you know what they say the more things change the more they change it's called
Tech news or entropy Nintendo is suing Tropic Haze the makers of Yuzu which
according to Google is either an emulator for the Nintendo switch or a
small yellow citrus fruit similar to a lemon who can say Tropic Haze sounds
like a Gatorade flavor in the 41-page
lawsuit Nintendo claims that Yuzu knowingly facilitates piracy on a
massive scale as part of its case Nintendo likewise suggests that yuzu's
technology was used to play pirated copies of the Legend of Zelda tear of
the Kingdom a bold claim which was
illegally downloaded over a million times in the weeks before its official
release around 5% of the amount of
official copies sold according to Nintendo around 20% of download links
pointed prospective Pirates to Yuzu now to win Nintendo will have to prove one
key fact that the Yuzu emulator was created primarily to circumvent
anti-piracy protections rather than its more aboveboard uses like enabling
legitimate owners of a game like tears of the Kingdom to play it on an Android
Linux or Windows device with a decent frame rate and a controller designed for
big meaty adult hands I'm just a big guy
after at least a decade of work behind the scenes Apple has reportedly killed
plans to build its own self-driving electric vehicle a project that Apple
has never officially acknowledged but which we all know about because they had
to get a bunch of car related permits and there were like 2,000 people working
on it what's Tim Cook supposed to do swear them all to secrecy and force them
to live in an isolated community in the middle of the Nevada desert I become
death if you break NDA Barbara and I
will find you at least some of those
employees will be shifted over to Apple's AI division perhaps
unsurprisingly given that AI star has risen even as EV sales have
significantly slowed another thing Apple has moved to kill is iOS support for
Progressive web apps in the EU claiming that the feature will be too difficult
to continue offering in compliance with the digital markets act which requires
interoperability with browser engines other than Apple's own webkit something
that Apple never designed it to do it could break I another browser are you
insane the European commission who are being very ungrateful at this thoughtful
gesture from Apple are investigating this decision and have asked Developers
for feedback concerning the change but Apple isn't the only killer still on the
streets because Netflix is killing off Apple payment for legacy inapp iOS
subscribers Netflix removed the ability to subscribe via its iOS app back in
2018 in order to duck Apple's 15 to 30%
cut but grandfathered in pre-existing subscriptions who were still responsible
for them paying a cut to Apple now Netflix can finally be free well not
that kind kind of free that'll be $15 please and thank you you don't want to miss Love is Blind season whatever it is
I don't like these shows Intel has officially added an ambitious 10A
equivalent to 1 nanometer chip process
to its 2027 road map for development and
possibly production in the last half of 2027 another 14a or 1.4 nanometer node
is scheduled for production sometime in 2026 the a here actually stands for
angstrom which is just a different unit of measurement CEO Pat gillinger voted
world's sexiest Pat gillinger 62 years in a row that's right sorry other Pat
Ginger you're never going to win okay he has bet Intel's entire future on the
success of its upcoming 18a node which
of course equals 1.8 nmet see we're learning together but as aggressive as
this new road map is it's not clear just how much we should trust it as a
realistic timeline given Intel's recent record of overoptimistic projections
back in 2012 Intel promised that in 2015
they'd launch their 10 nanm chips which they only managed to launch 4 years
later in 2019 not only that but their Fab capacity charts don't even have a y
AIS Intel is also planning hyper
automated AI powerered fabrication plants at some indefinite time in the
future for the near present however the company is at least planning to invest
$100 billion into expanding production over the next 5 years which will include
heavy use of cobots which just seem to
be robots designed to work alongside humans a coworker robot if you will
though presumably you won't co-workers cobots in Disguise you will be the cobot
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sucks yes Adobe has revealed a new generative
AI tool that allows users to both generate and edit music customizing
Tempo intensity melodic structure and use of air horns the four elements of
music only the Avatar The Tool is just a prototype right now which explains why
it was named Project Music geni control
by either an AI or a human who are both terrible at naming of course many
generative AI music tools exist but the Innovation here is the editing
capability and the fact that adobe will probably integrate it into Premiere and
audition like they integrated generative fill into Photoshop ensuring the last
remains of humanity will wither and perish in the rubble of their destroyed
cities oh sorry there's a few steps in between those I skipped them yada yada y
ET ET the White House has released an
executive order aimed at stamping out the sale of American citizens sensitive
personal data to foreign adversaries of the United States most pointedly China
and Russia which I think is a failure to foresee the growing lakstein Menace
they're hiding in in plain sight the order means that the doj will need to
draft a rule requiring us companies and data Brokers to ensure that entities
purchasing large amounts of data from them will not then turn around and sell
that information to a hostile foreign power that might be important in a
landscape where the information collected by companies is getting weirder and more invasive all the time
like meta's plan to start collecting anonymized data about Quest headset
usage including body movement and eye tracking and even data about the
physical environment you're in not virtually you better not tell Kim
Jong-un about my eyeball Zuckerberg that's between you and me Tumblr and
wordpress.com want to sell user data to Mid journey and open AI according to
documentation seen by 404 media the documents don't seem to specify what is
being sold but the Tumblr data appears to include public post content between
2014 and 2023 Tumblr users now have to
opt out of third-party sharing for their blogs to prevent their data from being
sold hopefully everyone does that I can't think of anything worse than a
chatbot trained on nearly 10 years of posts written by pretentious
14-year-olds no one understands my dark mind they're just discovering so much
about the world adius the first private spacecraft to make a soft land in on the
moon has less than a day left to live because it landed with its solar panels
at the wrong angle it tipped over as soon as it landed and you would too that
was an exhausting trip if this sounds familiar it's because you're thinking of
slim the first Japanese probe to land on the Moon that had less than a day to
live because it landed with its solar panels at the wrong angle it just so
tired tuckered out slim however has
managed to survive in the cold of a lunar night which is about 15 Earth days
long despite not being designed to do so it's like a modern-day Japanese Hanukkah
yes whatever they end up calling it I can't wait to hear Smokey Robinson
mispronounce it chanuka I don't know what chanuka is oh I wish I knew this
reference before now and Honda has figured out why VR hasn't gone
mainstream yet no one's tried riding the company's new hands-free personal
Mobility device while playing what looks like a Serial box CD ROM game from the
late '90s this just makes the case right away Roller Coaster Tycoon the mobility
device is called the uni1 because uni1
Uno solo was a bit redundant and Beyond being used as a call back to decade old
VR demos when it's shown off at South by Southwest in March the device is
apparently designed so that people with lower limb impairments can sit with
their head closer to the eye level of the average standing person that way you
can both wear Apple Vision Pros stare into each other's cold stretched out
virtual eyes and agree that your purchases were a mistake you could have
upgraded your wheelchair for those prices well you did apparently in this scenario that one was not a mistake it
actually looks kind of cool but it won't be a mistake to come back on Friday for
more Tech news just make sure you're not watching TechLink instead of watching
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