WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 Today's tech news is extra premium. 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:06.280 So it's sponsored by Cerdo, software that helps detect threats on iPhones. 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:10.400 We'll have more to say about them later, but until then, speaking of iPhones and premiums, 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:14.120 Apple just got fined 1.8 billion euros, 00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:17.840 or almost $2 billion by the EU after Spotify 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:21.360 complained about the company's anti-competitive app store practices. 00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:25.600 Ah, Apple and anti-competition. A love story for the ages. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.320 While that might not sound like a lot for a multi-trillion dollar company, 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:35.820 the fine is almost four times larger than expected and actually caused Apple to lose $80 billion 00:00:35.820 --> 00:00:39.320 in market value. The fine was levied after the European Commission 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.520 discovered that Apple bans music streaming app developers 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:47.100 from telling iOS users about cheaper subscription services outside their apps 00:00:47.100 --> 00:00:50.620 and also bans them from providing any instructions 00:00:50.620 --> 00:00:55.520 on how to subscribe to said cheaper options. These shocking facts were uncovered 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.340 by an exhaustive investigation lasting hundreds of seconds. 00:01:00.220 --> 00:01:05.400 It probably costs a lot though. These practices undertaken by Apple are illegal under EU law. 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:11.600 They have such good laws there and the bloc has ordered the company to stop it now. 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:18.760 Unsurprisingly, Spotify is happy with the decision, while Apple pretty miffed Tim Cook and the boys. 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.760 Tim Cook and the boys. Tim Cook and the boys, they say that 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.440 they plan to appeal the ruling, claiming that the commission failed to uncover 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:31.100 any credible evidence of consumer harm. I mean, people love being overcharged. 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:34.780 Isn't that why they buy iPhones? Intel is shaking things up 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:38.500 with their upcoming Aero Lake processors. At least that's according to reports 00:01:38.500 --> 00:01:41.860 from a reputable Chinese leaker, Golden Pig Upgrade, 00:01:41.860 --> 00:01:45.540 which is also the title of a movie cataloging my glow up through college. 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:51.140 In a post on Billy Billy translated by video cards, the leaker claimed that Aero Lake is highly unlikely 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:56.480 to be named 15th gen and will instead be Core Ultra Processor Series 2. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:01.000 According to WCCF Tech, this means Intel's 14th gen Raptor Lake CPUs 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.640 will be the last lineup to use separate naming schemes for desktop and mobile processors. 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:11.040 Furthermore, Golden Pig States Aero Lake will ditch low power eCores and hyper threading 00:02:11.040 --> 00:02:15.120 and will only feature up to four Xe cores, Z cores, 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:19.040 half the amount of Xe cores Meteor Lake God. Even more shocking, 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:24.060 despite Intel hyping up their 20 angstrom process, the leaks suggest that most of Aero Lake 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:28.060 will use TSMC nodes. Apparently only mid-range Aero Lake processors 00:02:28.060 --> 00:02:33.180 with six P cores and eight E cores will actually use Intel's 28, 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:36.740 but it's unclear if that's just for mobile CPUs 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:40.820 or for desktop SKUs as well. This is of course all unverified, 00:02:40.820 --> 00:02:43.860 so we'll have to wait and see when Aero Lake actually launches, 00:02:43.860 --> 00:02:47.980 but these allegations could still affect Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's chances 00:02:47.980 --> 00:02:51.420 of being named this year's sexiest Pat Gelsinger alive 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.600 by People Magazine. He's in convention. 00:02:54.600 --> 00:02:57.960 Meta has decided to stop paying Australian news publishers 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.400 after the company's current deal expires. Meta signed agreements in 2021 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.560 after the country's news media bargaining code took effect. The legislation allows the government 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:11.080 to designate digital platforms like Facebook as subject to certain obligations 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:16.200 if it is determined that there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between said platforms 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:20.560 and Aussie news businesses. So far, no platforms have been designated 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:23.900 due to agreements like the one Meta has decided to end. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:28.540 But after Meta announced their decision last week, while also stating that they would be deprecating 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:31.580 Facebook's dedicated news tab in Australia and the US, 00:03:31.580 --> 00:03:35.140 the Australian government is looking to take action against the Czech giant. 00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:39.740 For its part, Meta claims that this decision was made to better align their investments 00:03:39.740 --> 00:03:44.980 with their services that people value the most, claiming the use of Facebook news in Australia 00:03:44.980 --> 00:03:48.460 and the US had dropped by 80% in the last year. 