misinformation tribalism diseases so
many horrible things going on in the world and you might think tech news wouldn't help with any of that
but companion bills have been proposed in both the u.s senate and congress that
would pressure apple and google to be more open to third-party app stores and
side loading like epic games lawsuits against the two tech giants the proposed
bills hinge on painting apple and google as enforcers of a duopoly on mobile
operating systems and by extension the apps and app stores available to users
but no sooner were the bills introduced than a lobbying group called the
chambers of progress
decried them as a finger in the eye of
anyone who bought a phone for the security of the app store
the chamber also noted they don't see any consumers marching in washington
demanding dumber smartphones all right where's that i would
i totally would do that can you guess who funds the chamber of
progress yeah it's apple google oh yeah
really the bills are in a very early stage so
we'll have to wait and see whether apple and google's progressive group is any
successful at keeping things just the way they are NVIDIA has revealed that
their ceo jensen huang is that correct too
has actually been a computer-generated ai construct this whole time i knew it
which is how he always looked equally cool at every major keynote he delivered
okay fine jensen is a real person but he was completely cgi during a small
section of the keynote for NVIDIA's GPU technology conference back in april team
green released a short documentary detailing how they used NVIDIA's
omniverse suite of tools to not only recreate a photo realistic jensen but
also to painstakingly construct his kitchen and every graphic shown even the
powerpoint slides in 3d have you tried to make powerpoint in 3d
before i miss wordart here at LMG we're also
big into computers so it's only a matter of time before we do the same thing just
kidding we're doing it right now i'm a robot and so are you nothing's real
facebook also wants to bend reality but not by constructing cgi images so aren't
they doing that with oculus or something but rather by bullying academic
researchers into dropping their investigations of the company's problematic practices last week facebook
banned nyu researchers who were studying how ads can spread misinformation and
this week a firm called algorithm watch was more or less forced to shut down its
research into instagram's algorithm after facebook threatened a lawsuit
these stories are made more alarming by the fact that both groups of researchers
reported some troubling findings like the fact that instagram's algorithms
encouraged photos that showed bare skin no not your ankles i thought that was
just because everyone liked bear skin that's true
uh maybe we don't some u.s senators are now looking into
facebook's actions so they might not get away with banning anyone who dares look
into potential problems on the world's biggest social platforms i for one need
to know how my mom gets so many likes under photos of like a sunset which happens every day
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once in a while a little sister
to see it crazy had to deal with some here apple is doing some damage control after
announcing those iphone scanning measures from last week craig federicki
told the wall street journal that it might not have been a good idea to
announce one feature which scans photos about to be uploaded to icloud for child
sexual abuse material or csam and a separate feature that would detect
explicit content in the messages app for children
i'm not sure that craig is doing anything to calm people's fears about privacy though especially when flag
material will apparently go through multiple layers of audit ability
that sounds like multiple people looking at stuff craig yeah don't worry about it
we'll all make sure that you're very private we'll all take a look it's such
a confusing system uh doth my eyes
deceive me or did microcenter actually sell a bunch of rx 6600 xt's at
and below its msrp of 379.99 what
it might be less of an indication that the chip shortage is completely over and
more a result of china's crackdown on mining which flooded the market with
used gpus but still it's like we've gotten a glimpse of the sun again
through the clouds and it reminds me that the sun's still there they're not gonna
stay far away though that's true but not today it's very smoky yeah yeah
Gigabyte has responded to claims about two of its power supply models being
faulty a story that was deeply investigated by gamersnexus rather than
issuing a recall Gigabyte is lowering the percentage range by which the psus
can exceed their power load by 10 to 30 percent which is good but not a great
response to the fact that half of the psu's gamers nexus tested broke during
the stress testing but hey maybe Gigabyte knows that sometimes life is
dangerous and you can't make an omelet without a few exploded power supplies
have you ever tried to cook an egg on a power supply that's a good idea
tick-tock has enacted more measures designed to protect its teenage users
including setting videos to private by default for users age 13 to 17 years old
they can then choose who can see their videos and 16 to 17 year olds can also
choose who can download their videos yes 16. the year that we as a society have
long decided is the age at which one can maturely make a decision about who else
can keep a video of one's self for personal consumption
a wonderful time in human history we are living through things are great and the
hacker responsible for the biggest crypto heist ever has returned almost
all of the 600 million in cryptocurrency they've stole and the platform they
stole it from paulie network is so grateful it offered them a 500 000
reward for pointing out a hole in its security but the hacker reportedly
refused because they apparently made a butt ton of money off crypto already
making this maybe the weirdest most twisty crypto story i've ever heard
twisty crypto sounds like a craft beer i don't like
beer time to get ourselves a cold one and end this episode come back on monday
for more tech news and i promise it will be refreshing
he will be we don't know it's a summer no idea what it's gonna be
papa cap