at Apple's annual worldwide developers conference the world's once most
valuable company finally drank the AI Kool-Aid after being usurped by first
Microsoft and then NVIDIA in terms of the world's most valuable companies and
now all the Apple faithful will drink
this Kool-Aid Too Apple intelligence is the company's new set of features and
tools that leverage primarily Apple's own custom models running on device but
they also announced private Cloud compute a brand new standard for privacy
in AI which reportedly extends your privacy bubble to include some server
space Apple said that unless a given server's security has been verified by
them Apple devices will cryptographically refuse to talk to them
a phrase that I'm definitely going to steal use it for on your in-laws I
cryptographically refuse yeah apple took great pains this morning to assure
everyone that if this all fails to respect user privacy Craig federi will
commit Sudoku with a new Apple pencil he's a deeply troubled man so what are
these Apple intelligence features well Siri has a new icon it's AI generated no
Siri has basically taken the Bradley Cooper Limitless drug and can now retain
more context and conversations use what it sees on your screen and all the info
it knows about you AKA personal context
to search for stuff and perform cross app actions you could ask Siri in
messages to add this address to Dam I's contact card now show me photos of him
in a pink coat now edit it and make it pop now add this to my note where I'm
collecting details about his life at which point Siri would probably start
feeling uncomfortable if it could feel but it can't yet I'm still better
developers can Define actions like these with the app intense API so this kind of
power won't be limited to just Apple apps nor will the new systemwide
generative writing tools like rewrite proofread summarize and smart reply
which have wonderfully descriptive names and will work across any app image
playground meanwhile is a standalone app for generating images in three available
Styles based on discrete Concepts you select rather than a written prompt it
runs entirely on device and so can theoretically be used to generate
images forever can be hooked into from
other apps like messages and can even generate images of people in your photo
library to really give your stocking report some extra Pizzazz this is what I
imagine they look like in my head also I'm a cat you can also generate Emoji so
they called them gen Emoji frankly I think Apple could do better photos now
has cleanup which is just Magic Eraser as well as natural language search for
photos and videos and a feature that will create a slideshow movie with music
based on a prompt there's a handful of other OS features like mail summaries
priority notifications and the focus feature using a to determine which
messages are okay to distract you with but wait what about that open AI deal
well if series brain juice is wearing thin she'll ask you if she can ask chat
GPT for help the chat box can also be accessed through the aforementioned
writing tools with no open aai account required although paid subscribers can
link their account to access their benefits now Apple says all of this will
be available to try this summer launching as a beta with iOS 18 in the
fall sadly Apple did not mention working on AI powered robots although IO it is
getting harder and harder to believe Craig is a real person he's too perfect
no man was born with those eyebrows now that was all the AI stuff Apple also
announced miscellaneous updates to their various os's including a lightning round
of vision os2 updates for the tens of
Vision Pro users still remaining although that figure will go up now that
Vision Pro is coming to more countries sadly just imagine instead of tens they
could have dozens of users you can now look at photos with other Vision Pro
users so you can relive your daughter's first steps while also staring at your
mother's dystopian cyber ghost I don't know Apple moved on from all this quick
so I will too iOS 18 will give iPhone users a taste of Android's custom color
themes for app icons customization of the Quick Settings I mean control center
although you can also adjust widget size there so fair enough and the ability to
hide apps in a locked folder developers can also allow their apps to privately
pair with certain devices instead of the user pairing the device on a system
level which sounds more secure I think
messages now supports text formatting fun new little text effects message
scheduling which they call send later and messaging via satellite that will
definitely feel cooler it's going it's
going to space nice mail has categories
now which I'm surprised it didn't have already tap to Cache will let iPhone
user ape the old way we used to transfer money and iOS 18 has a game mode now
because real Gamers use apple and they are valid but what about the really big
iPhones that's right iPads many iPad OS
apps will now have an apple tves floating tab bar which morphs into the
sidebar you'll be able to draw while sharing your screen and share play but
most important of all at long
last iPad has a calculator app I'm not
crying I kind of forgive Apple for taking so long because it's got a
feature called math notes that looks sick it will execute handwritten
calculations generate interactive graphs
and even create contextual sliders to modify values that you wrote in there
fine Apple whatever okay it's cool in
notes you can train the smart script feature on your own handwriting and then
it will conform your Hasty messy handwriting into that style along with
text you paste and then you can just scribble to delete which is not as cool
as making the other end of the pencil an eraser but I'll take it and then of course we have the new macOS Sequoia
