Aw, no way, you came back to watch again?
Honestly, I'm feeling truly blessed right now. It's so good to see you.
I think Jacob is trolling me with these intros. Beeper has announced that they are done
trying to crack iMessage after weeks of playing cat and mouse with Apple.
Frankly, we're tired of it too. You can only laugh at the thought of Tim Cook
as a large cat for so long. Meow, I am large.
In a statement on the company blog, Beeper said that each time that Beeper Mini goes down
or Apple nukes it, the company's credibility is affected.
They hope their newest and last solution is something Apple can tolerate existing.
Specifically, you need an old jailbroken iPhone
and a Mac or Linux computer to allow you to register your phone number
for iMessage through Beeper Mini. Beeper Mini's iMessage connection software
is now fully open source as well, so anyone that feels like facing off
against a trillion dollar company is welcome to try.
Bet, said the U.S. government as the... D.O.J. thinks Apple's behavior is cringe-a-f.
As the D.O.J.'s antitrust lawyers reportedly met
with Beeper representatives last week. On top of that, the FTC may also be investigating.
While they didn't mention Apple by name in their blog post yesterday,
they did say in big letters they will closely scrutinize tech giants' claims
that competition threatens privacy or security, and that's exactly the reason Apple gave
for shutting Beeper down. Just like that, Tim Cook has gone from cat to mouse.
Squeak, squeak, I'm in danger. Microsoft's deprecation of Windows 10
could cause 240 million PCs to wind up in the landfill,
according to research by tech market analysis firm and medication you should ask your doctor about,
One of the major reasons for this are the strict hardware requirements
for upgrading to Windows 11. Many CPUs that are only a few years old
render their PCs ineligible for the newer OS.
Canalis, whose side effects may include painful gas, points out that while many of these PCs could be recycled,
their ineligibility for upgrade would increase the cost for refurbishing and reselling them,
making it far more likely that they'll just be thrown out.
And yes, Microsoft is offering extended security support for Windows 10,
but they haven't announced a price yet. Chances are it will be most cost effective for consumers
to simply buy a new machine. By the way, if dozens of you are typing,
just use GNU slash Linux into the comments,
feel free to walk millions of tech-illiterate people through the installation in use of even such
user-friendly distros as Ubuntu or Linux Mint. And when all that voluntary IT work
starts to make you feel depressed, ask your doctor about Canalis.
Apple scientists have developed new ways to make it more feasible to run large language models
locally on iPhones and Macs. In a paper released this month,
researchers detailed techniques for running AI models on hardware with limited DRAM.
The researchers were able to store the model's parameters on flash memory,
which is more abundant than DRAM on mobile devices, and then officially transfer that information to DRAM
using two methods. The first, windowing allows for the AI model
to reuse previously processed data, reducing overall data transfer.
The second method, row column bundling, utilizes flash memory's high sequential data access speeds
to create and transfer larger chunks of information that are quicker to process.
These methods combined not only allow advice to run models twice the size of its available DRAM,
but also gets live data to an AI model faster,
specifically up to five times faster than using a CPU
and 25 times faster than using a GPU, allowing the model to process tasks more quickly.
This research could help pave the way for iPhones to get their own locally run AI.
And when that happens, iPhone users will become 100 times faster
at bragging about their iPhones. Hashtag humble lag.
Warning, the five quick bits you're about to hear are very cuddly and will hug you if threatened.
They're virtually incapable of surviving in the wild. We have to... Cable mod has issued a safety recall
for all of its 1.0 and 1.1 version 16 pin,
12 volt high power, 90 degree angle adapters,
and 180 degree hard connectors.
One go. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Jeez Louise.
Users are cautioned to stop using them immediately,
if not sooner, and to avoid handling them while the system is in operation.
But the recall only affects adapters. Angled cables are unaffected.
The exact reason for the recall is not clear at this time, but cable mod has noted that a design defect
could cause the male connector in these devices to loosen,
which can lead to excess heat and potentially melt your expensive electronics
into hot slag. Typical male connectors.
Am I right ladies? I'm assuming you wrote that.
I wrote all of that quick bit, except that. Oh.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Ariane Kurtage, the 18 year old cyber criminal,
best known for hacking Rockstar while in police custody,
has been sentenced to serve an indefinite hospital order,
which is basically when you stay in the hospital instead of prison.
After being found unsuitable to stand trial due to a diagnosis of severe autism.
This isn't necessarily a life sentence. It's supposed to end once medical professionals
and the Ministry of Justice decide Kurtage is no longer a threat.
That decision may be difficult, since Kurtage was deemed extremely likely to re-offend
based on how he kept saying to officials that he was definitely going to re-offend.
So. Gonna do it. Hospital food for him for a while.
Microsoft has announced they are deprecating Windows Mixed Reality, which came as a surprise
to many who didn't realize it existed.
The move makes sense for the company since most Windows Mixed Reality headsets
are pretty much deprecated, other than Microsoft's own HoloLens 2,
which costs as much as a Vision Pro, but with far worse specs and none of the sex appeal.
It's basically the headset equivalent of a bowl cut. I don't know, I like when I puke at the end.
ASUS announced a new monitor that can switch between 4K at 240 Hertz
and full HD at 480 Hertz at the press of a button.
The company is calling it the world's first dual mode monitor,
which makes it awkward that LG announced an identical monitor just hours earlier.
Funnily enough, LG refers to their product as the world's first 4K OLED gaming monitor
with dual Hertz feature, a claim too specific to count as an accomplishment.
One of us is gonna have to go home and change. Like, sure, I can truthfully say
I'm the world's first tech news guy with a mustache named Riley Murdock,
but that doesn't mean it's impressive. And it turns out that Sony won't be removing
all the Discovery TV shows you bought or quotes
on your PlayStation anymore, or at least they won't be taking them away
for a bit longer. Sony has apparently reached a new licensing agreement
with Warner Bros. to retain all 1,300 Discovery titles
available through its service for at least the next 30 months.
Yay! You own them for a little bit longer.
It's an uncomfortable reminder of my own mortality, that one day I will die,
and not even my complete digital collection of all nine seasons of Cake Boss will endure.
I thought if anything would last, it's Cake Boss. But nope, what about Love Island?
And we endured so much tech news this year, you may have forgotten all about it.
Thankfully, our annual year-end roundup will come out this Monday,
so you can remember the good times and the bad times alongside us,
because that's the true meaning of Christmas. Year-end tech roundups.
I'm assuming.