I I typed Tech news into the AI TechLink
script generator but I got all this Tik Tock news instead I mean I guess it
sounds kind of sim I don't know I think it misheard me after the US Supreme
Court upheld the Tik Tock ban law last
week Tik Tok took its own apps and services offline in the us on Saturday
night serving users a popup explaining that a law Banning Tik Tok means that
you can't use it it's very helpful I'm sure some people needed that clearly
laid out but by the following morning Tik Tok said they were restoring service
thanks to the now inaugurated US president and freshly minted meme coin
Peddler Donald Trump it's not concerning
it's it's actually hilarious and and and so based um the president assured Tik
Tock that their service providers won't be punished but someone should probably
tell that to Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and two Republican
Senators who promised to uphold the law
and Sue those same service providers the legal murkiness here is probably why Tik
Tok is still not relisted on Google or Apple's app stores with apple publishing
a specific support document about the situation saying it is obligated to
follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates but I'm assuming Tim
Cook forgot to add and to add a few
extra fees on top because you even
if Tik Tok isn't back on the App Stores yet it is on online but the same can't
be said for other apps owned by the same parent company bite dance including
mobile editing app cap cut which is just
fine with Instagram who published a cap cut competitor on the weekend called
edits worst of all gacha game Marvel
snap which is published by bite dance is still offline and before you finish
writing that comment telling me that it's not a gacha game I haven't played
it so I wouldn't know but it is so what the heck just happened why can't we ban
Tik Tok well one analyst told the Associated Press that by abruptly
shutting off service Tik Tok proved how unpopular the ban was among its
users which was a big surprise we thought they'd be completely on board
but it doesn't seem like Tik Tok is getting off scottf free Trump says he
wants an American entity to own 50% of
Tik Tok and after all this cruffle representatives of bite dance and the
Chinese government have indicated they are open to disc discuss this idea so
now we still have Tik Tok and rednote
the other Chinese app paying us influencers to promote it as a Tik Tok
replacement and as a bonus we also have new Tik Tock style Doom scrolly video
feeds on Blue Sky and Twitter but we don't need the Tik Tock Replacements now
can we can we roll those back uh now at
the risk of sounding political I just think it's worth pointing out how many
big Tech CEOs were at Trump's inauguration Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos
Tim Cook Sundar Pichi and of course Elon Musk and even Tik Tok CEO Shu Z Chu this
doesn't usually happen and following Trump into a church service afterwards
is also a bit unusual and uncomfortable I mean the sensation of your skin
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the AI thought about it some more and now it wants to give me some non- Tik
Tock Tech news Well if the AI says so
okay if you're in the market for a ryzen x3d CPU beware fake versions of the
ryzen 79800 x3d are reportedly On The
Rise and while that's nothing new there's nothing worse than installing a
new chip only to find find out its Secret Sauce is cheese whiz but when it
comes to robots China's Tech is a lot more impressive especially when it comes
to running fast so this spring the country is set to hold the world's first
human SL robot marathon in Beijing which
the South China Morning Post describes as part of efforts to combat the
challenges of an aging society and a falling birth rate I I don't know how a
robot Marathon will help with that but but I mean distract the sad people with
fast robots I don't hey I hope it works 3D printer manufacturer bamboo lab was
criticized this week for locking down its 3D printers blocking or making it
very difficult to control them through thirdparty software some frustrated
users soon managed to extract the authentication certificate for the
Bamboo Connect app and whether that had anything to do with it or not bamboo lab
actually backtracked or maybe they'd say they clarified that their recent update
will not block third party soft W but rather ensure it continues to work while
enhancing security so you won't be hacked while making all those 3D printed
guns the chief of europool the eu's primary law enforcement agency told the
financial times today that big Tech has a responsibility to give the police
access to criminals encrypted messages which the criminals use to remain
anonymous but if they're Anonymous how do you know they're
criminals ah just kidding this is a complicated issue but given that
government back doors led to Chinese hackers basically having unfettered
access to America's Communications networks and they're still in there I'm
just wondering what the real responsible thing to do is and last week somebody
slapped Doom into a PDF this week it's
Microsoft Word yep software engineer voy
gry was apparently inspired by Doom PDF
to set up a VBA macro to display the game's frames asbm files in the document
it appears to run smoother than the pdf version so give it a shot if you're
looking to confuse your company's activity tracking software oh this guy
must be so productive and if you want to be extra productive come back here on
Wednesday we'll get you back up to speed on all the tech news so you can go back
to working and won't be distracted because I mean why would you check
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