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Happy insert name of your local holiday here, where I am its Family Day, which is why I'm

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spending it with my real family, the tech news. It found me and raised me as a tech news cub in the forest, which is why things around

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here can get a little wild sometimes.

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Meta is rolling out a verification subscription service similar to Twitter Blue this week.

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It'll charge 12-15 bucks a month for ID verification, a blue badge, user experience enhancements,

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and that feeling of being special you were missing as a child. Mark Zuckerberg announced the service on his broadcast channel, which is a new Instagram

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feature similar to Telegram channels that rolled out last week, meaning that Zucker

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announced that Meta is copying one platform using Meta's copy of another platform.

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Never change, Facebook. But the move has sparked fears that drastic change is coming to the internet at large.

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Many people, ourselves included, continue to mock Elon Musk's impulsive attempts to

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generate some any Twitter revenue.

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But if more platforms follow suit, we may be looking at the end of the free web service

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era. Musk certainly thinks so, calling Meta verified inevitable.

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And you know he knew the reference people would make based on that.

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Meta's announcement follows Twitter locking text message-based two-factor authentication

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behind the blue paywall. A move security analysts say doesn't make sense, since SMS two-factor is vulnerable

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to way more attacks than dedicated authenticator apps and can actually be worse than only

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using a good password. But a lot of Twitter users probably don't know that, and they may be inclined to sign

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up for blue if they think they have to pay to secure their account.

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Wow, in a few years we may be talking about the good old days when internet platforms

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were free thanks to our personal info being collected and sold by advertisers.

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I used to run to the corner store and send a tweet for a nickel.

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TikTok has announced a new creativity program, which promises higher earnings for creators

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who can somehow manage to post videos that are more than one minute long.

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Because the more seconds video has, the more creative it is.

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This is basic film school stuff. Actually though, the Irishman?

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Get out of here. The announcement confirms at least part of the information posted by the information

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they knew what they were doing. Last week and highlights how much TikTok has changed in the six years since launching

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with a 15-second limit on videos. Now the thirst traps play simultaneously alongside family guide clips and footage from endless

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run or mobile games. It's way different. But the creativity program specifically requires high-quality original content to be eligible

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for more money. So hopefully our old pal capitalism can fix what was broken by its dark counterpart,

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capitalism. And Nintendo might be making it a little easier to access its library of retro games if we

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follow the path of potentially baseless, but interesting speculation laid out in this

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ours technical article. Ours technical article.

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That's not a diss. I made this a main story, so just hear me out.

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So the UK's Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Microsoft's planned acquisition

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of Activision Blizzard and wrote a report on whether Nintendo Switch Online could compete

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with Xbox Game Pass, in which they said Nintendo's service is only available on the Nintendo

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Switch device and redacted. Begin speculation now.

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Available on the Switch. And what? So one, it could be a future Nintendo console, which we know is launching at the very least

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this century. Or two, it might be Nintendo plans to let you stream Switch Online games to your phone

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like XCloud? Frankly, anything that can give people access to Nintendo's back catalogue would be good,

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since there would be less justification to pirate Nintendo games and therefore less lawsuits

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from Nintendo, which the company has said it uses to send a message.

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It would have made more sense for me to do an impression of like a triad gangster there

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rather than an Italian mafioso, but that wouldn't be appropriate.

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Okay, I'm gonna let the quick bits out now. Just stay where you are.

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They're gonna sniff various parts of you to get used to your scent.

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Do not react. Ends of the new AI-powered Bing were despondent last week when Microsoft imposed new limits

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on the chatbot, which, according to some, amounted to a lobotomy.

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Well, a few sources have indicated that the limits are temporary, while Microsoft figures

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out how to make Bing not pledge undying love to whoever asks it a few personal questions.

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I also know a few humans with this problem. So thankfully, this lobotomy is reversible, unlike human ones.

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In other humans-crushing AI's dreams news, go-player Kellen Pelrin has defeated the top

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go-playing AI models, Catego and Lila Zero, seven years after DeepMind's AlphaGo AI defeated

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one of the world's top human players, Lee Sedol.

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Now, Pelrin defeated the AI players using strategies suggested by another computer program

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that probed the AI's for weaknesses, but they weren't like in his ear or anything when

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he played the match, he had it all up here, okay?

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So come on back, Lee Sedol, give it another try. Can you imagine he comes back and gets destroyed again?

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I'm sorry. Microsoft has finally allowed M1 and M2 Macs to run full-featured versions of Windows 11

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on ARM through the Parallels desktop app, meaning Mac users no longer have to use an

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insider preview build to access such features as slow loading and bad app support.

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Okay, that's not fair. I haven't tried Windows on ARM for a while, so in terms of ARM processor support, now

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it could be slightly better than way, way worse than macOS.

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Chrome has gotten a new update that adds energy saver and memory saver, features that will

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help the browser use less energy and memory, respectively, by snoozing inactive tabs, which

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can then be reloaded by clicking on them again to the tab.

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It's a sorely needed update, although I'd prefer if Google could, like, make each tab

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and the browser as a whole use less energy and memory instead of, like, cutting off your

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leg because you're not using it right now. That's just me.

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And air travel is about to get more stimulating if a patent just granted to Brazilian aerospace

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company Embraer is any indication. Of course they're Brazilian.

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It describes a system built into airplane seats that can scan passengers' faces to determine

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their emotional state and then offer transcranial stimulation of either the magnetic or electrical

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variety. Seems like it would be amazing to turn on if you're stuck with a seat partner who won't

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stop talking about how both varieties are actually part of the same phenomenon of electromagnetism

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and, oh, you probably shouldn't turn it up that high. And you shouldn't turn away from the tech news come Wednesday because we'll be back

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and hopefully delivering better segues than that one. I'm sorry, you know, Mondays, you know what I mean?