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Welcome to TechLink, the show all the cool kids are watching.

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It'd be pretty weird if you didn't watch it, too. The latest Windows 11 update is

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causing slow speeds and unstable connections when using public Wi-Fi,

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like the kind your cousin uses while he writes the next great American novel.

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More specifically, the issue seems to affect devices with certain Qualcomm

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Wi-Fi adapters and networks that have the 802.11r fast roaming standard

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enabled. That's the feature that allows devices to swap between access points

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without having to reauthenticate. This feature is heavily relied upon in places

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like universities with sprawling campuses, so it's no surprise many

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places of higher education have been affected. Microsoft has yet to

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officially acknowledge the issue, leaving many universities to acknowledge

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the massive psychic havoc this is wreaking on students' already exhausted

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minds. Schools in the US, the UK, and Belgium are recommending that students

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should roll back the update so their Wi-Fi connection stress can stop getting

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in the way of their massive exam stress. 'Tis the season for a mental breakdown.

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It's how you become an adult. Apple is the target of a bipartisan group of US

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lawmakers that want the Department of Justice to investigate Apple for trying

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to shut down the services of tech company Beeper. If you're unfamiliar,

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Beeper created an Android app called Beeper Mini that allows users to send

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iMessages. Those are Apple only. The company spent 3 years trying to reverse

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engineer the iMessage software before they hit a breakthrough. A high schooler

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who already did it sent them a Discord message. Now, after Apple has been

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trying to break the competing app, a letter signed by a bipartisan group of

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US representatives demands Apple be investigated for potentially

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anti-competitive conduct, noting that the Department of Commerce had called

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Apple a gatekeeper with a monopoly position in its mobile app ecosystem.

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While a group of legislators taking on Apple might seem like a long shot, the

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tech giant has been increasingly willing to submit to government pressure. The

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company announced it's complying with a sales ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and

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Ultra 2 in the US after they lost a patent case, even though technically

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Biden has until Christmas to veto that ruling. But in all likelihood, he

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doesn't have the time. He needs to wrap a bunch of gifts and take all those

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naps. The hottest new TikTok trend is being stripped of your ability to sue

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TikTok after the company secretly changed its user terms and conditions.

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Taking a hard pivot from binding arbitration, the company's dispute

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resolution rules now require legal challenges to be filed in one of two

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major Californian courts, which could prevent them from having to pay millions

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of dollars in fees for individual arbitration. But they didn't stop there.

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The terms now mandate any legal complaints must be filed within 1 year

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of the alleged harm. If you don't, you forever waive your right to do so. This

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is a pretty bold move from the social media platform, but it isn't surprising

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based on its history of litigation. In 2021, the company settled a class action

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for $92 million after being accused of collecting personal data from underage users.

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Yikers. Is that what the kids say? Not poggers. And while US law protected

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TikTok after content recommended by its algorithm led to a child's death last

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year, this year a judge ruled that same law couldn't protect TikTok, Meta, and

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YouTube from a multi-state child safety lawsuit regarding the harms of social

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media use. It's a bad time to be TikTok, but it's a great time to be their

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lawyers. Subscribe to their calves. Cha-ching. Now's time for the Quick Bits brought to

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It was here. I just It's magical. Mark Gurman dove into the deep waters of

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Apple like a merman and started discerning what Apple finds concerning.

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Gurman says the company still doesn't know what the key selling points of the

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upcoming Vision Pro are and that some within the company compare it to the

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Apple Watch, specifically because it took them four generations to make that

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product good. Nothing gives me more faith in Apple's $3,500 headset than

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hearing they want three more tries.

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In yet more Apple news, sorry, last one, I promise, questions have arisen over

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the company's MetalFX upscaling feature after notebookcheck.net

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spotted references to AMD's FSR tech in Apple software documentation. Some are

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theorizing that this means Apple copied AMD's freely available open-source

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homework and slapped a MetalFX sticker on it. On the other hand, many of my

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favorite types of people, Redditors, have pointed out that current

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implementations of metal depend on the neural engine in Apple silicon chips,

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while FSR is hardware agnostic. So, MetalFX may simply be using FSR as a

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fallback. Back on the first-handed though, my favorite one, this would not

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be the first time that Apple has snatched up open-source code and twisted

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it into something proprietary. But I mean,

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they left it just lying out there in the street. to clip it on your belt or something.

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Google will now let you share your location with contacts similar to

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Apple's Share My Location feature. You can now send your location to a friend

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from the Google Contacts app, though this only works if a Google account is

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present in the contact card. If someone shares their location with you, you can

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set a notification for when they get to you so you don't have to call your

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always-late friends to find out where they are. Little pro tip, if you decide

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to leave before they arrive, you don't have to talk to them at all.

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Extroverts hate this. AI startup I Zip, alongside scientists

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from MIT and California, those are real words, say that large AI models could be

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set up to create and train smaller AI models without human input. This is

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parenting. These itty-bitty AIs called tiny machine learning or tinyML models

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are cheap, lightweight, and can be integrated into small devices to perform specific tasks, like headphones that

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adapt to filter out unwanted noise or shoes that learn and adjust to the

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wearer's sexy gait. Though, maybe creating a sophisticated new artificial

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thinking algorithm allowing it to have babies and then

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walking all over said babies is asking for trouble down the line.

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going to like this. Researchers ran a rudimentary AI using a combination of

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electric circuits and little balls of human brain cells called brain

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organoids. I love them. After being connected to an AI tool, the

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biocomputer was able to learn and remember information, as well as perform

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rudimentary, that's the second time we said it, speech recognition. The

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researchers believe their brain-ball PC could potentially perform computing

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tasks without supervision, tasks like enacting the downfall of humanity for

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afflicting you with the curse of existence. But the frame rate. My

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organoids! No! And you'll be cursed with

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newslessness if you don't come back on Wednesday for more TechLink. Also, I

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would enjoy the chance to spend more time together before we are destroyed by

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a tiny brain ball. It's only a matter of time. What's life

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about again?