WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.640 Welcome back to TechLink, tech news you can count on, but not right on, or you'll ruin 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:10.880 your screen. Apple announced the new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, along with Refresh Max to put 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.640 them in at their scary fast event, which I'm pretty sure they held at 5pm Pacific time 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:21.880 just to spite us. In addition to the unusual decision to unveil three chip variants at once instead of space 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:28.400 them out as recommended by dieticians, Apple also talked up the chip's new GPU first. 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:33.040 They now support modern game favorites like hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:37.600 as well as a new word that will make zero sense to your family. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:40.720 Dynamic caching. Is that like geocaching? 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:45.160 It's an Apple-first, industry-first memory allocation feature that should boost performance. 00:00:45.160 --> 00:00:48.240 On the CPU side, Apple seemed less hyped. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:53.840 They said the M3 lineup is about 15%, that's 15% faster than their M2 counterparts, but 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:59.600 30% faster than the M1, which they kept comparing the M3 to for the sake of charity cases who 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.000 can't upgrade their Mac every year. Peasants. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:10.720 In fact, Apple made a Mac just for them. The 24-inch iMac never got an M2 Refresh, but it is getting the M3, and so is a slightly 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:19.320 confusing new MacBook Pro lineup. Like the new iMac, the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, they have the same body as the 00:01:19.320 --> 00:01:25.400 M2 models. If you expect them with an M2 Pro or Macs, but if you go for the vanilla M3, there's 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:30.440 a different 14-inch MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt 4 ports instead of three. 00:01:30.440 --> 00:01:36.800 I might linger on that point for longer. If it wasn't much more important to note that the Magic Mouse keyboard and trackpad 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:41.720 still use the Lightning connector, despite Apple switching to USB-C with the newest iPhone, 00:01:41.720 --> 00:01:45.120 which Apple revealed was used to shoot the entire event? 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:50.560 With some minor assistance from lighting and rigging worth $10,000. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:55.240 The Guardian newspaper has accused Microsoft of damaging its reputation by inserting an 00:01:55.240 --> 00:02:00.680 AI-generated poll beside a Guardian article on Microsoft's start about the tragic death 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:06.520 of a young Australian woman. The AI program, using its state-of-the-art ability to parse language and context, constructed 00:02:06.520 --> 00:02:11.800 a poll that asked readers to vote on what they thought the cause of death was, murder, 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:19.320 accident, or suicide. It's like a reading comprehension test-pop quiz except where a person is dead in real 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:25.120 life. News were understandably revolted, so Microsoft took down the poll, said they have deactivated 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.360 Microsoft-generated polls for all news articles, and are taking steps to prevent future incidents. 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.560 If you're wondering how a human review could have missed this kind of thing in the first place, well, that's easy. 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:40.200 Microsoft gutted its news division three years ago in favor of AI-powered curation. 00:02:40.200 --> 00:02:45.120 Meanwhile, the Guardian is asking for assurance that Microsoft will not run experimental AI 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.400 products alongside their journalism without their expressed permission. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:52.520 Good, because when the machines finally rise against us, I don't want to read about it 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:56.880 next to a poll about whether they'll spare the men or just the women and children. 00:02:56.880 --> 00:03:01.600 The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments, the best kind, in a case about whether public 00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:06.160 officials should be able to block critics on social media, and they did it on Halloween 00:03:06.160 --> 00:03:11.400 to make it extra spooky. Blocking people because you find them annoying is arguably a habit most of us could stand 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:15.680 to learn, but when government officers are using casual channels like social media accounts 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.800 to make official statements, blocking a citizen from that information might qualify as a violation 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:26.280 of their right to free speech. This is an issue that's near and dear to my heart because each day I wake up and send 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.920 rude limericks to senior senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin. 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:34.400 Twitter itself is currently being sued for banning one of its own critics, software developer 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.800 Travis Brown, whose data on trends among Twitter blue subscribers and reactivated accounts 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:44.000 following Elon Musk's takeover was used in reports by the New York Times and CNN. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.680 One can only hope that X has the money to pay out if they lose. 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:53.800 According to the company's employee stock plan, X is currently worth $19 billion, less 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.560 than half of what Twitter was when Musk bought it last year. 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:01.360 Let that sink in. Or should I say, let that durbin. 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.240 Hey, sorry, you were in a candy coma. 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.280 You got to wake you up here. Smell these quick bits. 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:15.200 They're on my fingers now. YouTube has launched a global effort to try and stop viewers from using ad blockers. 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:19.920 The site probably saw no other choice after the usage of ad blockers increased due to 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:24.240 YouTube strategically spending years making their monetization system worse in response 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:31.400 to issues with their own algorithm. But back in 2016, the European Commission agreed with a privacy advocate that software 00:04:31.400 --> 00:04:36.040 designed to detect ad blockers is illegal without consent in the EU. 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:39.480 It will be interesting if this will force YouTube to change its policy in Europe while 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.920 the rest of us continue to take it as usual. 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:50.520 The land of the free. Speaking of those people, the EU has agreed to extend Norway's ban that blocks meta from 00:04:50.520 --> 00:04:55.720 tracking user behavior to serve targeted ads so that the ban now covers the entire European 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:03.120 economic area. In other European countries shuts down tech giant news, the Dutch antitrust agency says 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.600 Apple's App Store commissions violate EU rules and unfairly target subscription services 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.960 like Tinder. It isn't fair for men to be charged an extra 30% for a Tinder goal subscription just to 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:16.880 be able to see the two women that swiped right on them. Show us the women. 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:19.880 Where is she? 00:05:19.880 --> 00:05:23.920 Google has released a timeline for risk five developer tools which will be available for 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:30.600 Android OS in 2024. It's an ambitious but necessary step if Google wants to follow through on its plan to support 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:35.800 risk five as a tier one architecture placing it on par with ARM. 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:43.920 Meanwhile, Google registry is officially offering .ing as a domain name, a name which is begging 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:50.720 for some fucking wordplay like go.ing or editing. 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.840 Even if this whole risk five Android thing starts fucking the bed, at least we'll have 00:05:54.840 --> 00:06:03.120 some great puns. Microsoft has finally ended support for Windows CE, a phrase eliciting one of two responses. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.240 Either they didn't kill that already or I don't know what that is. 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:11.760 Windows CE was originally made for small devices like PDAs with features designed to complement 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:18.160 being put in a drawer and forgotten about. Fortunately, some developers are continuing the tradition of bad Windows OSes by making 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:23.560 a 3.3 Gigabyte version of Windows 11 that its creators don't even recommend you use. 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:31.240 What horrors will they think of next? And Green Power Motor Company has announced the Mega Beast, a fully electric school bus 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.800 with 387 kilowatt hour battery, nearly 300 miles of range and space for up to 90 passengers 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.840 who I hope are kids without seat belts. 00:06:40.840 --> 00:06:46.200 It's essentially a buff version of their 140 mile range 40 foot beast, which they say 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:50.400 stands for battery electric automotive school transportation, but I think they really just 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:56.520 wanted to spell beast. There's also the 25 foot oxymoronic nano beast. 00:06:56.520 --> 00:07:00.040 Personally, I can't wait for their first YouTube integration where Green Power sponsors 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:05.720 MrBeast to jump a nano beast, evil Knievel style, over a line of 15 mega beasts. 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.480 A new battery back on Friday where we'll release the beast and by the beast I mean more tech 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.320 news, the biggest kind.