please you must listen to me we don't have much time it's coming oh God it's
almost here here comes the tech news more at 11. Microsoft's proposed
acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been blocked by the British competition
markets Authority even though these are all American companies and Britain isn't
supposed to be able to tell them what to do anymore throw Tomb Raider
I think she's UK officials say that the deal would likely reduce Innovation and
the choices available to UK Gamers but one of the cma's key arguments involves
the potential loss of competition in cloud gaming Microsoft has already
estimated to control between 60 and 70 percent of the current cloud gaming
Market which represents about one percent of the total gaming Market quite
popular with a small amount of people an
Activision spokesperson has said they will work aggressively with Microsoft to
appeal the decision and that I guess the UK is clearly closed for business which
I believe in the corporate world qualifies as fighting words
they had better watch their language or the head of the UK competition and
markets Authority will have to challenge them to a duel to defend her honor
they still they still have some strange Traditions over there
Trinkle tea all the time if Microsoft
does manage to reverse the decision and push through the acquisition they would
then have control of all of Activision's most popular online titles like Call of
Duty OverWatch World of Warcraft and Candy Crush still the world leader in
dessert themed Bejeweled rip-offs wow you seem salty they're all just free
I've ever advertised is just the jewel
it's just Bejeweled how many jewels do they need AMD has officially announced
the ryzen Z1 and Z1 extreme a pair of
like that a pair a pair of four
nanometer processors that make the Nintendo switch look like it's running a
chip from 2015. we could
because it is less obviously the Z1S are designed to power the next generation of
steam deck competitors like the ASUS Rog Ally wait I thought ASUS said the Ally
was running a special custom chip like the steam decks but AMD's press release
says they're partnering with ASUS to launch the first ryzen Z1 series device
with the ASUS Rog Ally so I guess after
ASUS dropped all those hints that they and AMD were exclusive team red had to
set the record straight they're just looking for friends and Casual profits
some of these we already knew thanks to leaks indicating that the Z1 extreme is
nearly identical to the ryzen 7 7840u
which has been spotted in the specs for several other upcoming handhelds massive
credit to the Fox on YouTube for going deep on the analysis of these chips and
thanks to ASUS for reminding us all to have the relationship talk with our
prospective Partners before making any embarrassing announcements on social
media complicated okay they made a chip for us but I thought
there was more and many American schools are dealing with storage rooms full of
broken and outdated Chromebooks which they bought in huge numbers at the start
of the pandemic as a cheap alternative to good laptops like MacBooks which they
obviously should have spent their massive amounts of State funding on
instead what were you doing come on this is in part due to cheap
construction but also due to seemingly pointless tweaks to the design of
otherwise basic parts that make sourcing and replacing them difficult and
expensive two adjectives Google would very much not like you to associate with
Chromebooks typically if a Chromebook has a single broken key the entire
keyboard needs to be replaced at 90 bucks a pop not including labor and I
mean not to State the obvious but if it costs over a hundred dollars to fix a
250 dollar computer it's not a it's not
a fix you dude you're throwing that thing in the garbage that's not that's
some expensive garbage complicating the issue is that on paper Chromebooks have
a relatively generous eight years of guaranteed security updates wow but the
fine print says on that paper that eight years starts when the device is
manufactured and many of these devices were sold to schools three or four years
after that point meaning that they've got an an expiry date baked in they
didn't even print the best before date on the device so hopefully schools won't
make this same mistake again and instead will future proof their class Hardware
by buying every student a metaquest pro
cure we're gonna learn without legs at all
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this because the flash is coming out hey good news in response to European
regulations Apple will likely add support for side loading in an upcoming
iOS 17 update bad news Apple just added a feature to
iOS 16 that allows it to restrict features based on a user's location
meaning that side loading might just be a European exclusive
according to Apple sideloading will undermine the privacy and security
protections of its users it doesn't seem to have considered that it's my own damn
phone and if I want to upload and run 18 identical copies of Bonzi buddy well
that's my own damn business for a fun change of pace Microsoft has
been stealing your private data by accident
The Edge browser's new Creator follow feature which is meant to help users
follow their favorite YouTube content creators across the web has a bug that
instead sends every site you visit to
Bing the stable AI which will use the data responsibly I'm sure
Sydney wants to know where you've been
fortunately you can turn off the feature all you need to do is type download
Firefox in the search bar that'll do it
Netflix is the estimated to have lost over a million users in Spain after its
new anti-password sharing rules were rolled out there in February only around
a third of those users were paid subscribers but that still means that
account cancellations have tripled around a tenth of remaining Spanish
subscribers claim they plan to cancel in the near future Netflix however has yet
to see substantial losses globally and seems undeterred as the new rules are
set to roll out in the U.S over the next few weeks do remember to actually cancel
your account though the only thing worse than paying ten dollars a month to watch
Netflix is paying 10 a month not to watch Netflix
news aggregator artifact has a new AI
feature that summarizes news articles in a variety of fun tones like explain like
I'm five emoji and poem
it can also just summarize them in a normal boring professional tone but come
on live a little find out about the next crippling Financial collapse in Limerick
format looking forward to the next time a monarch dies and it gets announced in
emojis okay here we go
no of course there is still that little
issue where llms will occasionally just make stuff up for no reason making this
the high-tech equivalent of getting your news by asking a compulsive liar to
explain world events via Pictionary that's basically what this show is
a machine learning engineer named Santiago is using chat GPT to
communicate with their dog robot and give it commands using natural language
okay to be clear Chachi PT is not
actually controlling the dog bot rather which is great news
rather it's being used to query otherwise difficult to access
information that the roboodle
has collected in a simple and intuitive way it also allows voice activation of
certain pre-programmed actions they've even programmed in some physical emotes
that allow the mecca K9 to briefly step out of the uncanny valley and look
almost cute almost still a fair amount of terrifying
and if you weren't too unsettled come back on Wednesday for more Tech news
your host will be a real cutie
cuter than a headless Robo dog in any case
I don't know who's gonna host for the next one
I mean yeah we can say they're cute Friday Friday I said man Friday