hey um the uh the tech news is coming up
soon and I and I thought you know if you're not going to get it from anyone
else maybe I could present it to you I I
I'm sorry I'm I'm being so stupid I just you you
wouldn't unless Microsoft suffered a
global outage yesterday affecting access to many Microsoft 365 Services according
to the BBC even access to mind craft was affected and Xbox Live actually
unfortunately Microsoft stated during the outage that teams was not affected
so close meaning that app continues to barely function by Design the company
also determined that the outage was due to a Dos attack on its Azure Cloud
platform the attack then activated dos protection mechanisms which due to an
error in implementation made the attack worse great job Microsoft what is going
on over there this incident comes less than 2 weeks after global infrastructure
was knocked out by a faulty software update from cyber security firm crowd
strike many businesses are still dealing with the Fallout from that outage the
CEO of us-based Delta Airlines may be seeking damages of 500 million dollars
from crowd strike and Microsoft after being forced to ground thousands of
flights and reimburse affected passengers for food and overnight hotel
stays that's a lot of money that Microsoft could be using to continue
paying the best Engineers for their worst work there's been a lot of
developments around deep fakes recently Google announced it is updating their
search algorithm to better handle explicit AI deep fakes the changes will
make it easier to remove deep fakes at scale and will penalize sites that host
such content by demoting them in search rankings because the easiest way to hide
non-consensual imagery is to place it on Google searches second page on top of
that the US Senate has introduced a bill for the no fakes Act which is meant to
protect artists from AI deep fakes while
some like artists like the bill others
are worried the bill is overly Broad and could allow for misuse meanwhile last
week the Senate unanimously passed the Defiance act which allows victims of
non-consensual explicit deep fakes to sue individuals who knowingly produce
distribute or receive those images but that's not enough the US government
needs to crack down on AI deep fakes that are used for fraud and manipulation
says Microsoft the company that arguably had a major role in making AI deep fake
fraud so accessible guys you need to solve this problem I ca AI search
company perplexity has announced they will be sharing Revenue with Publishers
whose content shows up in perplexity AI generated answers this comes a month
after perplexity got in trouble for plagiarizing content for multiple
Publishers so while this Revenue share may sound like a step in the right
direction I'm not sure perplexity will be able to pay its sources when it's
been failing to disclose where its answers even come from we just handed
out some money to people I don't know who they were aside from dodging
plagiarism accusations there may be another reason perplexity decided to
offer a revenue sharing deal openingi launch of their own AI powered Search
tool search GPT last week on top of that
Reddit is now blocking every search engine but Google's after making a deal
with the search giant according to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman search GPT will
be able to show results from the site thanks to a similar deal but Huffman
called out perplexity for refusing to pay to access reddit's data
unfortunately that means perplexity users will have to miss out on Treasures
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agriculture written by someone called Ned the nip Hunter and that's not a real
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H AMD has launched its new ryzen 5000
desktop processors the ryzen 9 5900 XT
and ryzen 75800 XT now available at
retailers unfortunately for AMD some us retailers also listed the not yet
launched ryzen 9000 series of CPUs leaking the prices fortunately for
consumers it looks like the new Chips will cost up to $100 less at launch than
the current ryzen 7000 series did
There's so many series going on right now what are you doing AMD meanwhile
Intel who apparently spent two chip Generations selling broken CPUs has
announced their lunar Lake laptop CPUs will launch on September 3rd at this
point I'll consider lunar Lake a success if the chips don't burst into flame
let's just go for that Amazon has been forced to recall over
400,000 products the US consumer product safety commission determined that Amazon
is legally responsible for the defective products of third party Sellers and that
the platform failed to alert hundreds of thousands of customers to these serious
risks those unsafe products include hair dryers without electrocution protection
faulty carbon monoxide detectors and children's pajamas that violate Federal
flammability standards turns out Amazon's delivery network is so vast
they offer same day shipping to the
afterlife meta has agreed to settle a privacy lawsuit with the state of Texas
for a massive one $ 1.4 billion the
lawsuit was filed 2 years ago and alleged meta was using Facebook users
biometric data without permission to power the tag suggestions feature the
platform introduced way back in 2011 you'd think meta would learn to stay on
the right side of the law since then but an investigative report by The Wall
Street Journal claims hundreds of ads for illegal drug marketplaces have
appeared on Instagram and Facebook ads like this are dangerous to the
impressionable users of Instagram and perhaps insulting to the Bots that still
use Facebook they can't even do drugs Google is taking heat for a recent
Olympics tie in ad where a father gets the Gemini AI assistant to generate a
draft of a letter from his daughter to an athlete she admires now there's
nothing wrong with taking a pre-written draft and personalizing it to fit your
needs but there is something ever so slightly icky about putting something as
innocent and authentic as a child's letter to their celebrity hero through
the same process what would the AI say
let's find out what would the AI say for my daughter maybe this fictional little
girl will one day be a skilled athlete herself but it'd be great if she also
had some baseline literacy so that she doesn't have to sign documents with an
ex like a medieval peasant and are you an awkward loner with a hundred bucks
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