wow isn't it just an amazing day for tech
news and riley thank you thank you so much for writing
this amazing script that we're about to enjoy
riley you're making this so weird
yeah it's just marvelous if only you were here to share it with me
i'm talking to a ladder right now u.s president donald trump has followed
through on his threat to tick-tock with an executive order banning u.s companies
from dealing with not only tick tock but also wechat the incredibly popular
chinese messaging app the ban will go into effect in 45 days which is actually
a few days after microsoft is looking to clinch its acquisition of tick tock's
u.s operation making the ban essentially an ultimatum which is
always a healthy way to start a relationship but the wechat ban may be
the even bigger deal here its owner 10 cent is absolutely
huge with stakes in snap blizzard spotify and a ton of major mobile games
including pubg call of duty and clash of clans leading some to speculate that the
order may have unforeseeable effects on the tech and gaming industries
for their part tick tock says they are shocked by the illegal order and are
vowing to fight it in court hopefully the judge can be swayed by one of the
app's myriad hot new dances perhaps prompted by trump's announcement
microsoft is now reportedly considering buying all of tick-tock oh instead of
just the app's american operations there you go i had ad-libbed that earlier and
i was wrong perhaps this is to avoid unnecessary deals with chinese sister
companies so it seems like this latest attack on chinese companies is part of
the trump administration's clean network initiative which aims to keep chinese
apps off the american internet but critics say the government doesn't
actually have the power to see this through if you're determined to give your data to china instead of the us
government by the way let me formally invite you to canada where these apps
are freely available come on up the water's great well
cold but it tastes good and trump ain't the only one banning apps apple has
confirmed that it will not allow game streaming services like microsoft's
project xcloud and google stadia on the iOS app store that's because game
streaming apps provide access to an entire library of titles each of which
must be reviewed as an app store game on a title by title basis microsoft has
responded saying apple stands alone as the only general purpose platform to
deny access to other game subscription services and
it constantly treats gaming apps differently applying more lenient rules
to non-gaming apps even when they include interactive content so this
means you will not be able to stream halo infinite on iOS even though it
basically looks like an iOS game already facebook who just today launched their
facebook gaming app has piled onto apple as well since to meet app store criteria
they had to remove playable instant app mini games apple doesn't seem to think
any of this is a big deal an apple spokesperson said this policy is meant
to protect customers and provide a fair and level playing field for developers
and it's definitely not about protecting apple's own arcade game subscription
service which every barista and their dog knows is way better anyway
it's delicious and it physically hurts me to keep reporting on bad news for
Intel but okay i guess i can the company has
suffered a massive data breach with 20 gigabytes of source code developer tools
roadmaps and much more getting leaked by a swiss it consultant named till cotman
cotman claims that the data was actually obtained by another party who apparently
had access to Intel's internal systems Intel says that may be accurate and they
believe the info was swiped from the company's resource and design center a
portal for use by partners now Intel doesn't seem particularly concerned
about the leak given that most of the leaked data is out of date but if stuff
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a number of youtube channels have been hit with a similar bitcoin scam hack
that afflicted twitter in july with the hackers posting live streams promising
to double bitcoin donations even channels like john prosser's front page
tech which was protected by two-factor authentication were hacked and had all
their videos deleted prosser has gotten a secondary channel up and if you're
feeling generous he's accepting donations to make up for the fact that
the hackers hijacked his adsense account so go help a fellow tech guy out we will
bring elon musk to justice three quick google pixel bits a leaked
internal document points to google releasing a foldable pixel phone in 2021
so you can take that rumor with a little bit of salt the pixel 4 has reportedly been
discontinued making it the pixel with the shortest product life to date and
fair enough because it was kind of weird and a leak points to october 5th as the
date that you'll be able to pre-order the pixel 5
but please don't do that it'll probably be good but like just don't Intel's
investor site has announced two upcoming tiger lake related events it's believed
that the august 13th event will be a presentation on the updated architecture
for these processors which will feature xe integrated graphics while september
2nd will be a soft launch for the lineup it is hard to overstate how important
this launch is for Intel but i'll try it's really really
really important wired has run a story about how chinese
state-sponsored hackers have been attacking taiwan's semiconductor
industry for years stealing source code chip designs and more probably in an
effort to shore up china's own chip making abilities china's government
who've used taiwan as part of china probably thinks this is kind of like
stealing from your own back left pocket and putting it in your front right but
scientists call this behavior no actually just stealing and facebook
has joined twitter in blocking posts from the trump campaign that post
misinformation like say a video of donald trump claiming that children are
virtually immune to kova 19 they're not but imagine if they were we could just
fully open the economy but with children as the workers and we could all sit
inside and play video games haha how the
tables have turned anyway that's enough tech news we better end this one come
back on monday for more i'm sure there will be lots more
lots more i did it without you riley i talked to the ladder instead he was all
like talk to the ladder because the riley don't care i didn't know you could
do that yeah you should pan over and look at the ladder
see i wasn't lying there really is a ladder there
and ladder uh what's up with the set today
oh right it's the pc tech support challenge stream it's going to be jay's
two cents versus steve from gamers nexus to see who can fix pcs better
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