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:51.880 Meta has also claimed that news makes up less than 3% 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:55.440 of what people see in their Facebook feed. But the Aussie government has fought back 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:00.360 against that statistics. They say the company has de-prioritized news content. 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.080 Personally, I agree. The reason only 3% of what you see on Facebook is news 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:09.960 is because 17% of what you see are angry posts from older relatives and 80% are ads. 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:14.200 Quick bits are like a box of chocolates. If that box only fit five chocolates 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:17.720 and the chocolates were actually small news stories, 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.860 you eat them with your ears. Apple is facing a class action lawsuit 00:04:20.860 --> 00:04:25.340 over alleged anti-competitive behavior in the cloud storage market this time. 00:04:25.340 --> 00:04:28.780 A complaint filed in California accuses the company of restricting 00:04:28.780 --> 00:04:33.100 certain Apple device file types to only back up to iCloud, 00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:37.900 things like app data and device settings. The filing alleges this allows Apple 00:04:37.900 --> 00:04:43.300 to stifle competition and inflate prices, making iCloud one of the company's most profitable products. 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:48.520 The lead plaintiff's representation, the Hagan's Berman law firm, 00:04:48.520 --> 00:04:51.600 has brought multiple class actions against Apple in the past, 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.880 including the 2011 lawsuit over price fixing in the Apple Books app. 00:04:55.880 --> 00:04:59.960 It makes sense if there's anyone that knows something about overcharging. 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:04.800 It's a lawyer. AMD's CTO has teased AI-powered FSR 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.880 in an interview with YouTube channel NoPriors. 00:05:07.880 --> 00:05:12.960 A lot of letters in there, but whatever. During the conversation, the AMD executive and master of paper, 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:17.020 Mark Papermaster said, we're enabling our gaming devices 00:05:17.020 --> 00:05:21.620 to upscale using AI, and 2024 is really a huge deployment year for us. 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:25.620 At this point, we aren't sure if this AI upscaling will be limited to new hardware 00:05:25.620 --> 00:05:29.140 like what NVIDIA does, or if it'll be more accessible for older cards. 00:05:29.140 --> 00:05:34.860 All we know for sure is that Mark Papermaster possesses at least 1,000 origami cranes, 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:39.500 and they do his bidding. Google seems to be planning to add a satellite SOS feature 00:05:39.500 --> 00:05:44.280 to Pixel phones based on an update for the Adaptive Connectivity Services apps. 00:05:44.280 --> 00:05:48.720 According to Google News on Telegram, the feature sounds very similar to iPhone's emergency SOS 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.520 via satellite functionality. Unlike Apple's version though, satellite SOS teases a partnership with Garmin. 00:05:54.520 --> 00:05:57.520 Based on screenshots, users will be able to purchase Garmin's search 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:02.840 and rescue insurance, cool. I mean, the last thing you want to be worrying about 00:06:02.840 --> 00:06:07.120 while you're fighting for your life after falling off a cliff is if you can even afford 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:12.780 to get your ARM reattached. Thanks Garmin. Google has reportedly approached Meta to partner 00:06:12.780 --> 00:06:17.900 on its in development Android XR platform only to find themselves coldly rejected, 00:06:17.900 --> 00:06:22.180 which is basically like getting turned down for prom by that weird kid who bites. 00:06:22.180 --> 00:06:26.300 According to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, affectionately known as Bos, 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:30.940 who confirmed the story, Meta would love to work with Google to create a cohesive VR ecosystem. 00:06:30.940 --> 00:06:34.500 It's just that Google's terms are just too restrictive. 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:37.700 Meta's quest already uses an Android fork as its OS, 00:06:37.700 --> 00:06:42.400 but they probably prefer to make their platform a standard rather than submit to Google's demands. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:45.920 Demands like, go to prom with me and stop biting. 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.560 Some people like the biting. And China has plans to expand 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.520 its already massive video surveillance network, casually known as Skynet to the moon 00:06:54.520 --> 00:06:59.920 as security for the unmanned research station the country plans to start building in 2028. 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:05.120 The system will reportedly monitor both infrared and visible light spectrum using three 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.260 and a half ounce cameras equipped with AI chips capable of identifying, locating, tracking 00:07:10.260 --> 00:07:13.620 and aiming at suspicious targets independently. 00:07:13.620 --> 00:07:16.860 If the system detects abnormalities, it will sound an alarm 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:22.420 and initiate appropriate response measures like sending a high tech cyborg assassin back in time 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:27.360 to kill the mother of the human resistance leader to prevent him from ever being born. 00:07:29.020 --> 00:07:33.420 This could be a movie. And a new episode of TechLink will be born on Wednesday. 00:07:33.420 --> 00:07:36.540 I can't promise you'll be lightning and semi trucks getting chopped in half, 00:07:36.540 --> 00:07:39.960 but you better watch it anyway or else it'll find you.