okay hey Hey listen listen I'm worried
you're not getting enough Tech news but don't worry don't worry I got you I got
you I got some for you here all right it's perfect Apple will finally allow
the side loing of apps in the European Union later this spring and I mean
actual side loading downloading apps directly from the developer's website
not just from an App Store that isn't the App Store now you couldn't hear it
but the second app store was capitalized unfortunately this doesn't quite mean
that Apple just went full Android as put by Android police and yet another
example of malicious compliance with the eu's digital markets act apple is
arguably treating Dev websites worse than it's treating alternative app
stores to be eligible to allow users to download your app from your own website
which is kind of a wild sentence you are required to have been enrolled in the
Apple developer program as an EU organization with good standing for 2
years or more you must submit your apps through Apple's notarization process and
one of your apps must have already been installed more than 1 million times on
iOS in the EU aka the threshold to be
eligible for the core technology fee meaning every subsequent install will
cost you €50 cents so Craig fiki can afford his daily hair appointment and
continue to look Exquisite do they really call them Euro cents Euro
cents devs will have to meet a handful of other requirements while iPhone users
will have to Wade through what seems like three or four scare screens
designed to trigger a fight ORF flight response before they download an app
from a website if you're covered in Cold Sweat by the time the app appears on
your home screen Apple's done their job you wouldn't download an app notless I
said so the European Parliament has voted to adopt the EU AI act which
limits law enforcement's use of Biometrics and prohibits among other
things AI enabled social scoring exploitative behavioral engineering and
emotion recognition systems at work or school I'm going to miss those I just
want the FBI to know when I have a bad day the Federal Bureau of intimate
feelings hey it's agent Smith how are you feeling I heard Kevin just broke up
with you the ACT also includes stricter scrutiny and transparency requirements
based on the risk an AI system might pose both to society and its users some
critics within Europe have criticized the act for going too far and placing
European AI firms at a disadvantage to American rivals in terms of development
raising capital and destroying civilization as we know it it will be
some time before the new law takes full effect with its new Provisions rolling
out phases over the course of the next 2 years to give companies time to come
into compliance but we might need regulations sooner take opening eyes
eily convincing text to video generator Sora which CTO Mira Muradi says will be
available to the public sometime this year just days after the leader of the
Sora team told Marcus Brown Lee that it won't be publicly available anytime soon
moradi also said Sor will get the capability to generate audio and maybe
even some amount of nudity not in My Kingdom Hearts hopefully after
November's election for the sake of all our sanity and eyes I don't want to see
anything huge you know what I mean meanwhile a report commissioned by the
US government has been published warning that America must take immediate and
decisive action to avert serious security risks Global destabilization
and perhaps even an extinction level threat to the human species posed by AI
but maybe instead we could keep arguing about whether or not American football
is ruined now that a pop star kind of likes it you kiss your boyfriend behind
closed doors for the past few weeks users on social media have been freaking
out about the whereabouts of Kate Middleton a fur that was heightened into
a full-blown haloo when a Mother's Day image of her posted to her and her
husband's Instagram and sent to various wire Services turned out to have been
significantly edited now if you're unfamiliar with Kate Middleton she's a
lot like Tim Cook except she's a woman she's British and instead of being CEO
of Apple she's The Duchess of Cambridge Oh I thought you said Canada I love
Prince Harry Duchess of Cambridge Analytics it's probably important to note that
Middleton's disappearance wasn't sudden or unexpected in mid January the royal
family announced that she would be undergoing some kind of unspecified
abdominal surgery and afterwards take some time off to recover in private but
apparently a month and a half is just a crazy amount of time to take off after
getting stabbed in the gut by a trained professional wire Services typically
allow a small degree of purely cosmetic edits like cropping and R ey removal but
not the kind of significant edits found in the Mother's Day photo which included
a disappearing sleeve and a zipper that splits into two but not in the normal
way and also green leaves on the trees in a photo supposedly taken in March
this led to the photo being retracted and to some excited social media sleuths
claiming that the photo was entirely AI fabricated or that the princess's face
was photoshopped over a standin by somebody talented enough to perfectly
match the lighting of her face to the scene but not good enough not to
accidentally delete part of her daughter's sweater all right it's a post
truth world where were you at sweater gate according to Tom Warren of The
Verge the photo's metadata indicates that it was shot on a Canon 5D markv and
edited using a 2022 version of Photoshop from before AI features were added
possibly because the royal family doesn't want to pay $23 a month for the
updates they're not made of money just mostly a tweet apparently directly from
the princess has claimed fault for the bad Photoshop job so I mean either she's
dead or she just had major surgery and was hoping that a quick Photoshop job on
an old photo would make you guys leave her alone I was trying to make my butt
look bigger by not showing it at all now
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have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat appetizers after your entree
my guy let me introduce you to the quick bits NVIDIA absolutely dominates the AI
accelerator Market but there have been a couple recent developments in
Alternatives infamous Hardware hacker George hot's company the tiny Corp is
building the Tiny Box a $155,000 AI
server powered by rx700 XTX
gpus the hot tiny box or it will be if
tiny can convince AMD to fix their basic in their AI acceleration toolkit or
open source the firmware and let old geohot fix it himself but if that
doesn't work out legendary chip designer Jim Keller's company 10's torrent
launched devkits for its risk 5based Grays skull AI accelerator cards right
after partnering with multiple Japanese chip companies because it's time to
reduce the chip Market's Reliance on island nations that have a tense
relationship to China oh no hello hello
hello Japan wait what according to Mark German who I write slam poetry about
Apple's nowan canel electric vehicle project was not a flashy sports car but
a minivan oh God presumably it would have allowed Tim Cook to say buy your
mom an ey car German also said the Apple silicon team team was heavily involved
in the Apple car designing an AI brain that was as powerful as four M2 Ultra
chips combined oh my God the chip was
apparently nearly finished when the car was scrapped maybe Tim can use it to
give life to an Android the likes of which hasn't been birthed by Mortals
since the Assembly of well Mark Zuckerberg it'll be very expensive but
it might be very good at BJJ drivers have found their insurance has increased
because their cars are tracking them some car manufacturers like GM M Honda
Kia and Hyundai offer optional features in their connected car apps that track
and rate your driving what they don't say is that they sell that driving data
to entities like data brokerage and former adult film star Lexus Nexus who
then sell that information to insurance companies apparently some GM drivers
were still tracked without enabling the tracking feature leading to increased
insurance premiums now that adult filmar thing was a joke but apparently Lexus
Nexus has screwed lots of people Airbnb will start Banning the use of indoor
security cameras inside rentals starting April 30th the previous policy tried to
restrict the use of cameras but was vague enough that abuse has occurred in
the past in their policy update the company said the change shouldn't be a
big deal to host since most of airbnb's listings do not report having a security
camera now I know that's meant to be careful legal speak but it sounds like
Airbnb knows there are some people covertly capturing butth holes in 4k
those cameras are already hidden and researchers from the University of
Chicago have claimed that that virtual reality headsets like the quest and
Vision Pro might leave users vulnerable to Inception
attacks where a hacker connected to the same Wi-Fi network can control the
user's VR environment and manipulate interactions with other users it's just
like the Christoper Nolan movie except that you can just take the headset off
just just take it off this might become a more serious risk as these headsets
get used in more professional applications The Vision Pro for instance
was recently used during neurosurgery where it was definitely not hacked and
used to trick the surgeon into implanting a small rubber duck next to
the patient's medulla every time you breathe you quack
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