with ces all done i'm gonna take a much needed break from tech news maybe i'll
check on sports oh that team's doing well
you excited maybe they'll make it to finals mozilla
is the latest victim or perpetrator depending on how you see things in the
culture war between crypto bros and crypto knows the non-profit mozilla
foundation has accepted donations in bitcoin since 2014 but will now be
pausing that program after user backlash spurred by a co-founder of mozilla jamie
zowinski and peter linz the designer of
firefox firefox's gecko engine those two
apparently weren't aware of the policy and attacked a tweet posted by mozilla
on new year's eve reminding people they can donate in cryptocurrency through
bitpay and i guess i'm confused because i thought everyone was just on the same
page about nfts being like sort of an interesting idea in theory but pretty
cringe in practice although james obviously disagrees you're crypto bro
or you crypto oh yeah that's this that's where it
applies but crypto i thought this whole time the cryptocurrencies were still kind of okay
so where are we at let me know i need to know where i can't write the jokes i'm
simply an empty vessel for the cultural consciousness who are you sonos sued
google for patent infringement in 2020 regarding various technologies related
to wirelessly connected speakers and surprise they actually won which i
didn't know was possible wouldn't google have blackmailed them with their own
data or something isn't this what we're freaking out about if i sued you would
you blackmail me anyways google has already rolled out a
change to its line of nest home speakers that will bring them in compliance with
the trial ruling and which will also make life much worse for owners of said
speakers yeah that's me listen really
i google home do you have them in groups not really oh watch okay you might be
all right but some users will have to download a separate device utility app
to set up devices and install updates and will no longer be able to adjust
volume for a group of speakers all at once oh my god so if you've got a stereo
setup or a few units in the living room group you'll have to individually set
the volume for each of them google says it doesn't expect the ruling to impact
its ability to import or sell these products and yeah that's incorrect
it's impacting me right now i'm not going to do it and i'd like to take
a moment to address a frustrating viral story that has taken off this week
despite my attempts to ignore it see last year they got herpes
last year norton announced it was including an optional crypto mining
feature in their suite of anti-virus apps if you could call them that and we
called it out as kind of dumb at the time but on tuesday corey doctorow an
activist author and surprisingly not a spider-man villain tweeted that norton
is sneakily quote installing crypto mining software on computers and
skimming a commission which it does do
if you opt in which led everyone on twitter to think that norton was
surreptitiously stealing their users pc performance and profiting from it but
to be clear norton antivirus may be largely unnecessary and extremely
annoying to uninstall but while the crypto mining app is automatically
installed it doesn't appear to be doing anything unless you tell it to not
sneakily it's really the one word there's even a
way an annoying way but a way to uninstall it now this probably bothers
me more than it does other people because of my now encyclopedic and
unwanted knowledge of obscure text stories but there it is
norton now it's time for quick bits brought to you one last time this ces
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after confirming their next series of desktop processors would use a new not
backwards compatible socket AMD has said they're looking at enabling support for
current gen ryzen 5000 processors in old
300 series motherboards some manufacturers enabled ryzen 5000 support
in some lower end a320 boards but it'll be up to AMD to allow the same thing to
happen on mid-tier b350 and higher-end
x370 boards which would be nice as long as users are ready to ride those parts
into the ground since there will be no upgrade path sadly the captain should go
down with their ship that's just the way it doesn't need to make sense and the
band samsung may be looking to extend its lead in the foldable display space
if some of their wacky prototypes from ces are any indication thanks to object
mishra we got a look at a slider concept an all screen laptop a number of
prototypes with tri-folding designs and a speaker with a wrap around display
that can fold out into a flat one that that one's kind of dumb that's i got to
be honest because someone's got to be honest at ces half the things are just
made in blender they're not real like this
look at that speaking of phones a bunch of smartphone announcements flew under
the radar this week because no one cares but they're still kind of interesting
because they're all running qualcomm's new snapdragon 8 gen 1 chipset there's
the xiaomi mi 12 pro the real me gt2 pro
the motorola edge x30 the oppo find x4 the oneplus 10 pro and the iq9 series
yeah i don't care i was right the first time e3 will once again continue playing
dead this year with the events show runners the entertainment software
association confirming it will exist as a virtual event come june because of
omicron some industry reporters are calling the esa out though since before
covet hit e3 was already barely clinging to life and it's
not clear why they're pretending that's not the case now
we were totally gonna have an event guys we're to a we were it's just because of
kovid we swear it's got some real i'm not dead yet and then perhaps the
realest example of air tag abuse yet fashion model brooks nader said thanks
to an alert from her iphone she found an air tag in her coat that had apparently
been placed there to stalk her hurst is running as an independent
meter it's actually happening uh it's
the trackerpocalypse so i guess all of us Android folks should install apple's
tracker detect app to stop this from happening to us
wait a second is this apple's way of getting an app on all of our phones and
you could use some more tech news but not until monday come back then to get a
refill but it's the weekend and ces is over hey i'll see you at the after party
at mandalay bay you gonna be there the weekend after party not the
is that a about the artist maybe making it pun
bye