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Google has lost its Court battle with the US Department of Justice who
initially sued the tech giant for violating Anti-Trust laws back in 2020
because Google is used for more than 90% of search queries in the US DC District
Judge Amit meta wrote in his final ruling that Google is a monopolist get
them a monacle and it abuses that position by paying companies like apple
as much as $20 billion a year to be the
default search engine on their devices as pointed out by The Verge meta's
ruling summarized some spicy moments
from The Trial like apple exec edq saying during testimony that I don't
believe there's a price in the world that Microsoft could offer us to replace
Google with Bing this says more about Bing honestly he continued they offered
to give us Bing for free they could give us the whole
company Google's superiority as a product isn't really in question here
but meta points out that Google felt so secure in their position they made
controversial product changes without concern that its users might go
elsewhere which brings a distinct stench
more than a whiff of Monopoly to the nostrils so what happens now does Google
get broken up into separate companies Each of which go to jail well if this
plays out like Microsoft's antitrust conviction back in 1999 the year of the
best movies ever Google may end up reaching a settlement that forces them
to even the playing field unfortunately that might not be enough to save Mozilla
of Firefox Fame which brought in $593
million of Revenue in 2022 510 of which
came from Google's search payments suddenly Bing ain't looking so
bad baby I add these voices myself
reviews are out for AMD's ryzen 5 9600 X and ryzen 7 9700x CPUs and the results
look pretty good the New Zen 5 chips
show a clear performance improvement over their previous gen counterparts and
run cooler that's thanks in part to AMD's claimed 15% Improvement in thermal
resistance a claim that almost sounds like it means something until you read
it a second time thermal resistance is a measurable property did it increase or
decrease that's like me saying I improved the meters on my weekly run
anyway the 9600 X and 9700x not only outperform the 7700x and 7600 X but do
so while consuming 40% less power at least for the most part Tech PowerUp
found that on average during gaming the 9600 X and 9700x consume about the same
amount of juice as the 7600 X and 7700x respectively in terms of pricing it's
also a bit of a good news bad news situation AMD's announced prices for the
entire ryzen 9000 series are cheaper than the launch price of the ryzen 7000
chips sure but the situation completely flips when you look at ryzen 7000
current prices for instance the 9700x
costs $69 more than the
7700x ironically that's not very nice
NVIDIA has been scraping 80 years worth of videos daily to train their AI
without permission according to leaked documents and slack messages an internal
chart shows the company compiled 38.5
million video URLs for download all with the blessing of CEO Jensen hang and his
leather jacket who really calls the shots Wong's just a puppet they won't
let me stop this is despite the fact that those videos came from platforms
like Netflix and YouTube and this isn't like that earlier NVIDIA AI scraping
controversy where they used a thirdparty data set that contained unauthorized
YouTube data from channels like MKBHD messages show that NVIDIA employees were
encouraged to suggest specific YouTube channels whose videos should be
downloaded and used for training one of those channels was you guessed it MKBHD
but it was only because his videos are super high quality and it's a
compliment dang it upon hearing the news
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for some reason I suspect that he thinks it's actually not cool I know it sounds
weird but I'm just getting the vibe NVIDIA has given a response that was
definitely proof red saying they respect the rights all of content creators but
they are complying with the letter and Spurt of copyright law because they're
just learning information from different sources to make their own Expressions
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events for example during the American Revolution Paul Rivier famously told the
Patriots that the quick bsh we're coming X has filed a federal lawsuit against
the Global Alliance for responsible media accusing the Coalition of
colluding to create an ad boycott on the Elon Musk owned platform the lawsuit was
accompanied by an amazing video from xcoo Linda hatar who communicated her
thoughts both in English and American Stern mom sign language the suit is a
bit surprising since musk famously told advertisers to go themselves is he
upset they listened someone took my advice you're not to do that you
myself Google has announced they are killing the chomecast for Google TV
devices in a blog post discussing memorable moments and chomecast history
because there's nothing more Google than saying remember this cool stuff we did
anyway it's dead now the company is launching a new product called the
Google TV streamer a premium priced of
course HDMI set top box that doubles as a smart home hub it costs twice as much
as the now discontinued 4K chomecast for Google TV dongle but it does not include
an HDMI cable in the Box nothing says premium quite like supplying your own
cables Dell is allegedly laying off more workers it's all part of a
reorganization effort that is also meant to create a new group within its sales
team focusing on artificial intelligence products and services making this
possibly the most roundabout way that Jaws have been lost due to AI several
sources claim 12,500 jobs are being cut
bringing the total number of Del layoffs over the past 50 months to
24,500 after Intel announced they were laying off 15,000 people last week we
hear a tech link specifically requested that everyone stop competing for the
biggest saddest number we even said please Reddit CEO and Archen enemy of
Reddit users Steve Huffman has suggested pay Walling subreddits as a potential
source of income for the site pay Walling certain subreddits during an
earnings call Huffman suggested that the current free version of Reddit would
continue to exist they just create cool new subreddits with exclusive Ive
content in private areas Huffman also announced the site would be testing AI
powered search results pages to summarize and recommend content
something he believes will increase ad Revenue ooh Ai and ads say less Steve
seriously please stop talking and Logitech is now backpedaling after their
CEO claimed the company wanted to release a subscription based forever
Mouse in an interview with the Verge this is the second statement the company
has had to walk back from from that interview as Logitech also had to assure
customers it wasn't discontinuing its smart home cameras logk now says they
have no plans to release a subscription-based mouse and called the
idea provocative internal thinking which
is also how my problematic Uncle defends his past comments here's a provocative
comment you should come back on Friday for more Tech
news what what did you think I was going to say it's not productive actually just
normalize it