Tech news it's all about trust in this case antitrust it's the best kind it's
like non- bred the European commission has officially charged Microsoft with
violating EU antitrust Rules by bundling teams with Microsoft Office thereby
granting the software and unfair distribution advantage over its
competitors according to the commission Microsoft may also have created an
intentional interoperability Gap where it is harder for rival communication
apps to communicate with Microsoft software and even for teams people to
communicate with themselves I never get notifications the investigation began in
July of last year in response to a complaint from slack that Microsoft was
using its dominant Market position to suffocate competition under the digital
markets act Microsoft could face fines of up to 10% of its Global Revenue but
so far no company has been hit with that full penalty if anything it appears the
EU is more interested in forcing reform than extracting cash Apple who are
facing a potential $38 billion fine over
their App Store or anti- steering policy as well as increased regulatory scrutiny
over their past
anti-reaction that they've turned a new Leaf in terms of repairability the
company has expanded its self-service Diagnostics tools to Europe and
published a white paper claiming that they'll be making features like true
tone and Battery Health Data available for third party replacement parts later
this year no matter how dirty bad and wrong defiling your perfect iPhone with
a battery not blessed by Tim Apple's own hand may be apple Lucy you know what it
is is that allowed the internet archive
has delisted around a half a million eBooks from the open Library project
following a judicial ruling in favor of the Publishers currently suing the
archive for a breach of copyright the internet archive has called the decision
a devastating loss though the organization still plans to appeal the
ruling if the ruling stands this precedent could be devastating not just
for the internet archive but for libraries across the United States whose
digital lending programs depend on the same interpretation of us copyright laws
controlled digital lending or CDL was first pioneered by the internet archive
back in 2011 I was playing Starcraft 2 and it allows libraries to digitize
their Collections and lend out as many DRM protected digital copies as they
have physical copies in storage Publishers of course would much prefer
that libraries pay exorbitant fees for restrictive digital licenses or even
better that libraries didn't exist you got to buy it after all it's basically
just book communism in another blow to information on the internet Paramount
Global has pulled the defunct MTV News website offline deleting a decades long
digital Archive of Journalism now the only way for the public to access this
past reporting is to track it down on Independent archives like the way back
machine which is run by the internet archive yeah I'm done reading it what I
what do you want a New York Times report has shed light on AI companies altering
their privacy policies to better collect user data for AI training perhaps
surprising to those who thought these companies were better than this had such
hopes yesterday Reddit put out a warning to companies whose Bots ignore its
robots exclusion protocol telling webcrawlers not to access its content
lest they be blocked the CEO of perplexity however has expressed that
the exclusion protocol is not a legal framework apparently that's the new
standard if it's not illegal then it's basically fine YouTuber Sasha yansin
recently canceled his Adobe subscription in response to his privacy policy
changes saying the hardware store that sells you a paintbrush doesn't get to
own the painting that you make with it right trust might be easier to come by
if the AI industry's most prominent proponents such as open AI CTO Mira
moradi demonstrated a degree a modum of
caution and empathy for the people directly affected by their products
instead of suggesting that the creative jobs undermined by AI maybe just never
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you trust me to tell you the quick bits well you shouldn't these bits are
dangerously unstable that's what makes them so fast thousands of websites are
being urged by security research group Sans sec to stop using the popular open
source web service polyfill.io as it's
been serving malware to their visitors after being sold months ago to a Chinese
company called funnel which is just perfect we're nullifying it the service
has been used to add modern functionality to older browsers but it's
actually not necessary anymore for most websites according to the original
developer so there's actually multiple reasons to stop using it just stop
matrix multiplication or matl is a type
of math performed by large language models when they think and it's also why
gpus have been selling like golden Hot Cakes recently they're really good at it
but a group of Chinese and Californian researchers claim to have created an llm
that performs about as well as Lama 2 without using any matm at all Lama 2 is
pretty weak compared to today's Flagship models but if this method could be
scaled up it would have a drastic impact on both the GPU market and potentially
the environment that's the thing you're forced to see when your AI girlfriend
refuses to talk to you why there's grass there you can tell touch it I hate grabs
a new prototype from distance Technologies turns the entire windshield
of a car into a giant 3D augmented reality heads up display the Prototype
which thankfully hasn't been installed into a car just yet uses an LCD panel to
project an image upwards onto a glass windshield with a reflective coating
this new prototype also incorporates eye tracking and its LCD panel has a
parallax barrier that can display a slightly different image for each eye
there are currently existing aftermarket Huds for cars but they take up only a
small percentage of the windshield and the projections have a relatively flat
ghostly look say the marketers ghostly
just like you'll be when you plow into a tree after turning your F-150 into a
movie theater probably a RAM actually the rabbit R1 handheld AI device that's
not a phone has had a vulnerability and its codebase that could let anyone
access every response the device ever
gave or simply brick them and despite knowing about it rabbit did nothing
according to hacker Collective and Jewish youth oriented hip-hop group
rabbit toe the vulnerability was actually teased by YouTuber coffeezilla
who rabbit toe says worked with them on his recent videos rabbit finally fixed
the vulnerability today only for rabbito to reveal another an even more dangerous
one that lets them access the company's email and documents with user data so I
think it's clearer than ever at this point that the R1 definitely could have
been an app I think it's clear out sandbox that [ __ ] a team of
serious scientists that Tokyo University have discovered a way to attach quote
Living skin to the faces of robots apparently taking inspiration from human
skin ligaments this they say may One Day lead to Android robots with convincing
self-healing skin that allows for more realistic facial expressions and also
Blade Runner the Japanese scientist demonstrated this concept by taking a
Pepto bismal pink condom with eyes and forcing it to smile like a
psychologically traumatized Tomic the Tank Engine as you do your scientists
were so preoccupied with whether or not they could
they didn't stop to think if they should whoa It's like Jeff goldin's here but
don't get preoccupied with whether to come back on Friday for another episode of TechLink you can and you should
nobody's going to end up getting eaten by dinosaurs on this show why would you
think that why would you those little chicken siiz dinosaur is the scariest I
think that's the second one