Technology, phones, computers.
These are just some of the words you may hear in today's video.
Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 lineup could include
an iPhone Air, according to insider Mark Gurman.
Not to be confused with Mark Merman, the aquatic humanoid that's squatting in my pool.
I've had enough. Gurman suggests the iPhone Air will be Apple's latest attempt
at trying to sell an iPhone model that isn't just the iPhone, the iPhone Pro,
or the iPhone Pro Max, because the company definitely wasn't already struggling
to come up with more than two options. What's more than Pro?
Pro Max, extra. The phone concept was also discussed two weeks ago
by John Prosser of Front Page Tech. According to Prosser, the rumored thickness
for the slim iPhone 17 is just five millimeters.
To put that in perspective, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is 8.2 millimeters thick.
And I mean, it's thick.
It's not, it's not that. A clap of its ass cheeks.
Do we need this? Meanwhile, the iPhone 16 lineup we're gonna see this fall
will be boring. Sure, the action button's coming to non-Pro models
and the Pros might be getting another button as a camera shutter.
It's just hand me down buttons. That's the paradigm here. But Gurman says there won't be any other
truly meaningful changes. And that must be saying something.
When the most notable change for the 16th successor is just fat shaming.
TikTok is under fire for sending news alert style notifications to advertise misinformation.
According to a report from the Financial Times, these alerts have contained complete falsehoods,
such as a claim that Taylor Swift called Florida racist
and canceled all her tour dates there, which is why one of her recently popular songs
is called Florida with three exclamation marks. She's upset.
Florida, stop. In addition to fake news,
TikTok has also promoted out-of-date news, at least one user received an alert this January
about a tsunami warning in Japan more than three weeks after the natural disaster warning
had actually been issued. Several users who clicked on the notification
claimed they were then led to a TikTok video from an account they don't even follow.
It's not even the fake news they want. This doesn't fit my agenda at all.
This is an exactly good publicity for the platform, which is already facing an upcoming ban in the US
if it isn't sold off by Chinese owner ByteDance.
TikTok and ByteDance are also being sued by the Justice Department
for violating children's privacy laws. All in all, it's a great time for TikTok.
That's according to a notification I got from TikTok. Annual hacking conference, DEFCON, occurred this weekend,
giving us an opportunity to be reminded that the technology we rely on every day
is incredibly fragile and vulnerable. For example, researchers discovered
hundreds of millions of AMD processors dating as far back as 2006
that suffer a major security flaw, allowing attackers to install malware
virtually undetectably. While AMD is patching many of its processors,
they won't be fixing chips outside of their software support window
like the Ryzen 3000 series. Fortunately for those affected,
the exploit is actually sort of difficult for hackers to use
since it requires them to already have kernel level access to a machine.
In other DEFCON news, researchers found 10 separate flaws
in Google's Quick Share file transfer tool, with some allowing remote code execution
on nearby Windows PCs. Fortunately, all of these vulnerabilities
were reported and fixed. Thanks, hackers!
Meanwhile, separate researchers got a different response when they discovered they could hack vacuum
and lawnmower robots made by Ecovax and use them to spy on their owners.
The researchers say they never heard back from Ecovax and they believe the vulnerabilities aren't fixed.
Fortunately, owners of Ecovax devices may be able to fix the issue themselves
using a common debugging tool called a baseball bat.
Okay, who's ready for QuickBits?
If you're not, you should probably pause the video here
until you should be ready. One of Intel's next-gen battle-mage gaming GPUs
has been spotted in a Linux boot-up log as discovered by a non-tech forum user, Gav87,
who immediately informed the police. It shouldn't be there. The single line of text in the log was noteworthy
because if it's legit, it signifies an incoming
mid-tier Intel ArcGPU with more and faster RAM
than its predecessors, 12 gigabytes running at 19 gigabytes per second.
Are we as an industry finally accepting that maybe eight gigabytes of graphics memory isn't enough?
Did Intel hide this in a log as a prank before they go out of business?
Good questions! Apple is forcing Patreon to exclusively use
the App Store's in-app purchasing system in their iOS app,
saddling all transactions with Apple's cut of 30%,
or four times what Patreon takes on its own platform.
I mean, it's only fair. You think extortion grows on trees? Thankfully, existing subscription memberships
won't be affected, but creators will have to choose
between absorbing the cost themselves or passing it on to their patrons for new subscriptions
and purchases in the iOS app. Patreon is doing a good job explaining things
in their official blog post, help articles, and CEO Jack Conte's blurry-ass video.
You couldn't use your 8% cut to buy a cloth to wipe your webcam?
Geez! I can barely see your earnest eyes and wiggly hands,
and I want to. I actually like him, he's cool. That's a wiggly hand that do this.
I get where you're coming from! Two patent infringement lawsuits filed against Bamboo Lab
could have far-reaching consequences for the 3D printing hobby.
We're calling it a hobby. Let's a little detrimental. Do you have any money printing little screws?
Oh, you're a professional 3D printer? Nah, that's cute. What do you do for work?
Ha! U.S. industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Stratasys,
filed, who are just having fun. U.S. industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Stratasys,
filed the lawsuits, alleging that 10 of their patents
have been infringed upon by Bamboo Lab. However, one of these patents is for a heated build platform,
something found on only like every consumer 3D printer ever.
If Stratasys somehow manages to win the case, it will be bad news,
not just for 3D printing hobbyists, we did it again, but for their friends,
who constantly have to hear them talk about 3D printing. What did 3D printers do to you, Jacob?
I'm the friend. Ha!
They're like the vegans of tech people. Waymo will begin testing dwivalis wabotaxis.
Waymo will begin testing, Waymo will begin testing,
Stop. Waymo will begin testing driverless robotaxis
on San Francisco freeways after receiving approval
from California regulators back in March. The company has also begun testing the patience
of software engineer Sophia Tong by renting a parking lot outside her building
for their robotaxis to park slash honk in
at 4 a.m. every night. Naturally, Tong responded the only way
a sane human being can, by setting up a 24 hour live stream of the lot
featuring lo-fi hip hop to park slash honk too.
Listen, she hasn't been sleeping very well. And Google DeepMind has done the unthinkable.
They've created a robot that's okay at ping pong. In a paper, the organization detailed their ping pong
playing robot saying that it won 100% of its matches
against beginner human players, but only 55% of matches against intermediate players.
It really tried to make it sound good there for a second. Demonstrating solidly amateur human level performance.
And it can do all the moves. Forehands, backhands, other, other hands.
Pops, pop shove-its.
It does it all. And it does it at a level deemed acceptable.
And it would be more than acceptable if you came back on Wednesday for more tech news.
You're a pretty good listener, and I like that about you.