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X, the everything app, has launched the beta version
of its own TV app, so you can use your smart TV
to watch your favorite X long form videos,
if that is indeed a thing that you have. In a previous life, Twitter already had a TV app,
but it closed in 2018 because almost no one was using it.
Now, this new app might theoretically be able
to surpass its predecessor, but right now, it,
it kinda sucks. It's a fairly bare bones experience, even for a beta,
and the default recommendations seem to all be from the same genre of angry man in a suit yells at clouds.
And there's only so many suits slash clouds. The rollout is somewhat awkwardly timed
with the Brazilian Supreme Court deciding to uphold the decision of one justice
to block the video platform of the future countrywide.
Elon Musk, of course, has been in a months long spat
with one particular Supreme Court justice over X's refusal to suspend suspected disinformation accounts
while they're under investigation. Starlink initially refused to block its sister company
on the grounds that Brazil had illegally frozen its assets
to pay for X's $3 million in outstanding fines,
but they have now relented. Luckily, SpaceX doesn't have any launch sites in the country
or local officials would probably put a boot on a Falcon 9 rocket.
Just push it over. It landed many times. Can't wait to upload our videos on XTube.
Sounds hot. Intel has finally launched its core Ultra 200V,
Lunar Lake mobile processors. Intel is boasting a 30% improvement
in gaming performance over previous gen and extreme energy efficiency,
and that's the real draw here. Dell's new 200V powered XPS 13 laptop
can apparently stream video for up to 26 hours,
though that's just for the low resolution model. ASUS is launching a core ultra powered NUC mini PC,
which for some reason comes with a dedicated co-pilot button on the front.
Just in case the one on your keyboard isn't enough. Honestly, I can't wait until Microsoft fully loses its mind
and adds a dedicated co-pilot button to the monitor and mouse too.
Put them everywhere, why not? Show them to your friends. Put a co-pilot button on it.
Frankly, these new chips can't come soon enough, especially because Intel is apparently running low
on core i9-3900K and 4900K chips,
most likely because of an avalanche of RMA requests.
This has led to a shipping backlog of three to four weeks
in some parts of the US. In other Intel news, according to Reuters,
the company's contract manufacturing business has hit a major setback as their 18A silicon wafers
have failed to pass quality tests set by one of their clients, Broadcom.
All together, this explains the company's decision to ritually sacrifice CEO Pat Gelsinger
on the ceremonial sun altar at their Santa Clara headquarters.
One too much for silicon, but the maze production, gonna be great.
The crops? Crops are popping off. You know how sometimes it feels
like your phone must be listening to you? Crazy, right?
Well, maybe not. In a recent pitch deck to potential customers,
Cox Media Group claimed it can listen to users
via their smartphone's microphone for use in targeted advertisements.
Okay, Cox Media Group claims that this active listening
software, which makes it sound like a tentative partner,
tell me how you're feeling. So I can recommend to you a flavor of Cheeto. Cox Media Group claims this uses AI
to capture real-time intent data
by listening to your conversations.
Our conversations? Everyone's. Elsewhere in the pitch deck,
Cox claims Amazon, Facebook, and Google among its current clients,
though it's unclear whether any of them used this quite literal spyware.
Of course they did. Meta acknowledged the partnership, but explicitly denied ever using its user's microphones
to listen in on users. We used different microphones.
Amazon also denied participating in this program while Google simply removed Cox from the site
that lists its partners after being reached for contact
by 404 Media. It's a bit like finding out that your boyfriend
robbed a Chuck E. Cheese and responding by re-uploading the exact same profile picture you had before,
but slightly cropped in just enough to cut his face out of the photo. And his name was Cox.
I never had a boyfriend, what do you mean? It is a tale long told that whoever should
reunite the five quick bits will be granted one wish.
So, wish away, but no take-backses.
But we only have four of them. Some police are towing Teslas that they believe
have witnessed crimes. According to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle
at least three times between July and August of this year,
law enforcement in Oakland, California obtained warrants
to tow Teslas that were parked near potential crime scenes.
They've seen too much. The hope being that one of the vehicle's many cameras
captured video evidence. There are unfortunately some downsides to this,
like the owner of one of these Teslas going to the parking lot and discovering that they no longer have a vehicle.
It'll be awkward when they call the cops to report it as stolen.
Hello officer, you have it. Look, we're all trying to find the guy who did this.
Microsoft has confirmed that co-pilot plus features will be coming to AMD Ryzen AI 300
and Intel 200V powered laptops this November.
That means that Team Red and Blue Enthusiasts will also be forced to emotionally prepare
for the relaunch of Windows Recall. Windows users were initially excited
when a new optional update added the ability to uninstall the controversial feature,
but Microsoft told the Verge, ah, that was a bug.
That was, whoops. Microsoft would not say if the ability
to uninstall Recall would be added, an ironic lack of transparency
since we're discussing a feature that basically watches everything you do on your computer.
Qualcomm has filled out their Snapdragon X series chip lineup
with four more SKUs, two eight core and two 10 core Snapdragon X plus models.
The biggest thing the 12 core Snapdragon X elite chips
were criticized for is their graphics performance. So Qualcomm made the graphics on these chips even weaker.
However, Qualcomm says they all maintain the same 45 tops of NPU performance
and laptops with the bottom tier eight core X plus
will start at a cheaper price of 800 bucks.
Qualcomm started with strong claims around their new chips
and the messaging has just become weaker and weaker.
I can't wait for the six core Snapdragon X still plus.
It's still plus though. Plus minus.
Shouldn't you just call it X? No, no, no. No, it's the X plus minus.
And some people are criticizing Oprah Winfrey
because her upcoming AI special seems a little one-sided.
In a promo, Winfrey claims she is speaking to some of America's leading experts on AI,
like Bill Gates, a person who used to write software.
And Sam Altman, the CEO of an AI company who doesn't know how to build an AI himself.
Naturally, Altman will be breaking down how AI works in layman's terms.
Maybe these are just the sexy names and there will be actual scientists there.
I'm sure this will be a meaningful discussion into the minutiae of artificial intelligence
brought to us by the woman who gave doctors Phil and Oz to the world.
And look at that turn out. But we just wanted to give you some tech news.
So come on back Friday when we have more.
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