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Today's tech news is extra premium.

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So it's sponsored by Cerdo, software that helps detect threats on iPhones.

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We'll have more to say about them later, but until then, speaking of iPhones and premiums,

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Apple just got fined 1.8 billion euros,

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or almost $2 billion by the EU after Spotify

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complained about the company's anti-competitive app store practices.

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Ah, Apple and anti-competition. A love story for the ages.

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While that might not sound like a lot for a multi-trillion dollar company,

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the fine is almost four times larger than expected and actually caused Apple to lose $80 billion

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in market value. The fine was levied after the European Commission

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discovered that Apple bans music streaming app developers

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from telling iOS users about cheaper subscription services outside their apps

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and also bans them from providing any instructions

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on how to subscribe to said cheaper options. These shocking facts were uncovered

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by an exhaustive investigation lasting hundreds of seconds.

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It probably costs a lot though. These practices undertaken by Apple are illegal under EU law.

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They have such good laws there and the bloc has ordered the company to stop it now.

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Unsurprisingly, Spotify is happy with the decision, while Apple pretty miffed Tim Cook and the boys.

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Tim Cook and the boys. Tim Cook and the boys, they say that

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they plan to appeal the ruling, claiming that the commission failed to uncover

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any credible evidence of consumer harm. I mean, people love being overcharged.

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Isn't that why they buy iPhones? Intel is shaking things up

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with their upcoming Aero Lake processors. At least that's according to reports

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from a reputable Chinese leaker, Golden Pig Upgrade,

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which is also the title of a movie cataloging my glow up through college.

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In a post on Billy Billy translated by video cards, the leaker claimed that Aero Lake is highly unlikely

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to be named 15th gen and will instead be Core Ultra Processor Series 2.

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According to WCCF Tech, this means Intel's 14th gen Raptor Lake CPUs

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will be the last lineup to use separate naming schemes for desktop and mobile processors.

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Furthermore, Golden Pig States Aero Lake will ditch low power eCores and hyper threading

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and will only feature up to four Xe cores, Z cores,

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half the amount of Xe cores Meteor Lake God. Even more shocking,

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despite Intel hyping up their 20 angstrom process, the leaks suggest that most of Aero Lake

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will use TSMC nodes. Apparently only mid-range Aero Lake processors

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with six P cores and eight E cores will actually use Intel's 28,

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but it's unclear if that's just for mobile CPUs

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or for desktop SKUs as well. This is of course all unverified,

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so we'll have to wait and see when Aero Lake actually launches,

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but these allegations could still affect Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's chances

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of being named this year's sexiest Pat Gelsinger alive

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by People Magazine. He's in convention.

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Meta has decided to stop paying Australian news publishers

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after the company's current deal expires. Meta signed agreements in 2021

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after the country's news media bargaining code took effect. The legislation allows the government

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to designate digital platforms like Facebook as subject to certain obligations

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if it is determined that there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between said platforms

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and Aussie news businesses. So far, no platforms have been designated

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due to agreements like the one Meta has decided to end.

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But after Meta announced their decision last week, while also stating that they would be deprecating

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Facebook's dedicated news tab in Australia and the US,

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the Australian government is looking to take action against the Czech giant.

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For its part, Meta claims that this decision was made to better align their investments

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with their services that people value the most, claiming the use of Facebook news in Australia

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and the US had dropped by 80% in the last year.

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Meta has also claimed that news makes up less than 3%

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of what people see in their Facebook feed. But the Aussie government has fought back

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against that statistics. They say the company has de-prioritized news content.

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Personally, I agree. The reason only 3% of what you see on Facebook is news

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is because 17% of what you see are angry posts from older relatives and 80% are ads.

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Quick bits are like a box of chocolates. If that box only fit five chocolates

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and the chocolates were actually small news stories,

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you eat them with your ears. Apple is facing a class action lawsuit

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over alleged anti-competitive behavior in the cloud storage market this time.

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A complaint filed in California accuses the company of restricting

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certain Apple device file types to only back up to iCloud,

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things like app data and device settings. The filing alleges this allows Apple

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to stifle competition and inflate prices, making iCloud one of the company's most profitable products.

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The lead plaintiff's representation, the Hagan's Berman law firm,

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has brought multiple class actions against Apple in the past,

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including the 2011 lawsuit over price fixing in the Apple Books app.

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It makes sense if there's anyone that knows something about overcharging.

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It's a lawyer. AMD's CTO has teased AI-powered FSR

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in an interview with YouTube channel NoPriors.

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A lot of letters in there, but whatever. During the conversation, the AMD executive and master of paper,

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Mark Papermaster said, we're enabling our gaming devices

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to upscale using AI, and 2024 is really a huge deployment year for us.

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At this point, we aren't sure if this AI upscaling will be limited to new hardware

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like what NVIDIA does, or if it'll be more accessible for older cards.

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All we know for sure is that Mark Papermaster possesses at least 1,000 origami cranes,

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and they do his bidding. Google seems to be planning to add a satellite SOS feature

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to Pixel phones based on an update for the Adaptive Connectivity Services apps.

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According to Google News on Telegram, the feature sounds very similar to iPhone's emergency SOS

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via satellite functionality. Unlike Apple's version though, satellite SOS teases a partnership with Garmin.

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Based on screenshots, users will be able to purchase Garmin's search

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and rescue insurance, cool. I mean, the last thing you want to be worrying about

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while you're fighting for your life after falling off a cliff is if you can even afford

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to get your ARM reattached. Thanks Garmin. Google has reportedly approached Meta to partner

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on its in development Android XR platform only to find themselves coldly rejected,

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which is basically like getting turned down for prom by that weird kid who bites.

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According to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, affectionately known as Bos,

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who confirmed the story, Meta would love to work with Google to create a cohesive VR ecosystem.

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It's just that Google's terms are just too restrictive.

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Meta's quest already uses an Android fork as its OS,

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but they probably prefer to make their platform a standard rather than submit to Google's demands.

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Demands like, go to prom with me and stop biting.

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Some people like the biting. And China has plans to expand

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its already massive video surveillance network, casually known as Skynet to the moon

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as security for the unmanned research station the country plans to start building in 2028.

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The system will reportedly monitor both infrared and visible light spectrum using three

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and a half ounce cameras equipped with AI chips capable of identifying, locating, tracking

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and aiming at suspicious targets independently.

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If the system detects abnormalities, it will sound an alarm

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and initiate appropriate response measures like sending a high tech cyborg assassin back in time

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to kill the mother of the human resistance leader to prevent him from ever being born.

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This could be a movie. And a new episode of TechLink will be born on Wednesday.

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I can't promise you'll be lightning and semi trucks getting chopped in half,

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but you better watch it anyway or else it'll find you.