Oh crap, I didn't wear my Nouraghi today.
Oh, oh no. Now I have to deliver tech news in a shirt?
Yeah. Oh my god, so embarrassing. That's the worst.
Nouraghi! Nouraghi!
Ring, the Amazon subsidiary famous for sending its customer security camera recordings to police without asking,
has decided that you need another reason to not buy their products.
Ring announced last week that several previously free features will be pay walled behind a subscription before the end of the month.
Starting March 29th, new users will not be able to use the Ring app to ARM or disarm their security,
receive alarm notifications, or customize automations between compatible products,
meaning things like setting your Ring cameras to record when your Ring alarm is triggered will no longer be possible,
without an active Ring Protect subscription.
Those features used to come included with the camera purchase,
but can you really put a price on home security?
I tried, it's hard. Maybe you can't, but for Amazon it's no problem.
They can do it twice! This sucks for anyone considering buying Ring products,
but even existing Ring users will still have to pay up or lose access to the home and away modes for Ring cameras,
which means your advanced internet connected security camera will soon be a glorified webcam.
Start your streaming career. Yeah, stream yourself, to the police.
It's like Netflix, but for cops!
To summarize, the company that gives police warrantless access to security camera video
will make it less intuitive to stop recording on your security cameras if you don't pay a monthly fee.
Alexa, what's the definition of extortion?
What you just said.
Thanks, Alexa. I'm Alexa. Thanks, Ry, Alexa.
It's me, Alexa. At least four EV manufacturers have issued recalls in the last month,
all for distinct, yet very good reasons.
Rivian recalled 13,000 vehicles for a sensor issue that could stop an airbag from deploying,
while Electra Mechanica recalled 428 automobiles because of a defect that could cause the motor to shut down,
and Lordstown recalled 19 of their buggies because of a possible fault that caused drive power loss and could even break the car.
That's a bad buggy. Bad to the bone.
The worst of all is Tesla.
Almost 3,500 Model Ys need to be recalled because the bolts securing the rear seats and seat belts aren't tight enough.
I guess the bolt tightening guy, like his wrench ARM was injured that day, and he's just like, ah, good enough.
You don't want to over tighten. You don't want to bolt it too good. You don't want people to be safe in an accident.
Then they get entitled. It'll start cutting into the wood.
Sure would. It doesn't stop there for Tesla.
Just last week, shareholders sued the company and Elon Musk for allegedly misrepresenting the efficacy of Tesla's full self-driving or FSD tech.
It might have something to do with the mid-February recall of over 362,000 vehicles because their FSD beta software caused them to be too enthusiastic about going straight through intersections while in a turning lane and other incredibly dangerous behaviors.
In lighter news, the Model S and X received yet another price cut yesterday, almost like recent events have affected demand or something, maybe?
I don't know. Regardless, it's never been cheaper to blame your car for your own reckless driving.
The buyer's market. And another swath of upcoming Apple announcements have been teased by none other than the Germanator himself, Mark German.
Allegedly, a new iMac, perhaps powered by an M3 chip, will be coming out around the second half of this year.
Or at least, that's what we determined from German sermon.
Testify! Amen! The current model was announced in April 2021, so the all-in-one is due for a refresh.
He also claimed there is a 15-inch MacBook Air due to come out with an M2 chip and a 13-inch M3-powered Air possibly coming later in the year.
But do any of you remember the Mac Pro? Apple seems to have forgotten about it since the last one released in 2019.
Although, to be fair to Apple, 2019 is probably the last year I personally was able to track the passage of time.
Mark German mentioned previously the new Pro will be powered by the M2 Ultra, but I'm pretty sure that was discontinued in 1973.
I mean, how would you even give a computer LSD? I guess we'll find out in early spring or summer this year.
You've got to think really hard about it. People would torture Riley.
But then they got psychic powers. I mean, maybe in Stranger Things.
Just an FYI, this isn't the Quickbits.
This is just the intro to them. They come next.
Just know what the Quickbits are. Yeah, like, let's do that.
I know, it's confusing. A bug in NVIDIA's latest G4's driver has reportedly been causing CPU usage to increase by about 10% after exiting games.
That is one needy roach.
What's a roach? It's a bug. It needs a lot of juice.
It's a thirsty boy. Fortunately, the bug is now known to the GPU makers, so it should be fixed soon.
Although, hopefully they'll first address the bug that causes their newest GPUs to increase spending by 40%.
Speaking of driver bugs, AMD's Radeon drivers have a rare bug that can brick a PC.
Now, that's a mean roach. What we call that right there.
That's a really mean roach. That one hates you.
AMD has publicly acknowledged the issue and has helped at least one computer journalist through the complicated fix before they finish the permanent one.
And that's all well and good, but this bug has been around for at least a month?
Yeah, it lives forever. AMD is a history of eventually fixing their cards with software updates, but maybe a bug that takes out a whole computer could be, like, bumped up the list.
A Rambo bug. It takes out everything.
They took first blood, not me. Scammers have started tricking people into sending them money by using AI to emulate the voices of colleagues and loved ones strained on just a few sentences.
One poor woman was almost scammed by someone posing as her grandson.
Some have loftier ambitions and are tricking businesses by impersonating supervisors and directors.
I can't imagine who would fall for it.
No, that's not important. No, Riley, it's Linus. He needs your mother's maiden name.
Oh, it's- Twitter appears to have played itself after internal and external links stopped working due to an error.
After announcing the restriction of the platform's API, Twitter's links stopped working due to Code467, which hilariously states,
your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.
It's a 467. More like 469, because they screwed themselves.
Even Twitter has to pay itself for access to the Twitter API.
I mean, how else are they going to make up for that $3 billion a year loss?
Get some more transactions going. Yeah, get them going.
Who cares about accounting fees? And researchers have used stable diffusion to translate brain waves into images.
The scientists showed participants images during fMRI scans.
The data from those scans was then decoded into text representations and input into the diffusion model.
And the results do seem to resemble the presented images.
Now, this isn't exactly at the level of outputting memories from people's brains,
but imagine how much closer we'll be to that when AI is advanced enough to take all of our jobs.
Darn it, we'll be able to look at our memories in a TV.
Remember when we had jobs? Remember jobs? Ah, remember.
But it can never take away your tech news, so make sure you come back on Wednesday.
And if you're really good, well, maybe I'll dress up.
Or I won't be hosting one of the two. Wear normal clothes.
These aren't normal. These are abnormal clothes. I prefer robes.
You look super weird, right?