WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 Welcome to TechLink, the show all the cool kids are watching. 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:09.600 It'd be pretty weird if you didn't watch it, too. The latest Windows 11 update is 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:14.120 causing slow speeds and unstable connections when using public Wi-Fi, 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:18.480 like the kind your cousin uses while he writes the next great American novel. 00:00:16.880 --> 00:00:23.000 More specifically, the issue seems to affect devices with certain Qualcomm 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:27.600 Wi-Fi adapters and networks that have the 802.11r fast roaming standard 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:31.080 enabled. That's the feature that allows devices to swap between access points 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:34.360 without having to reauthenticate. This feature is heavily relied upon in places 00:00:32.720 --> 00:00:38.080 like universities with sprawling campuses, so it's no surprise many 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:41.000 places of higher education have been affected. Microsoft has yet to 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:44.920 officially acknowledge the issue, leaving many universities to acknowledge 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:49.160 the massive psychic havoc this is wreaking on students' already exhausted 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:53.120 minds. Schools in the US, the UK, and Belgium are recommending that students 00:00:51.080 --> 00:00:56.880 should roll back the update so their Wi-Fi connection stress can stop getting 00:00:54.800 --> 00:01:00.360 in the way of their massive exam stress. 'Tis the season for a mental breakdown. 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:04.440 It's how you become an adult. Apple is the target of a bipartisan group of US 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:08.640 lawmakers that want the Department of Justice to investigate Apple for trying 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:12.840 to shut down the services of tech company Beeper. If you're unfamiliar, 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:17.000 Beeper created an Android app called Beeper Mini that allows users to send 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:20.840 iMessages. Those are Apple only. The company spent 3 years trying to reverse 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:24.200 engineer the iMessage software before they hit a breakthrough. A high schooler 00:01:22.600 --> 00:01:28.000 who already did it sent them a Discord message. Now, after Apple has been 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:31.640 trying to break the competing app, a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:35.800 US representatives demands Apple be investigated for potentially 00:01:33.320 --> 00:01:39.720 anti-competitive conduct, noting that the Department of Commerce had called 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:44.360 Apple a gatekeeper with a monopoly position in its mobile app ecosystem. 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:48.720 While a group of legislators taking on Apple might seem like a long shot, the 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:52.160 tech giant has been increasingly willing to submit to government pressure. The 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:57.160 company announced it's complying with a sales ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:01.240 Ultra 2 in the US after they lost a patent case, even though technically 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:05.120 Biden has until Christmas to veto that ruling. But in all likelihood, he 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:08.800 doesn't have the time. He needs to wrap a bunch of gifts and take all those 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:12.680 naps. The hottest new TikTok trend is being stripped of your ability to sue 00:02:10.679 --> 00:02:16.960 TikTok after the company secretly changed its user terms and conditions. 00:02:15.160 --> 00:02:21.000 Taking a hard pivot from binding arbitration, the company's dispute 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:25.280 resolution rules now require legal challenges to be filed in one of two 00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:29.280 major Californian courts, which could prevent them from having to pay millions 00:02:27.480 --> 00:02:33.360 of dollars in fees for individual arbitration. But they didn't stop there. 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:38.600 The terms now mandate any legal complaints must be filed within 1 year 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:42.680 of the alleged harm. If you don't, you forever waive your right to do so. This 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:46.720 is a pretty bold move from the social media platform, but it isn't surprising 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:50.680 based on its history of litigation. In 2021, the company settled a class action 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:57.120 for $92 million after being accused of collecting personal data from underage users. 00:02:54.840 --> 00:03:01.440 Yikers. Is that what the kids say? Not poggers. And while US law protected 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:06.280 TikTok after content recommended by its algorithm led to a child's death last 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:10.280 year, this year a judge ruled that same law couldn't protect TikTok, Meta, and 00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:15.120 YouTube from a multi-state child safety lawsuit regarding the harms of social 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:17.640 media use. It's a bad time to be TikTok, but it's a great time to be their 00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:22.920 lawyers. Subscribe to their calves. Cha-ching. 