people keep saying they want a new LTT Christmas album but what about a
techlinked album it's just a 35 minute long tech news themed cover of We Didn't
Start the Fire by Billy Joel care to invest YouTube is real jazzed about a
new ad format they've been piloting for about a year on TVs it's called pause
ads and involves an ad popping up as soon as viewers pause the video they're
watching because Tech Executives cannot bear the thought of anyone's eyeballs
going literally 1 second without fresh content they'll dry up they need to be
lubricated well great news in their q1 earnings call Google said the pause ads
pilot drove strong brand lift results
and while they didn't say whether they plan to roll this out to more users it
would be kind of weird for them to decide they've made enough money from this kind of AD and now it's time to
stop it also seems to align with similar pause screen ads recently rolled out by
Roku and the UK streaming service Channel 4 the latter of which apparently
puts the ad right in front of the paused video so you can't even get a closer
look at a big bloke on Goggle box he looks funny at least YouTube's version
shrinks the video a bit and throws the ad up on the side admittedly that
doesn't sound too bad if the top comments on a Reddit post about the
format or anything to go by it looks like part of the reason YouTube has kept
the trial going for so long is because as far as ad placements go this is one
of the less invasive options the ad still robs you of the crumb of attention
you were about to use to have an original thought but let's be honest it
wasn't that good qualcomm's big claims about its ARM-based laptop chips
continue the company now says their recently announced Snapdragon X+ may be
a tier lower than its upcoming X Elite lineup but it can still outperform
Apple's M3 by about 10% at least in
multi- threaded performance that's a bit hard to believe given that a new leaked
Benchmark of what is presumably Microsoft's upcoming surface laptop 6
powered by a Snapdragon X Elite couldn't beat a Macbook equipped with an M3 Pro
but it does get Mighty close that is if all of these early benchmarks are to be
believed which they are not according to a piece published Yesterday by semi
accurate a tech news site seemingly admitting that they may be talking out
of their ass we give you the truth kind of multiple sources told semi acccurate
that Qualcomm is cheating on their EX Elite benchmarks and public demos the
company denied those claims in a statement published yesterday as usual
the proper advice here is to wait until actual reviewers get their hands on the
product but it's just hard to ignore the possibility that Windows on ARM could be
something other than hot garbage it could be cold garbage at least it's less
smelly maybe although given a recent analysis predicting that the coming wave
of AIP PCS will be accompanied by a 10
to 15% price hike Qualcomm intensely
pushing Snapdragon X hype could very well just be the world's most hilarious
prank got you ah they actually suck Tik
Tock parent company bite dance has until January 19th to sell the app or get
deported thanks to a recently passed law but it ain't giving up that easy they're
marrying Facebook it's a green card marriage the Chinese Tech Giant says
it's preparing to sue the US government to block the legislation and sources
told Reuters that if the company's legal op fail it will burn Tik Tok to the
ground it's not about the money it's about sending a message it's not sending
a do I'm imagining Tik Tok Joker it's
Tik Tok but other sources told the information that despite the public
bravado bite dance is considering an option to sell Tik Tok without its
proprietary recommendation algorithm the source of all its power however bite
dance explicitly denied this report in a post on the social media owned by the
company toow while reporting about this law has focused on Tik Tock any number
of other social apps with over 1 million American users and owned by a foreign
adversary defined as North Korea China Russia and Iran like for example WeChat
are also affected the clock is now ticking and American Tik Tok users seem
to be having a tough time imagining what they would do if the app was banned Well
India banned Tik Tok in 2020 and
everyone just moved to to YouTube shorts and reels if anything I feel like Tik
Tok deserves to be banned for giving us shorts and reels we didn't want that
either but you'll be giving style icon
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bit no no no really I'm asking because I
I I don't know anymore is that little Segway before the ad break or is it all
the little stories after I we Nobody Knows the FCC has voted in a split 32
decision to restore Obama era net neutrality rules that prevent internet
providers from favoring certain websites over others and to be fair you'd
probably be pretty annoyed to find out that the reason why Naruto shipuden on
Hulu won't stop buffering is because Comcast is deep in the pocket of big
crunchy roll that being said it's not clear that
this kind of Foul Play is actually happening and further judicial review
might find that this newest change to the net neutrality rules is a violation
of the major questions Doctrine which basically means that elected officials
should be making big policy decisions not random appointed bureaucrats after
all we don't vote for the FCC chair that's what the Illuminati is for Apple
has open sourced a family of AI models called open Elm that are designed to run
on device rather than through Cloud servers and because of this the largest
open Elm model has 3 billion parameters
about 500 times fewer parameters than open AI GPT 4 naturally they all kind of
suck on The mlu Benchmark Apple's smallest open Elm model scored 25.7 2
out of 100 uh for reference GPT 4 scored
86.4 speaking of open sourcing disappointments though Microsoft has
released the source for the infamously buggy and unpopular MS DOS
4.0 this week after finding out the news redditors joined together in asking
Microsoft to please open source something else it's okay to open source
things if they suck it's literally giving your younger brother the crappy
thing you're done with Nintendo's highly anticipated switch 2 console will
apparently have joycons what and they'll attach to the console
magnetically according to Spanish site
Vandal who also correctly reported on the switch OLED's features before that
console was released so I guess we can trust them a little bit vandals
reporting is is based on information from switch to accessory makers and
while Vandal doesn't know if current joycons will also be supported by the
upcoming console they claim your switch Pro controllers will be compatible at
least until the joysticks start drifting more than the entire city of Tokyo I
wonder if you know how they live in Tokyo see me know have to go pass and
Furious rocket League a high school principal in Baltimore was temporarily
suspended after a recording of a racist rant in his voice was uploaded to social
media and the fact that I said in his voice is a bit of a foreshadowing here
except that it turns out it wasn't a recording of him at all it was an AI
deep fake created by the school's Athletics director who the principal had
investigated for possible corruption this is scandalous the plot of HBO's
Vice principls the Athletics director has since been arrested but it seems he
was only caught because he used School computers as well as his school issued
email address to sign up for the voice duplication service and to distri
distribute the fake recording this would seem to indicate that disturbingly dumb
people can make deep fakes now and according to a recently published
research paper biotech startup profluent
has created an AI model trained on crisper Gene editors pulled from nature
which can create artificial Gene editors previously unknown to God or man
profluent has apparently already used this technology to to edit human DNA
which honestly feels a little fast it
seems now we're not just making AIS that can make new and improved AIS we're
making AIS that can make new and improved human beings uh but have we
considered what will happen if the AI starts hallucinating while making our
new generation of gataka children wow good reference I mean you could just be
giving birth and boom elephant baby that's 22 months of gestation no one
wants it but the best thing about our future
elephant Offspring is that they won't forget to come back on Monday for more
Tech news that I think isn't that a myth
they must forget but they never forgive