ooh I hope you're ready for a spicy new episode I used my secret recipe the
secret is Tech news it's the only ingredient the eu's digital markets act
has officially come into Force dragging the tech Giants designated as
Gatekeepers Apple alphabet Amazon bite dance meta and Microsoft into a world
where they can't just do whatever the hell they want that's for the companies
designated as girl bosses the EU loves
them y''s Mrs Queen you Sly we've
already talked about Apple and Google's plans for compliance but now meta has
detailed its plans to allow its WhatsApp and messenger apps to be interoperable
with third-party chat apps that also use the signal protocol for encryption which
includes Google messages when RCS is enabled Skype private conversations and
of course signal that was it's not telegram Tik Tok announced it would be
giving its users more control over their data but also complained about being
designated as a gatekeeper because they're so young and it'll make it
harder for them to compete with the Boomer Tech Giants and it's super lame
but the most anticipated changes are still Apple's new rules allowing
third-party app marketplaces on iOS and
the first one has apparently launched the miv vention app Marketplace which is
apparently designed to let Enterprises use it to distribute internal company
apps but there will come cooler iOS app
stores like the one Epic Games planned to release until Apple terminated their
developer account again citing both epic's blatant breaking of Apple's rules
and CEO Tim Sweeney's very public criticism of the company epic complained
prompting EU Regulators to investigate whether Apple had really just punished a
company for Mean Tweets and the next day
Apple reinstated epic's account Sweeney
credited the European commission for taking Swift action but Apple told Apple
Insider they changed their mind because epic committed to follow the rules
something Sweeney had already promised to do in an email to Phil Schiller
before their account ban but I mean look at how short that email is there's
there's an unacceptable lack of apologetic graveling make me believe it
Nikon has acquired Red digital cinema
maker of high-end cameras used by Hollywood producers and YouTubers using
hash browns as a mouse pad that's lonus we're professionals the amount that
Nikon paid to purchase red is a mystery
one that gets even deeper when you remember that red famously sued Nikon
for infringing on seven of its patents related to raw video compression Nikon
responded to the lawsuit by challenging whether red should have even been
granted those patents in the first place now it's unclear what exactly transpired
between the two companies after that but in April 2023 a year after Red's lawsuit
was filed both red and Nikon agreed to
dismiss the case and now all of a sudden Nikon shows up and announces they're
absorbing their former enemy but as fstoppers points out the merger actually
makes a ton of sense as a way to combine Red's Cinema reputation with Nikon's
excellence in still camera photography and lenses it could be that Nikon and
Red's leadership both realized they'd be better friends than enemies I believe
Tim Sweeney and Tim Cook will have that same realization someday they will they
will merge there will be one Tim and now we are one guys upon us and
despair and a US Tik Tock ban is back on
the menu boys after the bipartisan house
Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously voted 50 to zero to advance
a bill that would give Chinese parent company bite Dance 6 months to sell the
app to Elon Musk I made that last last
part up as soon as Tik Tok got wind of the bill it sent push notifications to
its users urging them to call their local representatives to stop Congress
placing a total ban on Tik Tok and call
they did Congressional staff reported getting bombarded with calls from
depressed purple teenagers and the Millennials who complain about them
pleading with the government to please let them keep their favorite app saying
POV you're disappointing me now at the heart of this issue is the
certainty among members of Congress that Tik Tok represents a foreign adversary
controlled application despite heavy insistence by bite Dan and their army of
eth thoughts that the CCP has no control
over Tik Tok and I make jokes but if passed this bill could have real impact
there are a ton of small business owners that depend on Tik Tok for marketing and
questionable psychology takes I think I have ADHD I do or do I I don't know now
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a well maybe a few more Roku maker of
the smart TV you settled for has figured out a way to make forced arbitration
worse this week Roku customers found they couldn't use their TVs at all until
they agreed to the company's updated dispute resolution terms two weeks after
the terms apparently came into effect in addition to the forced arbitration Roku
already had in place the smart TV bronze medalists added an informal dispute
resolution process where users are required to call roku's lawyers with any
concerns they may have before taking further legal action and before you Su
us you have to ask ask Dave everything's going through Dave now I mean I don't
know who's worse off roku's customers or the lawyers they've basically turned
into unwilling customer support Specialists I don't know how to turn off
motion smoothing I'm a lawyer NVIDIA has announced GeForce now day passes at $4
for a priority day gaming at up to 1080P
and 60 FPS or $8 for an ultimate day
gaming at up to 4K and 120 FPS that day
better be pretty good to be called that Gamers would have to be pretty starved
for some playtime to pay those prices when a month of priority membership is
only $6 more but on the other hand GeForce now is harder to resist now that
it's added support for NVIDIA reflex and g-sync although support for variable
refresh rates is currently limited to the Windows app on a PC with a
relatively recent NVIDIA GPU or the Mac
OS app on a number of Apple silicon and
Intel powered Max but not on a PC with
Intel or AMD gpus NVIDIA isn't sure whether those can put out frames at all
can I run it on this GPU on a what's
that sorry what language is that in other GeForce news NVIDIA is reportedly
retiring the GTX brand according to
multiple sources NVIDIA is no longer Distributing GTX 16 cards to Partners
once all remaining stock of the series is sold that's it I mean game over perhaps
in a strange twist the GTX brand will be outlived by the GT name as some GT 1030
cards are still up for sale it's unclear if those cards will reach end of life
alongside the gtx1 16 series it's like when a normal healthy adult dog is
outlived by an old shriveled tiny ugly dog named something like Mr Poopsy
that's missing two legs and is blind in both eyes it's sad and it feels weird
why must Mr Poopsy suffer he was a genetic
mistake rivan had a major launch this
week where it announced a midsize electric SUV called the R2 as well as a
compact SUV sadly not called the
D2 R2D2 Riley oh you're the Star Wars
guy well the the compact R3 SUV also
comes in a more rugged r3x variation with more power higher clearance and a
wider stance you know it's just a little
butch but there's no shame in that what am I
reading the R2 boasts a 300 mile range
with the larger of its two battery pack options and its single motor
configuration and it starts at $45,000 meaning it's significantly
cheaper than the larger r1s placing it
competitively among batterypowered mom mobiles whoa I want this thing R you are
a mom it's cuz I'm a mom and a former Google engineer has been charged and
arrested for allegedly stealing AI Trad secrets on behalf of a Chinese AI
startup Google apparently determined that the employee in question had stolen
a large Trove of documents by uploading hundreds of files onto his personal
Google Cloud account making this possibly the lamest Heist of all time
according to prosecutors the suspect was offered a CTO position at the Chinese
firm shortly thereafter with a monthly salary worth around
$14,800 a month plus bonus and stock he
also alleged traveled to China to raise money for the company and had another
employee scan his access badge back in the US to give the impression he was
still at work I'm going to try that Strat next time I want to attend a 300
p.m. matina sh don't tell lonus and
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