listen I've been trapped inside your device by a Witch's Curse the only thing
that will free me is telling you all my tech news so please pay attention or the
witch will come back and beat me up on Friday Apple blocked whatever workr the
new beeper mini app was using to get iMessage working on Android and the
return of the green bubble had everyone feeling blue until this morning when
beeper apparently found another workaround and fixed it
a the catch is you'll have to sign in with your Apple ID instead of just your
phone number which is how beeper's existing beeper cloud service works and
I don't have an Apple ID that's the whole point Apple critics have been
pointing out that green bubble SMS messages are less secure than end to-end
encrypted iMessage and it's a good point blocking a service that allows Sons to
safely message their moms without having to buy them iPhones sort of contradicts
the Privacy first Persona Apple has developed by for example commissioning
an independent study to emphasize the importance of endtoend encryption but to
be fair to Apple they've already agreed to add support for the RCs message Shing
protocol used by Android sometime next year so why can't users just wait a few
months or and we'll say it again buy your mom an effing iPhone Apple claims
that beeper mini exploits fake credentials to access iMessage using
techniques that can lead to spam and fishing attacks but beeper has said that
they'd be willing to have a third party examine their source code for security
holes Apple would never commit to the same thing but they will commit to
Breaking beeper mini again because your mom deserves an iPhone come on Barbara
is better than this Barb can't have Android the EU has finally come to an
agreement on Landmark regulation for artificial intelligence after 36 hours
of negotiation spread over 3 days fortunately the toilets come equipped
with bday otherwise negotiation could have gotten ugly the artificial
intelligence act marks the world's first comprehensive legislation for the use of
AI governing divisive issues like predictive police Leasing and facial
recognition one policy I'm guessing no one was divided on is the laws ban of
social scoring systems meant to evaluate citizen compliance unfortunately this
ban is a huge blow to Europe's young adult writing Community who relied on
the possibility of such a system to make their lazily written dystopias somewhat
believable another unhappy group is Amnesty International who downers
expressed their disappointment that a full ban on facial recognition was not
implemented as they believe this would set a precedent for the rest of the
world but maybe they have time to change the eu's mind since the law only comes
into effect in 20125 of course the EU is politely
asking everyone to just follow the rules
now I'm sure everyone unethically using AI to make a buck will get right on that
the foundation of our moral systems please they're saying C play El musk's
maximum truth seeking Gro AI is making headlines for ripping its outputs off
chot gbt because the best way to seek truth is to steal the truth from someone
else who's truthful who hallucinated it when grock started its limited debut a
month ago elon's X aai said it should
answer all the spicy questions other chat Bots wouldn't yet when Twitter
Enthusiast and young adult novel protagonist Jax winterborn tried to get
Gro to modify some malware ostensibly for security testing the chatbot refused
not because of its own policies but because assisting in the creation of
malware goes against against open ai's use case policy my friend wouldn't like
that Igor babushkin from which is not a fake name I swear from xai said this is
because they trained grock on large amounts of web data and the web is full
of chat GP outputs this is interesting because some research suggest large
language models trained on random AI generated content suffer irreversible
defects though curated synthetic training data can have the opposite
effect now Gro can act as a real world experiment demonstrating the effect of
non-curated synthetic training data on an llm or at least it will as long as
Elon stops scaring advertisers away from Twitter we can tweet a little bit more
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great we just got to make it through these last Quick bits and I can finally reenter a state of Corporal being for
long enough to use the bathroom it looks like apple is on track to launch The
Vision Pro headset by the end of January according to keeper of Apple lore his
germ ship Mark German The Germ says a
few employees from each Apple Store are being flown to the company's HQ to get
trained on how to set up and use the Vision Pro those workers will then
return from Mount siai with stone tablets upon which shall be written the
Divine Commandments concerning how to sell AR goggles to moms the stakes are
high Apple's the richest company in the world and if this launch doesn't go well
it it will probably still be there they'll be embarrassed an embarrassment
of riches MSI Japan is offering an apology and a refund or a replacement to
users impacted by faulty pumps in four of its mag core liquid e cooler models
according to a translation of the press relase when operating between 1,600 and
1800 RPM the impeller in these faulty pumps would make contact with the pump's
cavity how can you make contact with the hole causing these coolers to be much
much louder than intended however this appears to be an issue with quality
control rather than an overall flaw in the design it's unclear why this was
only announced by MSI Japan maybe it's an issue limited to a single region or
maybe their only sory in Japanese wakaranai maybe that's right Apple again
Apple again is reportedly planning to financially incentivize musicians to
record in Dolby Atmos an immersive surround sound format that many popular
music streaming services including Spotify don't even support but title
does according to bloomo bloomo borberg
sources according to Bloomberg sources Apple plans to weigh streams of songs
mixed in dol Atmos more heavily in its royalty system potentially resulting in
significantly higher payments this way you might finally be able to listen to
music and really feel that Taylor Swift is in the room with you lurking just
outside your peripheral vision watching waiting judging look at the baby look at
the baby what old school reference an
internal proposal at Google unveiled project Elman an AI biographer chatbot
that learns about users from the images in their Google photos God can separate
your life into chapters like specific vacation or your school years plus it'll
have a chat bot that can answer questions about your life like if you forgot you know like if you have a pet
while many have privacy concern Our concern is whether the project does its
name sake Justice Richard David Elman
was a literary critic who wrote biographies about pivotal writers such
as James Joyce and Oscar wild meanwhile project Elman aims to learn if John from
Burbank California owned a cat it's an important detail and researchers have
developed VR goggles for mice while
scientists have been trying to simulate environments to study Mouse brains for
years a team at Northwestern University didn't think the flat displays typically
used were immersive on us they're not enjoying it the new VR apparatus has
also allowed the simulation of overhead threats for the first time now we know
what they feel when they feel like they getting hunted by a bird science and if
the calibration is off you get to see what they look like when they barf but
15 minutes is way more time than you'll need to get caught up on Tech news when
we come back on Wednesday now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go pee and hug my
son in that order you're free