did someone say Tech news yeah I did
just now are you paying attention you were right there I still love you the US
is tightening its export restrictions on Advanced AI chips to China as well as a
handful of other countries including Saudi Arabia the UAE and Vietnam Vietnam
too for crying out loud cut that specifically they're targeting NVIDIA's
a800 and h800 gpus variants of the a100
and h100 that NVIDIA modified specifically for
the Asian market to comply with the Biden administration's restrictions on
ship exports to China last October which is wild because this October is right
now making last October exactly a year ago so it took nearly an entire calendar
year to close a loophole that obvious the Cayman Islands though they still got
that one previously consumer graphics cards were largely unaffected but the
new rules also restrict sales of NVIDIA's RTX 4090 currently the most
powerful game gaming card available if you don't count the blue eyes white
dragon technically vendors can still apply for special licenses to sell these
gpus but it's not clear How likely the
government is to grant them companies will also be required to inform the US
government before selling chips below the Restriction threshold in case
somebody decides to I don't know buy a whole bunch of slightly inferior chips
then then jury rig them together into a monstrous Franken ship yearning for love
and acceptance in a world that fears and Mis understands it Google Glass may be
gone but the glass holes are back that's right with the release of the meta Quest
3 grown adults with money not me have
been wearing their fancy new face computers into public using the device's
low latency pass through mode that allows them to navigate their
surroundings without running into walls that's half the fun while that's
obviously fine if you're just taking your $500 skull accessory on a walk
through the park it raises obvious privacy concerns when random Tech Bros
are exploring the one of AR by recording banal interactions with identifiable
service workers and posting it on the internet sorry Stacy who works on the
Starbucks on Fifth and 7th and that's a problem that will only get worse next
year with the coming release of meta's far more subtle Rayban smart glasses
which early reviews have called a privacy
nightmare the smart glasses have
fortifi hey meta AI what's that sound it's Joshua pooping the Smart Glass have
the obvious advantage that they don't make the wearer look like a lost Martian
tourist but the more pressing disadvantage that they portend the
future where literally any douchebag in designer Shades might be secretly
recording you who says they aren't already check your toilets following a
string of rumors many anticipated that Apple would announce new iPads with
refreshed chips on Tuesday instead they were not me with iPads but the third
product to Bear the name apple pencil no doubt as punishment for daring to try
and get a glimpse behind Tim Apple's curtain he's showering you're coming
into my bdre I didn't give you permission but a
glimpse of Apple's reasoning would be nice to help the new $80 pencil make
sense it charges exclusively through a USBC Port hidden under a slider on its
butt but it's much better than the first gen pencils accident waiting to happen
design but it can still attached magnetically to the newest iPad pros and
airs just not to the 10th gen base model iPads thanks to Apple suddenly deciding
that cameras go on the long side now and it's the cheapest apple pencil but it's
not compatible with the cheapest iPad in Apple's current lineup the ninth gen it
also doesn't have pressure sensitivity support for double tap gestures and you
can't even engrave it for Christ's sake what if I want to send one to my mom
that says I love you Mom here's the third apple pencil but none of that
really matters for a big enough chunk of Apple Fans who'll just buy the new one
and ask us why it's not charging magnetically after as for actual iPad
Refreshers those will probably arrive in the spring or summer maybe alongside a
folding iPad which I will purchase immediately I mean the other ones fold
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video I am I get to read them and no one can stop me not even the editor he won't
cut me off I'm going to keep New York legislators have proposed a new bill
that would require a criminal background check to buy any 3D printer that could
theoretically print all or part of a firearm which unfortunately is most of
them gun digest recommends the creality Ender 3v2 or the prusa I3 mk3s plus both
of which are beds Slinger style fdm printers the cheapest most common kind
of 3D printer so if you're a New York resident with a felony conviction and a
Warhammer addiction this could seriously cramp your style I mean unless you like
the visits from hot policemen put the printer down AMD is released a new beta
driver which disables its Radeon anti- plus technology in all supported games
after the feature and its predecessor anti-le non plus led to a wave of player
bands in CS2 Apex Legends and cod
unfortunately AMD recommended using anti-le to decrease latency caused by
their fluid motion frames after enabling that in all dx11 games it's like if your
friend told you that the best way to get promoted at work was to find the most
powerful person and punch them in the face face and all that did was make
lonus Angry Qualcomm in collaboration with Google has announced development of
the first ever masked Market risk 5
Android s so Google announced risk 5 software support for Android OS late
last year now qualcom are developing a yet unnamed risk 5 Snapdragon s so for
wearable devices to act as the necessary Hardware if successful this could
present a serious competitive threat to ARM as risk 5's open- Source
architecture means it can be both cheaper and more flexible to implement
my ARM's prettyy flexible don't ask me about my legs though touch my toes I can
also touch your toes ARM is already suing Qualcomm over license fees and
losing ground to rkive in China due to export restrictions as if these
companies needed anything else to make Thanksgiving more Awkward freaking China
ARM stop talking about China around the table the IRS is advancing a pilot
program that will allow residents in 13 states to electronically file their tax
returns directly with the IRS in 2024 the pilot is a response to a
long-standing issue going back to 2001 when the IRS partnered with tax
preparation companies to offer taxpayers with simple returns a free alternative
for filing their taxes those companies then made those free Alternatives harder
to find than a reason to get up in the morning or a reason to go to bed at
night why is it
both when the IRS banned them from doing that both H&R Block and into it the
makers of Turbo Tax left the agreement into it has been lobbying against direct
filing for over a decade arguing that free alternatives are already available
which they are you're just never going to find them and I'm going to stay in
bed late slimbook and Fedora project announced a new Linux optimized laptop
the Fedora slimbook so named after Fedora slim a hardboiled private
detective who is also the marbor man Yeehaw the laptop comes with a 12 gen
Intel Core i7 12 700h processor an RTX
3050 TI graphics card up to 64 GB of RAM
a 4 terb NVMe SSD ooh and a 16-in 3K 90
HZ display the device comes loaded with software from Linux distribution Fedora
which is an absolutely wild coincidence and features The Gnome desktop
environment slimbook will be donating 3% of the revenue from the Fedora slimbook
to The Gnome Foundation which provides endof life care for elderly garden
gnomes rest in peace Papa Smurf you will be
missed and nobody will know if you don't
come back for more TechLinked on Friday but I'll still feel it in my heart my
little red hat first Papa spurin now this why would you do this Jerry