WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.080 Welcome back to TechLinked, tech news you can count on, but not write on or 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:11.320 you'll ruin your screen. Apple announced the new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:15.080 along with refreshed Macs to put them in at their Scary Fast event, which I'm 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:18.720 pretty sure they held at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time just to spite us. In 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.640 addition to the unusual decision to unveil three chip variants at once 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:28.320 instead of spacing them out as recommended by a dieticians, Apple also 00:00:25.080 --> 00:00:30.600 talked up the chips' new GPU first. They 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.640 now support modern game features like hardware accelerated ray tracing and 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:40.440 mesh shading as well as a new word that will make zero sense to your family, 00:00:37.400 --> 00:00:42.200 dynamic caching. Feel like geocaching? 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:46.080 It's an Apple-first, industry-first memory allocation feature that should 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:50.920 boost performance. On the CPU side, Apple seemed less hyped. They said the 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:54.680 M3 lineup is about 15, that's 15, percent faster than their M2 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:59.520 counterparts, but 30% faster than the M1, which they kept comparing them three 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:04.440 to for the sake of charity in cases who can't upgrade their Mac every year, you 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:09.760 peasants. In fact, Apple made a Mac just for them. The 24-in iMac never got an M2 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:14.360 refresh, but it is getting the M3. And so is a slightly confusing new MacBook 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:20.600 Pro lineup. Like the new iMac, the new 14- and 16-in MacBook MacBook Pros, they 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:25.440 have the same body as the M2 models if you spec them with an M2 Pro or Max. But 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:30.440 if you go for the vanilla M3, there's a different 14-in MacBook Pro with two 00:01:27.880 --> 00:01:34.280 Thunderbolt 4 ports instead of three. I might linger on that point for longer if 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:37.760 it wasn't much more important to note that the Magic Mouse, keyboard, and 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:41.760 trackpad still use the Lightning connector despite Apple switching to 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:46.160 USB-C with the newest iPhone, which Apple revealed was used to shoot the 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:49.640 entire event with some minor assistance from lighting and rigging worth tens of 00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:53.440 thousands of dollars. Basic at-home stuff. The Guardian newspaper has 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:58.120 accused Microsoft of damaging its reputation by inserting an AI-generated 00:01:56.080 --> 00:02:02.720 poll beside a Guardian article on Microsoft Start about the tragic death 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.960 of a young Australian woman. The AI program, using its state-of-the-art 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:10.080 ability to parse language and context, constructed a poll that asked readers to 00:02:08.119 --> 00:02:15.880 vote on what they thought the cause of death was, murder, accident, or suicide. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:20.560 It's like a reading comprehension test pop quiz except where a person is dead 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:24.360 in real life. Readers were understandably revolted, so Microsoft 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:27.920 took down the poll, said they have deactivated Microsoft-generated polls 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:31.880 for all news articles, and are taking steps to prevent future incidents. If 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:36.840 you're wondering how human review could have missed this kind of thing in the first place, well, 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:40.800 that's easy. Microsoft gutted its news division three years ago in favor of 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:44.640 AI-powered curation. Meanwhile, the Guardian is asking for assurance that 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:48.960 Microsoft will not run experimental AI products alongside their journalism 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:52.320 without their express permission. Good, because when the machines finally rise 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:56.000 against us, I don't want to read about it next to a poll about whether they'll 00:02:54.320 --> 00:03:00.520 spare the men or just the women and children. The US Supreme Court heard 00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:04.960 oral arguments, the best kind, in a case about whether public officials should be 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:08.560 able to block critics on social media. And they did it on Halloween to make it 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:11.800 extra spooky. Blocking people because you find them annoying is arguably a 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:15.200 habit much of us could stand to learn, but when government officers are using 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:19.040 casual channels like social media accounts to make official statements, 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:22.720 blocking a citizen from that information might qualify as a violation of their 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.440 right to free speech. This is an issue that's near and dear to my heart because 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:30.800 each day I wake up and send rude limericks to senior senator from 00:03:28.160 --> 00:03:34.320 Illinois, Dick Durbin. Twitter itself is currently being sued for banning one of 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.240 its own critics, software developer Travis Brown, whose data on trends among 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:42.040 Twitter Blue subscribers and reactivity of accounts following Elon Musk's 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:46.360 takeover was used in reports by The New York Times and CNN. One can only hope 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:50.120 that X has the money to pay out if they lose. