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Apple is threatening to pull services in the UK if the government weakens end-to-end encryption,

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because what happens in iPhone stays on iPhone Gabnah. I'm sorry, I'm James Strybe, this is

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TechLinked, and this is a proposed amendment to the Investigatory Powers Act, causing a bunch of

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tech companies to threaten to brexit themselves, including Wikipedia, Signal, and WhatsApp.

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And you know you've got a problem when meta thinks you're being weirdly intrusive.

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The acting question already required messaging service to receive government approval before

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releasing new security features, but the change here is that now they'll have to immediately

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disable features upon request without any appeal process, effectively eliminating oversight.

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It's unclear from the bill's wording whether communications providers could be ordered to

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simply not use encryption, and it's not even clear how many times the Investigatory Powers

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Act has already been used. It's okay, UK government, we totally get the whole

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having to justify your reasons for staring through unlimited bedroom Windows is a huge drag.

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I just want to watch when they're dancing when no one's watching.

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Major gaming platform and vomit onomatopoeia Roblox suffered a major data breach that leaked

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the personal information of nearly 4,000 people that attended the invite-only Roblox developer

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conference from 2017 to 2020. According to HaveIbeenPone.com, 3,943 unique email accounts,

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names, phone numbers, IP addresses, and even physical addresses were circulated on a fork.

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Think of the exploited teenagers. Not even t-shirt sizes were safe.

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If you ever went to a developer conference, be wary of anyone who knows your size, especially your

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mom. Seriously though, this leak dates back to December 2020, but it was apparently unnoticed

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and unreported until now. Roblox gave a statement to PCGamer saying that they are

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aware of a third-party security issue that caused this breach. Further saying,

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we engaged independent experts to support the investigation led by our information

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security team. They need the help, since not only did this breach occur three years ago,

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but the information was originally spread within niche cheating communities within Roblox,

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as early as 2021. I'm sure Roblox would have caught it if it spread to the mainstream

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cheating communities, but these niche ones. Google and Apple are both taking steps to treat the

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whole large language model thing more seriously, even if it means taking a break from creating

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subscription services named one. According to the Wall Street Journal,

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is my favorite Sergey, has come out of semi-retirement to help

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researchers develop Gemini, the tech giant's answer to open AI's chat GPT-4. What happened

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to Bard? Helping here means dropping in on meetings, recruiting top-tier researchers,

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and presumably asking how AI can help him darken the skies with airships. Meanwhile,

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courtesy of Apple leaker Mark Squirman-German, we're finally hearing about Apple developing

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a generative AI chatbot named Ajax, but whose friends call it Apple GPT. Unfortunately,

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the only friends it has are a specific substitute of Apple employees who must go through an

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application approval process to talk to it, which sounds normal for Riley. Ajax-powered Apple services

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probably won't roll out until next year, but when they do, chat GPT will be facing some

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fierce competition from fan-favorite underdogs Google and Apple. Watch out, Reloyal.

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The only thing magnetic about these quick bits is my personality,

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and the BB embedded in my left butt cheek, don't ask.

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The FTC has withdrawn their upcoming antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's purchase of Activision

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Blizzard after the Xbox company filed a motion to dismiss the proceedings on July 18th. While the

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FTC can still refile the complaint or try for a settlement, it's looking more and more like the

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merger will go through, because this is America, and there's no such thing as antitrust.

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This is excited Ubisoft's CEO who has been trying to get someone, anyone, to buy his company since

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last year. Always a bribesmate, hey Ubisoft, maybe you can catch Activision's bouquet.

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Meta has reportedly discontinued the Quest Pro and stopped all development on the upcoming Quest

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Pro 2, this is crazy. Manufacturers will continue to build Quest Pro headsets only as long as their

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current materials last. Maybe this is unsurprising if you remember when Meta launched the Quest Pro

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for $1500, got laughed out of the room, and dropped the price to $1000. Like Meta is a VR

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company in the same way that McDonald's is a restaurant, you don't go there for a pricey steak.

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Speaking of spatial computing, Microsoft is due to deliver an

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improved version of the HoloLens really for another round of US Army testing, oh,

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by the end of this month. The Army wants the mixed rally headset to improve battlefield awareness,

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but what the HoloLens wound up doing during previous testing was causing 80% of troops to

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experience mission affecting physical impairments, which is military speak for throwing up so hard

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you think you're gonna meet Jesus in person. We want you to keep your lunch inside.

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Haha. Chip manufacturer TSMC is delaying the start of mass production at its Arizona plan to 2025

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due to insufficient amount of skilled workers. Yikes, America. The company is currently trying

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to get the US government to fast-track non-immigrant visas for 500 Taiwanese engineers,

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and I'm sure this has nothing to do with the horrible reviews of TSMC by its US employees,

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which caused the company's chairman to remark, those who are unwilling to take shifts should not

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enter the industry. Maybe American engineers just took his advice. And a world of Warcraft

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players can barely contain their excitement for the introduction of GLORBO, according to an article

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on gaming site ZLEAGUE.GG written by something named Lucy Reed, an entity so powerful it can

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churn out 50 articles per day. If you haven't figured it out, Lucy is an AI that scrapes Reddit

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for wow-related stories and was unsurprisingly unable to differentiate between real news and

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an ironic post meant to trick, said AI, into writing about GLORBO, finally being brought into

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the game after being hinted at in Hearthstone back in 1994. Even a wow dev celebrated the small

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victory against the machines by tweeting about the event, making GLORBO nearly as celebrated as

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Emmy award-winning TV series Monk Dammit, starring Tarly Shalupe. Another one for the good guys.

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And make sure to prepare for the upcoming war against our AI overlords. Come back on Monday

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for more tech news. I can't even finish the damn episode. It's getting ridiculous.