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that's right you know what time it is a fact I'm going to rely on as I do not

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have a watch but I trust you a serious security back door and a widely used

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compression utility for Linux has come to light after being discovered and

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flagged by developer Andres Frey who works for Microsoft by day and maintains

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postgress SQL by night just like Batman

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Ry only noticed because he was making the best of his Easter Long Weekend by

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doing some micro benchmarking when he noticed that encrypted logins to part of

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the exed compression Library were using a ton of CPU which led him to discover

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the back door in xed utils God you're saying Zed did we say Zed in Canada I'll

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I'll stop now I'll say it normal had it not come to light when it did it could

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have been potentially disastrous XZ there you go utils is available for

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almost every distribution of Linux but luckily the malicious code was spotted

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before it could be added into the production release of a major drro it

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was however founded beta releases for Fedora Rawhide and and Debian as well as

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a stable release of Arch Linux and the arch users will inform you of that the

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back door apparently works by injecting coat during SSH authentication thereby

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allowing unauthorized remote access bizarrely this malicious code seems to

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have been introduced by one of XZ utils two primary developers giaan AKA GIA

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t75 one of the earlier Terminators who had been contributing to the XZ project

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regularly since 2021 while it's possible that their system was compromised G t75

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is account engaged in suspicious activity over the course of several

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weeks including repeatedly contacting others about their new fixes several

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notable contributors to the project have therefore theorized the G t75 is

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involvement in XZ has been part of a long con intended to get more and more

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invasive permissions through both genuine code contributions and a

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pressure campaign conducted through sock puppets against its original developer

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Lassie Colin for faster development so far researchers have yet to find any

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evidence that gean exists Beyond his presence in open- Source circles which

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honestly isn't all that different from other Linux users stop browsing the web

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using a text editor and go outside your family misses you you have to see your

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family to tell them you use Arch Amazon is abandoning its

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cashierless checkout system at its chain of fresh grocery stores in part because

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it wasn't really cashierless and instead relied on a small army of over a

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thousand overseas workers monitoring and reviewing footage from these

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transactions the program launched in 2016 under the name just walk out the

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empowering slogan of absent fathers everywhere just walk out involves a

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series of cameras and sensors throughout the store which track customers after

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they scan in at the door and automatically charge them for the items they take when they leave 27 of Amazon's

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44 fresh stores have just walk out available and while Amazon gave the

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impression that the system was fully automated an estimated 70% of just

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walkout sales required a human review as of 2022 according to information from

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the information they love that stuff they do love information Amazon disputes

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this number and claims that these reviewers primary purpose was to

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annotate videos for improved machine learning if accurate however this would

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seem to indicate that the company wasn't actually replacing human cashiers it was

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just Outsourcing them most likely by having an underpaid office worker in

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India watch you while you shop this might explain why Shoppers at Fresh

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stores sometimes found it would take hours to receive a receipt for their

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purchase Amazon hasn't given up on the cashier lless experience though and its

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stores will instead increasingly rely on dash carts essentially a combination of

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shopping cart and self checkout which tallies up items as they're added to the

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cart although maybe there's actually just a tiny little man hiding behind the

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screen who uses a peephole to look inside your cart and see what you're buying who knows as part of a settlement

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to a class action lawsuit Google has agreed to delete a massive store of web

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data that it collects Ed while users browsed using Chrome's purportedly

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private incognito mode Google has likewise agreed to update their privacy

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policy as well as the incognito mode landing page to explicitly notify users

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that the company continues to collect data from third party sites and apps

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regardless of what mode their browser is in Google originally argued to have the

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case dismissed under the logic that users had implicitly consented to have

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their data collected even in incognito mode because it warned them that their

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activity might still be visible to websites they visit which is a bit like

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saying that your wife consented to your affair because you told her there might

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be other women at the company Christmas party you know how these parties Go I

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mean I mean you put some scotch in me and I put myself in

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women in a silver lining for Google the agreement will spare the company from a

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potential $5 billion penalty which is good because they need that money to

