hi i can't help but notice you haven't had your tech news today
and that's a problem i'm upset apple's m1 processor is only a
few months old but it's already being attacked by malware designed
specifically for the new macbook pro macbook air and mac mini come on our
babies it's a baby it seems that the m1
gold rush that saw developers scrambling to release versions of their apps that
could natively run on m1 systems also prompted the bad guys to do the same
with viruses the news comes from mac security researcher patrick wardle and security
firm red canary but strangely malwarebytes also reported this week
that detections of malware in macOS overall decreased by 38 in 2020.
i read you so 38 of our developers switch gears to making m1 malware and
now it's just coming out okay ah that's how it works the system works you don't
think so then why are m1 max discounted at several retailers right now huh i
know economics bill gates
conspiracies your lizard scales are
showing kill gates we haven't reported on epic
games versus apple shenanigans for a while but it seems like this story cycle
is spinning up again as epic has filed a complaint with the european commission
over what they see as apple's monopolistic app store practices
what did i say monopolistic but that's not all north
dakota or dakara as raleigh would say it also put forward a state bill this week
that would if past prevent apple and google from taking a cut of the sales
from the iOS app store and the google play stores respectively the bill's
draft was actually put forward by a lobbyist hired by epic games although
epic said the bill was actually the work of the coalition for app fairness which
is basically a group of companies that epic got together to help them fight
apple same diff it wasn't me it was the club i started and pretty much run it's
a great club you joined please not a shell company similar bills are being
put forward in arizona and georgia so if you think this whole thing is over well
maybe it's just beginning georgia the state georgia maybe they're
doing in the country of georgia i don't know crazy kids over there and google and
facebook are starting to get desperate to avoid a world in which they're forced
by a proposed australian legislation to pay news publishers for linking to their
articles the news publishers articles not google and facebook articles i mean come on
australia's supposed to be chill come on boys in retaliation for the bill
facebook has blocked aussie users from sharing or even seeing news content on
facebook at all and australian publishers have had all the links to
their content blocked as well facebook announced the news with a blog post
hilariously titled changes to sharing and viewing news on facebook in
australia we're just doing some changes okay it's all right it's pretty clear
actually meanwhile google is wheeling and dealing with aussie news publishers
trying to get enough of them to agree to receive some google cash for appearing
in google news showcase instead of getting straight up paid to show up in
search they have made a deal with news corp the media company owned by rupert
murdoch but it's unclear whether the australian bill will still go through
let's hope they figure something out though the thought of my mates down
under having to use bing is making me sicker than a washed up wallaby
if you ever seen one they're quite sick and when they're washed up they're gross
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look they're just quick bits man lastpass has
downgraded the features of its free tier with users who don't pay for a premium
subscription now limited to using the password manager on only one type of
device so you can either use it on phones tablets and smart watches or on
desktops and laptops etc thankfully there are a number of other great free
password boundaries out there so we don't need to use this but wait if
the ipad pro is a laptop could you what about a surface pro
microsoft is releasing an update that would allow select legacy xbox one
titles to run at two to four times their original frame rate on the xbox series s
and series x which is a pretty great deal given that no original game code
was altered the tech called FPS boost affects game game performance at the
direct 3d level for this initial rollout only five games are supported far cry 4
watchdogs 2 ufc 4 sniper elite 4 and new
super lucky's tail that last one is definitely not an FPS but maybe there's
dlc coming where you get a gatling gun or something new new
samsung says their new hbm2 memory has an included ai processor with up to 1.2
teraflops of computing power which can take on tasks like moving data between
memory and processors that are normally managed by a CPU
uh-huh sure what's next samsung my RGB strip getting
delusions of grandeur and doing my taxes
screw you samsung out of here samsung
vice president of facebook reality Labs andrew boz bosworth indicated during
instagram q a session that the oculus quest 2 could be updated to support a
120 hertz refresh rate the quest ii original refresh rate was up to 72hz
before it was updated to 90. okay cool but my question is
when does it stop oculus when the valve index drops to half the
price because the quest two is getting so good okay that would be good yeah
that would be a good place to stop that's a good place to stop and a developer who named their company very
positive in a blatant attempt to trick steam users into thinking their game's
reviews were very positive when in fact said reviews were mixed has been banned
from the platform the developer tweeted that valve banned them from manipulating
reviews and they absolutely disagree with this accusation and you know what
they might have a point let's hear them out both sides have something to say
there you have your tech news but you're not done i hereby instruct you to return
on friday for more and the monday afternoon the wednesday wednesday
following that then you know the tech news then thank you when they will have
all detectives something that isn't cannot be