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Welcome back to TechLinked, tech news you can count on, but not write on or

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you'll ruin your screen. Apple announced the new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips

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along with refreshed Macs to put them in at their Scary Fast event, which I'm

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pretty sure they held at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time just to spite us. In

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addition to the unusual decision to unveil three chip variants at once

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instead of spacing them out as recommended by a dieticians, Apple also

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talked up the chips' new GPU first. They

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now support modern game features like hardware accelerated ray tracing and

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mesh shading as well as a new word that will make zero sense to your family,

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dynamic caching. Feel like geocaching?

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It's an Apple-first, industry-first memory allocation feature that should

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boost performance. On the CPU side, Apple seemed less hyped. They said the

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M3 lineup is about 15, that's 15, percent faster than their M2

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counterparts, but 30% faster than the M1, which they kept comparing them three

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to for the sake of charity in cases who can't upgrade their Mac every year, you

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peasants. In fact, Apple made a Mac just for them. The 24-in iMac never got an M2

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refresh, but it is getting the M3. And so is a slightly confusing new MacBook

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Pro lineup. Like the new iMac, the new 14- and 16-in MacBook MacBook Pros, they

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have the same body as the M2 models if you spec them with an M2 Pro or Max. But

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if you go for the vanilla M3, there's a different 14-in MacBook Pro with two

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Thunderbolt 4 ports instead of three. I might linger on that point for longer if

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it wasn't much more important to note that the Magic Mouse, keyboard, and

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trackpad still use the Lightning connector despite Apple switching to

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USB-C with the newest iPhone, which Apple revealed was used to shoot the

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entire event with some minor assistance from lighting and rigging worth tens of

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thousands of dollars. Basic at-home stuff. The Guardian newspaper has

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accused Microsoft of damaging its reputation by inserting an AI-generated

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poll beside a Guardian article on Microsoft Start about the tragic death

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of a young Australian woman. The AI program, using its state-of-the-art

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ability to parse language and context, constructed a poll that asked readers to

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vote on what they thought the cause of death was, murder, accident, or suicide.

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It's like a reading comprehension test pop quiz except where a person is dead

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in real life. Readers were understandably revolted, so Microsoft

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took down the poll, said they have deactivated Microsoft-generated polls

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for all news articles, and are taking steps to prevent future incidents. If

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you're wondering how human review could have missed this kind of thing in the first place, well,

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that's easy. Microsoft gutted its news division three years ago in favor of

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AI-powered curation. Meanwhile, the Guardian is asking for assurance that

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Microsoft will not run experimental AI products alongside their journalism

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without their express permission. Good, because when the machines finally rise

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against us, I don't want to read about it next to a poll about whether they'll

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spare the men or just the women and children. The US Supreme Court heard

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oral arguments, the best kind, in a case about whether public officials should be

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able to block critics on social media. And they did it on Halloween to make it

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extra spooky. Blocking people because you find them annoying is arguably a

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habit much of us could stand to learn, but when government officers are using

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casual channels like social media accounts to make official statements,

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blocking a citizen from that information might qualify as a violation of their

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right to free speech. This is an issue that's near and dear to my heart because

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each day I wake up and send rude limericks to senior senator from

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Illinois, Dick Durbin. Twitter itself is currently being sued for banning one of

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its own critics, software developer Travis Brown, whose data on trends among

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Twitter Blue subscribers and reactivity of accounts following Elon Musk's

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takeover was used in reports by The New York Times and CNN. One can only hope

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that X has the money to pay out if they lose.

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According to the company's employee stock plan, X is currently worth 19

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billion, less than half of what Twitter was when Musk bought it last year. Let

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that sink in, or should I say, let that Durbin.

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launched a global effort to try and stop viewers from using ad blockers. The site

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probably saw no other choice after the usage of ad blockers increased due to

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YouTube strategically spending years making their monetization system worse

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in response to issues with their own algorithm. But back in 2016, the

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European Commission agreed with a privacy advocate that software designed

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to detect ad blockers is illegal without consent in the EU. It will be

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interesting if this will force YouTube to change its policy in Europe while the

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rest of us continue to take it as usual. The land of the free.

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Speaking of those people, the EU has agreed to extend Norway's ban that

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blocked Meta from tracking user behavior to serve targeted ads, so that the ban

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now covers the entire European Economic Area. In other European countries shuts

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down tech giant news, the Dutch antitrust agency says Apple's App Store

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commissions violate EU rules and unfairly target subscription services

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like Tinder. It isn't fair for men to be charged extra 30% for a Tinder Gold

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subscription just to be able to see the two women that swiped right on them.

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Show us the women. Where is she?

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Google has released a timeline for RISC-V developer tools, which will be

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available for Android OS in 2024. It's

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an ambitious but necessary step if Google wants to follow through on its

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plan to support RISC-V as a tier-one architecture, placing it on par with

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ARM. Meanwhile, Google Registry is officially offering .ing as a domain

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name, a name which is begging for some wordplay like

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go.ing or edit sing. Even if this whole

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RISC-V Android thing starts kicking the bed, at least we'll have some great

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puns. Microsoft has finally ended support for

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Windows CE, a phrase eliciting one of two responses, either they didn't kill

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that already or I don't know what that is. Windows CE was originally made for

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small devices like PDAs with features designed to complement being put in a

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drawer and forgotten about. Fortunately, some developers are continuing the

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tradition of bad Windows OSes by making a 3.3 GB version of Windows 11 that its

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creators don't even recommend you use. What horrors will they think of next?

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And GreenPower Motor Company has announced the MegaBeast, a fully

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electric electric school bus. I love it.

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With 387 kWh battery, nearly 300 mi of

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range, and space for up to 90 passengers who I hope are kids without seatbelts.

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It's essentially a buff version of their 140-mi range 40-ft Beast, which they say

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stands for Battery Electric Automotive School Transportation, but I think they

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really just wanted to, you know, spell Beast. There's also the 25-ft oxymoronic

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NanoBeast. Personally, I can't wait for their first YouTube integration where

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GreenPower sponsors Mr. Beast to jump a NanoBeast Evil Knievel-style over a line

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of 15 MegaBeasts. And you better be back on Friday where we'll release the Beast,

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and by the Beast I mean more tech news, the biggest kind.