every morning I wake up and wonder is life really worth living then I remember
Tech news I go back to sleep half the time on Wednesday we reported on the
Department of Justice asking a federal judge to force Google to sell off chrome
as part of the doj's recommended remedies in its Anti-Trust case against
Google whose dominance in internet search was ruled an illegal Monopoly
back in August but the Chrome thing that's just the tip of the iceberg the
doj's filing also proposes restricting Android from favoring Google search and
banning deals to make Google the default option on various platforms those deals
amount to 26 billion a year paid out to companies like apple but also Mozilla
meaning the move could hurt Firefox more than it hurts Google but you know what
they say a rising Iceberg eventually
comes down and oh batting down the hatches in addition the doj wants to
force Google to uninvested put into AI company anthropic
and provided search index data two competitors for 10 years now some are
arguing that the doj is dreaming for one the case's judge Amit meta might not
even accept this proposal for two it might seriously disrupt things like the
existing market for chromium based browsers which admittedly is kind of the
whole idea no after taking a couple days to process their shock Google finally
published a response yesterday calling the doj's proposal staggering wildly
over Brad and part of a radical interventionist agenda agenda that would
harm Americans and break a range of Google products I mean Google can do
that and an example of how excruciating horrible this would be Google said the
proposal quote would literally require us to install not one but two separate
Choice screens before you could access Google search on a pixel phone you
bought and the design of those Choice screens would have to be approved by the
technical committee and that's just a small part of it we wish we're making
this up honestly us too I think that would strangely help this make more
sense not Choice screens which you already have elsewhere Microsoft is
pushing full screen ads on Windows 10 that warn users that in less than a year
official support for what was originally called the last version of Windows is
ending hey wait a second yeah you could pay 30 bucks for another year of support
but here's an idea instead you should probably start shopping for a new
Windows 11 co-pilot plus PC they're
really cool they got AI of course this isn't the first time that Windows has
pulled this stunt on multiple versions of Windows Windows but if you're mad
just consider a Microsoft argument here don't you want to try the new and improved apparently more secure recall
feature which was just made available for co-pilot plus PCS and a new Windows
Insider build the data it collects is encrypted now and protected by Windows
hello which they just forgot to do the first time you could also be missing out
on the just announced click too an AI feature supposedly similar to Google's
Circle to search but incredibly looks and sounds exactly like a right right
click menu which you normally click to
right is wrong Up Is Down Baby it's AI despite recent reports it seems like the
AI bubble won't be bursting quite yet
Amazon just announced they're supplementing their existing $4 billion
investment in anthropic with another $4
billion bringing the total to what I can only assume is an impressive amount as
I've outsourced those of my critical thinking to Claude 3.5 Sonet then
there's open AI who is reportedly developing a web browser to capitalize
on all the potential Chrome related chaos which would pair nicely with the
chat GPT search feature they launched this year I can only hope the open AI
staff working on the browser aren't the same ones who accidentally erased
critical evidence that the New York Times legal team had spent 150 hours
Gathering as part of Discovery in their copyright case against the AI giant yep
seems like the AI hype is holding and shifting solidly towards agents who can
use your computer for you and learn everything about you in a 2-hour
interview and then respond 85% as accurately as you on personality based
surveys as demonstrated in a new paper by Stanford and Google deepmind
researchers I could have a friend I'll take 85% O'Reilly nid CEO Jensen Wong
has an even more optimistic view of the future predicting in an earnings call
that just like we generate electricity we're now going to be generating AI in
AI factories that will be pumped through a series of tubes to provide a steady
supply to the nearby town where the Tesla Bots live and they have leather
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the quick bits those are worth staying to wait for they're special just
something about them it is the season to be transparent with your customers valve
have released a new policy you're hoping I would say game regarding the sale of
season passes on Steam the changes will mean that Publishers must clearly
communicate the contents of the DLC and when it will be ready for launch for
example developers would have to say new weapons or two new weapons which is the
same granularity I tell my doctor about how much I smoke pizza or two pizzas
mistakes do happen so developers can delay the release of a season's pass
Just Once By you going to roll past that pizza com I don't get
it we're going to keep it in developers can delay the release of a season's pass
Just Once By up to 3 months but any longer and valve will give developers
the suck and by that I mean they'll suck
the money from the devs back into your pockets and by that I mean enforce
refunds we love to see a pro consumer move but it is funny seeing this policy
come from a company that has never hit a deadline in their life two four five
there's no three no threes Microsoft has announced Edge game assist a Windows 11
feature in preview that adds an in-game browser to the game bar overlay
assistant Gamers with their gaming and presumably edging Edge game assist helps
game bar catch up to a future first launch for the steam overlay back in
2011 but I guess this makes game bar more of an alternative for non- Steam
games that you don't want to just add to
steam so you can use the steam over there but also steam overlays browser
doesn't have a game aware new tab page that will detect what game you're
playing and automatically start a search to find out why you're so bad at it or
automatically open up certain websites edging the US Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau is now regulating big Tech not just big Banks the bureau will
be focusing on companies that handle over 50 million transactions per year
and will have the same level of authority to supervise and regulate these Payment Systems as they do regular
Banks The Bureau says that this rule will help to protect consumer privacy
guard against fraud and prevent illegal account closures this isn't to say that
the cfpb could enforce these companies
just last year they finded apple and Goldman Sachs $89 million for failing to
take action on customer disputes a whopping
0.2% of the value of those companies but now they can slap risk sooner
regulations work to too bad for you they can't regulate me into coming up with a
good joke for this story oh that's not
all yell at they're excited for a new pixel tablet can I get a hell
yeah all right um well that is exactly why Google has canceled their upcoming
pixel tablet 2 at least according to a source that leaked to Android authority
who cited profitability concerns the news emerged after reports that the
search giant canned the pixel Tablet 3
but those reports are apparently unsubstantiated with Google's will they
won't they history with tablets it remains unclear if this is the end of
the line for their large format handheld Ambitions or just who knows uh we can at
least thank Google for killing this product before I started using it I mean
just to get it out of the way it's going to happen eventually and add Tech Giant
the trade desk has told axos it's building a smart TV operating system
because unlike other OS providers like Roku Amazon and Google the trade desk
doesn't own content they don't care about giving users anything they just
want to collect data about your watching habits it's much simpler be honest the
news highlights the reality that TVs are really all about data collection now to
the point where manufacturers are reportedly selling TV sets at a loss in
favor of collecting ad Revenue after all if the service is free you're the uh
person getting a good deal you're so lucky um living in the best timeline and
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