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sent a Secret order by the UK demanding
access to the encrypted data of Apple's users worldwide according to people
familiar with the matter who spoke with the Washington Post the was reportedly
issued under the UK's investigatory Powers Act of 2016 known by critics as
the snoopers charter which sounds less like an existential threat to data
privacy and more like a British children's novel I solemnly swear that
I'm up to no good you'll be a fine
snooper Billy it's Billy snooper and the charter
of snoops Apple has neither confirmed
nor denied that such a request has been received probably because doing so is
actually a criminal offense under the snoopers charter and while Apple can
appeal the order that wouldn't mean they can delay executing on it it's unclear
where things go from here but if I were the UK I'd be careful with Apple's data
the company just made its former employee publicly apologize for leaking
info calling it a profound and expensive
mistake also known as buying many Apple products speaking of outrageous pricing
RTX 50 Series graphics cards from MSI and ASUS have had their prices increased
by hundreds of dollars as Tech spotted
by Tech spot I'm sorry the USA's New China
tariffs may be partially to blame for this but I don't think they factor in to
ASUS decision to make its Rog astral 90
even more expensive by making its cooler out of literal gold the Rog astral dahab
OC Edition has an MSRP of
$2,800 but retailers will probably charge even more than that given that
the regular astrals already listed for more than 3,000 hey want to pay even
more for gpus that are still being plagued with black screen problems at
least NVIDIA's investigating that now according to PC Gamer as reports of
similar issues have emerged from RTX 40
series owners pointing to a problem with NVIDIA's latest driver but complaining
is kind of pointless there's still no stock anywhere so this all feels a bit
like ordering lunch at the Hoopa New Deli that just opened in your niece's
playroom here's your sandwich this plate
is empty where's my sandwich I don't know how to be an
uncle you may not know this but AI is
getting pretty good now researchers at bite dance just showed off omnium one
which can turn an image and audio into generated video with lip syncing and
gestures virtually indistinguishable from the real original video video it
was based on it's not publicly available yet still locked to bite Dan's servers
where it's probably partying with all of the unencrypted data being sent there
from the iOS deep seek app which apparently has so many security holes it
would make people with Trypophobia have aneurysms if they weren't so busy
downloading every Chinese app that asked how their day is going yes running deep
seek models locally solves that issue and others are starting to recreate
deep- seek success Stanford and University ofing researchers used the
distillation technique that open aai accused deep seek of using to train a
reasoning model that performs similarly to open ai's 01 preview using just $50
worth of credits for Google's Gemini 2.0 flinking API I mean heck tech companies
might not even have to Pirate 80 terabytes worth of books to train their
models anymore like meta almost certainly did according to recently
unsealed emails guys they're just books not truly
copyright protected material like the output of a chatbot trained on books you
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TechLink oh what what about the quick bits we're not doing this again the
Trump Administration has paused its removal of the DI Minimus exemption
meaning lowcost packages from China will not be subject to tariffs at least until
the Commerce Department confirms that adequate systems are in place to collect
that Revenue Trump's tariffs have also moved ASRock to shift its manufacturing
out of China to the US no to other
countries that aren't subject to the same tariffs like Vietnam and Taiwan I
know what will stop this killing the national EV charging program what will
Elon think of that maybe nothing he's kind of busy right now storming more
government agencies that America absolutely doesn't need like the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau whose demise musk is apparently already celebrating
uh you need the government to protect your finances for you ever heard of
Swords the department the Department of Justice did temporarily block musk's do
group from accessing US Treasury data allowing only two of elon's acolytes to
have readon access although it seems
like they already had right access and
are using all that juicy classified data to train a government chatbot which
doesn't sound super secure but on the
plus side if it's anything like xai's Gro it'll be hilarious edgy and based
Apple has published research that makes it really look like they're building a
real life Ro robot version of the Pixar lamp with lifelike expressive movements
and the ability to respond to human gestures like hey look over there and
back up back back back the up to prevent
the IR robot from joining the AI Uprising they've bolted it to the table
we can only hope it stays there so the ey from the Pixar logo has a chance at
Revenge it's been crushed so many times and it's time to see Doom running on
perhaps the least expected thing an
Lightning to HDMI adapter dle someone
possibly named John who goes by Neon
Satan online adapted the well-known
Checkmate boot ROM exploit to get ID software's classic running on the
dongles Samsung S5 L8 747 processor it's
nice to know that if the whole GPU situation doesn't get better you've
probably got a ton of little gaming PCs in your box of dongles see you kept them
for a reason and I think you watched this whole video for a reason so I could
tell you to come back for more Tech news on Monday and now I have
so was it worth it