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The tech news is a microscopic life form

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that resides in all technological objects. They continually speak to us,

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telling us the wheel of computers. I know it was Qui-Gon, but you can't do a

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Qui-Gon impress. Ah, Leon Niss, it doesn't work. Google is walking back

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their plan to lock down sideloading on Android. In August, the company

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announced that starting next year, Android users would only be able to

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install apps made by verified developers, even for apps not listed on

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the Play Store, which critics said would seriously hinder indie devs, emulator

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projects, and that one guy on GitHub who ports Doom to everything. What about

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that guy? Who's going to verify him?

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Now, Google says that experienced users

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will still be able to install apps from wherever they want, even from unverified

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developers. Although, it'll take a few extra steps, a handful of warnings, and

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swearing you're not going to blame Google when your phone mysteriously

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starts speaking in tongues.

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>> I don't think anyone's going to understand that at all. >> It's Latin.

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>> It's like a alternate universe where the Holy Spirit is malware.

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>> Yeah. [laughter] According to Google's blog post, the idea is to curb malware without

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completely shutting the door on Android's openness, which has always

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been one of its defining features. The change is a response to heavy push back

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from developers, industry groups, and everyday users who didn't love Google

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deciding for them what trusted means. So

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yeah, sideloading is back, baby, just with training wheels. And when those

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come off, I guess that's when we really learned about malware. It feels like

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like a concrete skin burn. Skin burn.

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What do you call >> road rash? >> Road rash. That's how I learned not to

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longboard down hills with no protective equipment. Vine, the 67 67

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video app. Oh man, we have to leave that

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in. Vine, the 6-second video app shut

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down by Twitter in 2017, is back at it

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again at Crispy Cream in the form of a new app called Divine, complete with a

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sizable chunk of the original video library. The app was created by former

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Twitter employee Evan Henshaw Pla aka

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Rabbel while working for Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's notfor-profit

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and other stuff. He didn't work for Jack Dorsey's not for-p profofit and also for

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other stuff. The not forprofit's called and other stuff. Okay. [laughter]

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Using data previously stored by archive team which is again a separate entity

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not the same as the archive.org team. Okay. Rabbel was able to restore 150 to

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200,000 original vines from 60,000

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creators who can contact him if they want to take control of their

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reconstructed accounts. Wow. And it seems like he's hoping that they will.

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Divine breaks from its short form video brethren like Tik Tok by banning AI

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generated content. It'll use tech from the human rights nonprofit The Guardian

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Project to confirm that a clip was truly captured on a smartphone. If Divine

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spots AI slop, it'll yell, "Is that a

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weed?" and call the police, not on a

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microwave. So with Divine, when you say, "Look at all those chickens," be assured

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that while you might not actually be pointing at chickens, you certainly

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won't be pointing at AI chickens. And that's all we want at the end of the

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day. Anthropic is in the spotlight after alleging that Chinese state- linked

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hackers used their clawed chatbot to try

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and hack into 30 of what Anthropic calls

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critical organizations. [music] And some of those intrusions actually succeeded

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supposedly. According to Anthropic, attackers fed Claude detailed prompts,

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giving it tasks like finding vulnerabilities on selected targets,

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exploiting them, and even harvesting data. Claude was apparently able to

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oblige them, but it also hallucinated

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portions of its results, meaning that the world's first AI orchestrated cyber

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espionage campaign included completely fictional cyber security threats. It's

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like staging a heist with that one overconfident guy who points at every

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wall and says, "There's a safe behind that." And uh there isn't. Anthropic

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claimed the attack was up to 90% autonomous, a figure that a ton of other

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researchers immediately questioned, arguing that white hat hackers haven't

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been able to coax Claude into doing anything close to what's described here.

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So, it's unlikely the spy ring actually

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reached near full autonomy. Still, the fact that an LLM could meaningfully

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assist at all is probably raising the blood pressure of IT admins across the

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world, especially given how friendly these chatbots seem to be when you talk

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to them. But at least for now, this is less like Claude the Black Hat and more

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like Claude the Duncap.

