only the truly intelligent can understand this show so ask yourself if
you're mentally acute enough to handle all of this tetch T nois
tets yeah um Windows 11's AI powered
recall feature announced by Microsoft on Monday has gotten attention from privacy
Advocates including the information commissioner's office which is the UK's
data protection watchdoc the agency says it's making inquiries into the feature
which takes screenshots every few seconds giving Microsoft's co-pilot
assistant a literal photographic memory of the last 3 months of a user's recent
activity by default according to Microsoft the feature is optional and
these snapshots are encrypted and stored locally meaning only someone with access
to the device could access the images further users can restrict recall from
collecting screenshots when certain apps and websites are open as well as pause
snapshots with a click of a button and delete them at any time however this
doesn't mean that the feature couldn't wind up capturing sensitive information
like loging credentials or I don't know your social security number if you
accidentally forget to pause recall while filing your taxes or participating
in a hot Tik Tok Trend involving showing your social insurance number to the
camera it's the hottest Trend mine
according to privacy Advocates if a malicious person does access the device
or if Microsoft changes their mind about storing this information locally the
recall feature could still pose a serious security risk even with the
guard rails Microsoft has provided a user who is temporarily Bor borrowing a
device or using a public device might not be aware that recall is even enabled
accidentally exposing their information all in all it's an incredibly invasive
feature just for the benefit of a slightly more effective AI assistant a
bit like replacing your hand with a machete just to make hiking easier I
mean I can never hug my children again but I'm cutting through these bushes
like butter butter was my first child before I realized the European Council
has reached a final set of AI safety rules as part of the AI act which goes
into effect next month these EU rules are significantly stronger and more
comprehensive than the United States own voluntary compliance approach with tiar
of increasingly strict transparency and Reporting requirements depending on the
level of risk posed by a given AI system the rules restrict EU governments from
using real-time biometric monitoring such as facial recognition except to
locate suspects of extremely serious crimes or prevent violent terrorist
attacks are there any other kind they likewise ban law enforcement from using
AI for social scoring predictive policing and untargeted scraping of
facial images meanwhile in a conference in South Korea several major companies
involved in AI development including Amazon Microsoft and open AI signed onto
a voluntary agreement to publish AI safety Frameworks outlining how they
plan to manage risks posed by their AI models such as misuse by malicious
actors and automated cyber attacks these plans will apparently include a kill
switch to stop all AI development if the company is not able to guarantee that
red lines like the AI enabled development of bioweapons cannot be
prevented if only because it's really hard to make money when all your
customers are dead of course it might boost public confidence if these
companies made more of an effort to communicate their respect for safety and
boundaries in the here and now especially open AI which has seen a lot
of high-profile departures from its safety and super alignment departments
in recent months it's not exactly the most serious issue in the world that
open AI very clearly based their Sky voice on Scarlet Johansson even after
she told them no that being said how should we expect open a ey to treat
everyday people with no lawyers when this is how they treat a rich famous
person with effectively infinite lawyers lawyers all the way down on Monday we
briefly mentioned until it happened to drop a preview of his NextGen lunar Lake
Mobile chips the same day as the Snapdragon X Elite laptop lineup reveal
but we didn't have time to mention that said preview contained more juice than
it seemed there's all a little more juice I learned that in juicing school
and it's filled with P for one Intel
claimed that an unnamed lunar Lake processor outperformed a Snapdragon X
Elite by 1.4 times in stable diffusion and that its single core performance
will be faster than the exite as well Intel also says not only will lunar Lake
chips far surpass Microsoft's 40 tops requirement for AI performance there'll
also be the first chips built on Intel's 18a process with new lion Cove
performance cores and skymont efficiency cores plus the first iteration of the
company's nextg battle mage GP GPU before it even shows up in gaming
graphics cards now for some of their performance claims Intel relied on
benchmarks published by Qualcomm since those fancy new co-pilot plus PCS won't
launch for a month and Qualcomm hasn't let anyone review them yet which is
reason enough to stay skeptical that the Windows on ARM revolution has actually
left those stuffy x86 chips in the dust
Another reason is AMD's expected reveal of its next gen Zen 5 architecture at
computex in a couple of weeks with possibly more details revealed at hot
chips in August and Zen 5 laptops dropping shortly after that it looks
like with Zen 5 AMD will continue their tradition of improving performance by
stuffing even more cores in there because why would they stop people love
cores they can't stop talking every day I just hear cores cor cores and more cor
I'm like stop I'm getting flashbacks to juing school people also can't stop
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thought those stories were thrilling strap in for the quick bits seriously
you may get injured a new brain implant is allowing a paralyzed man with only
limited use of his vocal cords to communicate bilingually in English and
Spanish through a brain computer interface previous implants have only
allowed for unilingual communication but this single implant is able to easily
switch between both languages after being trained on how the patient's brain
activates when they imagine saying specific vocabulary words that's really
cool amazingly the patient a native
Spanish speaker learned English as an adult after the stroke that left him
paralyzed possibly because he wanted to make the rest of us look bad bastao
the Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will be increasing the
number of inspections of water infrastructure following a heightened
number of cyber attacks hitting local Water Systems in the United States
according to the EPA over 70% of the
systems they've inspected since September last year have failed to
comply with mandates intended to reduce the risk of these kinds of attacks
including basic measures like changing default passwords and revoking former
employees access to these facilities look I don't claim to be a cyber
security expert but poisoning the water supply should be a little harder than
guessing password 123 put an exclamation mark on that bad boy it's perfect
self-driving cars may not be dominating our streets yet despite Elon musk's past
lofty promises but the development of self-driving trucks seems to be heating
up Volvo just showed off its first production ready vnl autonomous big rig
designed in collaboration with Aurora a company that you won't be Sur surprised
to hear specializes in autonomous vehicles it's got one of those fancy
names the duo plans to roll out up to 20 of the semi- trucks by the end of this
year those are like cyber trucks but they're bigger and they work the
upcoming ddr6 RAM standard May more than
double the speed of current ddr5 memory according to leak slides ddr6 is
expected to reach speeds of 17,600 megga transfers per second and
even has the potential to go as high as 21,000 as a point of comparison ddr5
currently maxes out at 8,400 megatrans per second and is unlikely to crack
10,000 at least at a price affordable to mere mortals though no matter how fast
ddr6 is it will never be faster than time it marches ever forward as the void
calls for all of us no matter how many Chrome tabs you can keep open anyway
sleep tight and Cooler Master has added AI to thermal paste or at least to the
marketing the company's Chinese site apparently claims their new cryo fuse 5
product is competitive AI thermal paste
but the most notable feature of the product line is that it comes in six different colors for some reason that
was the one place I was missing RGB even weirder the product's official name is
apparently thermop paste AI Sports Lottery either Cooler Master just threw
in a bunch of unrelated SEO terms and their product names or they created
artificial life trapped it inside multicolored goo and gave it a gambling
addiction I don't know which I'm scared of more meanwhile I just want to give
you you more Tech news so come on back on Friday you little smarty pants you
understood everything I said today didn't you you're a genius and I love
that about you