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for Valentine's Day I got you some tech

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news you could have at least got a card or something the European commission has

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decided not to designate iMessage as a

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core platform service under the digital markets act which means that Apple won't

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be required to undergo increasing scrutiny and enact interoperability

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between iMessage and other messaging services the EU also passed over making

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similar designations for Microsoft's ad business their Edge Brown and Bing in

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what is either a blessing or a deep deep

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insult you still don't matter Bing and you never will your new friends they

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don't care about you they just want your AI the decision that iMessage is not a

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gatekeeper platform for the purpose of the law is a bit more surprising however

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given that Apple has disclosed that there are 101 million iOS users in

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Europe while Microsoft Edge has fewer than 300 million users in the entire

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world and also the entire universe and the multi

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person just doing better than Firefox though yikes at the same time Apple

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appears to be purposefully restricting the functionality of web apps for EU

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iPhone users in the past three consecutive beta versions of iOS 17.4

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making these apps more inconvenient and clunky by eliminating the ability to

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open them from the homepage as well as nixing notifications and long-term local

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storage furthermore while Apple might tell Regulators that the App Store and

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other services need to be locked down tight to keep users safe a pirated movie

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app called Kimmy somehow managed to duck

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Apple's thorough review process well enough that it was the eighth most

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popular entertainment app on the app store before it was finally pulled on

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Tuesday oh you think you're safe not from bootleg copies of Dune you're not

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boom Timothy shalag I didn't want this open AI is currently testing giving

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Chachi BT a level of long-term memory allowing it to remember details from

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past conversations between if you're worried about a potentially

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embarrassing confession you made to the bot the last time you talked don't be

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the new feature is currently only available to a limited number of users

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and or test subjects which is how the AI thinks of all this is a Triumph human

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I'm testing something walk forward there's a fire there those users will

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also have access to a memory management panel that will allow them to delete

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past information shared with the bot a feature which sadly has not been rolled

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out to any of your human friends or co-workers one day though it's not clear

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exactly how chat BT will be forming these memories but it's likely

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compressing and summarizing past conversations so that it can pull out at

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least a few Salient details like a kindly but uninterested grandmother

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where did you say you were going to school I thought you already got a

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haircut I did last year it's important

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to remember however that even when chat history is off llm chat Bots can be

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collecting a surprising amount of information about their users you might be able to trust a company like Google

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to mostly tell you what they're collecting and why such as in Gemini's

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new privacy policy collection of conversations location feedback and

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usage information can be turned off but even if you do that they still have to

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keep it for 72 hours so but lower profile chat Bots like all those online

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AI wuss can be an absolute privacy

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nightmare the kind where you show up to class with no pants on and your teacher

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knows your social security number and all your teeth fall out in that order

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welcome to class citizen number

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793 no Jensen Wong of NVIDIA and Sam

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Alman of open AI the bad boys of AI development in the sense that one of

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them wears a leather jacket and the other is only 38 nothing but a boy aired

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some public beef this week which doesn't sound sanitary at all that's for sure

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okay first Alman called out critics of his goal to raise $7 trillion for a new

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AI chip development project for which he claims to already have plenty of

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interested investors to all the haters calling his plan nothing but absurd

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Showmanship meant to Captivate a cult-like audience and a mindboggling

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concentration of limited resources onto a single project Altman

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said you can grind to help secure our Collective future or you can write

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substacks about why we're going to

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fail I'm on the side of the robots I've

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never intimidated anyone in my life well Jensen Wong indirectly added himself to

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alman's list of detractors at the world government Summit in Dubai when he

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answered a question from a UAE official by saying that due to likely future

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advances in Computing AI infrastructure would actually cost significantly less

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than the combined gdps of India in France instead Wong placed the global

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cost of AI data centers at around $2 trillion by 2029 he likewise argued that

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every country in the world should independently control its own AI

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infrastructure what he called Sovereign AI which is not frightening at all

