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I'm Riley Samsung is being accused of Faking moon
photos taken on Galaxy phones Galactic
consequences the space Zoom feature which was introduced with the Galaxy s20
Ultra allows users to zoom a hundred times and take
pretty impressive photos of the moon but Reddit the site specializing in proving
that we cannot have nice things had something to say about that user I break
photos took a high-res moon image from the web downsized it to 170 by 170
pixels and blurred the hell out of it then they displayed the image on their
monitor turned out all their lights and took a picture with their s23 Ultra from
across the room the results are pretty
shocking no moon then bam
that's a moon like being pantsed at summer camp some
such as a few LTT Forum enthusiasts initially dismissed this as just
post-processing but changed their minds when I break photos updated their
original post with another test they added another half of a moon to the full
moon image and only the full Moon's
detail was increased either Samsung is adding extra detail from a database of
high-res moon images or and hear me out
here okay it's aliens it's not a natural satellite I have another question why do
we care whether our phones could take like if you take a picture of the moon
it's like congrats there's there's so many pictures of the Moon why do you
need a picture on your phone that's my because the Man Comes Around he gives
you a little metal it pins to your chest it's the moon man hey that's a pretty
good picture here you go thanks Moon Man many people's dead relatives have been
found on a facial recognition website
what'd you say oh boy is Right pemize a site that allows users to search for
images of themselves has apparently been scraping photos from ancestry and
obituary websites without the consent of the deceased since scientists haven't
had much luck on that app for seances yet they also didn't ask relatives we've
totally forgot about that now this is extra sketchy because photos of dead
people could be used to identify their living relatives who may or may not want
to be found by their second cousin who's still angry about losing the tug of war
at the family reunion that is very specific this isn't the company's only
controversy either last year former Apple employee Cher Scarlett pointed out
that though pemi's claims to scrape porn
sites in the name of helping users take down revenge porn anyone could upload
the face of a victim of revenge porn and find that porn and at that time the
service was also charging users eighty dollars a month for the privilege of
opting out of appearing in its search results fortunately it is now totally
free to opt out of this face search service you've never heard of by going
to its website which you have probably also never heard of anyway back to dead
people it turns out that pimis has now been scraping images of the deceased
from sites like ancestry.com and a Cemetery directory owned by ancestry
called find a grave though since
ancestries terms and conditions expressly forbid scraping data from the
site including photos pimis may need to
find a lawyer that was my name before we it they get
put in a grave that's vigilante justice is a crime not
by me I just look at these arms and an online mental health care company has
been sharing private patient data with advertisers now to be clear this story
is about the Telehealth company cerebral not better health which is an online
mental health care company that has been sharing private patient data with
advertisers now I can see why some of you may be confused both companies offer
online appointments with therapists by phone or video and both leaked email
addresses IP addresses and the health status and histories of millions of
users to add platforms like meta so that should that should clarify things the
key difference between the two companies is that cerebral actually admitted to it
two months after they found out fortunately cerebral claims that they
disabled reconfigured and or removed any
tracking Technologies on their platform to prevent future data sharing though
hopefully they were quicker at that than admitting they shared incredibly
sensitive personal and or medical information with companies like meta and
Google especially since this sort of breach is exactly the type of fear
someone actively being treated for anxiety might have that's more like much
worse help they should change the name we're not helping much
cerebral to severe anxiety better than
nothing not even
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sound good HP updated the firmware of
their printers to block the use of third-party inks now it's worth noting
that HP stands for Hewlett-Packard and not as some of us here in the office
assumed ha pay
thousands of customers have been affected by this update though
apparently devices made before December 2016 won't be affected which I'm sure is
great Solace to anyone that received a terrible Christmas gift six years ago a
printer really Kevin I married your daughter
printer it's 2023 Kevin and what now seems to be
a cherished tradition details on the newest Google phone have leaked months
before launch what what we always do that
to our family a Vietnamese Tech Enthusiast got hands on with a pixel 7A
and made the decision every Google phone leaker before has made tell everyone it
looks like the 7A will have eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage as well
as a 6.1 inch 90 Hertz 1080p display okay but let's all make a pact all right
to not act surprised when the phone is launched so Cinder pichai doesn't feel
bad okay oh that's that's what the phone looks
like oh that's okay didn't expect it to
look just like this pixel 7. meta has stated they will end news access in
Canada if the online news act becomes law the ACT also known as bill c18 would
require digital giants like meta and Google to negotiate payment deals with
Canadian media companies Google has been blocking news links for some Canadians
for weeks in a test which will apparently end this week oh thanks meta
is threatening more drastic action because the Bill's wording could mean
any link posted by Facebook or Instagram users could cost meta money wow sounds
like a great thing to bring up during the inevitable negotiation that will end
in paying Canadian news Publishers for Content you know like pretty much
exactly what happened in Australia and France or you know oh you just want to
you just want to threaten to ban news yeah that's cool okay yeah you do you Mana you just ban that news I'm sure
that'll I'm sure that'll work a claim has been made that a hardware designer
has been chosen for the ps6 what's more a possible timeline may have
been leaked from documents filed as part of the UK's investigation of the
Microsoft Activision merger Sony writes in a document that they will lose access
to Activision games by the time the ps6
launches while simultaneously stating in
another sentence that Activision games would only be available to PlayStation
until 2027 so that seems like the year
maybe I'm not good at math but man a 69
billion dollar merger has got to be the most expensive way to Hype a console
launch there's Sony isn't even paying thanks Microsoft and Pokemon fans are
panicking after what else is new
oh it's a different color those are donuts
they're panicking because the Pokemon company posted a job listing on LinkedIn
and it's not because someone is using LinkedIn the offending listing for a
corporate development principle is looking for applicants with deep
knowledge of web3 and specifically mentioning the n-word
nft fortunately they didn't drop any hard
hours you know redesign but rocket propelled grenade hey did you go on the
Linus Tech tip subreddit this weekend or on YouTube people made videos about this
that's our boss and you'll be fortunate
to stick around for the credits because there might be a surprise just don't be
surprised when there's more TechLinked on Wednesday wait what's the surprise in
the credit side this is my son
what's happening right now so confused