Bonjour, bienvenue, it is good to see you again.
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Two days after Twitch allowed artistic nudity
on the platform, the company has reversed that decision. To the shock of no one.
Two days too long. To catch you up, only fans model MorgPie went viral
for supposedly streaming topless, taking part in what was turning out to be an emerging meta.
While MorgPie claims she was wearing a shirt, just out of frame, we have our doubts.
There's a clip, it's not in our sources, stop looking for it. And we won't claim to be experts on their female form,
but one of us studied physics. And let's just say the footage was gravitationally anomalous.
Jacob had a lot of context for this. Anyway, MorgPie got banned,
but after debates broke out over whether she had technically broken TOS or not,
Twitch decided to update their sexual content policy for clarity, spelling out an allowance for content
like MorgPie's that deliberately highlighted breasts,
buttocks, or pelvic region, as well as fictionalized nudity.
So like drawn or animated of any kind, so long as it was correctly labeled.
What followed was a biblical deluge of explicit art.
Or what Twitch called in today's blog post, a great deal of new content that was under the updated policy.
Our community loves this new content. So Twitch reversed the policy and acknowledged their mistake.
A mistake they could have avoided altogether, if anyone who worked there knew how the internet works.
What do you think this is? A church lunch? Like what?
All right, pastor, I have a crazy idea to boost attendance.
Intel launched their new core ultra mobile processors,
their first consumer CPUs with built-in neural processing
units during the company's AI everywhere event.
What if you don't want AI to be everywhere? Too bad. The H series are designed for thin and light
gaming workstation laptops, while the U series is meant for ultra books.
Apparently there has been a massive improvement in the integrated graphics,
though Intel's previous attempts on the IGPU front
have set a pretty low bar. They had a higher bar to clear with their new fifth gen Xeon processors
since they will be competing against AMD's excellent Epic platform.
Team Blue is really pushing the AI angle here with the data center chips,
emphasizing the baked in AI acceleration and calling the new Xeons the best CPU for AI hands down.
But Big Papa Pat Gelsinger didn't name the event AI
most places is, and that's why he also announced Gaudi 3,
an AI chip meant to compete with NVIDIA's H100.
Don't ask about Gaudi 1 or 2. Actually, they're not just meant to compete.
Pat wants CUDA to die. I mean, he actually said that the AI industry
is motivated to move towards more open standards, but that's the most threatening
this particular tech CEO is capable of being. Sweet, sweet baby, Big Papa Pat.
A marketing company called Cox Media Group claims it can listen to consumers' ambient conversations
through microphones in devices like smartphones to gather data for ad targeting.
Even worse, they thought saying that was a solid business strategy.
The company advertised active listening on their site
as a marketing strategy for potential clients, calling it a marketing technique fit for the future
available today. They mixed up their marketing textbook with 1984.
Yeah, there it is. Cox Media have since removed the page from their site,
probably because it's not a good look, and also they might actually be lying.
Conclusive proof for the common suspicion that our phones are listening to everything we say
has been very difficult to find. Even if Cox Media could listen to people through their phones,
most models today indicate when the microphone is being used.
Actually, that's a feature exclusive to iPhones,
according to Apple Insider. I mean, I thought privacy indicators were added
back in Android 12, and so did Google based on their official support page.
But who am I to argue with a headline? Very compelling. Hey, I have an idea.
What if you deliver the QuickBits this time?
Are you gonna? Okay, fine, I'll do it. Google Chrome will finally start blocking
third-party cookies next year, merely years after every other browser.
In a post on their official blog, the company will start testing their tracking
protection feature on January 4th, starting with just 1% of global Chrome users.
Google says they will reach every Chrome user at some point in the second half of next year.
But cut them a break, these things take time. They still have to destroy all ad blockers everywhere first.
In other Google news, the company has announced that it is changing how it handles maps data,
so it will no longer be able to access users' individual location histories.
The change appears to be designed to make it pointless for law enforcement to serve Google with geofence warrants.
These cast a wide net to scoop up the data of everyone
who was in the general vicinity when a crime took place.
Nearly all geofence warrants are directed at Google, but like a covert agent captured behind enemy lines,
it can't be forced to tell what it doesn't know, even though it really, really wants to.
In other, other Google news, the company has released an on-device diagnostic tool
and repair manuals for Pixel phones, which they announced in a blog post just one day
after Apple announced they were launching web-based diagnostic tools for iPhones.
But Google went a step further by adding a repair mode setting
they say can help protect your personal data
from nosy repair shops. Honestly, Google doing all these things
to protect my privacy kind of freaks me out. It's like if the popular girl suddenly asked me to prom.
Frankly, I'm expecting a bucket of pigs blood.
It's gonna show up at some point, it's an Amazon package. Here, I brought you your pigs blood.
Oh, my pigs blood's here! In other, other, other Google news,
I'm sorry, there was a lot today. AI researchers at DeepMind claim
that one of their large language models is the first one to discover new verifiable solutions
for open problems in mathematics. The model, using a method called FunSearch
in mockery of machine's current inability to feel enjoyment, was able to discover multiple
never before seen solutions to the well-known cap-set math problem and the bin packing problem
in computer science. Unlike biology or chemistry, these disciplines allow AI
to make discoveries that can be tested without the risk of blowing up the lab
or triggering a last of us situation. Math can't hurt you.
It's not even real. Some of it's imaginary. And in non-Google news, finally, AI Startup Channel One
has created a proof of concept pilot episode
for a 24-7 news network featuring a team
of fully generated and digital double news anchors
and AI augmented news coverage. Ugh.
Though the news stories therein are reportedly, at least partially, drawn from existing news sources
and edited by human beings. In the example video, Channel One's square-jawed
news homunculus directly contrasts an unaltered clip
from a French broadcast of a man discussing damage from a storm.
By 2 o'clock in the morning, I heard a big noise. Followed by an AI-translated version
that has the same man speaking English in several different accents simultaneously.
Into the air. And then, after 30 minutes, everything went crazy.
It scattered all over the place. His AI counterpart is apparently
from the Appalachian region of Sussex. And I don't care if you're Sus or if you're my ex.
So long as you come back on Monday for more tech news.
Just kidding, Ashley, stay away.