which will support fullon iPhone mirroring complete with full screen
control audio and the ability to drag
and drop files directly into iPhone apps
from your Mac at this point in the presentation Craig Force grabbed his
iPhone for no reason and unironically
that was just that was just funny and cool and I just wanted to tell you about
it moving on Ma ask will finally have Windows style window snapping along with
an actual passwords manager called passwords and Safari will have these
contextual highlights and Page summaries and last couple things here Assassin's
Creed shadows will come out on Mac and the iPad airpods will let you nod or
shake your head to tell Siri yes or no so you don't have to talk to her in
public cuz that's embarrassing and watch OS 11 will come with a new vitals app
that can monitor your vitals and tell you if something's off that sounds
potentially life-saving while the new effort rating that tells you whether
you're slacking in the fitness department just sounds judgy which is a
perfect way to end the Apple stuff time to move on let's go don't judge me
Craig graphics card manufacturer powercolor is using AI to make AMD radon
gpus much more power efficient now there are some downsides mostly that power
color is naming the technology Edge AI
my response to that is no thank you I don't want it EDG by AI powercolor
claims that by equipping radon graphics cards with an npu from AI partner
caneron maybe running cyberpunk and Final Fantasy 15 consumes about 22% less
power this is likely due to Edge AI putting the gpus into what some
researchers call a goon State impressively those numbers are even
higher than what can apparently be achieved by AMD's own power saving
feature having said that the EDI does have a slight effect on frame rate based
on live demos from powercolor booth at computex two systems running the Final
Fantasy 15 Benchmark were shown the system without the npu achieved 118 FPS
while consuming 338 Watts the system with the npu only consumed 261 Watts
while maxing out at an FPS of 107 not
bad but these results seem to be from edi's eco mode which is meant to be more
power efficient according to caneron there is also apparently a boost mode
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quick bits oh yeah I've got quick
bits do you want them AMD's upcoming ryzen 9000 x3d Series CPUs may be coming
up much sooner than you think an allegedly trustworthy source told Outlet
Club 386 that that team Red's Next 3D vcash equipped chips could launch just 2
months after the 9,000 non x3d
processors and that would be particularly impressive since AMD told
PC Gamer they're making big improvements to their x3d line from last time now
this probably means they found a workaround for the 3D VC's higher
thermal resistance allowing for higher boost clocks I mean it's not like
they've cracked the fourth dimension
unless hello science I'd like to report
a crime there Jacob I did it okay I did it
while this weekend's Xbox showcase came and went without the rumored reveal of
an Xbox handheld Xbox Chief Phil Spencer
kind of basically mostly confirmed it existed during an IGN live interview not
only did philliam Wallace say the hardware team at Xbox is working on
different form factors but he literally said he thinks Xbox should have a
handheld and he's in charge of those things so we should have a handheld I
think so I think we should have a hand you want to say anything about no I
don't want to say since he's the boss that should mean we're getting one
unless he doesn't realize he's the boss of Xbox I mean for all we know he might
thinks he's just a model for casual jackets he looks good privacy officials
in Canada and the UK are launching a joint investigation into 23 nme's recent
data breach to determine if the company had adequate safeguards to keep client
information secure and whether they alerted authorities and
affected clients within a reasonable time frame whatever safeguards there
were clearly weren't adequate in the sense that sensitive data from 6.9
million clients was stolen despite only 14,000 accounts being compromised and it
apparently took around 5 months before the company noticed but maybe the
British have some other definition of what adequate means like how they call
them biscuits instead of cookies you know we don't know how it works over
there I think everything's upside down rubber means eraser oh I made a
mistake have you got a rubber Windows isn't the only OS getting ARM-based
laptops Linux notebook manufacturer tuxedo is apparently also getting in on
the fun they unveiled a prototype laptop at computex featuring a Snapdragon X
Elite S so tuxedo is currently working on porting their in-house tuxedo OS
Linux distribution to ARM architecture but the notebook should be ready by
Christmas that means that this year Santa is going to give us a multitude of
comments online saying how Windows on ARM is so much worse than Linux on ARM
and we know it's going to happen oh oh oh I use
Arch did you know and noia says that it
has made the first phone call using 3D
spatial audio using the immersive video and audio services or Evas codec sure
the Evas codec is part of an upcoming upgrade to 5G cellular networks that's
supposed to be faster more efficient and better at cellular positioning which is
big news for fans of not dying because an ambulance can't find you according to
Nokia spatial audio could be enabled for most phones with two or more microphones
this would give calls a richer quality and allow users to deploy Google's new
audio fart Emoji with surround sound
Reverb whoa I feel like I'm there but there's no audio Emoji for the tech news
so you'll just have to come back on Wednesday for another episode of TechLink nothing can be done I
mean we'll work on it could make a gen
Emoji for it I stupid