this episode's not like the other ones it's a little bit quirky let's let's
just say it never quite fit in it's
doing its own thing
Microsoft's latest attempt to convince the world's Regulators that its proposed
acquisition of Activision Blizzard would be totally fine
is by forming a fellow alliance with Nintendo and NVIDIA to battle the forces
of antitrust and frankly embarrassed its console Nemesis Sony the Microsoft
NVIDIA and grieving will introduce Microsoft games to the GeForce cloud
service including Call of Duty depending on the outcome of the Activision
acquisition this is great word play a similar 10-year deal will make Call of
Duty games available on Nintendo devices no word yet on whether soap McTavish
will be added to the Super Smash Bros roster or if it'll be able to run on
switch here's hoping though Sony rejected basically the same deal when it
was offered by Microsoft and I can't imagine that seeing other industry
players gain access to Microsoft's cool clubhouse would feel very nice for any
giant Tech Corporation to make matters worse though for Sony the communication
workers of America a major video game labor union has added their support to
the deal in return for a pledge of neutrality from Microsoft toward future
unionization they promise what what Sony
you don't care about workers right more like workstation am I right you said it
speaking of Activision they recently confirmed that they suffered a major
data breach resulting in the theft of employee data and their release schedule
back in December law enforcement's Prime Suspect now is a furry green man wearing
red what the Grinch the company with the dog the breach was apparently caused by
a successful SMS phishing scam that gave the hacker privilege access to
Activision's internal Network Activision stress is no sensitive employee data
game code or player data was accessed which doesn't explain why they didn't
notify the public or their own employees in fact Activision only announced that
the breach occurred after a cyber security research group posted
screenshots of the stolen data to Twitter which apparently came as a shock
to many within Activision the hacker was able to access spreadsheets including
the names phone numbers email address and work addresses of employees which
doesn't meet the strict legal definition of sensitive data in California it like
saying hey I didn't post your nudes just this picture of you in beige underwear
that happens to be skin tight and we like the Bulge
it's my favorite battle we love it a bulge a large international law firm
Allen and Avery that's real has partnered with open AI to test an AI
model specifically designed for legal work the tool is called Harvey
presumably named after other prominent Harvey's in the legal profession such as
Specter Birdman or Dent Harvey was
trained on an extensive database of legal knowledge and the firm began to a
trial run with open AI back in September now though they're expanding their use
of Harvey at a time when many other firms are looking to get into the AI
craze as well unlike previous attempts at an AI lawyer Harvey is not giving
advice to clients rather it's being used as a tool to increase the efficiency of
existing employees by answering simple legal questions and drafting messages to
clients as well as documents areas of law like contracts and license
generation tend to be highly predictable and typically use standardized though
hard to read language meaning they're an obvious use case for AI generated text
so long as it's thoroughly checked by a professional apparently Harvey performs
well at General legal tasks but struggles in more Niche areas of
knowledge and the firm is warning clients about the possibility of AI
hallucinations otherwise known as making stuff up or Saul goodmaning good man ing
it's all good man all right now it's
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well me too don't tell me anything the
heavily hyped game atomic heart has launched without support for Ray tracing
odd seeing as it was predominantly featured in several NVIDIA RTX showcases
and Mund fish Atomic Hearts developer made no announcement that Ray tracing
would be removed stay with me more like atomic fart
this would seem to be at odds with accusations from the Ukrainian
government that the game was funded by oil Giant Gas prom if you're funded by
Russian oligarchs you 100 have Ray tracing money
come on Samsung has updated its Voice Assistant Bixby which apparently still
exists to answer calls on behalf of users possibly in their own voice Bixby
can clone a user's voice from just a few samples so if you're unable to take a
quick call you can just send a quick text instead which Bixby will read out
in your voice word of warning though your mom might just decide she likes
this new robot you that always answers her calls better than the Flesh and
Blood version and there's one thing I know it's your mom e Apple has just
ordered the entire stock of tsmc's first gen three nanometer chips for its
upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Max the
most important of all the upcoming devices according to Apple anyway
Intel's 15th gen Aero Lake processors were supposed to launch in the third
quarter of next year using tsmc's three nanometer process for their gpus
but based on delays and Intel's orders from tsmc Arrow Lakes launch will likely
be delayed into the first quarter of 2025 but hey we'll all be dead anyway I
used to be a chip manufacturer too but then I took an aero link to the knee
Rovio the game developer famous for the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds I
love that one has announced they will be pulling the original Angry Birds from
Mobile stores their stated rationale is The Game's impact on their wider games
portfolio likely a reference to the fact that their other titles are free to play
games meant to suck players dry through microtransactions while the original
Angry Birds was a game you bought and owned for a dollar after which it would
never again ask you for money unlike most of your relatives speaking
of do you have like five bucks I wish I had a Tony to look at you hey
you know how Twitter tried to turn the blue check mark into an eight dollar
status symbol well Tumblr a social media platform that does still exist I'm
assured decided it would be funny to sell what they called important blue
internet check marks for a single payment of four dollars a decision that
has apparently increased tumblr's iOS revenue from in-app purchases by 125
percent which at the end of these was probably a pretty low bar totally makes up for the
porn loss right officially the check marks do nothing and are simply to show
that you are an important person on the internet users can buy as many as they want and
even give them to other people warning important blue internet check marks May
on occasion turn into crabs in a process called carsonization you can get it from
a toilet seat and you can give other people the gift of tech news if you tell
them to watch on Friday possibly from a toilet seat
we'll have laughs but you can't play Angry Birds anymore on there yeah oh
it's over bye