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invest in their next project preventing other people from stealing your browser

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data I don't steal their brand Google is

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testing to Vice bound session credentials to block malicious actors

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from accessing sensitive accounts by stealing and cloning a person's session

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credentials a form of encryption that ties authentication cookies to the

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user's PC something we here at LMG have

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intimate intimate experience with now

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half past Tech news also known as quick bit of clock just some fun Studio lingo

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we all say it it's what we call it yeah I totally didn't make that up Qualcomm

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has released new benchmarks showing their upcoming ARM powerered Snapdragon

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X Elite laptop processors embarrassing Intel's recently released meteor Lake

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core Ultra chips compared to Intel's core Ultra 9 185h and core Ultra

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755h really cool names the elite performed around 50% faster in geekbench

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at around half the power consumption also beating out AMD's ryzen 9 7940 HS

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and even Apple's M3 qualcomm's regularly

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been bragging about how great the X Elite is since October and with the

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month to go until they finally arrive on the new Microsoft Surface lineup I think

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it's time to chill for a bit you didn't see apple chasing people around on the

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street with PowerPoint presentations about how the M1 is going to

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revolutionize the industry please please they left it to the boardrooms all of

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them last year Google warned that the Google podcast service would soon Google

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perish and for sooth it has now come to

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Google pass how do they know users outside of the US will still be able to

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listen to podcasts until June 24th but after that everyone will have to get

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their fix somewhere else like on app that Google hasn't killed yet YouTube

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music hopefully you don't go looking on that app for Google's Z made by Google

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podcast though because YouTube music doesn't have it Google if if you're

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going to kill so many apps it would be nice to have more of a plan than the

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Star Wars sequels no why did don't

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mention it oh it hurts tsmc has

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announced that workers are already returning to factories less than 24

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hours after Taiwan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years as a

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reporting the Quake killed nine and injured more than 1,000 people 70% of

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tsmc's chipm operations had recovered

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within 10 hours of the earthquake and that is unfortunately important because

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Taiwan is responsible for 80 to 90% of

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the world's high-end chips but I think I speak for the world when I say hey tsmc

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come here new chips are nice and all but so is taking a single day off after your

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country was devastated by an earthquake having said that um thanks for

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preventing a domino effect that would inflate the price of basically everything on Earth even further so back

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to work Australia is turning to Virtual fences after mult mulle car companies

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have tried and failed to calibrate their onboard large animal detection systems

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to kangaroos they already had large animal detection systems Volvo for

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example has had a system that detects pedestrians cyclists and various sunry

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Beasts of the forest since 2016 but kangaroos have proven a bit of a problem

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in part because the average pedestrian can't run at 44 mph or launch themselves

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10 ft into the air not with that attitude according to Volvo Australia's

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Tech technical lead David picket kangaroos tend to move unpredictably and

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when it's Airborne you lose the point of reference for where it actually is

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terrifying instead Australia will be experimenting with virtual fences which

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are activated by approaching headlights and use flashing lights and high-pitched

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alarms to scare animals away from roadsides installation is unfortunately

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expensive but on the other hand a kangaroo hitting your windshield is both

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expensive and bad for the kangaroo does that mean that driving down a highway in

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Australia will sound like a piece of metal discarded from the

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International Space Station apparently ripped through the roof and two floors

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of a home in Naples Florida and if you felt relieved after I specified which

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Naples it was you're a bad person the 2B

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piece of cylindrical metal that hit the home of Alejandro Otero is alleged to be

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part of a 2.9 ton cargo pallet containing nine batteries tossed from

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the ISS 3 years ago apparently Japan may

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be liable for the damages since their space agency sent the now discarded

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structure into space so congratulations to whoever had Florida man Su Japan

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after extraterrestrial attack on their 2024 bingo card but if you've got more

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Tech news on your bingo card just come back on Friday when we post the next

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episode if you don't play Bingo very simple you should instead come back on

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Friday when we post the next episode don't do the other one don't mix them up