and you may ask yourself where is my
tech news it's here it's here it's starting now okay calm down it's it's
starting this is not my view my view so demanding USB standards have
become increasingly confusing to the point where one can't be sure whether
the fastest version is currently called USB 3.1 Gen 2 or USB 3.2 Gen 2 X2
it's very easily differentiatable and I guess the HDMI Forum thinks that's a
good thing challenge accepted because as TFT Central recently reported the latest
update to the video standard rolls all the specs for HDMI 2.0 into HDMI 2.1
meaning monitors could be advertised with HDMI 2.1 support while not
supporting the full HDMI 2.1 feature set such as so useful thank you 4K 120 hertz
or variable refresh rate I wanted this the HDMI Forum told ftft Central it will
be up to manufacturers to state which HDMI 2.1 features the device supports
which honestly sounds so much simpler because HDMI 2.0 is just like a word man
and words are all made up which is why I usually communicate primarily through
facial expressions and grunts
could you believe I just said that a critical vulnerability discovered last
week in an extremely common open source logging utility called log4j
the vulnerability continues to threaten huge swaths of the internet including
Services by Apple Amazon cloudflare steam Tesla Twitter and even Baidu I
know you were gonna say it's China that did this but they wouldn't hack themselves they've been cracking down on
big Tech the log 4J flaw was originally spotted being actively exploited on
Minecraft servers last week and can potentially allow hackers full control
over affected systems while patches are being rolled out the utility is so
pervasive that it could still be exploited as evidenced by researchers
demonstrating vulnerabilities in iPhones and Tesla cars that can be triggered
with a simple name change massive HR provider Chronos has also just been hit
with a ransomware attack but we don't even know if that was a log for Jay thing we don't know anything it's time
to panic no calm down I have all the
toilet I need there are steps you can take to protect yourself just kidding
you basically have to wait for these companies to patch their systems thankfully the past two years have done
a great job preparing me mentally for constant invisible threats so I'm fine
and Toyota has pulled a fast one on its customers who have been enjoying the
ability to remote start their cars with their key fob since 2018. some Toyota
owners have discovered they were only able to use this feature thanks to a
free three-year trial of the company's remote connect subscription that was in
the fine print read the fine print David and to continue using this feature they
need to pay eight dollars per month or eighty dollars a year confusingly cars
built before November 12 2018 can continue using remote start without a
subscription because that's when Toyota stopped building 3G networking Tech into
their vehicles so uh hooray for them is
so confused as to why I would have to pay Toyota to use a remote that
communicates directly with my car especially when I've spent a lot of time
with her and probably know her way better than Toyota does at this point I
love her where you going back off
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this part of the episode so we have you have to leave you understand Apple has
done yet another kind of unapple thing and released an Android app called
tracker detect which will let users detect nearby air tags that may be being
used to stock them oh they did it were
you excited I didn't think they'd do it I have so many stalkers if the app
detects a nearby air tag has been following you for 10 minutes you can use
it to force the tracker to play a sound so you can find it what do you then do
with it is up to you I would make a fish swallow it and release it into the river
and then kiss the fish and it becomes a prince hey Tesla did you hear Mercedes-Benz
just got certified as the world's first car maker to get regulatory approval for
a level 3 self-driving system which more or less allows drivers to actually not
pay attention to the road unlike the level 2 systems and other cars Tesla did
you hear about that pretty cool huh you should probably get Elon to uninstall
Twitter turns out Sony did have a reason to Hound dbrand over its PS5 replacement
plates as the console maker just announced official PS5 console covers
along with dual sense controller covers in a handful of colors are they plastic
these ones don't have the extra ventilation holes of dbrand's dark
plates but they do have names like Galactic purple and Cosmic red and
they're official so they probably look so good on kratos's PS5 especially when
he kicks atrias off so he so he can play
boy
you didn't play the game the Halo franchise is well known for enabling
silly sandbox gameplay and infinite is no exception allowing players to do
wacky things like grapple a warthog you just rocketed so you can basically fly
well 343 has no intention of patching out anything that allows you to do that
even if it lets players do very very silly things meaning that Halo infinite
may very well take over breath of the Wild's reputation for enabling some
insane stuff out there in the Open Fields Hyrule is being invaded by the
Covenant yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I just gotta see if I can Gravity Hammer this
ghost into space one second oh boom Dennis is not going to edit anything
and batteries made out of wood
it's not a joke they're being developed by a Swedish company called ligna
bow but why are they doing this
quote world is boiling and and so uh
wood batteries and we're gonna boil if we stand here all day so come back on
Wednesday for more Tech news it will not be boiled it's probably going to do
something a little more interesting with it simmering the saute a little bit of a
deglaze flambe