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:54.760 According to the company's employee stock plan, X is currently worth 19 00:03:52.520 --> 00:04:00.440 billion, less than half of what Twitter was when Musk bought it last year. Let 00:03:57.480 --> 00:04:03.400 that sink in, or should I say, let that Durbin. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:07.280 Now it's time for Quick Bits brought to you by The Ridge and their stylish and 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.400 practical wallet. 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YouTube has 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:49.920 launched a global effort to try and stop viewers from using ad blockers. The site 00:04:47.960 --> 00:04:54.240 probably saw no other choice after the usage of ad blockers increased due to 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:58.000 YouTube strategically spending years making their monetization system worse 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:01.960 in response to issues with their own algorithm. But back in 2016, the 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:07.240 European Commission agreed with a privacy advocate that software designed 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:10.480 to detect ad blockers is illegal without consent in the EU. It will be 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:13.800 interesting if this will force YouTube to change its policy in Europe while the 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:19.280 rest of us continue to take it as usual. The land of the free. 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:24.440 Speaking of those people, the EU has agreed to extend Norway's ban that 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:28.760 blocked Meta from tracking user behavior to serve targeted ads, so that the ban 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:33.640 now covers the entire European Economic Area. In other European countries shuts 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:38.360 down tech giant news, the Dutch antitrust agency says Apple's App Store 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:42.600 commissions violate EU rules and unfairly target subscription services 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:46.680 like Tinder. It isn't fair for men to be charged extra 30% for a Tinder Gold 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:52.160 subscription just to be able to see the two women that swiped right on them. 00:05:48.280 --> 00:05:54.080 Show us the women. Where is she? 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:59.040 Google has released a timeline for RISC-V developer tools, which will be 00:05:55.880 --> 00:06:00.920 available for Android OS in 2024. It's 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:05.040 an ambitious but necessary step if Google wants to follow through on its 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:10.280 plan to support RISC-V as a tier-one architecture, placing it on par with 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:15.920 ARM. Meanwhile, Google Registry is officially offering .ing as a domain 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:23.760 name, a name which is begging for some wordplay like 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:26.120 go.ing or edit sing. Even if this whole 00:06:23.760 --> 00:06:29.480 RISC-V Android thing starts kicking the bed, at least we'll have some great 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:34.440 puns. Microsoft has finally ended support for 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:38.800 Windows CE, a phrase eliciting one of two responses, either they didn't kill 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:43.320 that already or I don't know what that is. Windows CE was originally made for 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:46.840 small devices like PDAs with features designed to complement being put in a 00:06:44.960 --> 00:06:50.640 drawer and forgotten about. Fortunately, some developers are continuing the 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:55.920 tradition of bad Windows OSes by making a 3.3 GB version of Windows 11 that its 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:59.760 creators don't even recommend you use. What horrors will they think of next? 00:06:57.960 --> 00:07:04.840 And GreenPower Motor Company has announced the MegaBeast, a fully 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:08.400 electric electric school bus. I love it. 00:07:04.840 --> 00:07:10.320 With 387 kWh battery, nearly 300 mi of 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:14.840 range, and space for up to 90 passengers who I hope are kids without seatbelts. 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:20.440 It's essentially a buff version of their 140-mi range 40-ft Beast, which they say 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.520 stands for Battery Electric Automotive School Transportation, but I think they 00:07:22.520 --> 00:07:30.120 really just wanted to, you know, spell Beast. There's also the 25-ft oxymoronic 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:33.560 NanoBeast. Personally, I can't wait for their first YouTube integration where 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:38.840 GreenPower sponsors Mr. Beast to jump a NanoBeast Evil Knievel-style over a line 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:42.960 of 15 MegaBeasts. And you better be back on Friday where we'll release the Beast, 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:45.960 and by the Beast I mean more tech news, the biggest kind.