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european union has finally officially passed its digital markets act and
digital services act into law which could force big changes on big tech
companies when it comes to basically everything from social platform moderation to side loading apps the two
acts which address slightly different things and together are called the
digital services act package continues the eu's tradition of acting like big
tech's mom and actually forcing them to be nice the u.s is the dad and to be
honest he's kind of absent the dsa aims to make platforms more responsible for
illegal or misleading conduct by mandating timely takedowns safety checks
and public transparency while the dma targets anti-competitive content
platforms will no longer be allowed to rank their own products higher in search
results prevent users from installing third-party app stores and uninstalling
pre-loading apps or use personal data for advertising without explicit user
consent wow it's like cool it's like it's like europe just fixed the whole internet provided that these regulations
can actually be enforced in a practical and fair manner which is not exactly
guaranteed with massive legislation like this but hey apple google and the rest
will probably have to spend a lot of money trying to find loopholes around
this so at the very least it will hurt them a little bit i just want them to
feel some pain speaking of apple the company announced a new lockdown mode
for iphones ipads and macs meant to be a last resort measure to fend off serious
cyber attacks it's like locking yourself in a digital panic room but what if
they're in the house when it rolls out this fall lockdown mode will strictly
limit a device's capabilities blocking most message attachments and facetime
calls disabling more complex web features and disabling wired connections
when the device is locked it's designed to help users who may face targeted
malware developed by professional companies and employed by state
sponsored hackers all things that would be impossible to accomplish if apple let
fortnite back in the app store that game is basically all hackers anyway obi-wan
and harley quinn in the same game impossible and right after finally doing
something about spam comments youtube had to go and do something stupid again
to even it out the platform's auto moderation systems have classified some
videos as for kids reversing their
creator's decision to intentionally designate the videos as not for kids
chris straub the creator of horror series local 58 tv uploaded a video in
2018 intended as a horror parody of a children's cartoon the video includes
text that says made for children so it's understandable that youtube's ai could
get confused but it's not understandable how it could then block straub from
reversing the inaccurate for kids label the mistake was eventually corrected
after straub tweeted a lot and went through the appeal process but the same
thing also happened to the youtube channel your movie sucks the crazy thing
is that youtube support didn't even seem to think it was weird to just decide for
creators whether their content is for kids or not we're pretty sure it's for
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do happen pretty fast so stay on your toes
yet another pc hardware leak has seemingly confirmed that Intel's
upcoming raptor lake s desktop platform will support ddr4 and there was much
rejoicing but the leak also made it look like m.2 ssds will only be able to
connect through four PCIe 4.0 lanes
instead of the 16 available PCIe 5.0
lanes which would mean raptor lake systems couldn't make use of the full
speed afforded by PCIe 5.0 ssds with the
m.2 form factor and that would be dumb but this is just a leak so there may be
time for Intel to patch it before raptor lake launches this fall those mixing
metaphors there can you patch it your space suit and
sleep ubisoft announced that 15 games would lose online services this week but
not if ubisoft has anything to say about it
what ubisoft maine's the studio behind
anno 2070 one of the affected games announced they would try to see whether
the game's infrastructure could be migrated to a more modern system and
maintain access although they can't guarantee it'll work it's all up to
ubisoft an amended japanese law has just gone into effect that will cause people
convicted of posting online insults to face fines of up to 300 000 yen or about
2 200 u.s dollars or up to a year in
prison seems a bit harsh here in the west but the law will apparently be
reviewed in three years to see whether it has a negative impact on freedom of
expression uh yeah i'm going to go out on a limb here and say whoever came up
with that idea is a numpty lock me up also a dumb idea
wireless carrier is partnering with a company called glance which will launch
a lock screen platform on Android phones
instead of showing useful things like say the time or an important
notification glance will immediately grab your attention by serving live
events social video and even games as soon as you press your phone's power
button because any moment you're not consuming content is a moment you're
spending on something way worse like having a introspective thought bad and
here's some uplifting news researchers firing up the large hadron collider for
the first time in three years have discovered three new exotic particles a
new type of pentaquark and a pair of tetra quarks they are cute it's not
clear what the new type is but i think there's a sore need of some fire slash
psychic options now would you look at the time it's time for me to tell you to
come back on friday for more tech news at which time i expect full repayment of
your debt use your time wisely