Tech news is an important part of a balanced breakfast sadly it only gets
delivered in the late evening Pacific time nothing will bring iMessage to
Android which is so cool it almost makes me less upset at being forced to write
puns every time we report on this freaking company why did you do this
that's right nothing the company founded by OnePlus co-founder Carl pay has
announced nothing chats an app that will make a message from an Android phone
show up as the coveted blue bubble on iPhones because nothing believes in
Windows not walls I mean sure nothing
chats is exclusive to their own phone and that's kind of a wall but what are
they supposed to do live in a gazebo the app is a collaboration with Sunbird one
of a few different companies providing iMessage to Android bridging services in
beta Marquez Brown Lee asked nothing how it works and they confirmed that they're
literally routing Android messages through a Mac on a server Farm somewhere
which is wild but at least it seems less pathetic than Google taking out ads to
complain that Apple won't be nice to them you should let me have the blue
bubbl guys are they're hogging all the blue bubbles features like group chats
typing indicators voice notes and sending photos that don't look like they
were spat on by Tim Cook during Transit are working now while read receipts and
message reactions are coming soon the only question now is what will Apple do
Tim won't take this lying down insolent worm you have trespassed and incurred my
wrath Agony and despair shall be your inheritance Z for you Barbara we're
leaving Barbara come on Microsoft held its annual ignite
event today and announced yet another generative AI thing called co-pilot but
at least the company is owning it now corporate vice president Jared SPO joked
about Microsoft's questionable history of choosing marketing names for new
products while discussing Microsoft's decision as of today to stop trying to
make fetch happen and Rebrand Bing chat to co-pilot in bing did they ask Bing
whether they could put a co-pilot in it I we don't know it's definitely better
branding or it would be if Microsoft hadn't called a dozen other products
co-pilot already like George Foreman naming his five Sons George Foreman 2
through six and his daughter
Georgette there will also be a co-pilot assistant in Microsoft Loop the notion
likee productivity web app and who knows how many other places thanks to the new
co-pilot Studio which will allow users to build their own custom AI co-pilots
just like open ai's recently announced gpts believe it or not there's some non
co-pilot news too Microsoft hopes to reduce its Reliance on NVIDIA with their
new custom ARM-based Azure Maya 100 and
Cobalt 100 server processors I'm doing quotes when I say custom because they're
no apple silicon but they do appear to be a bit more custom than the company's
sq1 and sq2 surface chips that were basically Snapdragon hxs with a hat and
sunglasses is on finally Microsoft mesh
its mixed reality platform will be integrated into teams allowing for
virtual meetings in AI generated 3D spaces eventually with personalized
avatars none of which appear to have legs that kind of advanced Tech is
apparently still well beyond us have they rolled out on the meta platform yet
I don't think they have I'm sorry we cannot rebuild you we
do not have the technology the FBI is struggling to address a small
decentralized cyber crime gang known as scattered spider that's been hitting
corporations throughout the United States for the last 2 years according to
cyber Security Experts who were probably all former teen hackers themselves I
mean come on guys you hack the planet remember that was you scattered spider
most notoriously hacked Casino operators MGM International and Caesar's
entertainment back in September but they also hit telecoms healthc care firms
financial service companies and rival gang disoriented dragonfly I'm scared of
uh rank in Ling the non-existent gang that we just made up the FBI has
apparently known the identities of at least a dozen members of this group for
over half a year but none have been arrested despite living in the US and
causing millions in Damages some have blamed this lack of action on unequal
lack of Manpower the FBI having lost many of its best agents to the private
sector victims have likewise typically been hesitant to inform law enforcement
when they've been compromised no doubt partly from embarrassment over being
hacked by a gaggle of teenagers taking advantage of long known and neglectfully
unpatched vulnerabilities in software relied on by corporations around the
world another favorite Target of these groups is critical infrastructure and
information dense targets like hospitals just this week McLaren a healthcare
nonprofit in Michigan notified 2.2
million clients of a data breach that exposed names birth dates Social
Security numbers and extensive amounts of sensitive medical information just
the kind of Ruthless Behavior we should expect from hardened cyber criminals
with underdeveloped amygdalas in a diet of pizza and energy drinks mom where are
my chicken strips I'm destroying the
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more sensitive viewers the following bits are exceptionally quick you're
going to want to strap the in for these in a recent blog post meta's Global head
of safety Antony Davis argued that App
Stores should be charged with enacting age verification and parental consent
controls for social media this would make implementation of guard rails to
protect children more intuitive and consistent across legal jurisdictions
but it also has the advantage of making it no longer meta's responsibility meta
alongside several other social media companies is facing a mountain of
lawsuits for damages to Miners and they think it would be just awesome if maybe
somebody else had to deal with all this but even if meta's reasons are obviously
self-serving that doesn't necessarily make it a bad idea the worst person you
know just made a great point it doesn't feel good the department of justice has
joined an investigation of an ongoing controversy in the aviation industry
where thousands of uncertified used engine parts were refurbished and sold
using forged documents that hid the actual age and history of the parts the
issue was first publicly revealed by a Bloomberg report in late August after
maintenance workers in Europe started flagging inconsistencies with repair
parts Airlines conducted a panicked audit of their planes to find which had
falsified parts and remove them from service and now AOG Technics a
london-based parts distributor is under investigation for alleged forgery and
fraud my advice to AOG say you picked up
the bad parts after they fell off the back of a truck works every time it's so
terrifying they're just trying to recycle We are the world Google has
launched a lawsuit against 22 people it says weaponize the dmca by creating at
least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices
of copyright infringement against more than 100 17,000 thirdparty website URLs
20 of the defendants are not identified but the two that are identified in the
suit appear to be involved in selling printed T-shirts online and were
allegedly motivated by a desire to get their competitors removed from Google
search results resulting in millions of dollars in Lost revenue for both the
target companies and Google the notices were filed under a variety of fake names
including Amazon NBC News Elon Musk and
Lavar Burton of Star Trek and Reading Rainbow Fame things at red bubble
getting rough those are those are all real names people were more likely to
perceive AI generated human faces as real than actual photos of human faces
especially when the subject of the photo was white according to a peer-reviewed
study published in psychological science which calls attention once again to the
problem of AIS being trained on image data sets with disproportionately more
white faces the studies's authors call this phenomenon of thinking the fake
thing looks more real hyper realism but I don't know if we should put much stock
in it I mean like like I know I look like an AI generated image of a generic
white guy but you guys know I'm real right
right an EV company rivan sent out an
over-the-air update that soft bricked infotainment systems of any rivan
vehicles that installed it turns out the company sent out the wrong update build
and the wrong security certificates in a public statement rivan blamed the error
on a fat finger which I absolutely love
presumably because instead of pushing the convenient fix cars button Ronald
rivan chief of cars work good accidentally pressed the big and red
break all cars button anyone could have made that mistake right next to each
other what it's the literal meme first all I think we should stop fat shaming
fingers just like how you'd be making a mistake by not coming back on Friday for
more Tech news that sounds like a threat but it's it's it's really not you you're
going to be fine either way but you better come back