Tick Tock has been fined 345 million
euros around 368 million USD for failing
to properly protect children's privacy it's supposed to be sealed in Little
Boxes and then shipped to the CCP not the other way around I'm James shrive
this is techlinked and this is the press release from the Irish data protection
commission which is actually the lead privacy regulator for the whole European
union and not just for hermit sheep farmers who just want to be freaking
left alone like the second left alone like
the DPC found that from July to December
2020 not only were children's Tick Tock profiles set to public by default the
family pairing settings allowed adult users to pair their account to a child's
account without verifying their parent or Guardian status and then enable
direct messaging Tick Tock has since changed many of the relevant settings
but the news is more relevant than ever considering tick tock's increased
efforts to beat Elon Musk at creating the everything app the whole alphabet
not just one letter the company just launched its previously in beta Tick
Tock shop feature which will allow creators to work with Sellers and earn
commission on product orders there's so many pairs of words that can also be
fulfilled directly by Tick Tock and since delivered via dance
here's your stuff and since 40 of the 18
to 24 year old search for stuff on Tick Tock instead of Google
Tick Tock added Wikipedia blurbs to the top of search results so the first thing
you see is not a complex topic explained
purely through interpretive dance honestly I might learn better that way
Dan's GPT AMD's recently launched Radeon
RX 7700 XT and 7800 might be the last of
their kind according to GPU leaker Kepler underscore L2 their sources
reportedly claim that team Red's plans for its upcoming Navi 4 based cards
don't involve any high-end gpus just mid-range ones similar to AMD's previous
rdna 1 and Polaris generations to hear
that Radeon RX 8800 or 8900
XTX won't exist is unfortunate news for
people with the thousand bucks burning a hole in their pockets but it sounds like
they should invest in flame retardant pants instead then they can lie safely
don't neglect the balls but why would AMD leave NVIDIA unchallenged at the top
well Italian Tech site bits and chips
claims that team red has to sacrifice gaming GPU output at tsmc to pump up
production for their AI accelerator cards because AI just has to take our
jobs and our Hobbies none of this is confirmed but if true it might not be
the worst thing tsmc will eventually get
their Arizona Fab up and running increasing their output so that Gamers
and AI can live in harmony and if gpus
are to follow one node behind NVIDIA's Maxwell generation showed you can crank
out more performance while reusing last gen Tech so let's just head to the
Winchester grab a pint and wait for this whole thing to just blow over we're
going back to Iowa over Leon Lee has filed a patent lawsuit in
California against fan techs claiming fantech's D30 fan series isn't allowed
according to this cool written the US government gave them said document is a
patent Leon Lee filed in 2019 for an
illumination fan connectable with at least one illumination fan or a computer
that have connectable ports that allow for cableless daisy chaining so they got
pretty upset when they found out fan Tech's D30 RGB fans have connectable
ports that allow for cable as daisy chaining but fantax have refuted these
claims saying their D30 fans are an original idea and have been issued
patents in multiple countries to date but I'm sure if you don't want to date
them you can just put them in your computer
thanks guys fantax further claimed they consulted with patent lawyers during the
development of their product and pointed out they have their own US Patent for
their fan connection technology I guess now it comes down to who's cool written
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who's that at the door quick bits but they said you died in the
war come on in Google has expanded its iFixit
partnership to include parts for the pixel tablet the thing that launched in
June and you already forgot about unfortunately I still can't fix the
pixel watch and neither can you or Google for that matter they can't Supply
replacement parts because they don't exist apparently so if you crack or
scratch your watch's glass bubble that looks more likely to get hit than a
drunken shirt with a strap boy with his arms out saying what what
your only option is to buy a brand new one but at least Google will now give
Chromebooks released from 2021 onward 10 years of software updates up from eight
falling backlash for selling Chromebooks that were already several years into
their update window Chrome OS will also be adding adaptive charging and an
energy saver mode to keep their garbage batteries alive and cooking your laptop
just a little bit longer they're not garbage yet damn it smells like
education the primary benefit of course will be to help underfunded elementary
schools to keep their massive stock of half dead Franken devices in circulation
until the government one day decides to buy them new ones which
should be in about a decade and we'll probably end up costing parents
HP has unveiled the new Specter fold which is a lot like Specter all caps but
instead of being a fictional terrorist organization it's a 17-inch foldable
tablet that doubles as a laptop and triples as a desktop PC if you needed to
this isn't the first foldable desktop slash tablet laptop or as I like to call
them daplets but it is the first one to charge you five thousand dollars for a
PC powered by a last gen Intel Core i7
1250u however the Specter fold does come
with a kickstand plus a magnetically attached keyboard and stylus and it's
less than an inch thick when folded but also surprisingly Hefty at three and a
half pounds heavy enough to quadruple as a weapon to kill James Bond it's been
done the upcoming Nintendo switch 2 will be powered by an NVIDIA and purebase
Chip according to leaker and name you
just heard five stories ago Kepler and Trail 2 and corroborated by fellow
leaker seven Kimmy I've been struggling with
that for seven who further suggested it will be made using Samsung's 8 nanometer
process this suggests that the switch 2's chip may be a custom version of
NVIDIA's orange chips normally found in autonomous robots and vehicles if the
launch date rumors are true next year might Mark the release of the world's
first self-driving console the most portable console ever made and also the
most dangerous it can dock at docks like Lake docks and the US Army has greenlit
the next phase of development for the hololens a mixed reality device
previously known to make hardened military professionals throw up so hard
they see God apparently the hololens has overcome that little puke problem
performing well during a recent field test now Microsoft will work on
integrating the device with tactical cloud computing among other features
that probably won't make soldiers violently ill there are famously very
few toilets available on the battlefield everywhere is a toilet if you're brave
enough including your pants and if you're not already on the toilet watching this show come back on Monday
for more toilet humor and more Tech link hope you have a great weekend full of
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