming to know famous people to
impress strangers the police are talking about the new on by default iOS feature
that allows users to easily share contact info with other iPhone users
framing this as a threat to children's safety the thing is the phone have to
come within a few centimeters for the feature to work and it only shares what
you put on your contact card and it will only share if you tap the actual share
button while while you're doing it so you know maybe the police should worry
more about the shirtless guy with no grasp of personal space claiming he
knows Drake that just seems he's he's in the fountain can we
do something and a new study is claiming that Zoom fatigue is real and leads to
increased stress decreased productivity and a pervasive sense of disconnection
scientists measure the brain and heart activity of participants watching a
50-minute presentation with half watching in person and the other half
remotely naturally to accurately measure stress levels they recruited subjects
from the calest population on Earth University students sure we can all
agree torturing undergraduates for science is fun but wouldn't it have been
easier to Simply ask literally anyone who's ever used Zoom if they actually
enjoyed it well the reason we didn't do that is because we know the answer but
regardless please remotely come back for more Tech news here on Wednesday and for
science's sake please write your heart rate in the comments below