Welcome to the Jungle and by the jungle
I mean the tech news and by the tech news I mean the jungle Intel revealed
some exciting new details about its upcoming lunar Lake laptop chips at
computex earlier this week including redesigned ecores with up to 68% higher
instructions per clock performance cores are up only 14% but laptops are all
about battery life now ankle socks aren't cool anymore we're back to tall
socks things change keep up lunar Lake will likewise use integrated memory on
the package similar to Apple's M1 and various other mobile s so's lunar Lake
will also be the first product from Intel to include their new Z2 battl Mage
GPU architecture which will apparently have up to 50% of performance gains this
bodess well for the next generation of discret Intel graphics cards as well as
the upcoming MSI claw 8 AI plus because
of course it's called that and Zotac Zone Windows gaming handhelds altogether
the lunar Lake platform offers a total of 120 trillions of operations per
second AKA tops with 48 tops just from
the npu easily clearing Microsoft's 40
tops requirement for NextGen AI PCS
there is a slight caveat however in that almost none of the Intel designed
chiplets in lunar Lake will be manufactured by Intel's Foundry they'll
be fabricated by tsmc C according to Intel CEO Pat gelsinger of Pat gelsinger
Fame he needs no introduction tsmc simply had better processed technology
at the time that Intel was designing these chiplets next year's Panther Lake
however R will be largely fabricated in
house I told you we were going in the jungle and it's exactly that kind of
Grace and self-assured humility that has made Pat Ginger the industry Giant and
undeniable sex symbol he is today m bet Google's long-standing Chief
privacy officer Keith Enright and head of competition law Matthew B will be
going Matthew bye-bye and leaving the company later this year further there
doesn't seem to be any plans to replace them Google is reportedly restructuring
its privacy and legal compliance teams to spread privacy policy responsibility
throughout the company rather than concentrating it in just one office this
sounds very familiar open AI cof but as
the doj just finished closing arguments in a major antitrust lawsuit against
Google it seems like an odd time for it to replace its legal leadership with a
nest mini taped to a standing fan but then it's an overall awkward time for
Google as their recently rolled out AI overviews for search have apparently
been significantly rolled back at one point these overviews appeared in around
84% of searches but that was reduced to around 15% of queries even prior to the
glue-based pizza sauce incident this lower profile for the feature is
probably for the best both for regular users and Google's PR team but it's a
devastating blow to fans of unhinged culinary recommendations and dangerous
medical advice where are they going to get it now everywhere else on the
internet we should take over stick your finger in your
eye Microsoft has announced it will be testing new features for Windows 10
despite the fact that the OS is supposed to be near the end of its life and
unpaid security updates are supposed to end in October of next year Microsoft
has consequently reopened the Windows 10 beta Channel and will be pushing the
first beta build since 2021 in the next
few weeks any new features that pass through that beta will then be added to
22 H2 Windows 10's last major update
Windows 10 remains more than twice as popular as Windows 11 despite
Microsoft's stalwart determination to make fetch happen in no small part due
to the company's insistence on pushing features that most users don't care
about and a large subset of users actively despise for instance Microsoft
recently closed a Windows 11 loophole that allowed users to use a local
account and avoid signing into a Microsoft account if they set up their
PC using a blocked email even if you don't use Windows though there will be
no escaping Microsoft's AI co-pilot which they plan to launch for customer
service call centers which which basically means you'll still be stuck
talking to an unhelpful robot but it will now be a Microsoft branded
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loaded with galleries NVIDIA has introduced a sizing guideline to allow
consumers to more easily tell if their graphics cards will fit into smaller
form factor PC cases though it doesn't bode well that the guideline's real full
name is sff ready Enthusiast GeForce
cards and compatible cases yeah the guidelines specs allow for cards to take
up 2 and a half PCIe slots which is
surprising though not as surprising as a woman asking NVIDIA's CEO Jensen hang to
sign her chest that's not a joke I just needed you to know that happened that's
part of my trip to Taiwan Google has rushed to reassure pixel owners that it
won't confiscate their phones if thirdparty components are found inside
while repairing them which is great because that wouldn't make any sense yet
that very scenario was described in Google's repair terms and conditions as
discovered by Lewis Rossman echoing Samsung's similar policy which was
discovered a couple weeks ago Google says they're updating their terms to
clarify this but it's been over 24 hours and the language is still there which
means Untold nothing numbers of pixel phones are still being sucked up by the
giant pixel vacuum at these repair shops only you can save them Google multiple
major hospitals in London wound up cancelling non-essential operations and
diverting emergency patients following a major Cyber attack against pathology
service provider covis that left them unable to access their Mainframe the
incident seriously disrupted delivery of medical services in particular test
results and blood transfusions several patients scheduled for surgery that day
were sent home with no hint as to when their potentially urgent medical
procedure might be rescheduled imagine getting injected with the wrong type of
blood thanks to the work of your Xbox Live Nemesis XXX bong snipe 69 I'm sorry
for what I said about your mom okay meta is apparently both testing unskippable
ads on Instagram and collecting user data on both Facebook and Instagram for
use in AI training if you'd like to opt out of your life being fed to
Zuckerberg's pet AI there's a simple process that starts with immigrating to
Europe in fact we might not even know about this new policy if it weren't for
the fact that UK and EU legislation forces meta to inform users over there
America might be the land of the free but if that's apparently in the sense of
ooh free data Yum Yum Yum and the key to
creating a 4-day work week is creating an AI clone that can attend meetings for
you that's according to Eric Yuan CEO of
Zoom the meeting company he believes that his company will eventually allow a
digital twin of yourself to attend all
of your Zoom calls and then give you the summary of those meetings have your deep
F call my deep F hey here's a thought if
your meetings are so pointless that you can send a soulless Golem that
essentially rolls dice to decide what words to say maybe just send aing email
instead H but no email could replace Friday's episode of TechLink so be there
your AI twin just doesn't really get it like you do we
have something special also they freak me out