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welcome to the realm of my people a land

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flowing with tech news used to flow with

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milk and honey but we found out pretty quickly why that wasn't sustainable the

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smell the M2 MacBook Air can be upgraded

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to pretty much match the performance of an M2 MacBook Pro just by including some

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tiny coolers called air Jets inside the chassis according to a number of outlets

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who all posted about it this morning as if they're in a club I haven't been

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invited to the air jets are solid state active cooling chips made by a company

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called FR Fray I tried my best FR what

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it's worth who installed them in a MacBook Air and invited The Verge PC

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World and a small man who also works in our building to check it out and sure

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enough the air jet equipped M2 MacBook Air performed as well as the M2 MacBook

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Pro in a longer cinebench test where thermal throttling held back the vanilla

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fanless MacBook Air it was left to

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slowly cook its own insides while continuing to try and run the Benchmark

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I mean it's inhumane so FR is pleading with apple and other laptop makers to

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please buy our air Jets and integrate them into laptops so that no MacBook Air

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or the human thighs upon which it may rest has to suffer like this come on

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students aren't allowed to have hot plates in their dorms it's against regulation the inid ification of the web

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was exemplified this week when Tech bro Jake Ward's Twitter post about pulling

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off SEO Heist went viral while many

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initially thought said Heist was a way to stick it to Google's search engine

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optimization Paradigm which has been blamed for many of the web's structural

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problems Jake was actually sticking it to his company's competitor and Humanity

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at large The Heist involved indexing all

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the URLs in the sitap for this competitor company feeding those into

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Jake's byword service to generate article titles and outlines with AI and

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then then having AI actually write all those articles to be published online in

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other words this guy tweeted instructions on how to actively try to

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make the internet suck just taking a big dump into The Well of knowledge as I

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said this process of figuratively kicking the worldwide web's shins for

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money is called in ification as coined by journalist and possible

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inventor from the future Corey docto but Google actually has been trying to fix

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some of the web's SEO problems this morning they released more tools that

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can help content appear higher in search results if they're from social media

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sites or discussion forums where the posts are 100% human generated the Bots

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are gone Elon did it meanwhile nonhuman

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generated videos are getting a lot more impressive thanks to new releases this

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week from stability Ai and Runway stable

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video diffusion is a new AI video generator that can create 2 to 4 second

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long video clips from a single image and do it locally on an NVIDIA GPU while

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similar tools have been available for a while stability has released the code

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and weights for their model which is exclusively for research if you're more

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into losing money to make money AI video company Runway released its motion brush

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tool which lets you paint on areas of an image that you would like the AI to

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wiggle a bit for you this part right here just kind of yeah that's that's art

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seriously though the results are pretty impressive even if AI video is still

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limited to generating only a few seconds of the time but if that annoys you

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you're in luck Runway also announced runway. TV a 24/7 stream of content made

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using runways generative AI tools I dipped in there for about a minute

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before I was overwhelmed by the mix of perverse Fascination and existential

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dread but I can say it is definitely

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like this the perfect time for quick

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bits yes let's at Microsoft's request

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cyber security firm Blackwing intelligence sounds intimidating tested

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the biometric authentication in three laptops from Dell Lenovo and Microsoft

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and found that the embedded fingerprint sensors could all be bypassed with

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relative ease somewhat ironically Microsoft was the easiest which is

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probably not what Microsoft wanted to hear this is a dastardly smear campaign

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by Microsoft against Microsoft only the

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Lenovo device offered encrypted host to sensor communication and while all three

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technically supported Microsoft's secure device connection protocol only the Dell

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device came with it enabled by default look Microsoft I don't want to sound

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like your mom here but there's there's no point in you having a safety helmet

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if you're just not going to wear it okay just just put just wear the helmet I'm

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worried sick multiple users have taken to Google support forms to complain

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about their files disappearing from Google Drive many even complained that

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their folder structure had reverted back to an earlier State like a digimon that

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had been energy blasted a few too many times it's been a long time since I've

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watched that I don't know if it's accurate a Google employee on the Forum

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said they're investigating the issue and warned affected users not to make

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changes to their Google drive or the app data folder on their PC if they use

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desktop syncing hopefully they find out what happened soon and what happened is

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that barge snatched that data up he's was doing that he thinks it's a prank

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Bard come come on give it back that's not oh Scamp police are warning parents

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about the dangers of name dropping this is not to be confused with the

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phenomenon of aged out Frat Boys claiming to know famous people to

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impress strangers the police are talking about the new on by default iOS feature

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that allows users to easily share contact info with other iPhone users

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framing this as a threat to children's safety the thing is the phone have to

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come within a few centimeters for the feature to work and it only shares what

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you put on your contact card and it will only share if you tap the actual share

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button while while you're doing it so you know maybe the police should worry

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more about the shirtless guy with no grasp of personal space claiming he

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knows Drake that just seems he's he's in the fountain can we

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do something and a new study is claiming that Zoom fatigue is real and leads to

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increased stress decreased productivity and a pervasive sense of disconnection

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scientists measure the brain and heart activity of participants watching a

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50-minute presentation with half watching in person and the other half

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remotely naturally to accurately measure stress levels they recruited subjects

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from the calest population on Earth University students sure we can all

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agree torturing undergraduates for science is fun but wouldn't it have been

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easier to Simply ask literally anyone who's ever used Zoom if they actually

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enjoyed it well the reason we didn't do that is because we know the answer but

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regardless please remotely come back for more Tech news here on Wednesday and for

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science's sake please write your heart rate in the comments below