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>> Get him, Riley. >> Oh

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entire month of November. Now, if the long bits, which we just did, are the

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original trilogy, then the quick bits are the prequels, there's a lot more

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stuff jammed in there, and they're harder to understand. Firefox is

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building what it calls an AI window, which is like an AI browser mode that is

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kept separate from your normal tabs, kind of like a private/inccognito

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window. In it, you'll be able to chat with an AI assistant and get help while

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you browse, but only if you want because

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you can totally ignore this feature. and not use it if you're prejudiced against

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clankers. Mosilla is asking their community to help shape this feature by

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signing up to test it and then give feedback. Seems like Mozilla is trying

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to keep up with all the trending AI browsers while still protecting their

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users privacy like me in the shallow end at a pool party. I'm present. I'm there,

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but I don't want to drown. I'm sorry. There's a lot of kids over there and

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they can all grab your face at any one time. Microsoft has fixed an issue where

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some Windows 10 users couldn't enroll for extended security updates to get an

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extra year of free updates. But wait,

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don't you have to be enrolled in that program to get more updates in the first

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place? Is Microsoft trapping users in liinal space where they're both getting

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updates and blocked from getting updates at the same time? No. Thankfully, this

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isn't a catch22 situation, and every Windows 10 user can get this new fix,

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which will allow them to use the ESU

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enrollment wizard and collapse the quantum uncertainty. And we're back in

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our home dimension. Very good. Good job, Microsoft. So kind of you to allow

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people to do the thing you said they could do. Tesla is recalling over 10,000 of its

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Power Wall 2 home battery units in the US because a third-party battery cell

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defect can lead to overheating, smoke, or even fires. The company says it has

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remotely discharged nearly all affected units to make them safe and will replace

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them free of charge with certified installers reaching out to customers.

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Oh, hello, certified installer. Is it getting hot in here? Or is that just me?

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What? Uh, my house is battery's on fire. Chat GPT is rolling out group

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chats in select countries, letting users invite contacts to join their chat GBT

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session. So, you can use chat GPT to

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actually chat with another human now, as

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long as an AI is there to supervise. This is great news, especially if you

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want someone to mediate your dysfunctional family arguments about what to get for dinner tonight. Yeah,

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this is the what to do. Meanwhile, WhatsApp is launching third-party chat

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integration across Europe, allowing fully encrypted conversations with

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people on other messaging platforms as part of the new requirements laid out by

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the digital markets act. It doesn't look like chat GBT is one of those now

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interoperable chat apps. So, at least it won't butt in and offer to write some

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erotica or something, which is always it always does this. So annoying. Open chat

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GBD. Good morning. Want some erotica? Stop. Stop asking. And a heal. A heal. A

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new smart bandage uses an AI powered

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camera to take pictures of a wound every couple of hours, figure out how it's

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healing, and then either zap it with

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tiny pulses of electricity or release drugs to help speed the healing up,

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which seems better, more useful to me.

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In How's that healing? Oh, it's all right. Ah, what do you trust me? I'm a

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doctor. In tests on pigs, the bandage doubled the growth of new skin and cut

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inflammation. However, the effects are still modest, and there's more work to

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do before it's ready for people. Animal testing can be a touchy subject, but

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that pig looks comfortable enough and cool in their little healing vest, so

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totally worth it. So, any animal testing is actually fine as long as they look

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cool while they're doing it. >> Yeah. pretend. [laughter]

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That's actually how we found out cigarettes are fine because the animals

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look like bad asses.

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>> Those are the coolest monkeys I've ever seen. And I bet whoever's hosting on

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Monday will look cool, too. How could they not? So, make sure to come back.

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I'm going to take the weekend to look into the Tech News sequels. I haven't

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seen them yet, but I I bet they have to be meticulously plotted. What else would

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you do with a giant important franch? No. No way they'll leave me disappointed

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in questioning my lifelong love for tech news. This will be fine.