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meanwhile Jensen's little startup NVIDIA has launched a tech demo for a

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personalized chatbot that runs locally on a user's PC and can answer questions

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about your local files this of course is part of NVIDIA's master plan where a

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significant fraction of the population inevitably decides to date their own

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computers and needs to buy more and more powerful graphics cards to upgrade their

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spouse I just want a wife with raid tracing I don't think it's going to work

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Apple's Vision Pro has been tempered thanks to a wave of early adopters

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tearfully announcing that they're returning their $3500 headsets before

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the 14-day return period ends citing issues with weight comfort and

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compatibility I just don't think we're meant for each other where's the r

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tracing Parker or Tani of VOX media tweeted that he couldn't even believe

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what was happening as he took a photo of his headset placed back upon the

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Spotless white oak table from whence it came the drama of it all no doubt seems

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a bit strange to some tech enthusiasts who've been playing with similar

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headsets for a decade and who may or may not agree with Mark Zuckerberg who after

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after trying the Vision Pro posted a casual couch video calling his company's

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499 Quest 3 the better product period

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and otherwise absolutely ripping the Vision Pro a new one for being a

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terrible value I could have never foreseen Zuck coming off as relatable

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but here we are speaking of Apple researchers from the company published a

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paper on a new AI tool called key framer that can animate static images when

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given text prompts using the tool you can make a planet spin or make stars

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twinkle in an image oh that's nice apparently the researchers see a use

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case for graphics professionals who can use the tool to test out animation ideas

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before spending hours making them conventionally personally I see a use

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case where my years of effort trying to never do anything embarrassing and GIF

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in front of a camera can be undone by an apple Enthusiast with a dream thankfully

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this is not available to the public yet it's long been the case that Windows 11

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isn't officially supported on many older PCS but changes to the upcoming 24 H2

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preview build will prevent the OS from even booting on PCS manufactured prior

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to the late 2000s specifically the build Microsoft is currently testing requires

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an instruction called popcnt or population count thank

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goodness which counts the number of bits in a machine word which is what AIS use

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to talk to each other that particular instruction was only implemented in AMD

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and Intel processors starting in 2007 and 2008 respectively meaning that

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absolute potatoes from 2006 and prior

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will no longer just run Windows 11 poorly they won't run it at all oh you

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know until somebody finds a workaround which they probably will I don't know

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why they would I love me a baked potato and Windows 10 is better still so I just

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fix the settings panel in Windows 11 and then we can talk SpaceX will be

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performing controlled descents of about a 100 old Starling satellites due to an

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issue that could cause them to fail and lead to uncontrolled descents which are

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worse the affected satellites will have their orbits slowly lower over about 6

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months to try and avoid any collisions in further space safety news SpaceX also

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postponed the launch of a private moonlander after they detected the

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Lander's liquid methane fuel temperatures were improper they showed

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up to work in sweat penss hopefully the temperature they detected wasn't around

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310° Kelvin because that's human body

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temperature it would be really embarrassing if some scientist delayed a

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space flight with a poorly timed fart

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Jacob warned us there was a fart joke and burglar responsible for a string of

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at least nine thefts in Minnesota are reportedly using Wi-Fi Jammers to shut

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down internet enabled home security systems according to security expert

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Mark lanterman the thieves probably aren't blocking the signal but rather

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temporarily overloading the network allowing them to waltz inside and peruse

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whatever valuables and Underpants happen to be lying around my house would be a

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gold mine jewelry underwear jewelry

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those two things only time to make some tea open the pantry underwear while

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commercial Jammers of this kind are pretty much universally illegal in the

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United States they're also available for around 40 bucks online so most experts

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advise using the kind of hardwired cameras and alarms that won't turn off

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if your cat knocks over the modem while they're tripping over all the underwear

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yes my cat wears underwear and you better fetch your cat on Friday so you

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can sit them on your lap and watch the next episode of TechLink as a family

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that's important your cat needs to know about this stuff