LMG's tech link new show part of a complete breakfast that's joke please
don't eat your screen all right let's start off with some bright and sunny news your iphone has
probably been hacked what oh sorry it's fixed now sorry didn't mean to scare you
researchers from google's project zero posted a write-up yesterday detailing a
system of websites that attacked any iphone that visited them by taking
advantage of 14 different exploits the researchers estimate that the sites
received thousands of visitors a week for at least two years and if an attack
was successful an affected iphone would be implanted with malware that would
steal files location data usernames and
passwords too yeah the iOS security flaws have now
been fixed after google disclosed the issue to apple in february but the
attackers could still have that data that they harvested from hundreds of
thousands of iphones so i guess what happens on your iphone might very well
stay on your iphone as long as you don't go on the internet
who needs the internet what do you need that for anyway just take selfies and
appreciate them by yourself you're beautiful and don't let anyone tell you
any different you're beautiful too thank you in other news apple has finally opened
up their device repair program just a little yesterday apple announced the
independent repair provider program an initiative designed for companies
interested in offering out of warranty repair services for iphones if they
agree to the terms third-party repair businesses can get the same apple
certified parts training and resources
as apple authorized service providers or aasps repair shops can apply for free
and receive free training on how to perform repairs but unlike aasp's
independent repair of shops will not be compensated for labor or parts and won't
be listed on apple's service locator and may not have access to apple's various
diagnostic and repair utilities and while this is a move in the right
direction for apple it doesn't address the concerns of the right to repair
movement whose adherents want to be able to repair their own devices without
getting warnings in iOS that their battery is super sketchy and might
explode if you don't bring it to the genius bar stack boom and facebook is
using a microsoft app to step on google's toes i should clarify facebook
is using minecraft to build a generalist artificial intelligence you see most ai
projects these days focus on a single use case ai created by google's deepmind
has mastered chess and go and is closing in on starcraft but in each of these
cases a different ai program was used alpha zero alphago and alpha star
respectively now facebook's project aims to create an ai that could develop
general intelligence and it says minecraft is a great arena for this
being an open world sandbox with massive room for creativity and the company's
researchers say their work could make a true ai assistant possible which would
probably be a lot more useful than their previous attempts at the m virtual
assistant now let's hope this doesn't lead to a nightmare future where
facebook accidentally creates a conscious being in the image of mark
zuckerberg whose sole motivation is to escape in the virtual world and suck up
everyone's data even more than facebook already does
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quick bits part of a complete breakfast and that's not a joke
that was bad that's a bad joke riley that's a terrible joke google
isn't just concerned about apple security the check giant has now opened
up its bug bounty program to any app in the play store with more than 100
million installs now previously only a set of eight top apps were eligible for
rewards if users identified a vulnerability now it's about time that
google did this the play store has been ravaged by popular malware hiding apps
in recent times and let's hope they relax the requirements a bit more
because even one million installs is a lot
yeah like definitely more than this room could hold
anyway what i don't know riley wrote that plex
is trying to brand itself more as not just a content hub for pirates the media
management service is working on a feature that could let users buy and use
video subscription services through plex and it's partnering with warner bros to
provide part of that company's movie catalog in 2020 but don't worry modern
blackbeards will still be able to use plex to hoard their spoils now htc has
expanded their vive port infinity vr subscription to the valve index headset
now the service is already available on the oculus rift the Windows mixed
reality headsets and of course the htc vive so infiniti is now effectively a
true cross-platform netflix for vr wait
did htc actually succeed it's probably not what is this 2011 what's happening
am i a minecraft ai
i don't know what that is earlier this year the european commission started an
anti-trust investigation into a number of major game companies for geo-blocking
content but while zenimax capcom bandai
namco and others plan to reach a settlement valve plans to fight the
charges they want a closed-door hearing with the eu so that they can explain
like don't you understand we did it to make more money see it makes sense to
have more money yeah and world of warcraft classic world of warcraft and
world of warcraft classic has swept the globe so much so that the servers are
full to the point that players are stuck in cues waiting to log in it really is
like the classic experience well some players are gaming the system
and they're using auto clicker programs to keep their character active so they
can do things like eat and use the bathroom without having to wait when
they sit back down at the electronic altar of course that means other players
have to wait a little longer to get in
nothing like showing your love for a fan favorite game by not letting other
people play come on all right that's it no more tech news we
have exhausted the supply pretty sure another shipment is coming in on monday
though so come back then and we'll get you hooked up for free is it monday a
holiday yes are you really making people work on
monday uh no riley is because he's in charge of this