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abused its market dominance in internet search the US Department of Justice says
that it's considering structural remedies which is a boring antitrust
term that means forcing the company to sell off parts of its business breaking
up Google is only one of a suite of potential remedies that the doj will be
recommending as options to the judge in the case Amit meta who is almost
definitely not just Mark Zuckerberg in a black robe and rubber mask it's hard to
believe that Google might actually get chopped up and sold for spare parts
mostly because it's been over 40 years since the last time us antitrust
Regulators actually broke up a company the 1982 breakup of the Bell System
Microsoft nearly got the Solomon baby treatment 24 years ago but that case was
appealed and then eventually settled out of court with serious restriction for
how Microsoft was allowed to do business going forward Google is clearly taking
the possibility seriously however and has argued that the doj's proposals are
radical and sweeping and a potential risk to Consumers businesses and
developers that's what I say whenever I got a brew in my hands I'm radical and
sweeping Google plans to appeal the decision but it won't have the
opportunity until meta the judge not the company decides on an appropriate remedy
most likely by August 2025 meaning that this case will most likely drag on for
at least a few more years in Far lower Stakes Google antitrust news a judge has
ordered Google to allow third-party app stores to access the Play Store's app
collection Google likewise plans to appeal this decision though it might be
cheaper if Sundar pitchai just challenged epic CEO Tim Sweeney to a
fist fight in the nearest Waffle House parking lot just an idea hackers
connected to the Chinese government have infiltrated several us internet service
providers including AT&T Verizon and Lumen they were scared off by the
customer service the hackers reportedly had access to these networks for several
months and they gained that access through a system of security back doors
that are legally required by the US government for use in
wiretapping okay the extent of the attack and what information the hackers
had access to is still being investigated but if you're wondering how
bad this is the answer is very the Chinese government has denied being
behind these attacks and even pretended to be hurt by the accusation despite the
fact that their government and basically every other government is pulling stuff
like this all the time but not us
however this kind of attack highlights a deeper problem with the US government's
approach to system security where it has long pressured tech companies to embed
hardware and software backd doors in their products for the sake of its own
convenience despite the very real risk that a malicious actor could exploit the
exact same route to cause serious harm like what we're seeing right now this
was Apple's argument when they were pressured by the FBI to access devices
belonging to alleged Mass Shooters and the company has largely been Vindicated
buy your mom an iPhone because she's probably not a terrorist when would she
launch the attack she spends all her time with me Barbara are you doing
something I don't like Barbara you're in big trouble EV startup Fisker has run
into a potentially serious snag in its bankruptcy plans it has no no way of
migrating its ev's Cloud operations onto
its new owners servers for context in
June Fisker reached an agreement with new york-based rental company American
lease to buy its remaining Fleet of 3,300 vehicles for $46.3 million however
Fisker only informed American lease that they couldn't transfer the EV server
links last Friday when they had already paid $42.5 million and accepted 1,00
ocean SUVs it is currently unclear how long Fisker has known about this
extremely relevant technical issue American lease has therefore filed an
emergency objection to fisker's liquidation plan they wanted their
liquidation plan to be more solid the Department of Justice has
filed its own objection in response to claims that Fisker has been trying to
make ocean owners pay for their own recall repairs which is very much
illegal fiser is likewise attracting ominous attention from the SEC who are
investigating the company but hav haven't said exactly why that's just
what happens when you're a struggling company failing to meet its contractual obligations you start seeing the
silhouette of SEC chairman Gary gendler every time you close your eyes like the
Grim Reaper does that happen to people but when I close my eyes I just see our
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show won the Nobel Prize for quickest bit now that's something to tell your
grandkids YouTube has started hiding the skip button timer on its mobile app just
a week after some Reddit users reported seeing a grade out skip button timer on
desktop now now might not be the worst thing as seen in a screen recording from
Android police the length of the unskippable portion is still shown in
the seek bar and the skip button appears after that portion is done and a YouTube
spokesperson said the change is meant to allow users to focus on the ads yeah
that's why I don't watch YouTube ads the distracting skip button just can't take
my eyes off it it's gorgeous ASUS's new
Nitro paath RAM slot design can apparently boost speeds by a to 400
megga transfers per second in a peculiar way the tech has no direct improvements
for populated RAM slots but for the unpopulated ones turns out that the
metal contacts in empty slots act like
antennas generating electrical noise that interferes with RAM at high speeds
it's like how everyone's wisdom teeth accidentally pick up secret CIA
Transmissions that's that's everyone right that's it's you that happens to you right Nitro paath slots solve this
by shortening the contacts though the tech was announced back in August it's
finally arriving on select high-end ASUS motherboards and should come to other
oems sometime next year according to YouTuber derbauer and my teeth leaked
slides allegedly from Intel's imminent unveiling of its core alra 200 Series
Desktop CPUs AKA aerol Lake Show the
upcoming Flagship core Ultra 9 285k
providing lower FPS on average than its
predecessor The Core i 94900 k unless
we're going to get a Ultra 92 90k at some point we don't know although the
aerrow lake chip is using 80 Watts less than the older model and it has eight
fewer threads thanks to Intel removing hyperthreading it's a bit weird that
Intel is advertising their new product with a promise of more modest
performance and I don't know maybe that's their marketing angle this CPU
isn't big and flashy it's very demure
very mindful of how much power it's using this guy uses Tik Tok meta has now
confirmed that they will be training its AI on pictures and videos taken using
Rayband meta smart glasses after previously refusing to publicly discuss
whether or not they do so oh I guess why why would that be it's guys this isn't
why are we even worrying about this you can technically opt out of the training
by not using the multimodal AI capabilities of your multimodal AI
powered smart glasses meta will also use your voice convos with the AI for
training though you can actually out of that the first time you log in to the
Rayband meta app but please don't if you're in Australia or the UK both
countries that just got access to the AI Zuck needs that voice data so he can
learn how to tell what the hell you're saying he has no idea that New Zealand
even exists don't tell them that why do you say words like that and speaking of
AI won big at this year's Nobel prizes
the prize for chemistry was awarded to American biochemist David Baker as well
as Demi hassabi and John jumper of
Google Deep Mind for their involvement in the development of protein structure
prediction AI alphafold they're doing chemistry I guess the prize for physics
went to professors John hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton whose work laid the
foundation for modern neural networks this is confusing all science is just AI
now you know AI physics and the noble priz for biology is going to go to
Boston Dynamics Hinton often called one
of the god fathers of AI has expressed regrets about his life's work and was
reportedly flabbergasted to receive the prize you and me both many in the
scientific Community were equally flabbergasted with German physicist
Sabine hossenfelder and also a YouTuber now noting that the 2024 Nobel Prize in
physics wasn't even being award to an achievement in physics but she seems
just kind of grumpy all the time so I can see that but your award for sitting
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