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After a court ruled that Google has abused its market dominance in internet search,

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the U.S. Department of Justice says that it's considering structural remedies,

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which is a boring antitrust term that means forcing the company to sell off parts of its business.

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Breaking up Google is only one of a suite of potential remedies that the DOJ will be recommending

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as options to the judge in the case, Omic meta,

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who is almost definitely not just Mark Zuckerberg in a black robe and rubber mask.

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It's hard to believe that Google might actually get chopped up and sold for spare parts,

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mostly because it's been over 40 years since the last time

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U.S. antitrust regulators actually broke up a company,

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the 1982 breakup of the Bell system. Microsoft nearly got the Solomon baby treatment 24 years ago,

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but that case was appealed and then eventually settled out of court with serious restrictions

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for how Microsoft was allowed to do business going forward. Google is clearly taking the possibility seriously,

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however, and has argued that the DOJ's proposals

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are radical and sweeping and a potential risk

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to consumers, businesses, and developers. That's what I say whenever I got a broom in my hands.

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I'm radical and sweeping. Google plans to appeal the decision,

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but it won't have the opportunity until meta, the judge, not the company,

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decides on an appropriate remedy, most likely by August 2025,

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meaning that this case will most likely drag on for at least a few more years.

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In far lower stakes, Google antitrust news, a judge has ordered Google to allow third-party app stores

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to access the Play Store's app collection. Google likewise plans to appeal this decision,

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though it might be cheaper if Sundar Pichai just challenged Epic CEO Tim Sweeney to a fistfight

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in the nearest Waffle House parking lot. Just an idea.

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Hackers connected to the Chinese government have infiltrated several US internet service providers,

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including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen. They were scared off by the customer service.

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The hackers reportedly had access to these networks for several months, and they gained that access

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through a system of security backdoors that are legally required by the US government

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for use in wiretapping. Okay.

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The extent of the attack and what information the hackers had access to is still being investigated,

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but if you're wondering how bad this is, the answer is very.

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The Chinese government has denied being behind these attacks and even pretended to be hurt by the accusation,

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despite the fact that their government, and basically every other government,

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is pulling stuff like this all the time. But not us.

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However, this kind of attack highlights a deeper problem with the US government's approach to system security,

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where it has long-pressured tech companies to embed hardware and software backdoors in their products

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for the sake of its own convenience. Despite the very real risk that a malicious actor

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could exploit the exact same route to cause serious harm,

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like what we're seeing right now. This was Apple's argument when they were pressured

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by the FBI to access devices belonging to alleged mass shooters,

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and the company has largely been vindicated. Buy your mom an iPhone,

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because she's probably not a terrorist. When would she launch the attack?

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She spends all her time with me. Barbara, are you doing something I don't like?

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Barbara, you're in big trouble. EV startup Fisker has run into a potentially serious snag

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in its bankruptcy plans. It has no way of migrating its EV's cloud operations

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onto its new owner's servers. For context, in June, Fisker reached an agreement

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with New York-based rental company, American Lease,

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to buy its remaining fleet of 3,300 vehicles

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for $46.3 million. However, Fisker only informed American Lease

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that they couldn't transfer the EV's server links last Friday, when they had already paid $42.5 million

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and accepted 1,100 ocean SUVs. It is currently unclear how long Fisker has known

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about this extremely relevant technical issue. American Lease has therefore filed an emergency objection

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to Fisker's liquidation plan. They wanted the liquidation plan to be more solid.

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Psst, psst. The Department of Justice has filed its own objection

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in response to claims that Fisker has been trying to make ocean owners pay for their own recall repairs,

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which is very much illegal. Fisker is likewise attracting ominous attention

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from the SEC, who are investigating the company,

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but haven't said exactly why. That's just what happens when you're a struggling company

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failing to meet its contractual obligations. You start seeing the silhouette of SEC chairman Gary Gensler

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every time you close your eyes, like the Grim Reaper.

