valve dropped the price of the steam deck so ASUS seized the opportunity to
launch a new cheaper variant of the Rog Ally with a 30 slower processor
providing a more interesting alternative for those considering lighting their
money on fire I'm Riley Murdock this is techlinked and this new ryzen Z1
equipped Ally makes very little sense according to basically every review
that's out right now that's because it has one third the number of GPU cores
it's big brother the Z1 Extreme has and
accordingly performs as much as 37 percent slower while being only a
hundred dollars cheaper at 600 bucks okay fine uh that's not a fair
comparison though so what about the steam deck well the Z1 Ally still has
roughly half of the steam decks GPU cores and yeah the new ally costs 50
less than the most expensive Deck with a matching 512 gigs of storage but that
was before the aforementioned discounts which actually usually bring the top
deck model down to seventy dollars cheaper than the new Ally and the base
model deck that's still about twice as powerful
240 dollars cheaper I mean the Ally has
a high-res screen and variable refresh rate which won't be much of a selling
point when it's less powerful than the deck anyway so in terms of valuable
allies we're talking like Italy here mostly there for emotional support
let's go I'm wow I mean the timing on this
release makes it seem like ASUS wanted to be spanked which is weird for a tech
company I'm not Kink shaming I'm Kinka
asking why Chief product officer and guy
who always kind of looks like he's about to cry Panos Panay is leaving Microsoft
after nearly two decades he announced this disappointing news today on X
Twitter the platform known for disappointment in his post penae said
I've decided to turn the page and write the next chapter however just a couple
of weeks ago Pinay said he was excited to appear at a Microsoft Event happening
three days from now making it sound like his metaphorical book writing is going
about as well as George RR Martin's The Winds of Winter it's never coming out
accept it this is especially surprising since the
upcoming event was expected to unveil the latest surface products and an A has
overseen the surface line since it was but a twinkle in former CEO Steve
ballmer's eye his eye bomber gotta be kind of gross in there Microsoft has
said that current corporate vice president of Modern Life search and
devices Yusuf Medi will be taking over as head of the Windows and service
divisions leaving many with unanswered questions questions like how can someone
be a vice president of Modern Life that's such a made-up sounding title I
mean what's next does Microsoft have a chief Vision officer
got him the UK has come up with seven principles
to guide development of generative AI as laid out by the CMA the country's
Anti-Trust regulator not the American Country Music Awards at least one of you
was confused the report is the result of an initial review of AI first announced
back in May and is intended to ensure consumer protection and healthy
competition are at the heart of responsible development and use of
foundation models which refer to generative AI models serving as the
foundation for more advanced ones like Harry Selden some people gotta get that
reference I don't know what it means I know the report suggests seven
principles for consideration that they tragically decided to just list
alphabetically instead of forcing an acronym we'd be able to make fun of
rude in the report the CMA highlights the potential benefits of foundation
models while also arguing societal harm could result from weak competition or
weak consumer protection laws in other words it is a thing in society now it's
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desserts you get at the end of a fine meal Bon Appetit but there's five of
them so it's like and ordered the entire dessert menu hope you saved some room the Microsoft
AI research division accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of sensitive internal data
beginning in July 2020 according to Cloud security firm with apparently a
public GitHub repository for open source AI learning models was mistakenly linked
to a misconfigured Azure blob storage bucket which is also what I call the hot
tub at the public pool
regularly visited by blobs the storage
container used an overly permissive shared access signature or SAS token
which meant that anyone who accessed the URL had full control of the entire
storage account and all the data in it according to Microsoft customers should
be unaffected Beyond The Haunting knowledge that we are forever a single
misposted link away from certain Doom but that that's fine ASUS famous
inventor of the award-winning Rog Ally we mentioned earlier is suing much
bigger tech companies Samsung for allegedly violating one of ASUS's
smartphone related patents Samsung has used the patent in basically all their
phones and tablets since the Galaxy S8 without paying ASUS licensing fees the
patent's description lists a method and apparatus for improving a transmission
using a configured resource and a wireless communication system which
honestly sounds like something Samsung could have figured out themselves pretty
embarrassing Google announced a major change to one of the main selling points
of its nest hubs Max Smart displays the removal of video calling support for
zoom and Google meet horrifying fans of video chatting one's mom while one chops
carrots they have a subreddit however a Google spokesperson has said you can
still make and accept video calls on the nest Hub Max but what you can't do is
join a meeting via a meeting code or a link meaning you can't pre-plan meetings
anymore Google didn't explain why this
is happening or how I'm supposed to have a hashtag grind set when I can't
schedule my business calls during my weekly carrot chopping sesh it helps me
think I don't use the carrots I just chop them
Apple will be issuing a software update for the iPhone 12 following a ban on
sales in France due to a report that it exceeded EU limits for electromagnetic
radiation exposure while other countries are now looking into the issue Apple
states that the discrepancy is likely related to the specific testing
protocols used by French Regulators where the phone is force-fed grain to
fatten its liver to 10 times the usual size so cruel they're not built for
grain Apple has reportedly told tech support staff to shut the up if
asked for updates and to deny return requests unless the device was purchased
in the last two weeks so for now French customers will have to keep the phone
that may or may not be gently cooking their right buckcheek that's how you
deal with top round low and slow and Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in an
interview that he uses the upcoming Vision Pro on a regular basis and that
he watched the entire third season of beloved Apple TV plus original series
Ted lasso on the headset super relatable
guy Tim Cook also said there's some things that I have access to that other
people don't have which was an incredibly surprising fact to
learn about from the billionaire CEO of a multi-trillion dollar company yeah
like steaks made from Human clones and
more and you'll be surprised by how much more Tech news there is when you come
back on Wednesday it'll be a lot like today but different in that it won't be
Monday so