used to be a king you know but I abdicated the throne for one very simple
reason I wanted to focus on bringing you the tech news I'm still going to tax you
though Mozilla has ignited controversy among Firefox users this week by
primarily being bad at marketing see the company's been trying to build a new
framework for online advertising that depends Less on collecting people's
personal information they acquired anonym a company working on just that in
June before announcing private preserving attribution in August PPA
supposedly encrypts and Aggregates data about how many users engage with an ad
without collecting any info about those users preserving privacy while still
letting websites generate revenue and I
think it sounds good when you say it like that unfortunately yesterday
mozilla's relatively new CEO started off her blog post about PPA by saying the
company is going to be more active in digital ad advertising while an official
Forum post talked about making ads and privacy coexist causing concern among
the particularly ad averse that Mozilla was going through that phase when you
think Don Draper is a good guy in Mad Men you like the first five seconds of
the first episode while some Firefox users simply want no ads on the internet
period others are trying to explain how PPA could balance privacy and
sustainability the problem is this isn't even mozilla's first marketing blunder
for PPA ad block users were already mad about PPA being enabled by default in
July's Firefox 128.0 release which led
EU privacy organization Nob which stands
for none of your business the spit is silent to file a
complaint over firefox's new feature which tracked users side note Nob is no
joke another of their complaints just led to a top EU Court imposing limit on
meta's data collection do not rub no the
wrong way but they do appreciate if you rub them the right
way they call it noing turns out that
early PPA roll out was a limited developer test and did not collect any
user data but Mozilla did admit last week they could have been more open
about what they were doing only to Fumble the ball again this week the same
week they flagged the ublock origin light Firefox add-on as collecting user
data and using machine generated code
causing developer Raymond Hill to pull it from the add-on store after getting
fed up with Mozilla support listen I want Firefox to be better at marketing
so more people use it but right now they're at like 7% market share so
proportionately I spent way too much time talking about this YouTube has
announced a bunch of changes to how shorts work starting with how they're
not going to be so short you still have to put them on one leg at a time
starting October 15th shorts can be up to 3 minutes long meaning any video with
a Square aspect ratio or taller that's less than 3 minutes will be seen as a
short by YouTube the change will only apply to videos uploaded after that date
though so don't worry vertical Doom scrollers won't suddenly be hit with
your experimental artsy student film the square is a box that represents society
and the black and white represents my soul in an Ode to Tik tok's cap cut
templates YouTube's also adding a remix ability with the use template button
which will let you participate in that most storied of human Traditions doing
it for the meme there's also a new trends page for shorts and later the
shorts feed itself will show previews of comments before you even click through
to the video which comments oh the worst ones obviously YouTube's obviously
hoping the new features will help it compete with Tik Tok and it's already
beating it in at least one way the new YouTube feature that lets you
temporarily hide shorts from your YouTube home feed all together I wish I
could do that on Tik Tok I also wish I wouldn't be spied on by the Chinese
government meta has revealed meta movie
genen its own photorealistic video generator capable of creating 16-second
videos with a Twist or else I wouldn't be telling you about it though it's not
available to the public meta's demos showcase the ability to edit existing
videos using only text as well as impressively realistic simulations of
bad Halloween costumes but here's the twist with a single photo movie Jen can
make a video deep fake of anyone dejing an impromptu set next to a cheetah only
that scenario but is the chea dancing no is it Chester Cheetah maybe I'm
out I hate that guy and even more
impressively to me it can generate music and audio synced up to the action in the
video meta says movie Jen could usher in
a new AI enabled era for Content creators as an example they ask you to
imagine sending your friends some fresh baked AI slop for their birthday that'll
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bits is actually a nickname it's short for quiter bits Gerald now you know a
man I killed in 1973 Microsoft has finally killed
wordpad the rich text editing word processor that debuted on Windows 95
Microsoft has added it to its list of removed features and functionality it'll
be gone from all additions of Windows starting with Windows 11 version 24 H2
which started rolling out this week we are witnessing the death of a Legend So
pour one out but not just any drink something classy something fit to
celebrate the life of a program born in the 9s an aged can of surge a few days
ago Amazon's ring sent an email out to
protect plus subscribers reminding them
that they would be migrated to the protect Pro Plan next year doubling
their subscription fee that reminder
comes with heavy air quotes because the Verge Tracked Down When ring sent its
original notification which turned out to be a tiny fine print footnote in a
September 2021 email with the subject line important your plan name has
changed the email said quote don't worry
everything else is staying the same ring sent a similar email to Canadian ring
home standard subscribers this week with the heading new name new features same
great price the email then informs users that their subscription will no longer
include alarm professional monitoring and SOS emergency response because now
calling the cops costs extra do you think calls to the police grow on trees
someone's got to pay him the government who Google is testing the use of blue
check marks as a way to protect users from fraudulent links in search results
hovering over the check mark explains that Google is pretty sure the business
is who they say they are and example of this also from The Verge depicts a
notice that says Google can't guarantee the reliability of this business or its
products but to be fair the business in question was
Apple fr oh what the symbol I needed the
symbol that's a new Rim shot boom fruits
speaking of unreliable products Google search's AI overview feature will now be
getting ads that are relevant to your question finally Gem and I won't just
tell you to eat rocks but also recommend the tastiest ones I like ignas rocks the
best Samsung issued a faulty software
update two days ago that bricked many older Galaxy smartphones globally even
worse the issue seemed to have been caused by an update to Samsung's smart
things framework app an automatically installed app for controlling compatible
smart devices I feel like users Still rocking Galaxy phones from 2019 aren't
splurging on a smart fridge we're not sure whether this was necessary they're
buying sensible things like basically anything else you can buy cabbage would
you put in a dumb but the smart fridge
enthusiasts watching this video may be excited to know that Apple fix fixed the
update that was bricking M4 iPads what a transition I'm not saying only smart
fridge owners own M4 iPads but I'm
pretty sure they could afford one I want a fridge I can watch Tik Tok on and a
court has dismissed a shareholders lawsuit against Tesla over Elon musk's
exaggerated claims about its full self-driving feature of course the case
wasn't dismissed because those claims were true but rather because according
to Tesla's own lawyers the statements were nothing more than corporate puffery
AKA bull that no reasonable investor
would have taken seriously I mean come on guys we're all just just locker room
talk like but Elon had less success in
Australia where a court upheld a $418,000 fine against Twitter which the
corporation formerly known as Twitter fought on the grounds that following its
merger with excore Twitter no longer
exists Twitter who's that Twitter I
never even met it Twitter I never even met look Elon just because somebody gets
married and changes their name doesn't mean they no longer exist and it
definitely doesn't mean they don't owe me money like how you owe it to yourself
to come back on Monday for more Tech news you also owe it to me like a little
bit I mean I gave up a crown for you I
was bossing people around it was great few assassination attempts I was
executing peasants