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Does that happen to people? Believe it or not, in 1964, this show won the Nobel Prize

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for quickest bid. Now that's something to tell your grandkids. YouTube has started hiding the Skip Button Timer

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on its mobile app just a week after some Reddit users

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reported seeing a grayed out Skip Button Timer on desktop.

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Now it might not be the worst thing, as seen in a screen recording from Android Police,

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the length of the unskippable portion is still shown in the SEC bar,

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and the Skip Button appears after that portion is done.

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And a YouTube spokesperson said the change is meant to allow users to focus on the ads.

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Yeah, that's why I don't watch YouTube ads. The distracting Skip Button.

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Just can't take my eyes off it. It's gorgeous.

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ASUS's new Nitropath RAM Slot design

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can apparently boost speeds by up to 400 mega transfers per second in a peculiar way.

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The tech has no direct improvements for populated RAM Slots, but for the unpopulated ones.

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Turns out that the metal contacts in empty slots

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act like antennas, generating electrical noise

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that interferes with RAM at high speeds.

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It's like how everyone's wisdom teeth accidentally pick up secret CIA transmissions.

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That's everyone, right? That happens to you, right? Nitropath Slots solve this by shortening the contacts.

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Though the tech was announced back in August, it's finally arriving on select high-end ASUS motherboards

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and should come to other OEMs sometime next year,

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according to YouTuber Der Bauer and my teeth.

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Leaked slides allegedly from Intel's imminent unveiling

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of its Core Ultra 200 series desktop CPUs, AKA Aero Lake, show the upcoming flagship

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Core Ultra 9285K, providing lower FPS on average

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than its predecessor, the Core i9-14900K.

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Unless we're gonna get a Ultra 9295K at some point, we don't know.

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Although the Aero Lake chip is using 80 watts less than the older model, and it has eight fewer threads

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thanks to Intel removing hyperthreading, it's a bit weird that Intel is advertising

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their new product with a promise of more modest performance.

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I don't know, maybe that's their marketing angle. This CPU isn't big and flashy, it's very demure,

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very mindful of how much power it's using. This guy uses TikTok.

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Meta has now confirmed that they will be training its AI on pictures and videos taken

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using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, after previously refusing to publicly discuss

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whether or not they do so. Oh, I guess, why would that be?

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It's not, guys, this isn't, why are we even worrying about this? You can technically opt out of the training

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by not using the multimodal AI capabilities

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of your multimodal AI-powered smart glasses.

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Meta will also use your voice convos with the AI for training,

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though you can actually opt out of that the first time you log in to the Ray-Ban Meta app.

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But please don't if you're in Australia or the UK,

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both countries that just got access to the AI. Zuck needs that voice data

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so he can learn how to tell what the hell you're saying. He has no idea that New Zealand even exists.

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Don't tell him that. Why do you say words like that? And speaking of, AI won big at this year's Nobel Prizes.

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The Prize for Chemistry was awarded to American biochemist David Baker,

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as well as Demi Hassabi and John Jumper of Google DeepMind

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for their involvement in the development of protein structure prediction AI, AlphaFold.

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They're doing chemistry, I guess. The Prize for Physics went to professors John Hopfield

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and Jeffrey Hinton, whose work laid the foundation for modern neural networks.

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This is confusing. All science is just AI now. You know, AI, physics.

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And the Nobel Prize for Biology is gonna go to Boston Dynamics.

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Hinton, often called one of the godfathers of AI,

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has expressed regrets about his life's work and was reportedly flabbergasted to receive the prize.

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You and me both. Many in the scientific community were equally flabbergasted

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with German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, and also a YouTuber now,

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noting that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

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wasn't even being awarded to an achievement in physics, but she seems just kinda grumpy all the time,

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so I can see that. But your award for sitting through an entire episode

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is an invitation to come back on Friday for more tech news.

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We're gonna do the same thing. But different.

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But different.