the phrase green bubbles used to make me think of the beer some people add green
food coloring to on St Patrick's Day and I don't know why cuz I don't think he
would have stood for that Apple has finally added support for Rich
communication services or RCS to the iOS
18 beta allowing both iPhone and Android
users the opportunity to experience what it's like to receive a photo that
doesn't look like it was taken on a pal pilot yep iMessage now graciously lets
both types of you users send highquality media start group chats see typing
indicators and even read receipts what it doesn't do is change Android messages
from green to blue so no Gizmodo the green bubble nightmare is not over
although now it is more like a fever dream need to go to the hospital while
this is arguably one of the most impactful feature drops announced at
WWDC Apple dedicated a single sentence
to it in the press release mentioning a better experience when messaging
contacts who do not have an Apple device
you may know them by their other name most people now this is a beta so there
are some quirks for example RCS isn't yet supported if your iPhone is on an
mvno Network like Google F but can you
blame Google for not having this ready on their own network they've been
texting Apple to see if they want to come over for years and then suddenly
they show up at the door oh how did it get so messy one
second oh no please YouTube has begun
rolling out new features for premium users including the jump ahead button
after a limited testing phase premium subscribers on Android in the US will
see the button when double tapping to skip forward in a video YouTube says
instead of doing that manually you can just tap the button and it'll take you
right where you want to go what's that how does the button know where you want
to go what are you a freethinking
individual with your own preferences and opinions get out of here YouTube's also
bringing back its conversational AI for premium users which can answer questions
about the content of a video like hey conversational AI what was in that part
that I skipped over ah you weren't looking for that don't don't don't worry about it the YouTube app also now
supports viewing shorts in picture and picture mode for Subway Surface fans and
apparently more types of YouTube premium plans are on the way with new ways to
share your benefits with friends who don't have an AI to tell them the only
parts of a video that are worth watching those poor people the CEO of Microsoft
AI Mustafa Suliman went a bit viral this
week for calling web content freeware
that AI companies are totally fine to train their AI models on under the
social contract of fair use that has been standard since the 9s and while
calling what is in many cases copyrighted Works freear seems bad his
core argument there is defendable and really nothing new that's how all the
big llms have been trained but he also called it a gray area when websites
explicitly tell web crawlers not to scrape their sites for Content a quote I
could easily work into a joke about consent but I won't because I told
myself no Suliman said the gray stuff
will work its way through the courts and he's right the nonprofit behind Mother
Jones and the reveal radio show the center for investigative reporting just
sued Microsoft and open aai for copyright violations the same day openai
added Time Magazine to the list of outlets its formed content Partnerships
with an acknowledgement of the greyness of the copyright question but as for AI
search company perplexity well given their recent plagiarism scandals it
seems like they don't care as much which shade of gray the chips land on which
kind of tracks with the fact that its CEO told Lex fredman his company got its
start by making fake academic accounts so they could scrape Twitter's data to
use in their product I think it's well pasted time a trustworthy morally
upstanding entity investigated these guys Amazon they'll let us know whether
perplexity staff have access to enough fabric lined weeping booths there aren't
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want to make these things angry due to a glitch with Apple pay many Hungarian
iPhone users found themselves getting mistakenly charged for payments they
never made thankfully it seems that affected customers will be reimbursed in
the coming week while typically these charges were only small amounts some
users found themselves getting charged several times in a row with one user
getting get charged for nearly $1,500 across 74 transactions in the
space of 5 minutes before the bank blocked any further withdrawals it's
like your bank account deciding on your behalf that you deserve a little treat a
little treat a little treat oh I see
Intel has shown off a prototype Optical interconnect chip that could allow
server processors to support up to 4 terabits per second interlinks interl
interl sorry it's still early days for the Prototype but Intel is apparently
working with select customers on incorporating it into s so designs
Thomas liberg a director on the project said that server needs are straining the
capabilities of electrical IO designs and that servers also look super super
boring right now so we need to get some laser action in their stat oh no servers
are getting boring somebody plays Sandstorm open aai has announced a new
AI model intended to critique Chachi BT
and help human trainers spot errors in its output they called it critic GPT so
don't worry AI Skeptics AI can now do your job
too the same day Google announced a partnership with data services giant
Moody which should help Google's Enterprise customers to create AI chat
Bots grounded in facts instead of what they were previously grounded in forchan
green text stories I for one celebrate
our AI overlord's attempts to not blatantly make up the FCC has been
inundated with complaints against T-Mobile following the company's
decision to raise prices for cellular customers to whom it repeatedly and
explicitly promised a lifetime price freeze however it turns out that in a
separate FAQ the only real guarantee in
the uncarrier UN contract was to pay customers final phone bill if they
decided to cancel following their inevitable betrayal it was always a
little fiscally dubious for T-Mobile to promise so many of its customers a
lifetime price freeze back in 2017 unless for some reason it thought that
most of those customers were going to die in a terrible plague only a few
years later I'm just saying T-Mobile are psychic and a computer comprised of
plastic cubes which can change its pattern to represent data without using
any electricity has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State
University why I don't know seems weird the design
was inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami which I can only describe as
origami remastered binary ones and zeros
are represented in the positions of the component cubes which can be pushed up
and down either manually or using magnets we've got a long way to go
before we can use these to fight back against autonomous robot dogs with guns
but hey it's a good start an even better start would be you coming back on Monday
for a to linked episode I recorded with Jonathan Horst of ma address we argue
about Apple and the safety of motorcycles go check it out