ah I knew you'd be back you love computers so much you always have the
buttons ports and stuff I know I get it I get
it anyway Microsoft has apparently
noticed the fact that the entire internet has been screaming in Terror
ever since the company announced their upcoming recall feature for Windows 11 3
weeks ago recall captures screenshots every few seconds eventually creating a
searchable database of everything you've ever done but the idea that that sounds
a little risky hadn't seemed to have occurred to CEO Satia Adela who
initially brushed off concerns in a Wall Street Journal interview well the
company has now addressed the backlash promising to make recall opt in by
default so it'll only turn on if you turn it on as well as adding encryption
they previously said they had already included oops thank goodness
unfortunately the core issue that many Security Experts had with the feature is
the fact that it creates a searchable database chalk full of Juicy personal
information which remains decrypted while a user is logged in it's kind of
like collecting all your valuables in a wheelbarrow in the middle of your living
room and thinking that's fine because you lock the door in your way out you're
just giving the burglar some extra time to stop at the drive-thru on the way
home my valuables are grass they're in a wheelbarrow round now the important
detail here is that recall along with all the other Windows 11 co-pilot plus
AI features will be exclusive to the 15
or so notebooks powered by by qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series processors which
will be available June 18th while at computex Intel AMD and NVIDIA showed off
laptops which will support the new features they apparently won't have them
right away and might not even get them until next year in a textbook example of
tech companies having to lar as if they're actually shipping AI features so
investors don't get distracted and start side eyeing GameStop this is where I put
my AI if I had one so if you don't like
recall you can simply not buy a
Snapdragon X Series laptop but AMD's FSR
upscaling works on it it works on everything chill baby speaking of
investors who boy their hype for NVIDIA
is unparalleled this week Team Green passed Apple to become the world's
second most valuable Company by market cap I guess a lot of people are buying
those USB sticks that look like a graphics card I never got one NVIDIA
actually fell back behind Apple shortly afterward but they're expected to claw
the number two spot back which means that it's NVIDIA's turn to be the
subject of an antitrust investigation the US Department of Justice is
reportedly about to launch one targeting NVIDIA while the FDC will take another
swing at investigating Microsoft this time about their uncomfortably close
relationship with open AI you can do it FTC this is the one you'll get them this
time even if the government doesn't find NVIDIA guilty of monopolizing the AI
chips Market it'll be hard to say there not doing the same with consumer gpus
new reports from 3D Center and John Petty research say NVIDIA graphics cards
make up 88% of the market the highest it's been in 22 years and all because
they make the best gaming gpus with the best software features I mean sure they
also force their Partners to give them preferential terms and unnecessarily
lock down their ecosystem but look at Jensen he's wearing leather jackets he's
signing boobs he's Untouchable what what can we do I'm never going to sign a boob
ever you want to sign my boob rally
we'll talk about this later Apple will be kicking off its WWDC conference on
Monday by revealing it's done everyone a favor and come up with a new name for ai
ai short for Apple
intelligence ha get it by your mom and iPhone yep according to his gmit toe
Bloomberg's Mark German Apple intelligence will be the company's
umbrella term for the various AI powered features it will be announcing on Monday
they'll apparently estu wackier applications like image or video
generation and focus on features that an average Apple user might actually
use these will include an open AI powered chatbot summarization features
and new capabilities allowing Siri to perform very specific actions when you
tell it to do things like delete an email edit a photo or more likely to
shut the hell up there's a lot more in Mark's newsletter and we'll have the
full details in Monday's episode but but an interesting bit here is that Apple
intelligence will be positioned as a set of beta features and will be opt in by
default reflecting Apple's continuing hesitation to really do anything with AI
but with the tech World getting red in the face from being so hyped for AI
asking Jensen to please come over for dinner and marry my dog sign my boo
Apple had to show something I mean can you blame them for being late they have
things to do I mean maybe they've been busy this whole time fixing this
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attempt Adobe caused a firestorm among creative
professionals this week when it asked users to agree to updated terms of
service that made it sound like the company could not only manually access
users content whenever it wanted it could also train their AI on it create
derivative Works based on it distribute it publicly display it and presumably
even chop it up and feed it to your firstborn child flip it and reverse it
perhaps they may even have bopped it in a Blog post Adobe later clarified that
it does not train its AI on customer content it doesn't claim any ownership
over that content and any scanning that it does for say material that violates
the terms or is illegal only happens to content stored in adobe's Cloud not
local content so still a bit creepy but
not as bad as it seemed at first is there like a seminar we could send
Microsoft and Adobe to for like phrasing
because it you're not getting it across a Chinese
company has unveiled a competitor to open ai's Sora video generator called
cling the AI can apparently generate up to 2 minutes of photorealistic video
from a single prompt in 1080P at 30 frames per second now while it still
seems to struggle with human fingers I think we should take a moment to
appreciate how far we've come look at this regular guy slurping noodles I mean
that used to be a psychedelic nightmare starring Will Smith from an alternate
Universe where he was left on a stove top now this is a story all about
how Humane is trying to sell itself to
HP for $1 billion after selling maybe
10,000 of its AI pin dongle thingies
which is at most about $7 million in
Revenue perhaps the pin would have received a warmer reception if employees
weren't banned from criticizing the product a senior software developer who
raised concerns was actually fired according to a New York Times report as
a cherry on top Humane has had to warn whatever customers it did have that the
AI pins $150 charging case accessory is
a fire safety risk honestly being able to start a fire is probably the
product's most useful feature for just $700 you can maybe survive in a forest
the doj's upcoming antitrust trial against Google over its online
advertising platform will have a judge instead of a jury executioner how are we
feeling about this decision follows Google literally mailing the government
a check for $2.3 Million worth 300% of
the potential damages in the case like a BMW driver slipping a cop a Benjamin
these monetary damages were the doj's primary legal rationale for a jury trial
but they're relatively minor compared to other potential penalties such as Google
having to sell off some portion of its ad business Google apparently knows that
this remake of 12 Angry Men has a runtime of around 15 minutes and when
Spotify announced it would be bricking its car thing music player later this
year users protested asking why Spotify
couldn't simply open source the device turns out Spotify already had open
sourced it the company was just too embarrassed to mention it because the
car thing is basically a potato that plays music that's not true you can eat
a potato this information comes from Josh Henderson AKA Anor raker on YouTube
who found that the car thing is easily hackable thanks to its Linux based code
already being published on GitHub it's just that its Hardware is only slightly
more powerful than a sun-warmed rock stick a couple of screws in a lemon you
got yourself a clock baby and the only thing more powerful than the tech news
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