I have to deliver the news at 60 MPH and if I slow down for even a second
something bad might happen to Kiana Reeves probably don't slow down he's
already sad enough apple is apparently going to launch M4 MacBook Pros this
year which is what I've been learning from Mark German who lives in a house
made from all the paper he's
earning thank you Jacob you're welcome world but even though Apple hasn't even
announced them yet Russian YouTube channel willom claims to have gotten
their hands on one the Channel's video even got a response from German himself
saying it's unconfirmed but looks fairly
legitimate which I think is the nicest thing he's ever said about anyone personally I'm not sure how much I trust
a channel that may have ripped their world premiere intro from an Xbox event
and by may I mean definitely World premiere whether or not the video is
legit German claims we'll be seeing M4 MacBook Pros launch on November 1st
alongside new M4 Mac Minis and iMacs
German also revealed that app intelligence will finally arrive on
October 28th yeah it's not out yet despite weeks of ads featuring actor
Bella Ramsay using the power of AI to do amazing things like make a photo montage
with sad Vibes at a fish funeral I've
just had to watch that knowing I can't get that for myself yet oh there's fine
print at the bottom I want sad Vibes now fortunately Apple may be trying to
prevent weird delays like this as German claims the company is moving away from
from its usual annual release cycle instead they're going to try a
revolutionary new strategy of launching
products when they're ready wow genius
this is why Tim Cook makes the big bucks over a third of the web is caught up in
a feud between two companies that could perhaps be described as some high school
sh just like Teenage grudges it's also fairly complicated but we're here to
help you get through it Matt Mullen wck is the co-founder and owner of the open
Source wordpress.org web publishing project which Powers around 40% of the
top 10 million websites he's also the CEO of automatic which owns
wordpress.com a premium Web building platform based on wordpress.org you with
us so far last month automatic sent WP
engine a third-party WordPress hosting service a cease and desist letter for
using the WordPress trademark on their site which automatic can technically do
because it holds a license for the trademark commercial rights stating WP
engine can't claim they bring WordPress to the masses when they don't contribute
enough to the open source project WP engine fired back with their own cease
and assist claiming Mullen wig told them he'd take a scorched Earth nuclear
approach if WP engine didn't pay 8% of
its Revenue as a trademark fee to automatic or dedicate employee time of
equivalent Financial value to Wordpress contra contribution in apparent
retaliation Mullen wig banned WP engine
from using wordpress.org servers affecting their customers and breaking a
lot of websites as one does what do you need this for it's all AI now last week
WP engine also sued automatic for extortion and 159 automatic employees
accepted a severance package offered to workers who disagreed with Mullen wg's
direction of the company AKA just starting I probably would have taken it
too just so I didn't have to keep trying to explain to my family what's happening
at work no Mom you don't understand wordpress.org is different from wordpress.com okay Microsoft wants you
to buy a new computer just to get access to Windows 11 in other
news water is moist in an updated
support article spotted by Neo in the company is now recommending customers
buy a new pc running the operating system rather than install it on their
current machines some people are taking this to mean that Microsoft is
recommending you throw out your old PC but only because that's a direct
consequence of what Microsoft is telling people to do the only curse in this
story are the Windows 11 system requirements which still controversially
necessitate a TPM 2.0 security chip
though it's kind of ironic that because of that requirement millions of
incompatible PCS will become unsecured but hey it's not all bad news Microsoft
will let you reprogram the new co-pilot key they started adding to laptops this
year thanks to Microsoft for solving the
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following its most recent micr code update Intel says that it's finally
fixed the root cause of the instability in its Raptor Lake CPUs and this time
they mean it Intel has confirmed that vmin shift instability resulting in
excessive voltage is at the heart of the problem something it was previously kind
of Cy about while Intel says their future chips won't be affected by this
issue there's still no fixing the chips that are already damaged and no way of
telling that a chip is damaged until it starts crashing until is apparently
working on developing such a diagnostic tool for that situation but in the
meantime I don't know enable autosave in your word dock you crazy adrenaline
junkie what are you doing living on the edge okay Japanese
per peripheral manufacturer elom has become the first company to get cable
certified for USB 4 2.0 as fun as it is
that it ended up being named USB 420 USB
42 is kind of dumb fortunately the specs
are far less stupid than the name there are two cables with certifications while
they both are capable of 80 gbits per second data transfer speeds one of them
is also capable of 240 wat power delivery the other delivers a more
modest 60 WTS the USB if who governs the
USB standard says the cables will launch at the end of this year but they also
named the new standard USB 4 2.0 and I
don't know if I can trust people like that USB 4 2.0 blaze it now with blazing
fast
speeds an unusual number of M1 iMac
users are reporting Phantom lines appearing on their displays which is
either screen degradation or this summer hot new thriller this has been a known
issue since mid 2023 but Apple has yet to acknowledge the problem this not so
fashionable pinstripe pattern typically crops up after 2 years of use meaning
that the device is already well out of warranty which is a real bummer in an
expensive all-in-one device where you can't just buy a new monitor at least
one repair Tech blamed the issue on a flex cable used to power the LCD
gradually burning out replacing it typically means replacing the entire
screen which costs about about as much as an entire Mac Mini and you could even
buy one of those instead because that doesn't have a display either scientists
created an artificial plant that generates oxygen and electricity using
photosynthetic bacteria wow mitochondria
don't cut that mitochondria while the energy
output is currently less than 1 M researchers hope to increase it to more
than a mowatt and add something like a battery
to store the energy for later use right now it's just they're just pouring
it down the drain it just Escapes in the air there's just extra according to the
paper the artificial plant was nine times better than natural plants at
reducing indoor CO2 levels unfortunately
for everyone the plant is really ugly or
at least it was before it took off its glasses and let its hair down let's get
into some hybridization baby and Jason
Allen a man who won an art competition 2 years ago with an image generated using
mid journey is appealing the copyright office's denial of copyright for his
image why well Allen thinks the question
of AI art copyright needs answering and he's kind of right there but he's also
upset that the lack of copyright gives his work a perceived lower value and
it's even been appropriated and sold without his permission kind of like the
countless images that were appropriated and used to train mid journey and other
art generators guys he's not making enough money from the picture the
computer gave him what is he supposed to do ask it for for another picture they
all Chang the rules already my fingers are tired now you make sure you come
back here on Wednesday that's how long we have to wait before we can ask the
computer for more Tech news and even then it might just be a lot of stuff
about knockoff airpods you know we just kind of got to see what we get