okay stand back stand back we've got a dangerous amount of tech news coming
through what you trying to get your face burned off get back up when Tech news
gets too close it burns your face off Andy no iPhone 16 will come with a
pretty hefty upgrade according to a new report from Taiwanese site economic
Daily News their sources indicate Apple's nextg a18 chips for mobile and
M4 chips for Max will likely feature an upgraded neural Engine with
significantly more AI cores which makes
sense given that Tim Cook promised to give us huge AI announcements if we were
good this year other recent reports have indicated
Apple will be launching a suite of generative features as part of iOS 18
most likely at WWDC in June notably
Apple silicon standard neural engine has had 16 cores since the iPhone 12 back in
2020 what is this your grandma's neural processor however certain configurations
of the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro Pro have had neural engines with up to 32
cores which my AI assistant tells me is
twice as many and you'll definitely want to get one of these new phones because
apple is currently rolling out Quantum proof encryption protection in what the
company is calling the most significant cryptographic security upgrade in
iMessage history including all the other ones you remember it's a preventative
measure to help keep you safe from getting hacked by computers that don't
even exist yet why be safe today when you can be safe tomorrow we released a
patch for a bug that wasn't even what
won't protect your phone however is rice
especially from hackers according to new guidance published by Apple support who
recommend leaving your phone to dry somewhere with decent air flow rather
than shoving it in a sack full of edible grain which might get into the device
and damage it I however would like additional clarification what about
oatmeal barley quinoa You're just
showing off about how many grains you know at thisit what' you say rits grits
what if I put a fan in with the rice is that enough airf
flow the European commission has announced a formal investigation into
whether Tik Tok is out of compliance with the digital Services act
specifically when it comes to the protection of Miners and potentially
addictive design features Tik Tok will be the second platform investigated
under the DSA following Twitter which drew the commission's ey in part because
they have a moderation team that's barely even big enough to staff and
control a large waffle house but they try both Tik Tok and Twitter are
potentially in trouble with the EU over failure to meet the dsa's standards for
Advertiser transparency and access to research data but Tik Tok has received
far more attention for the harm it might pose to children and Adolescence because
Twitter is for old people I feel attacked guys we have to make more Tik
toks we don't make any R according to an EC press off officer speaking to RS
Technica the commission suspects Tick Tock of failing to ensure its default
settings will appropriately protect the safety and privacy of minors as well as
neglecting to properly assess the risk of 13 to 17y olds pretending to be
adults on the app which is less of a risk and more of a certainty but Tik Tok
is far from the only company in Europe's bad books as the EU will reportedly be
finding Apple around 500 million EUR
next month following an antitrust probe into a formal complaint from Spotify
that Apple was using its platform to preference its own music streaming
service this is so sad Siri play
desposito Google suddenly dropped a couple of lightweight open-source AI
models inspired by the same Tech used in
their Flagship model Gemini so naturally
they called it Gemma this sound you'd make if you gave up saying the word
Gemini halfway through why use chat gbt when you can use a g uh actually it's
pronounced Gemma is it
no Google says Gemma 2B and 7B can be
run locally do better than larger models on key benchmarks although we've heard
that before and are part of what Deep Mind CEO Demis hassabis calls the
company's long history of supporting responsible open source and science
which apparently did nothing to stop open AI from snagging the AI Crown but
hey sure you know you know whatever although if chat gbt continu
occasionally losing its damn mind as it did early this morning Google may have a
shot reports flooded in from chat gbt users about getting responses that were
everything from overly verbose to full-on gibberish until open AI
correctly diagnosed and fixed the bug in about 24 hours this follows open AI
having to step in after widespread reports of its chat Bots slacking off
around the holiday season okay say it with me it thinks it's
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federal appeals court has overturned a$1 billion penalty that was leveled against
cable ISP Cox Communications in 2019
according to the judge Sony did not prove its case that Cox received direct
Financial benefit from the piracy and copyright infringement committed by its
users Cox may still face penalties due to the finding that it failed to combat
piracy making it a willful contributor to the infringement but such a penalty
will likely be far lighter than the damages originally awarded they didn't
actually make money from you downloading all nine seasons of Seinfeld they just
stood there and watched it happen great finale Elon Musk claims the first
neuralink patient can already move a computer mouse with their mind a
sentence that would be way more impressive if it didn't include the word
computer while musk has stated patient a
can move a mouse around the screen just by thinking that's really all anyone
knows at this point this has caused concern among some researchers who
believe the public deserves a bit more transparency because people care deeply
about their brains with their brains using their brains yeah I care deeply
about how my soy boy brain is completely incapable of telekinesis says hurry it
up Elon I want to be a Jedi colon
Survivor a coalition of AI experts academics and Industry Executives
including deep learning Pioneer yosua Benjo have published an open letter
calling for more regulation and safeguards for deep fakes according to
the letter which currently has over 600 signatures the rapid advancement of deep
fake technology means that they have become a common element of fraud schemes
disinformation campaigns and non-consensual sexual imagery
honestly it's tragic to see people using AI to impersonate and deceive people
when they could instead be like Will Smith who commemorated last year's viral
AI monstrosity by pretending to be a machine generated version of himself
eating spaghetti in the worst way possible I call it a shallow
reel deep fake y'all better watch
yourself Taylor Swift's going to hunt you for sport last week 13,000 owners of
wise home security cameras were able to see images and in some cases video video
from cameras that weren't theirs due to a bizarre glitch even worse a similar
issu occurred just 5 months ago in an email wise referred to this newest
incident as a security issue that occurred due to a third-party cashing
client Library the company had started using like they did 5 months ago wise
said they made changes to their system so that something like this never
happens again again and a nearly 3 deade
old European satellite made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's
atmosphere earlier today the ers2 satellite which CBS described as
weighing about as much as an adult male rhinoceros so we can all get a ballpark
that's a about pretty heavy was decommissioned and had the last of its
fuel used up in 2011 in order to prevent
any potential catastrophic explosion meaning its descent couldn't be
controlled as it spent the next 13 years
slowly falling back to Earth while it thought about what it's done in the
future future space debris might be managed by specialized junk removers
like the adras J satellite that launched
this past weekend in the meantime however most of ERS 2's rhinol like Mass
has burned up in the atmosphere and its remaining chunks are raining down across
a 100 mile wide patch of the Pacific Ocean in a decidedly un rhinol like
Manner and also unlike a rhino you should come back on Friday for more Tech
news I mean hey no offense if you're a rhino I just I don't know if it'd be
really your kind of thing I just don't we don't have a rhino section in the
demographics of rounders are cool man uh