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Tech news. It's all about trust. In this case, antitrust. It's the best kind. It's like non-bread.

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The European Commission has officially charged Microsoft with violating EU antitrust rules by

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bundling teams with Microsoft Office, thereby granting the software an unfair distribution

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advantage over its competitors. According to the Commission, Microsoft may also have created an

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intentional interoperability gap where it is harder for rival communication apps to communicate with

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Microsoft software. And even for teams people to communicate with themselves. I never get

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notifications. The investigation began in July of last year in response to a complaint from Slack

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that Microsoft was using its dominant market position to suffocate competition. Under the

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Digital Markets Act, Microsoft could face fines of up to 10% of its global revenue,

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but so far no company has been hit with that full penalty. If anything, it appears that EU is more

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interested in forcing reform than extracting cash. Apple, who are facing a potential $38

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billion fine over their app store anti-steering policy, as well as increased regulatory scrutiny

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over their past anti-repair practices, have recently put their whole Apple-acy into showing

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European regulators that they've turned a new leaf in terms of repairability. The company has

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expanded its self-service diagnostics tools to Europe and published a white paper claiming that

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they'll be making features like True Tone and battery health data available for third-party

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replacement parts later this year, no matter how dirty, bad, and wrong to find your perfect

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iPhone with a battery not blessed by it. Tim Apple's own hand, maybe. Apple-acy? You know what it is.

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Is that allowed? The Internet Archive has delisted around a half a million e-books from

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the Open Library Project, following a judicial ruling in favor of the publishers currently suing

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the Archive for breach of copyright. The Internet Archive has called the decision a

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devastating loss, though the organization still plans to appeal the ruling. If the ruling stands,

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this precedent could be devastating not just for the Internet Archive, but for libraries

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across the United States whose digital lending programs depend on the same interpretation

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of the US copyright laws. Controlled digital lending, or CDL, was first pioneered by the

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Internet Archive back in 2011. I was playing Starcraft 2, and it allows libraries to digitize

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their collections and lend out as many DRM-protected digital copies as they have physical copies in

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storage. Publishers, of course, would much prefer that libraries pay exorbitant fees for

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restrictive digital licenses. Or even better, that libraries didn't exist. You gotta buy it.

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After all, it's basically just book communism. In another blow to information on the Internet,

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Paramount Global has pulled the defunct MTV news website offline, deleting a decades-long

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digital archive of journalism. Now, the only way for the public to access this past reporting is to

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track it down on independent archives like the Wayback Machine, which is run by the Internet

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Archive. A New York Times report has shed light on AI companies altering their privacy policies

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to better collect user data for AI training. Perhaps surprising to those who thought these

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companies were better than this. Yesterday, Reddit put out a warning to companies whose

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bots ignore its robots exclusion protocol, telling webcrawlers not to access its content

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lest they be blocked. The CEO of Perplexity, however, has expressed that the exclusion protocol is

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not a legal framework. Apparently, that's the new standard. If it's not illegal, then it's

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basically fine. YouTuber Sasha Yanshin recently canceled his Adobe subscription in response to

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his privacy policy changes, saying, the hardware store that sells you a paintbrush doesn't get to

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own the painting that you make with it, right? Trust might be easier to come by if the AI industry's

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most prominent proponents, such as OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, demonstrated a degree, a modicum,

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of caution and empathy for the people directly affected by their products. Instead of suggesting

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that the creative jobs undermined by AI maybe just never need to exist in the first place,

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like a first act supervillain. Do you trust me to tell you the quick bits?

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Well, you shouldn't. These bits are dangerously unstable. That's what makes them so fast.

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Thousands of websites are being urged by security research group,

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SandSec, to stop using the popular open source web service polyfill.io, as it's been serving

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malware to their visitors after being sold months ago to a Chinese company called Funnel,

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which is just perfect. We're nullifying it. The service has been used to add modern functionality

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to older browsers, but it's actually not necessary anymore for most websites,

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according to the original developer. So there's actually multiple reasons to stop using it.

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Just stop! Matrix multiplication, or matmul, is a type of math performed by large language models

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when they think. And it's also why GPUs have been selling like golden hotcakes recently.

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They're really good at it. But a group of Chinese and Californian researchers claim to have created

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an LLM that performs about as well as Lama2 without using any matmul at all. Lama2 is pretty weak

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compared to today's flagship models, but if this method could be scaled up, it would have a drastic

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impact on both the GPU market and, potentially, the environment. That's the thing you're forced

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to see when your AI girlfriend refuses to talk to you. Why? There's grass there. You can touch it.

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A new prototype from distance technologies turns the entire windshield of a car into a giant

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3 augmented reality heads-up display. The prototype, which thankfully hasn't been installed into a car

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just yet, uses an LCD panel to project an image upwards onto a glass windshield with a reflective

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coating. This new prototype also incorporates eye tracking, and its LCD panel has a parallax

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barrier that can display a slightly different image for each eye. There are currently existing

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aftermarket huds for cars, but they take up only a small percentage of the windshield,

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and the projections have a relatively flat, ghostly look, say the marketers. Ghostly,

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just like you'll be when you plow into a tree after turning your F-150 into a movie theater.

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Probably a RAM, actually. The Rabbit R1 handheld AI device, that's not a phone,

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has had a vulnerability in its codebase that could let anyone access every response the device

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ever gave, or simply brick them. And despite knowing about it, Rabbit did nothing. According

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to hacker collective and Jewish youth-oriented hip-hop group, Rabbitude. The vulnerability was

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actually teased by YouTuber Coffeezilla, who Rabbitude says worked with them on his recent videos.

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Rabbit finally fixed the vulnerability today, only for Rabbitude to reveal another,

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an even more dangerous one that lets them access the company's email and documents with user data.

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So I think it's clearer than ever at this point that the R1 definitely

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could have been an app. A team of serious scientists at Tokyo University have discovered

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a way to attach, quote, living skin to the faces of robots, apparently taking inspiration from

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human skin ligaments. This, they say, may one day lead to Android robots with convincing,

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self-healing skin that allows for more realistic facial expressions, and also Blade Runner.

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The Japanese scientists demonstrated this concept by taking a peptobismal pink condom with

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eyes and forcing it to smile like a psychologically traumatized tonic, the tank engine.

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As you do, your scientists were so preoccupied with whether, or not they could. They didn't stop

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to think if they should. Whoa, it's like Jeff Goldblum's here. But don't get preoccupied with

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whether to come back on Friday for another episode of TechLink. You can, and you should. Nobody's

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gonna end up getting eaten by dinosaurs on this show. Why would you think that? Why would you?

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Those little chicken-sized dinosaurs are scariest, and I think that's the second one.