I'm a news reporter I report serious
news the gravity of these stories I report is not undercut by my adorable
cat shirt I am a
professional okay Apple has allegedly
been shredding usable iPhones for years
according to a report from Bloomberg apple pays an outside contractor geep
Canada Limited to shred older devices customers have traded in
geep apparently handles about a qu million devices per year many of which
are fully functional and could easily be resold case in point Apple actually sued
geep in 2020 for breach of contract after iPhones they sent to the
contractor were reactivated in China Tim
Cook and the copertino croners claimed that at least
99,9 75 iPhones sent to geep ended up on
the gry market instead of being shredded now Apple has apparent decided not to
move forward with the lawsuit perhaps due to the risk of exposing exactly how
many usable devices Apple scraps each year and why after all the I company has
been busy trying to construct an image of eco-friendliness just this week the
Apple UK YouTube channel posted a video celebrating how their recycling robot
Daisy can recover recyclable materials
from 23 different models of iPhone what they don't mention is that Daisy can
apparently only dismantle in a year what Apple sells in 48 hours 2 days the
company's site also explicitly says they will resell trade-ins if they are in
good shape but I know of at least 99,9 75 reasons that's a bit misleading come
on tip cook tell show us how shredded you are I like being shredded shred your
mom and iPhone I don't know Microsoft has
created an AI model that can generate realistic animated Talking Heads from a
single portrait photo and audio file a research paper calls the model Vasa one
oh cool they're planning a sequel already and it can generate these
animations in real time with a demo even showing how the animated portraits head
can be rotated generating realistic angles that aren't present in the
original image Microsoft refers to these videos as talking faces that's not
inaccurate to say but it does downplay how easy it would be for a Microsoft
employee to fake a video of me confessing to a crime somehow however
the thought of being framed is less horrifying than this video researchers
decided to make of Mona Lisa rapping
speaking of stories that will get that nightmare off the screen Microsoft's
upcoming AI Explorer feature which turns everything you do on your computer into
a searchable memory may be exclusive to ARM powerered devices user atthe bookis
closed on Twitter spotted that the system requirements for AI Explorer are
set to to an ARM 64 CPU in a recent Windows 11 preview build I'm fine with
missing out if that's true there are many things that I've seen on my
computer that I don't want to remember and at least one was created by
Microsoft monisa why she's barely smiling why
would you make a WAP meta announced early versions of its llama 3 AI model
like llama 2 the model is semiopen with
the code and weights available with restrictions the AI industry doesn't
have a term for that yet but it'll probably come out around the time I'm
thrown in prison for something I didn't do llama 3 Powers meta AI which the
company has now made more widely available via its own site the web page
claims you can ask meta AI anything you can even simulate what I'm assuming from
The Chosen illustration is the sexiest mockin viiew of all time is that
pink-haired figure putting on that jacket or taking it off meta AI is also
integrated into Facebook in some regions and is apparently able to respond to
group posts it can respond to questions with answers Genera quote using
information from the group including user generated content like posts and
comments oh and meta might then use any information you posted in the group to
train their Ai and if you don't want that to happen and you're not a group
admin you need to delete anything you posted that's a fun fact you may want to
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like the most quick bits please don't tell my mom
what I'm referencing tsmc is planning to charge customers more for chips made
outside of Taiwan it's a bit ironic since the whole reason for opening up
Fabs outside the island nation is the incredible geopolitical and economic
risk of having 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductor production in
Taiwan also known as the star of 100% of
xiin Ping's wet dreams unfortunately construction costs and operational
expenses are much higher outside of Taiwan and as a result chips produced in
their Arizona Fabs could be 20 to 30%
more expensive than their Taiwanese counterparts that's right they're
passing the charges on to you they're practically giving the fees
away it's a Ed car salesman you get it
you're smart that's why I like you the EU just found another thing it doesn't
like Tik tok's new app Tik Tock light
which rewards users with real currency for completing tasks it's about time Tik
tokers got paid for the hard labor involved in things like watching videos
liking videos and inviting friends to join Tik Tok but the European commission
isn't into putting children to work for foreign corporations or melting their
brains so they've given Tik Tok 14 hours to provide an assessment of the risk
that the app could cause those things to happen Tik Tok will answer 0% but I've
already seen a number of slack jot kids in suits out and about and I'm
concerned they're coming for me Tesla has issued a recall for all
3,878 of the Cyber trunks not cyber
trunks have you seen my cyber trunks I use them when I swim in my cyber pool
Tesla has issued a recall for all
3,878 of the Cyber trucks it has delivered so far due to a manufacturing
defect that can cause the accelerator pedal to become stuck at Full Throttle
it's a defect that many are calling wicked cool sick and potentially lethal
apparently the defect was caused by somebody using the wrong Lube during
assembly relatable happens to the best of us what this means primarily is that
Tesla will be replacing all defective pedals in the affected vehicles but it
also means that we now know exactly how many cyber trucks Tesla has managed to
ship and that it's a number not even worth rounding
in a major first Quantum information has been successfully produced stored and
then retrieved this is a big deal for future Quantum networking just like the
current Internet information can be lost when sent over long distances to combat
this normal internet uses repeaters that read and reamplify the signal but such
systems would destroy Quantum information fortunately researchers have
created a prototype Quantum memory system that is crucially compatible with
current fiber optic infrastructure while it hasn't been tested for distance it's
an important step toward a Quantum Internet where you can Quantum text your
Quantum wife about the funny thing your Quantum dog just did or something like
that Quantum dank memes Quantum nudes is
she naked I don't know if she's naked but I know how fast she's going and
Amazon has pushed back against claims that it's just walk out cashierless
technology isn't really technology unless you count a thousand workers in
India watching people shop at technology in a blog post this week the tech giant
called the initial report published by the information untrue and while it
didn't provide any specific numbers it insisted that its human workers only
annotate shopping data to improve the AI not to stand in for it so Shoppers can
rest easy knowing their purchases are being tracked not by mysterious squishy
flesh bags but by perfectly normal unfeeling algorithms and it's perfectly
normal for you to come back on Monday for more Tech news and then on Tuesday
there will be gaming news on gamelink it has a similar mouth feel to Tech news
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