it's officially been zero days since we've had an issue with our YouTube
channel why don't we celebrate by talking about other people's Tech
problems don't look at me next garage door openers have a serious
vulnerability that means that their doors can be opened and controlled
remotely and by remotely we mean from literally anywhere on the planet by
anyone with internet access the bug apparently also exposes device IDs
hopefully linked to name and email addresses associated with the account
details on the attack method have been left purposely vague because next has
yet to respond despite the security researcher who found the vulnerability
reaching out to the company repeatedly since January
next as likewise refuse to reply to questions from the U.S Department of
Homeland Security and I didn't even know you could do that without getting arrested they just don't have an email
because then people could hack their garage doors Homeland Security slices
your DMs and you're like new phone who dis the same vulnerability works on
other next products too which include smart wall plugs and alarm systems that
might not sound very smart to you but it's like jazz it's all about the homes
you don't protect I think Miles Davis said that kilometers Davis Samsung
semiconductor has asked staff to stop using chat GPT less than a month after
it first granted them access because their Fab Engineers apparently cannot be
trusted to not give it proprietary data believe it or not but chat boss on the
internet store information you give them and you should not share confidential
internal documents and source code from your job at the semiconductor Factory no
matter how tempting it may be in a matter of weeks Samsung linked chat GPT
to at least three separate leaks it's like telling your least trustworthy
co-worker about your last doctor's appointment you might as well just announce your test results to the whole
break room Samsung plans to develop its own AI for internal use which will
hopefully contain the problem it's not clear to what degree if any open AI
might be legally responsible for information chat GPT retains and reveals
but a recent legal suit might determine open ai's responsibility for the
reliability of its output an Australian mayor is suing open AI for defamation
after chat GPT claimed he was facing charges in a foreign bribery Scandal
when in fact he was The Whistleblower who brought the Scandal to light these
errors are what are known in the field of artificial intelligence as a bit of a
whoopsy daisy so hot now Tick Tock has
been fined 12.7 million pounds for
potentially tracking and profiling children an estimated 1.4 million UK
children also known as Lads and lasses under the age of 13 use tick tock in
2020 which when you do the math comes
out to a fine of around nine quid per child just enough money to take your 12
year old out for bangers and match while you explain to them that the rest of
their life will be spent under a regime of increasingly invasive Mass surveillance not under London's prices
Tick Tock claims to have put significant resources into preventing children from
inappropriately accessing the app but according to Regulators it wasn't enough
because their children and you're not supposed to spy on them hopefully bite
dance will be able to scrounge up the 12.7 million pounds somewhere in their
80 billion dollar Revenue they made in 2022 I guess we'll see now it's time for
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work Intel has reportedly placed a large order with tsmc for production of its
next-gen battle mage gpus this not only means that tsmc is producing chips for
all three major graphic card Brands it also means that there will probably be a
second generation of Intel graphics cards which wasn't a for sure thing we
did it Celestial we still don't know Daybreak the company that runs Everquest
2 has retracted an upcoming pay to raid
feature only two weeks after its announcement due to backlash from
players the new system would have introduced drum roll please loot boxes
containing an item to reset the 18-hour cooldown for bosses unfortunately for
Daybreak one thing that has no cooldown but does have area of effect damage is
gamer rage especially Everquest 2 Gamers who are still playing 19 years after
launch seriously when you're an MMO with fewer than 30 000 active monthly players
you should cherish each and every one of them looking at you Jerry Jerry probably
one of them the VR may not be as cool as Mark Zuckerberg hoped in a recent survey
of American teenagers only 29 said they owned a VR device with only four percent
saying they use VR daily and it's totally for homework
get weird now that's inside out tracking
some are speculating this means VR hasn't caught on as well as smartphones
you know the miniature computer slash communication device that fits in your
pocket and works without having to be strapped to your face
did you really need to call thousands of teenagers to figure that out
James why are you talking to teenagers who calls teenagers you know you text
them and they leave you on red you better have a blue bubble monument and
Tempest two U.S companies that offer support to patients struggling with
alcohol addiction have admitted to sharing private patient information with
advertisers it seems like only last month we talked about a different
private Mental Health Care Service doing the same thing because it was the first
step is admitting you have a problem monument and Tempest but the zeroth Step
is not leaking patient information the
makers of Monster Energy Drink are suing an indie game developer for using the
word monster in the title of a game apparently under the mistaken impression
that you can own a word that entered the English lexicon in the early 14th
century in 2020 Ubisoft apparently renamed its game
Gods and Monsters to Immortals Phoenix Rising a much much worse name after a
similar dispute with monster now monsters going after small developer
glow stick entertainment and what kind of large frightening Fantastical
creature would do something like that you'd have to be a not video Kojima and
why would you do something like not come back here on Friday for more Tech news
you wouldn't would you you wouldn't do that to me right
Jerry