happy insert name of your local holiday here where I am it's family day which is
why I'm spending it with my real family the tech news it found me and raised me
as a tech news cub in the forest which is why things around here can get a
little wild sometimes So Meta is rolling
out a verification Subscription Service similar to Twitter blue this week it'll
charge 12 to 15 bucks a month for ID verification a blue badge user
experience enhancements and that feeling of being special you were missing as a
child Mark Zuckerberg announced the service on his broadcast channel which
is a new Instagram feature similar to telegram channels that rolled out last
week meaning that Zuck announced that meta is copying one platform using
meta's copy of another platform never change Facebook but the move has sparked
fears that drastic change is coming to the internet at large many people
ourselves included continue to mock Elon
musk's impulsive attempts to generate some any Twitter Revenue but if more
platforms follow suit we may be looking at the end of the free web service era
musk certainly think so calling meta verified inevitable and you know he knew
the reference people would make based on that meta's announcement follows Twitter
locking text message based two-factor authentication behind the blue paywall a
move security analysts say doesn't make sense since SMS two-factor is vulnerable
to way more attacks than dedicated authenticator apps and can actually be
worse than only using a good password but a lot of Twitter users probably
don't know that and they may be inclined to sign up for blue if they think they
have to pay to secure their account
wow in a few years we may be talking about the good old days when internet
platforms were free thanks to our personal info being collected and sold
by advertisers I used to run to the corner store and send a tweet for a
nickel Tick Tock has announced a new creativity program which promises higher
earnings for creators who can somehow manage to post videos that are more than
one minute long because the more seconds video has the more creative it is this
is basic film school stuff actually though the Irishman
get out of here the announcement confirms at least part of the
information posted by the information they knew what they were doing last week
and highlights how much Tick Tock has changed in the six years since launching
with a 15 second limit on videos now the
thirst traps play simultaneously alongside Family Guy eclipse and footage
from endless Runner mobile games it's way different but the creativity program
specifically requires high quality original content to be eligible for more
money so hopefully our old pal capitalism can fix what was broken by
its dark counterpart capitalism it's like the good bad it's a spy versus spy
you know it's like and Nintendo might be making it a little easier to access its
library of retro games if we follow the path of potentially baseless but
interesting speculation laid out in this R's technical article ours technical
article that's not a diss I made this a main story so just just hear me out so
the UK's competition and markets Authority is investigating Microsoft's
planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard and wrote report on whether
Nintendo switch online could compete with Xbox game pass in which they said
Nintendo's service is only available on the Nintendo switch device and redacted
begin speculation now available on the switch and what so one it could be a
future Nintendo console which we know is launching at the very least this Century
or two it might be Nintendo plans to let you stream switch online games to your
phone like xcloud frankly anything that
can give people access to Nintendo's back catalog would be good since there
would be less justification to Pirate Nintendo games and therefore less
lawsuits from Nintendo which the company has said it uses to send a message it
would have made more sense for me to do an impression of like a Triad gangster
there rather than an Italian mafia so but that wouldn't be appropriate now
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okay I'm gonna let the quick bits out now just stay where you are they're
gonna sniff various parts of you to get used to your scent do not react fans of
the new AI powered Bing were despondent last week when Microsoft imposed new
limits on the chatbot which According to some amounted to a lobotomy well a few
sources have indicated that the limits are temporary while Microsoft figures
out how to make Bing not pledge undying love to whoever asks it a few personal
questions I also know a few humans with this problem so thankfully this lobotomy
is reversible unlike human ones in other
humans crushing ai's dreams news go player Kellen pellerine has defeated the
top go-playing AI models catego and Lila
zero seven years after deepmind's alphago AI defeated one of the world's
top human players Lee sedol now pelreen
defeated the AI players using strategies suggested by another computer program
that probed the AIS for weaknesses but they weren't like in his ear or anything
when he played the match he had it all he had it all appear okay so come on
back Lee said oh give it another try can you imagine he comes back and like gets
destroyed Microsoft has finally allowed M1 and M2
Max to run full featured versions of Windows 11 on ARM through the Parallels
Desktop app meaning Mac users no longer
have to use an Insider preview build to access such features as slow loading and
bad app support okay that's not fair I
haven't tried Windows unarm for a while so in terms of ARM processor support now
it could be slightly better than way way worse than macOS Chrome has gotten a
new update that adds energy saver and memory saver features that will help the
browser use less energy and memory respectively by snoozing inactive tabs
which can then be reloaded by clicking on them again the tab it's a sorely
needed update although I'd prefer if Google could like make each Tab and the
browser as a whole use less energy and memory instead of like cutting off your
leg because you're not using it right now so that's just me and air travel is about
to get more stimulating if a patent just
granted to Brazilian Aerospace company Embraer is any indication of course
they're Brazilian it describes a system built into airplane seats that can scan
passengers faces to determine their emotional state and then offer
transcranial stimulation of either the magnetic or electrical variety seems
like it would be amazing to turn on if you're stuck with a seat partner who
won't stop talking about how both varieties are actually part of the same
phenomenon of electromagnetism and oh you probably you probably shouldn't turn
it up that high and you shouldn't turn away from the tech news come Wednesday
because we'll be back and hopefully delivering better Segways than that one
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