oh my god it's actually happening guys
the tech news it's here okay okay okay waiting okay
apple is facing two lawsuits in california concerning apple id linked
purchases the first one was filed by matthew price who allegedly violated
apple's terms and conditions so apple terminated his apple id cutting him off
from the nearly 25 thousand dollars worth of content he had purchased on his
account what apps are you buying just for fun the second lawsuit is a proposed
class action led by one david andino so
close to being arduino who's arguing that apple's use of the word buy and
purchase on digital platforms is legally problematic since the buyers of content
would lose access to it if apple decided to remove it or remote revoke the user's
apple ids like they did deport matthew price
our friend there's a price to pay apple motioned to have the second lawsuit
dismissed but a federal judge rejected the motion
kicked it down a well meaning that well guys as a society we're gonna have to
talk about what it means to really own things in the digital age thankfully i
already have that answer and it's nfts shop riley they're the future
youtube has shown off a big old custom designed video transcoding processor
they call the video transcoding unit or bcu another initialism for your life the
vcu is a dual processor PCIe card that can transcode up to 20 to 33 times
faster than their previous setup using traditional servers and it's supposed to
streamline youtube's ability to deliver videos at multiple different resolutions
it makes sense that that youtube also rolled out today new video quality
controls in the mobile app instead of picking just a video resolution directly
users are now prompted to select auto higher picture quality or data saver
options which will pick an appropriate playback resolution for you you don't
know what you want your life's so easy now there's also an advanced option
which does still let you pick a specific resolution but now it's an extra step to
get there so frankly i don't want that anymore it's not worth it google here's
a cod that i'd like to see the rtx 3080ti
yowza there's pretty much no more room to be skeptical about this monster as
the GPU itself has been photographed in the wild while its full specifications
haven't been confirmed it will almost certainly have 10 240 cuda cores and 12
gigabytes of gddr6x memory it's reportedly set to come out sometimes in
may with the rtx 3070 ti rumored to follow in june
sometimes in may that happens you know it can be colder than april and kind of
a sad development it seems like much of the speculation about these cards
performance is focused on mining power rather than gaming power gp i like to
call it but maybe they'll launch with NVIDIA's new and improved mining limiter
that's most definitely unhackable and won't be bypassed in a mere number of
days
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james use quick bits james
are you redditer claiming to work for canada computers blew the whistle
yesterday on the retailer's alleged practice of withholding graphics cards
from willing buyers unless they purchased it as part of a complete
custom build the employee had screenshots of the company's internal
system to back up their claims but the post has since been deleted hopefully cc
didn't find out who the whistleblower was cc meaning canada computers and not
carpal critics our movie podcast because if this is true then they're
pulling a real ncix here and i don't mean giving a young double ear pierce
tech nerd a platform to drop things on on camera i wish i don't mean that i
mean the bad way qnap devices are being actively attacked by ransomware called q
locker clocker which locks user files in a
password-protected 7-zip archive unless they pay
money qnap says that if you haven't been infected yet update your device software
and never go on the internet again unless you want to pay money some cool
space news today spacex has delivered another payload of astronauts to the
international space station using the crew dragon module and a reused falcon 9
rocket so i guess it works
meanwhile nasa's perseverance rover used an experimental module called moxie or
mars oxygen in-situ resource utilization
experiment pretty sure they got the word first to produce five grams of oxygen
from the carbon dioxide in mars atmosphere that's about ten minutes of
breathable air for an astronaut in space yeah you know well on a planet
if they're if they're like chill not hyperventilate not hyperventilated ceo
of encrypted chat app signal moxie there's that word again marlin spike
claims to have hacked celebrate a software tool used by the fbi to hack
into encrypted iphones or phones generally but mostly marlon spike says
celebrate contains code that is apparently the intellectual property of
apple potentially getting celebrate into legal trouble in addition to the shame
of being a hacking tool that got hacked no one wants to be in that i guess they
shouldn't have said they cracked signals encryption since that seems to be what
gave moxie his moxie in the first place maps him all in spite
yeah the famous wait till you meet his friend hotspot
and the entire university of minnesota has been banned from contributing code
to the Linux kernel after a phd student submitted patches with known security
flaws as an experiment well i hope it was worth it smart guy or gal now you
have to explain this to the whole school in front of everyone probably naked i've
seen the 80s movies or at least the 0.5 who are going to
submit code to the Linux kernel it's time to submit to the limits of space
time and end this episode come back on monday for more tech news and stick
around for the next five seconds to see Linus sebastian
hey Linus when are you gonna host TechLinked again