Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results
Congratulations, you're back for more tech news YouTube has finally given users a way to kill shorts the new setting lets you crank the existing daily shorts watch time limit
Down to zero minutes, which effectively pauses the feed before it starts
It's rolling out now to both iPhone and Android users
Unfortunately, it's only on mobile so all you boomers watching shorts on desktop will continue to have your brain
Cook sous vide style by the never-ending dopamine machine public sentiment has been generally pretty positive
Which makes sense given that a December study showed that more than half of shorts recommendations served to new users
Were AI slop or brain rot content still with shorts averaging 200 billion daily views
Oh this next generation hamstring it like this has got to be a tough call for YouTube
You might think we're being hypocritical since TechLinked also has posted shorts
But those were all accidents the YouTube interface is confusing now and our fingers slipped our phones are so slippery. Okay, they just
The European Union just unveiled its long-awaited age verification app with European Commission President Ursula von Leyen
triumphantly declaring that online platforms would have no more excuses not to verify kids ages
Because the app met the highest privacy standards within hours security researchers reported
They could break into the app in under two minutes. Of course security consultant Paul Moore led the charge
Detailing that the encrypted pin isn't cryptographically tied to the identity vault
The rate limiting is just a counter in a config file
You can reset to zero and biometric authentication is a single boolean flag. You can flip a huff
The entire demonstration was so short He was able to fit it into a single tweet
Telegram CEO Pavel Duroff piled on calling the app hackable by design
The EU has since confirmed a new version is being rolled out to patch the flaws
Adobe's Domination over the creative app industry looks a little weaker this week after some major competitors made their apps much cheaper
And in some cases totally free as the Verge reports canva just made cavalry its professional motion graphics app
completely free following the same move it made with the affinity suite last year and
Maxon relaunched autograph a previously dead After Effects competitor also free for individual artists
So if you want to do what After Effects does Now you have two more options than you did on Monday
But the real gut punch came from black magic design which unveiled the Vinci Resolve 21 at NAB this week
The video editor already had Premiere Pro cornered on price
But the new update adds a full photo editing page that lets you organize raw files
Import your existing lightroom catalogs and adds the ability to tether your camera for live capture
Adobe charges 10 bucks a month for just lightroom and now that's looking like a hard sell
Kind of like holding onto your phone without our sponsor
Einstein's equals MC squared tells us energy equals mass times the speed of light squared apply it here
And we find that these quick bits contain the energy of a small Sun
Don't look directly at them NVIDIA is reportedly bringing back the RTX 3060 12 Gigabyte this June because the RTX 5050 9 Gigabyte has been delayed with no clear launch window
According to the leaker mega size GPU the 3060 is two generations old
But it still has 12 gigabytes of VRAM more than the newer card was ever gonna offer
NVIDIA apparently looked at its GPU lineup and said actually 2021 was fine
And if you lived it, you know, it wasn't Microsoft is giving away two million dollars with a million dollar cash prize and three Mercedes
Benzes Benz I to anyone willing to set edge as their default browser and do one Bing search as part of an
Part of it. I haven't seen this. This is hilarious as part of a new sweepstakes running until May 21st
cheesy guys Years of aggressive pop-ups and dark patterns failed to move the needle
So apparently the plan now is just straight up bribery
Meta is jacking up the price of the quest 3 by 100 bucks and the quest 3s by 50 bucks
And they're pinning it on the global RAM shortage
Sure that checks out. It's definitely the memory crisis and not the 70 billion dollars
They torched on the metaverse before pivoting to becoming a sunglasses company
He smart sunglasses next quarter will be in the price of the quest for on mercury being in retrograde
Europol emailed 75,000 people this week as part of operation power off a crackdown on DDoS for higher services
For arrests were made 53 domains taken down and the remaining users received warning letters
Which loosely translated to we know you live to drive the message home
Europol also dropped an iron maiden style music video following Melvin a chip addicted
Skeletor playing kid who just wanted to DDoS someone for killing his vibe or Melvin that
grotesque little guy and a new study found that sperm whales
Language has vowels and they work almost identically to ours despite the two species diverging 90 million years ago
I swear I still have memories from the womb the whale
Two vowel types have been identified so far each used in distinct structured ways across different whales and context
So yeah vowels have apparently evolved completely independently twice
Which is either the most humbling discovery in linguistics or a real bad sign for whoever's next
Just like it'll be a real bad time for you if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news
That's all for today. I'm gonna stick my tongue out at a photographer and accidentally create the most reproduced image of the 20th century
Bye