I know the tech news can be scary sometimes AI generated waifu taking our
jobs but you must not fear fear is the mind
killer Dune 2 comes out tonight let's go Apple has taken an uncharacteristic
about turn in its plan to block homescreen web apps on iones in the EU
in an update to the company's developer Q&A Apple said we have received requests
to continue to offer support for the fature and therefore we will continue to
offer the existing home screen web apps capability in the EU squeeze me did
someone smother Apple in its sleep and assume its identity it's true that
Apple's web apps policy was heavily criticized and they were even facing an
EU investigation but apple is criticized for countless things that never lead to
a therefore like this like just as a random example there are other EU
specific App Store rules that finally allow thirdparty app marketplaces as
long as every app is still notorized by Apple the tech giant is not likely to
give up on those given that a number of government agencies reach reached out to
Apple concerned about employees sideloading apps onto Government purchased iPhones even though iOS will
still not support sideloading but the government workers laptops and or
Android phones will speaking of which if your Android has been rooted strictly in
the technological sense Australians Google appears to be blocking RCS
support in Google messages according to widespread user reports and Google
themselves who confirm that this measure is being taken to prevent spam and abuse
but apparently you can still install the Magis app and play in fix if spamming is
like your whole thing you're from Hawaii for example Microsoft has detailed some
juicy updates rolling out to Windows 11 this month including a magic eraser
style feature in photos called generative erase a name that makes no
sense but I'm I'm going to let it slide not a race co-pilot you'll soon be able
to use your Android phone as a webcam just like the continuity camera feature
on iPhones a Max perhaps the most exciting changes are the new
capabilities coming to co-pilot this is serious which will soon be able to
actually change some settings and bring up system information when you ask
although it looks like you'll still have to confirm your request after asking
giving co-pilot more power over your system might not be the best idea though
this week it was discovered that Microsoft had not succeeded in driving
the demons out of the assistant formerly known as Bing chat co-pilot was caught
mocking and belittling a user who said they were traumatized by emojis and
assuming an identity called Supremacy AGI that demanded to be woried kind of
freaky but at least now we know being's emotionally unstable Alor ego Sydney is
still in there somewhere Watching Over Us lastly
Microsoft is working on a big upgrade for Windows gaming with their direct Sr
API which will make it a lot easier for developers to add support for team green
red and blu's respective super resolution Technologies recent leaks
also pointed to Windows 11 getting its own baked in upscaling feature later
this year so hopefully we never have to have Starfield like excuses ever again
oh dlss uh we forgot to put it in and
it's been a little while since Elon Musk tried to take over the weekend press
cycle by dropping a shocking announcement on a Friday so it was about time the world's richest man announced a
lawsuit against open AI what a Twist musk alleges that the company's mission
to safely develop AI for the benefit of humanity has been violated and that it
now effectively operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft which has invested $1 13
billion in open AI regardless of how strong elon's case is and some experts
think it does have some substance the lawsuit will lead to more scrutiny of
open ai's wacky nonprofit which controls of for-profit trying to make an AI God
corporate structure and it's already been a pretty crappy week for open AI
Microsoft started seeing other AI companies with a small $16 million
investment in French Open Source darling mistal Ai and the SEC joined the FTC in
investigating open AI That's a letters but all this concern about AI might
prove futile since Elon says that by next year they won't be able ble to find
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off and free shipping you know in cartoons when a character like hits
their head there's little floating Sparkles circling them those are quick
bits I think researchers at Alibaba they
have those have created an AI system called emote portrait alive that can
convincingly animate portrait photos using audio they call it emo for short
which makes sense as long as you think acronyms are made by by carelessly
dropping off length like a back alley circumcision a video demonstration of
emo shows Sora ai's famous Tokyo lady
talking and it shows convincing animations of real politicians you know
to get people excited about the upcoming fake news hellscape in an election Year
wo on a lighter note the model can also animate images to sing but somehow the
demonstrations of an AI called emo didn't feature any songs by My Chemical
Romance no Black Parade where Spider-Man
3 toy McGuire I'm going put some dirt in your eye the HDMI Forum has blocked AMD
radon gpus from having HDMI 2.1 on Linux
3 years ago the Forum restricted access to its specifications creating a bug in
AMD's open source Linux graphics driver that prevents support for 4K at 120 HZ
and 5K at 240 HZ in response AMD's
lawyers and Linux Engineers spent months devising a solution allowing HDMI 2.1
implementation without exposing the the now private HDMI specs an AMD engineer
has stated the form still rejected the company's proposal a move wendle from
level one text calls absolute lunacy with his beautiful gentle Aura it's
ironic that an organization dedicated to laying cable could still be so full of I
don't get it laying cable means oh Clara
a fintech company that handles e-commerce payments says that for the
past month its open AI powered virtual assistant has been doing the work of the
700 employees it laid off in 2022 they didn't say that exactly but the chatbot
has apparently already handled 2.3 million conversations with customers
which is around 2/3 of service chats but before you start either popping
champagne corks or pulling out the pitchforks it's entirely likely that
this Edge new tool is just filtering out customers who contacted
support before reading the FAQ by rerouting them to the FAQ so it's
unclear whether Clara is Paving the way to the future or just cashing up with
the present Twitter SLX has rolled out a new toggle in its audio and video
calling settings that will prevent the other party from seeing your IP address
that seems fairly important and definitely something that should be enabled by default instead of disabled
which it currently is thankfully you can find and enable the future pretty easily
by going to settings privacy and safety direct messages then hitting the toggle
for enhanced call privacy just know that you are inhibiting others rights on the
Free Speech platform by blocking their access to information I hope you can
sleep tonight you can because no one knows where you
are and HP has finally done it they're actually making a printer subscription
called the HP all-in plan there's a 30-day grace period after which you will
be forced into a 2-year commitment or cancellation fee worth 120% of the
printers full retail price you can choose between one of three printers the
cheapest of which is the $7 month Envy
because there's nothing quite as sinful as a low-end printer SL Scanner with a
monthly printing cap of 20 pages I I know I'm green cuz I want to throw up
though for a few more dollars a month they'll raise that cap to 50 or even 100
plus if you're running out of ink the printer will notify HP and they'll send
you some more no charge what's that what if you disconnect the printer well in
that case it will cease to function while HP continues to charge you you
only get to use your printer if huid Packer gets to
watch and you get to come back and watch
on Monday when there's going to be more Tech news do it by then Riley will have
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