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tech news google has responded to privacy concerns about audio recordings
captured by the company's google home devices according to a belgian report
which we talked about on wednesday by the way those recordings are sometimes
captured when no activation phrase has
been spoken so many of the recordings contain private and even personally
identifying information in their response google says the problem here
isn't their practices but rather the fact that the contractor
violated their data security policies by
leaking the audio the company defends their practice of having humans review
audio saying that it is critical to the development of google assistant and that
only 0.2 of all audio snippets are ever reviewed
wow that sounds like a lot doesn't it
my goodness and those snippets are not
associated with user accounts reviewers are directed to not transcribe
background conversation only speech that is directed at google but thing is those
people are still potentially hearing personal information which they could
use themselves in any number of nefarious ways so if you're concerned
you can turn off voice and audio recording in your google account
settings but i mean now the question becomes can you even trust google to
honor that choice uh
no sweet no you've never been able to speaking of google being sneaky deep
mind the company's ai focus division is inserting its pro starcraft player
beating ai alpha star into the game's european competitive servers
alpha star will apparently play a small number of games against human players
and while us flashbags will be able to opt into the program for a chance to
play the ai alpha star will be anonymous
so you won't know whether you're playing it or a regular meat bag as was the case
for its matches with professionals multiple variants of alphastar will be
competing and results will be recorded to publish as data in a peer-reviewed
scientific paper after the trial now importantly this time around alpha star
will have tighter restrictions on its actions per minute than it did
previously and will only be able to perceive parts of the map using a
camera-like view rather than the all-seeing
sauron type omniscience that it used in january you know i'm actually fine with
being killed by a robot as long as it's like a fair fight you know the robot has
to use the eyes on its head like me no lasers no lasers
and the walkie-talkie function on apple watches apparently fell victim to a
vulnerability that could allow users to listen to another person's iphone
without their knowledge yes my friends if you go like this in your
walkie-talkie apple watch if someone's standing near the other person they
might be able to hear it actually no it's a little more complicated than that so the issue was reported directly to
apple via the security portal on apple's website and so far it doesn't appear to
have been exploited by any bad actors the flaw calls to mind a similar
facetime bug from earlier this year that similarly allowed people to listen in
before the call was accepted on the other end so apple has disabled the
walkie-talkie feature while it fixes the issue so if you were having lots of fun
pretending that you live in stranger things land
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zippities apps a bit of a strange report from french site cow cotland is that a
french word um anyway it's circulating right now claiming that the AMD Radeon 7
has been discontinued the info apparently comes from supply chain
sources who say that remaining stock is being sold off and that AMD declared the
card end of life last month what do you mean last month that card was only just
released in january so i i mean uh hopefully this means that
we'll be getting a higher-end navi-based card soon
and uh not that AMD let NVIDIA like get inside their head you know ignore
them AMD yeah they're just bullies
big green bullies with great graphics cards
nintendo just launched the switch light but in other news the company also just
submitted an fcc filing stating its intention to update the original switch
with new hardware including updated memory and some kind of updated integra
processor now it should be made clear that this news does not concern the
rumored switch pro because filing specifically refers to a new revision of
the same model of product so i'll say this nintendo as a current switch owner
i must say this is not fair and my attorneys and i will be pursuingly well
i don't care i'm upset that's just in the script they get the better one why
are you mad we don't even know that it's better i'm very upset the leagues for
the samsung galaxy note 10 and 10 plus appear to have reached their zenith
their apex their highest point
with screenshots that basically leave nothing to the imagination samsung will
apparently officially reveal the phones at an event on august 7th which will
forever be remembered as the day that the headphone jack truly died and i
stopped getting new note devices it's not enough that google and amazon
record our voices when they're not supposed to now they're gonna follow us
around the house too amazon is working on a home robot that's being described
as a sort of mobile alexa
so it's going to be able to wheel around after you and supposedly report
everything that you do to its data hungry masters i mean it could also make
it easy to order more laundry detergent or track your calories or whatever so
that sounds that sounds pretty worth it sounds friendly and AMD said that pci express
4.0 will remain exclusive to their x570
chipset but now ASUS has actually published a table of x470 and even value
b450 motherboards which they say could support the feature with a BIOS update
that's pretty cool because i've always wanted four pcies
jk PCIe gen 4 it's faster and i've
always wanted to end this episode of techwing always every moment of my life
up until now i have thought of nothing but ending this episode episode number
69 20 127 of tech
so thanks for watching guys i hope you have a fabulous weekend and i'll see you
back here on monday with more tech news i'm gonna be rested and refreshed and
you know you guys should get some rest too you look tired oh yeah that's not
very nice it's bad it's a bad thing go brush your teeth oh
breath smells hi gene it's important