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That's my business. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:01.760 It was here. I just It's magical. Mark Gurman dove into the deep waters of 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:05.600 Apple like a merman and started discerning what Apple finds concerning. 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:10.520 Gurman says the company still doesn't know what the key selling points of the 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:13.640 upcoming Vision Pro are and that some within the company compare it to the 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:17.480 Apple Watch, specifically because it took them four generations to make that 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:24.160 product good. Nothing gives me more faith in Apple's $3,500 headset than 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:25.880 hearing they want three more tries. 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:29.800 In yet more Apple news, sorry, last one, I promise, questions have arisen over 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:34.760 the company's MetalFX upscaling feature after notebookcheck.net 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:38.800 spotted references to AMD's FSR tech in Apple software documentation. Some are 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:42.880 theorizing that this means Apple copied AMD's freely available open-source 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:47.280 homework and slapped a MetalFX sticker on it. On the other hand, many of my 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:50.560 favorite types of people, Redditors, have pointed out that current 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:55.360 implementations of metal depend on the neural engine in Apple silicon chips, 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:59.920 while FSR is hardware agnostic. So, MetalFX may simply be using FSR as a 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:03.760 fallback. Back on the first-handed though, my favorite one, this would not 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:07.800 be the first time that Apple has snatched up open-source code and twisted 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:10.320 it into something proprietary. But I mean, 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:13.800 they left it just lying out there in the street. to clip it on your belt or something. 00:05:12.200 --> 00:05:18.000 Google will now let you share your location with contacts similar to 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:21.240 Apple's Share My Location feature. You can now send your location to a friend 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:25.480 from the Google Contacts app, though this only works if a Google account is 00:05:23.080 --> 00:05:28.840 present in the contact card. If someone shares their location with you, you can 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.880 set a notification for when they get to you so you don't have to call your 00:05:30.400 --> 00:05:36.000 always-late friends to find out where they are. Little pro tip, if you decide 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:39.000 to leave before they arrive, you don't have to talk to them at all. 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:44.560 Extroverts hate this. AI startup I Zip, alongside scientists 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:49.120 from MIT and California, those are real words, say that large AI models could be 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:54.000 set up to create and train smaller AI models without human input. This is 00:05:51.320 --> 00:05:57.680 parenting. These itty-bitty AIs called tiny machine learning or tinyML models 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:03.240 are cheap, lightweight, and can be integrated into small devices to perform specific tasks, like headphones that 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:08.360 adapt to filter out unwanted noise or shoes that learn and adjust to the 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:11.480 wearer's sexy gait. Though, maybe creating a sophisticated new artificial 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:16.080 thinking algorithm allowing it to have babies and then 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:19.000 walking all over said babies is asking for trouble down the line. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:22.880 going to like this. Researchers ran a rudimentary AI using a combination of 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:27.320 electric circuits and little balls of human brain cells called brain 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:31.160 organoids. I love them. After being connected to an AI tool, the 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:34.400 biocomputer was able to learn and remember information, as well as perform 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:38.720 rudimentary, that's the second time we said it, speech recognition. The 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:42.840 researchers believe their brain-ball PC could potentially perform computing 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:46.240 tasks without supervision, tasks like enacting the downfall of humanity for 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:51.880 afflicting you with the curse of existence. But the frame rate. My 00:06:48.280 --> 00:06:53.520 organoids! No! And you'll be cursed with 00:06:51.880 --> 00:06:56.880 newslessness if you don't come back on Wednesday for more TechLink. Also, I 00:06:55.400 --> 00:07:00.760 would enjoy the chance to spend more time together before we are destroyed by 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:04.920 a tiny brain ball. It's only a matter of time. What's life 00:07:02.280 --> 00:07:04.920 about again?