you know i like my tech moves with lots and lots of lube
yep you need lots of lube so the tech news goes down smooth don't drink lube
after a long history of being criticized over how difficult they've made
repairing their own products apple has finally announced a self-service repair
program that will let you fix your iphones and macs at home without voiding
your warranty the program will offer official tools parts and manuals from
apple and will initially allow for repairs of the display camera and
batteries the three parts that consumers most often find themselves having issues
with apple expects to add more parts to the program later but for now it looks
like self-service repair will be launching early next year in the u.s and
then later in 2022 outside the us there
is no word yet on what the parts will cost but hopefully
apple won't charge us an ARM and a leg if it wants to get ahead of right to
repair laws that may be coming down the pipe microsoft is going to be slinging
out Windows 11 upgrades a little bit more quickly moving forward if you've
been waiting around for a long time to get offered Windows 11 through Windows
update you might want to check again because microsoft has announced an
accelerated rollout for computers running both version 2004 of Windows 10
or newer and the servicing update from september 14 2021 so bottom line update
your Windows 10 installation and you might see Windows 11 offered to you of
course you can just go and download the Windows 11 upgrade manually don't do
that or you could just not and
speaking of not at all not at another
Intel chip security flaw this time it
affects lower power chips including celeron pentium and atom chips with the
apollo lake and gemini lake architectures even if you're running a powerful
high-end gaming system though it could end up affecting you because there are
tons of these lower powered chips out there including in laptops and tablets
and even cars the good news though is that an attacker would need physical
access to the compromised system so a random attacker a thousand miles away
isn't exactly gonna make your car start driving around on its own
however the vulnerability does make it relatively easy for someone who knows
what they're doing to steal security keys so be sure to install the Intel
update which should be available in either a BIOS update for your motherboard or from your device
manufacturer or if you're in a car i guess you can just go screw yourself
because car manufacturers don't update their stuff
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cloud gaming is now available as a beta in 25 different countries as of today
although you could get access to it before today you had to be part of one
of xbox's alpha channel programs meaning that if you try it out now you should
experience a more polished version of the software not all consoles in the available
countries will have access immediately but they should in the coming weeks
and if you're in the uk a big heads up as amazon is going to stop accepting uk
issued visa cards in mid-january which
is sort of weird uh the good news is that you can still use your visa for
holiday shopping this year but you will be cut off after that as amazon is
apparently upset about the high processing fees that visa reportedly
charges of course the companies are going to try to resolve the matter but
in the meantime for everything else there's mastercard is that the thing hey
in the meantime amazon wants your christmas money speaking of amazon they're also involved in another dispute
with concert performers of all people over their amazon one palm scanning
technology venues are using it to expedite entry by allowing guests to
scan their hands instead of a ticket but
musical artists and activists are decrying the move concerned that amazon
may abuse the biometric data by sending it to governments or that amazon simply
isn't doing enough to secure it no word yet though on whether venues will
actually be pressured into changing their minds the government knows you
like coldplay pixel 6 owners have been commenting on the poor performance of
the fingerprint scanner but there's good news google has pushed out a surprising
update that reportedly makes the scanner operate more consistently and more
reliably especially if you've got a screen protector between it and your
finger users can download the update directly from google if they haven't
gotten it yet and finally the first ever youtube video uploaded by co-founder
jawed kareem i hope i pronounced that right has been edited yet again
following youtube's move to remove public dislike counts karim updated the
video description blasting the change saying that it'll hurt the platform's
ability to identify bad content he is correct youtube says it is trying to
promote more respectful interactions on the platform but they might be fighting
a losing battle on that front if comment sections are going to remain
um yeah i think i've made my stance on all that very clear just like i made my
stance on the end of this episode clear it's over